Example sentences of "[pers pn] be women [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are women who have learnt to defend themselves , who are directly affected by central and local government policies , price speculation and the economic situation of the country . |
| 2 | Of course , many workers in adult education are also feminists — they may be the anti-sexist male variety — but on the whole they are women who want adult education to respond to the concerns of the women 's movement . |
| 3 | They 've invited other representatives , including some from the Borough Council : and if they were women they could n't have gone . |
| 4 | She was late arriving at the restaurant where she had arranged to meet her friends , but they were women she had known since university days and were busy catching up on everyone else 's news . |
| 5 | In conclusion , according to the papers it 's women who are the problem , not men . |
| 6 | It 's women who are speaking about it , out |
| 7 | For in developing countries , it 's women who do most of the work and receive least money . |
| 8 | In the older generation , incidentally , it is women whose Gullah is more pronounced , probably because women were less likely than men to leave the island in order to trade their produce . |
| 9 | It is women who have to go alone ; whose lovers do not have the patience to wait at home and pray for them . |
| 10 | Predictably , it is women who can place Izzat most easily at risk . |
| 11 | DEEP THINKERS Forward planning O'Donovan also offers the simple but profound thought that it is women who will be giving birth to the next generation of Rugby League players . |
| 12 | The general division of labour in peasant and pastoral households is significant — it is women who frequently collect water , fuel , forest litter and fodder , and indeed in some societies do most of the agricultural work as well , except ploughing ( as , for example , in parts of South Asia ) . |
| 13 | If the woman does not choose to fulfil this part of the process , then the connection will not hold ; by and large it is women who create the form of the relationship . |
| 14 | It is women who are the regular mail order users . |
| 15 | There is wide agreement that , in such households , it is women who take the main share of responsibility . |
| 16 | One group of people consider fishing men 's work and weaving women 's , while two hundred miles away it is women who fish and men who weave . |
| 17 | But it is women who are more likely to buy things . |
| 18 | The corollary of this is that it is women who are expected to undertake the reproduction of labour-power within the family , whether they also have waged jobs or not . |
| 19 | It is women who bear the brunt of high-rise flats , estates with no open play spaces , inadequate laundry facilities , noise , vandalism and bad access to shops and transport . |
| 20 | For instance , if clitorectomy often known as female circumcision — is a ‘ moral ’ requirement to serve male interests , it is nevertheless women who carry out , maintain and insist upon the practice , and it is women who express their moral offence if it is not carried out . |
| 21 | The health conditions of the vast majority of Salvadoreans can only be described as critical and it is women who must bear the brunt of caring for the ill . |
| 22 | But it still obscures the fact that it is women who are raped . |
| 23 | Over four fifths , that 's two million , of these w of those who the wages c wages are protected by the Wages Councils are women and as there would seem no point in abolition unless the wages were gon na fall , then it is women who will suffer disproportionately , along with another vulnerable group , single parents . |
| 24 | The argument goes that it is women who are in fact doing all the reproducing of labour power and servicing other people 's escapes . |
| 25 | It is women who end up imprisoned in their own homes by the threat of racial and sexual violence on housing estates and the streets . |
| 26 | It is women who are not thought to be assertive . |
| 27 | It was women they wanted up there to spread some common sense among them . |
| 28 | It was women who were defined as the human agents of infection , threatening national health and security and challenging the social order by their active and autonomous sexuality . |
| 29 | Both argued that women needed to play a decisive role in public debate over the nation 's morals , precisely because it was women who were centrally concerned with sexuality . |
| 30 | And it was women who sang its praises . |