Example sentences of "women [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is usually taken to reflect a generalized normative expectation that women are the appropriate carers ; although empirical evidence about normative expectations is actually fairly sparse ( a point which I shall take up in chapter 5 ) . |
| 2 | Women are the poorest of all . |
| 3 | Similarly , one can find examples where in the African context , women are the primary producers in agriculture and this non-recognition of this fact has often led to the incongruous situation where strategies erm for change modernisation programmes have erm been directed to me and this erm has meant often the kind of bias in extension services , in training services , has meant that the target group , that is the women towards whom you should really be aiming those programmes , has not have not benefited , and this obviously has detrimental effects on your potential for increasing a casual output and for solving problems of increasing erm productivity and income for these women . |
| 4 | I , I find the women are the best . |
| 5 | However , women are the principal victims of this process since embedded in medical ideologies are gender ideologies which label , stereotype and devalue women . |
| 6 | The NRA argues that women are the first victims of the collapse of the criminal-justice system , and the message seems to be getting through : gun-dealers say that their fastest-growing market is among women . |
| 7 | Women are the key agents of human development . |
| 8 | If communities there are to survive , women are the key players . |
| 9 | They co-opt areas of psychology which rely on female subjects , like early psychoanalysis , for feminism , arguing that these women are the real scientists in these fields , the real psychologists . |
| 10 | They argue that ‘ women are the only oppressed people whose biological , emotional and social life is totally bound to that of the oppressors ’ ( Morgan 1970 : xxxii ) . |
| 11 | Men may have nature , the birds and trees , but women are the greatest gift of all ’ — is the drive to build Money Unlimited . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | After Jennifer Saunders 's triumph in Absolutely Fabulous , we have final proof that women are the funnier sex . |
| 14 | I can not agree that women are the inferior of men . |
| 15 | Asian women are the worst off of all British workers . |
| 16 | Their women are the same . ’ |
| 17 | Eve led Adam into temptation , so Eve was a source of sin — and all other women are the same . |
| 18 | The two young men , Guglielmo and Ferrando , are teased by Don Alfonso , who tells them that all women are the same — fundamentally faithless by nature . |
| 19 | No two women are the same . |
| 20 | ‘ Then perhaps women are the same the world over . ’ |
| 21 | The idiomatic phrases , the stereotyped utterances , the patterns of speech themselves actively contribute to a world where women are the different sex , the defined sex . |
| 22 | His mouth twisted into an angry line as he snarled , ‘ Women are the last commodity I need in my life . ’ |
| 23 | Women are the historical " have-nots " and as a consequence , they take over what they consider to be their only " possessions " — their children . |
| 24 | But her most extraordinary pictures of women are the visionary/allegorical decorations showing groups or tall , slender women arranged to create compositions of beautifully rhythmic contours . |
| 25 | Again in the New Guinea Highlands , women are the main agents in producing both agricultural products and the most valuable possession — pigs — but then , in the view of these people , what really matters is not production , but large-scale , ceremonial exchanges and the significance of women 's role in production is once more ideologically denied . |
| 26 | As in egalitarian feminist psychology , white , middle-class , middle-aged , heterosexual women are the main subjects of woman-centred psychology . |
| 27 | For example , since women are the main socializers of children , they have an enormous capacity to affect patterns of personality and behaviour . |
| 28 | Changes to the social security system have reduced the living standards of the majority of recipients ; but , since women are the main users of the system , they are the main losers . |
| 29 | Likewise Townsend and Wedderburn ( 1965 , Chapter 4 ) , studying elderly people over 65 in Britain in 1962 , found only I 1 per cent of non-married women with occupational benefits — 18 per cent of single women and 9 per cent of widows , the older women being the poorest . |
| 30 | I tried to guess which of the women were the Russian wives of men stationed here and which were Latvian girls . |