Example sentences of "woman [subord] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now Great-Great-Grandmother Elizabeth must have been a very capable woman because circumstances demanded that her husband went out to work as a miner , so she was left to manage the farm . |
| 2 | A TEENAGER who plunged a screwdriver into a frail 85-year-old woman as accomplices ransacked her home , has been sentenced to eight years ’ detention . |
| 3 | Okay , we 're we 're a non , in the U K as a culture we do n't stand very close to people but actually women stand a lot closer to women than women to men or men to men . |
| 4 | GOING to the theatre , concerts and art galleries remains largely the privilege of the well-off and well-educated , and of more women than men , research shows . |
| 5 | It was very high for people who took their full-time education beyond the age of 18 , and higher among women than men for all art forms except jazz and art galleries . |
| 6 | The disease is nearly twice as common among women than men . |
| 7 | Nationally , although Gallup figures show that more women than men are intending to vote for Mr Ashdown 's party , support for the Liberal Democrat leader himself is equally divided between the sexes . |
| 8 | All include more women than men , more old than young . |
| 9 | The results indicate GPs discriminated against women , referring considerably more women than men with less emphasis on major ( psychotic ) mental illness . |
| 10 | More women than men had children , although the small proportion of men with children confirms their limited involvement in family relationships . |
| 11 | These drugs are prescribed in vast quantities , and far more frequently for women than men ( Cooperstock , 1978 ) . |
| 12 | Only among elderly persons are there more never married women than men . |
| 13 | From middle age onwards lower proportions of women than men are married , and much higher proportions widowed . |
| 14 | The pressure is more likely to be felt by women than men , and increases as individuals grow older . |
| 15 | Chilblains can occur at any age and are more common in women than men . |
| 16 | Then again there were a lot more women than men involved ( comme toujours ) , and some of the men reacted very negatively to that . |
| 17 | I was seated on a hard sort of sofa covered with worn black velvet , and tea ( as in More Women than Men ) went ‘ through all its stages ’ . |
| 18 | Rereading More Women than Men , I ask myself each time whether the relations between them are suggested with extreme subtlety , or whether something is lacking . |
| 19 | Dear Mr Forster is a homicidal author , I think — and I do n't altogether acquit Ivy of Simon Napier 's death [ More Women than Men ] . |
| 20 | While the state could not develop without female labour ( at one time , as a result of Stalin 's purges and World War II , there were 40% more women than men in the working population ) , equally , it could not afford to replace the role of the wife and mother in the home . |
| 21 | The reason why so many more women than men suffer from Cystitis is partly explained by the way their bodies are made . |
| 22 | Far fewer articles in magazines are written by women than men . |
| 23 | It is also sex preferential , used much more by women than men . |
| 24 | Many commentators have noted that more words are available to insult women than men , especially in sexual terms , and that words for women 's bodies are more taboo than those for men 's ( compare prick and cunt ) . |
| 25 | Rita Loumansky , 71 , explained : ‘ There are always more women than men here . ’ |
| 26 | A requirement to be mobile might bar more women than men . |
| 27 | A complainant would have to show that fewer women than men could comply with such a requirement and that it is to her detriment that she can not comply . |
| 28 | A school cleaner pointed out that there were many more low-paid women than men among the public service workers . |
| 29 | Sport attracted more men than women ; fashions and women 's features , obviously , more women than men . |
| 30 | Women seem to be currently more prone to seek longer-term close relationships with other women than men are with other men . |