Example sentences of "[conj] men to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , unmarried women carers are more likely than either married women or men to be carrying particularly heavy caring responsibilities . |
| 2 | If women were much more likely than men to be in low status jobs , and if female employees almost never went absent from work , it might seem that people doing low status jobs were no more likely or even less likely than others to absence . |
| 3 | Although some could do this through using their savings or drawing on insurances , many could not , with women much less likely than men to be able to support themselves by these means ( Roebuck and Slaughter , 1979 ) . |
| 4 | Women are five times less likely than men to be with the same employer at 40 and eight times less likely at 55 ( Aoki 1984 p.82 ) . |
| 5 | They are much more likely than men to be confined to housework within the household for which no wages at all are paid . |
| 6 | Overall , about 18 per cent of all working women , but only 3 per cent of men , had earnings below the National Insurance threshold and so women were seven times more likely than men to be outside the National Insurance net ( Hakim , 1989 , p. 480 ) . |
| 7 | Indeed , the earnings limit has a particularly harsh effect on women , who are more likely than men to be able to combine care-giving with continued part-time employment ( McLaughlin , 1991 , p. 50 ) . |
| 8 | Since women are much less likely than men to be employed full-time , to be in highly paid secure jobs or to hold managerial or professional posts , they are less likely to be members of occupational pension schemes . |
| 9 | They have fewer opportunities than men to be nourished by their work , since they are more often involved in dull and repetitive jobs ; secondly , the domestic and nurturing skills in which they have usually been trained are held in lower esteem both in the home and in the workplace than administrative or management skills , so what they do is less likely to receive praise ; lastly , they are conditioned to value praise from men more highly than praise from women , who are more often their colleagues or first-level bosses . |
| 10 | Women were more likely than men to be dependent on poor relief . |
| 11 | Anyone who has romantic ideas of what it must have been like for great women and men to be filled with God 's Spirit should think again if the story of Mary is anything to go by . |
| 12 | Also , as a result of their greater longevity , elderly women are more than twice as likely as men to be widowed and , as a consequence of this and the lower propensity of the current generation ( if not succeeding ones ) to have married in the first place , they are three times as likely to be living alone . |
| 13 | Black people on average are almost twice as likely as other people to be victims of assault and women are almost twice as likely again as men to be assaulted . |