Example sentences of "women were the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the reaction to the evidence that women were the equals , if not more than the equals , of men in sexual responsiveness and capacity . |
| 2 | Nowadays these men and women were the ‘ front line ’ of the ATB 's service to the industry . |
| 3 | The women were the spinsters , completing the ‘ Dual Economy ’ so neatly expressed by Herrick , who understood the women 's importance in the cottage economy : |
| 4 | The implication is that these women were the sexual victims of men who just wanted a good time . |
| 5 | Earlier she had always insisted that men and women were the same — all in it together . |
| 6 | Prior to that time retirement ages for men and women were the same , and this meant that a man retiring at 65 often had to support himself and his wife on a single-rate pension , because on average women were younger than their husbands . |
| 7 | erm , yes , when I , when I was living in , in Nigeria the women were the one that , at the lower end of society , they were the ones that lived |
| 8 | Beggars , the mark of over-populated underemployed Spain , were rare in an egalitarian society where the peasant held his land on a secure tenure and at a low rent ; where the hold of the anarchic nobility had long been destroyed ; where it was socially impossible to evict ; and where women were the social and legal equals of men . |
| 9 | To Caesar all women were the same . |
| 10 | For example , in the study of older people in Aberdeen , younger ( 60–74 ) middle-class men and older ( 75+ ) working-class women were the two groups at the extreme ends of the income distribution . |
| 11 | They tended to stress that these women were the hapless , passive victims of debauched aristocrats and manipulative medics , who were eager to be reformed given the necessary moral intervention from without . |
| 12 | Women were the ‘ conscience of the world ’ , social reform concerned women because it touched on ‘ all the great trusts of womanhood , the sanctity of the family , the purity of marriage , the sacredness of marriage , the sweet innocence of children ’ . |
| 13 | Women were the mothers , protected of Isis . |
| 14 | In the Hackney Young Socialists there was formal recognition that women should be allowed to be the chair , or vice-chair , but in Clive 's world women were the secretaries , unless they were very sophisticated cool people . ’ |
| 15 | I tried to guess which of the women were the Russian wives of men stationed here and which were Latvian girls . |
| 16 | The 2 Bicester women were the first to go around Silverstone on roller skates . |
| 17 | Women were the target yesterday as Hartlepool Labour candidate Peter Mandelson 's election campaign entered its final phase . |
| 18 | Women were the target yesterday as Hartlepool Labour candidate Peter Mandelson 's election campaign entered its final phase . |