Example sentences of "[noun] [be] women " in BNC.
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| 1 | As most part-timers are women , it would be considered ‘ grossly discriminatory ’ to have ‘ a part-timers first ’ rule on redundancy selection ! |
| 2 | Most part-timers are women , which explains why women have fared better in this recession than men . |
| 3 | Contrary to the rules of mainstream journalism , the people worth media coverage are women , children and manual labourers , and this should be reflected in training . |
| 4 | Fifty six per cent of the ‘ Look At Me ’ category are women . |
| 5 | MY GREATEST ENEMIES are Women and the Sea . |
| 6 | The interviewer ( let us say it is a man for ease of being able to say ‘ he ’ and ‘ she ’ in this case , even though most interviewers are women ) will expect to open the conversation and he has the task of explaining to the housewife , simply and briefly : |
| 7 | Yeah well cos you see they have to , most of their fans are women so they have to have female bodyguards cos the males are a bit rough with them but the women are really tough who |
| 8 | For , example , the majority of workers employed by Debenhams in Belfast city centre 's much hyped Castlecourt complex are women . |
| 9 | Increasingly the protagonists are women . |
| 10 | Indeed , more than 30 per cent of clients are women who are generally more successful as they are better listeners and tend not to rush at obstacles . |
| 11 | A higher proportion of the temporary than the total labour force are women ( 54 per cent compared to 41 per cent ) . |
| 12 | A third of the authors were women , while in terms of their childhood backgrounds , 25 of them were upper class , 21 upper-middle class , 15 lower-middle class , and 84 working class . |
| 13 | Most of the speakers were women and many had prepared lengthy and detailed statements of their views . |
| 14 | In spite of the party 's determination to promote women , it had the lowest number of women candidates : 24 per cent of SNP candidates were women ; 27 per cent of Tory candidates were women ; while the Lib Dems again scored highest with 33 per cent . |
| 15 | In spite of the party 's determination to promote women , it had the lowest number of women candidates : 24 per cent of SNP candidates were women ; 27 per cent of Tory candidates were women ; while the Lib Dems again scored highest with 33 per cent . |
| 16 | It revealed that the main examiners of food labels were women , particularly and those in the higher socio-economic brackets . |
| 17 | Seventeen subjects were women and 15 were men . |
| 18 | The subjects were women aged eighteen to sixty-five years . |
| 19 | The fact that many of the Free Presbyterian marchers were women and children suggests that they were equally sanguine . |
| 20 | After the 1984 elections , 17.5 per cent of the total number of Euro-MPs were women and , even among the British members , 15.4 per cent were women . |
| 21 | Second , there is a sense in which the whole area of kin relationships is women 's business more than men 's , in that women have a stronger commitment to and interest in keeping the structures of support alive . |
| 22 | For example , the voluntary agreement seems to protect young women ( aged 16–24 ) from cigarette advertising by requiring that no advertisement be placed in magazines whose primary readership is women in that age range . |
| 23 | What difference do you think it makes that three quarters of the news desk are women ? |
| 24 | ‘ While it is true the majority of sales staff at our 19 sites are women , we select our people purely on merit to offer our customers the very best in service and care . ’ |
| 25 | Nine out of ten lone parents are women |
| 26 | Nine out of ten lone parents are women |
| 27 | The report also found that the overwhelming majority of lone parents are women , most of whom are divorced or separated ; single mothers are the smallest group of lone parents . |
| 28 | This is partly a consequence of the fact that the great majority of single parents are women and partly because such families are disproportionately working class . |
| 29 | The extent of family break-up means that divorced women must work to support themselves and their children ( 90 per cent of lone parents are women ) . |
| 30 | All Motor Safari 's instructors are members of the Driving Instructors Association , and the fact that two of the instructors are women proves that off-road driving is not primarily a macho pastime . |