Example sentences of "women were still [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Women were still ignored . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | Women were still excluded , and there 's no sign of a revolution yet . |
| 6 | Women were still expected to ‘ love , honour and obey ’ their husbands and were not allowed to decide their own destinies . |