Example sentences of "woman 's [noun pl] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both guarantee every woman 's rights to have a child and everybody 's right to found a family . |
| 2 | The doctor had rolled up the dead woman 's sleeves to examine her arms . |
| 3 | Here again , questions of discourse and power surfaced in women 's attempts to develop a feminist sexual politics . |
| 4 | White working-class and black women 's stories of employment difficulties and success are heard as case histories of psychic tension , and lesbian women 's attempts to redefine relations between women become assimilated to accounts of pre-oedipal intimacy . |
| 5 | to explore the factors which determine women 's decisions to adopt employment as a major life activity after their loss of any major domestic occupation ; |
| 6 | Women 's efforts to create and maintain a home are found in all cultures , and it is these efforts that the Lady of the Hearth represents . |
| 7 | These are in turn explained by two interacting factors , either of which is a sufficient condition for women 's earnings to lag behind those of men : on one hand , the gendered division of family labour , and on the other , unequal treatment of men and women in the labour market . |
| 8 | IRELAND is to hold a referendum on women 's rights to go abroad for abortions and to obtain information in Ireland before doing so . |
| 9 | The current abortion debate in America , where women 's rights to choose to have an abortion may soon be overturned by the Supreme Court , has similarly divided this country . |
| 10 | This chapter looks at the efforts of philanthropists and defenders of women 's rights to expand the range of employment for both working-class and middle-class girls who needed to earn a living . |
| 11 | However , some trade unions now have special women 's committees to assist the representation of the views of their women members in an effort to ameliorate the problem . |
| 12 | The Dungannon bowler also showed top form in the women 's singles to beat Pat Day of Leinster 21–17 to win a place in the third round where she was due to meet Inter-Association player Enid Hilton . |
| 13 | Women 's chances to climb the career ladder have been hard fought for . |
| 14 | At the time , what can hardly have failed to make a strong impact on the boy were the great ritual events , including the assemblies , which punctuated the life of the court , and which Charles presumably was brought out by his nurse from the women 's quarters to attend : the arrival of envoys from Constantinople at Compiègne in September 827 ; the public deposition from office of Hugh and Matfrid in February 828 ; the reception of the relics of SS Marcellinus and Petrus at Aachen a few weeks later . |
| 15 | Leapor is prepared to fight for her dignity , and , indeed , believes it is in women 's characters to resist a tyranny , even if they are deprived of the hope of success . |
| 16 | While more women have had access to education , the economic crisis has combined with prevailing social attitudes to limit women 's opportunities to improve their economic position . |
| 17 | The word ‘ mothering ’ is sexist in many contexts because it reinforces the ‘ natural ’ connection of women with children and childcare — a connection that feminists have criticised , since under our present social arrangements it has the entirely sexist consequences of defining non-mothers as non-women , restricting women 's opportunities to do other things if they wish , exploiting their unpaid labour and in some cases causing them to be seen as less important than the children they give birth to . |
| 18 | This critique , presented in an historical perspective , will focus both on women 's opportunities to generate eventual occupational pension scheme benefits themselves via paid employment , and on issues relating to widows ' benefits . |
| 19 | The simple truth is that in public buildings , in the streets ( and even in the House of Commons ) , there just are n't enough women 's loos to go around and this begs the equally simple question : why ? |
| 20 | In this sense , all the themes discussed so far contain ‘ women 's issues ’ and have to be treated from women 's perspectives to arrive at true and complete reality . |