Example sentences of "[noun] that woman be " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are other , related reasons why these technologies , and not other choices , are allowed to happen ; for instance , the fascination for scientists in pursuing knowledge of women 's fertility , with no appreciation that women are the human guinea pigs of such a science . |
| 2 | Given the apparent sexist bias of much humanities and social science teaching , it seems odd that it is in these subjects that women are numerous ; it is the absence of women in physical science and engineering that has generally been regarded as a ‘ problem ’ . |
| 3 | He did not , so far as we know , see the necessity for structural change to remedy the oppression that women were under . |
| 4 | After Gainsborough closed , Muriel and Sydney moved to Pinewood , part of the Rank Organisation , and eventually ( in spite of Michael Balcon 's pronouncement that women were unsuited to be film directors ) Muriel was directing features . |
| 5 | I want to turn this right round because a couple of people have mentioned guilt and er I I suspect that one of the reasons that women are a bit worried about talking about depression or or campaigning for changes in policy , or more funding , or or whatever , is that for a long time women have been thought of as the weaker sex , more emotional , more nervous , by a , a a male establishment , I 'm talking about past centuries , is n't there a case for saying there 's actually we have a right to be depressed , I mean , obviously it 's normal , ninety three of you get depressed from time to time , the majority of you do n't think you clinically depressive if it is , if it 's normal to be depressed should n't the services to cope with depression , if we need outside help , be there and there 's no shame in it ? |
| 6 | These are some of the reasons that women are often happier working together and reluctant to fight their way into senior management . |
| 7 | It 's the old story that women are still judged — for their looks , temperament , authority — in a way that men are not . |
| 8 | Leapor does not make the case that women are always unhappy in marriage . |
| 9 | Development communicators , men as well as women , need to use their skills to reach policy makers and opinion leaders to make the case that women are key agents of development and that their needs and potential must be properly taken into account in development programmes . |
| 10 | In the sense of their access to political power it was not so much a case that women were ‘ returned ’ to the family since they had never really left it to go out to get power — rather they had traditionally exercised power , if at all , by virtue of their familial positions and as the public and private spheres were separated , women were left behind . |
| 11 | It was also alleged for instance that women were too docile to make really good workers , too lacking in spirit and ambition : " Boys [ i.e. apprentices ] would claim to be shifted on to the higher branches of the trade " . |
| 12 | For instance , the finding that women are ‘ cooperative ’ or ‘ conciliatory ’ speakers may be explained , as we have seen , in terms of women 's activities and peer-group norms . |
| 13 | Very relevant to the changing social role of women is the finding that women are , in general , less satisfied by their marriages than men . |
| 14 | It is also in the technical field that women are noticeably absent . |
| 15 | For example , it is widely believed in English-speaking cultures that women are good listeners . |
| 16 | ‘ What a curst cat that woman is ! |
| 17 | Secondly , the attitude that women are on their own only until they find a man to support them is a prevalent one . |
| 18 | Because it 's a feminine trait that women are , on the whole , far erm less easily aroused into combat . |
| 19 | Since paid work still is much more likely to be distributed this way than the reverse , there is a built-in tendency for caring responsibilities to fall on women , even without cultural expectations that women are particularly suited to these tasks . |
| 20 | For instance , the generalisation that women are physically weaker than men has been qualified ; in some areas , like endurance , they may be much stronger than was thought and capable of outperforming men in certain tasks . |
| 21 | yes , I think , I think their view is dominated by the old group selectionist or point that women are there to do their duty |
| 22 | At the conference held in 1888 by the three compositors " unions , the Typographical Association ( English provinces ) , the London Society of Compositors and the Scottish Typographical Association , specifically to discuss the Edinburgh question , the following resolution was passed : That while strongly of the opinion that women are not physically capable of performing the duties of a compositor , the Conference recommends their admission to membership of the various typographical unions upon the same conditions as journeymen , provided always the females are paid strictly in accordance with the scale . |
| 23 | ‘ He has this notion that women are not capable of managing anything more important than their own kitchen — and then only if they have a competent cook . |
| 24 | These results clearly challenge any notion that women are giving informed consent for their babies to be tested , even though they believe themselves to have been informed . |
| 25 | Perhaps I have just become too comfortable with the cheering notion that women are far too busy getting on with their careers and their lives to crucify themselves worrying about ragged cuticles or the size of their ankles . |
| 26 | These doctors expressed a mixture of views about sexuality , often recognising the reality of female sexuality , including the role of the clitoris , but this sometimes coincided with the notion that women were naturally timid creatures and were natural invalids . |
| 27 | Ringing the woman 's number again , she found her in , and more than ready to offer her somewhat trenchant views on the House of Commons and the way that seminal institution seemed to cling to the outmoded notion that women were an inferior breed . |
| 28 | ‘ Compared to some of the things that woman 's done for me , this is a small enough thing . |
| 29 | There certainly is plenty of evidence that women are much more likely to provide personal care for relatives than are men . |
| 30 | However , there is some evidence that women are more likely to engage in pre-marital sexual activity and that the negative sanctions on this are less than they used to be . |