Example sentences of "[conj] women [be] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | He believed that women are to be adored for their naturalness , but because this makes them vulnerable and subject to extremes of temperament , they should also be under the control of their husbands . |
| 2 | Day nursery provision by local authorities was strictly limited in the 1930s and charged for , as a result of the cuts in local spending introduced as part of the National government 's economy drive , but when the Second World War came and women were to be mobilised in large numbers for the war effort , the government gave local authorities a 100-per-cent grant to cover the costs of day nurseries , merely charging parents for the cost of food served to the children . |
| 3 | If women are to be judged by their appearance , Mira ought to give up books : |
| 4 | If women are to be a good test of male-oriented psychological theories , as egalitarian feminist psychology hopes , they must be assumed to be a largely homogeneous population . |
| 5 | His resignation arose not so much because an audience was to be debarred from geology , as because women were to be debarred from the audience . |