Example sentences of "women [was/were] still [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There the loading was still underway and the women were still hanging about . |
| 2 | Women were still seen as a valuable commodity , to be passed from father to husband , and at the accession of James I , any property a woman might hold would immediately become her husbands on marriage . |
| 3 | At that time women were still employed underground in Cumberland filling the baskets as well as at surface tasks , while the wives of Staffordshire pitmen were said seldom to " do more than attend to the necessary calls of the Family " except for helping with the harvest . |
| 4 | Women were still ignored . |
| 5 | A few men were willing to forgive or at least forget ; but the women hated her , for by deserting her man she had somehow disgraced every woman , and where the women were still united against her , what man dared help her openly ? |
| 6 | Despite seven men still being anaemic not one man was still taking iron ; whereas 15 women were still taking iron although none was anaemic . |
| 7 | Women were still excluded , and there 's no sign of a revolution yet . |
| 8 | However , in 1989 , 20 per cent of married women were still paying reduced National Insurance contributions compared with 34 per cent in 1984 and 64 per cent in 1978 ( unpublished statistics , DHSS , 1986 ; DSS , 1991 ) . |
| 9 | Women were still expected to ‘ love , honour and obey ’ their husbands and were not allowed to decide their own destinies . |
| 10 | The purge failed in Wigan and women were still working there and in a couple of other regions until after nationalisation . |
| 11 | An informant from Aberdeen , where the last women were still working up until the 1950s , told me that these elderly women sometimes had little to do , were regarded rather as passengers and had to put up with rather disparaging remarks , but were kept on until retirement age by the firm , which felt it had obligations towards them . |
| 12 | In Lancashire at this time , as in Cumberland , women were still working moving coal in the pits . |