Example sentences of "to women [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Births registered by the mother only can not be assigned to a social class , but the Longitudinal Study showed that 73 per cent of teenage illegitimate births in 1970–4 occurred to women where the ‘ chief economic supporter ’ ( usually father ) was a manual worker ; 13 per cent in social class V ( Werner 1989 ) .
2 Well , Eleanor divorced King Louis , who preferred religion to women anyway , and married Henry , who then became Duke of Aquitaine through her .
3 In the publishing world as a whole , periodicals concerned with the family become more and more specialized : quite apart from the dozens of magazines addressed to women generally , we find some catering for the interests of parents in particular , some especially for the ‘ mother to-be ’ , and others for parents of individual age-groups or of children with special characteristics or handicaps .
4 In 1918 , after the vote had been granted to women over thirty , she resigned from the WFL presidency and devoted herself to a range of issues , including the Save the Children campaign , the Indian independence movement , theosophy , the Labour party and the early British Communist party , the London Vegetarian Society , and the Irish Self Determination League .
5 By 1928 when the vote was granted to women over 21 , the two sisters had ceased to communicate with each other — their ideas and lifestyles were now poles apart .
6 The minister also said that the government expected to double the size of the electorate by extending the franchise to women over 21 and to naturalized citizens who had previously been denied the vote .
7 The Triple , as the test is known , is currently only available to women over 37 years old , but around 2,000 younger women will now be able to take advantage of it .
8 When applied to women universally this becomes a stereotype , overgeneralised and just a step away from the sexist argument that women are ‘ naturally ’ caring .
9 The more lenient punishments given to women probably reflect a belief that female crime is a result of sickness , of some physical or emotional problem , rather than being rational action with specific , often financial , motives .
10 Indeed , in relation specifically to women not admitted , the difference between male and female members consulted was significant ( p=0.034 ) .
11 There were also significant differences between GP and other referrals , specifically with regard to women not admitted .
12 Meanwhile , they 're appealing to women not to go out alone at night .
13 It will be apparent that much of this discussion has concerned emotional support given to women rather than men , because there is far more empirical evidence about women 's close relationships , largely leaving invisible the question of where men derive their emotional support .
14 None of these criticisms of course implies that marriage and family life are not important to women today : indeed , the evidence suggests that these areas of experience are still critical .
15 Just over three-quarters of births to women under 20 were outside marriage in 1989 , compared with 37% in 1977 and 8% in 1971 .
16 In 1985 in England and Wales there were 797000 conceptions of which 15 per cent were to women under 20 years old .
17 Basically , there 's a comparison of figures that erm one pregnancy in every two hundred and fifty six in Morningside is to women under twenty , yet one in four in , in an area like Craigmiller is to women under twenty so there 's a big sort of difference .
18 Basically , there 's a comparison of figures that erm one pregnancy in every two hundred and fifty six in Morningside is to women under twenty , yet one in four in , in an area like Craigmiller is to women under twenty so there 's a big sort of difference .
19 In 1954 , mortality was highest among the infants born to the oldest mothers — 45 years old or older ( 122.8 infant deaths per 1,000 live births in the same maternal age group ) : the rate was almost one and a half times higher than the mortality in the second highest risk group ( 85.9 ) on the other end of the reproductive period ( i.e. infants born to women under 17 years of age ) .
20 MY message to women now is come to my shows , but keep your knickers on .
21 Why is calcium so important to women especially ?
22 Much better as women to put our energies elsewhere and to think in terms of guerilla action — to redistribute resources to women wherever possible ; to asset-strip men 's buildings of their space and facilities and resources on behalf of women ; to expose male hypocrisy , corruption and oppression wherever it appears ; to reserve loyalty for principles and for women not for institutions ; and to concentrate on the subversion of men 's ideas about themselves and about women by behaving badly and with irreverence to their rules .
23 She had elected to keep the group to women only , instead of employing a male model to act as bridegroom , but as she came out of the dressing-room she would have welcomed someone to walk by her side .
24 For 113 years Somerville College , Oxford , has limited its entry strictly to women only .
25 Some of those other names might belong to women as naïve as she had been .
26 At one point a group of us decided that the best way to stop being hassled about separatism was to publish instalments of the CLIT papers in the weekly newsletter , which was mailed to women all over London and beyond .
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