Example sentences of "[adj] for woman " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a view that is as old , probably , as the human race , and certainly as old as Homer and the ancient Greeks , that there is one ethical structure that represents right for men : a composite of manly virtues , such as courage , endurance , physical stamina , wiliness and political judgement , and a corresponding but complementary conception of what is right for women , womanly virtue being seen as a mixture of timidity , tenderness , compliance , docility , softness , innocence and domestic competence . |
| 2 | Where average family size is only about two children , it is perfectly possible for women to delay marriage quite late — until their mid-30s — and still complete a family at or even above the average size . |
| 3 | The 1967 Abortion Act made it possible for women to get abortions if they were in the early stages of pregnancy and could persuade two doctors that they met certain criteria . |
| 4 | It is now possible for women in every grade and every position in the civil service to be part-time workers . |
| 5 | It was normal for women to write about love , but they were expected always to be decorous . |
| 6 | but to feel sorry for women and put their view forward because , I mean , you still the situation of a Friday when men go down to the pub and you know they 're all Jack the Lad ! |
| 7 | People think women who do not want to marry unfeminine , people think women who do want to marry immodest — people combine both opinions by regarding it as unfeminine for women not to look forward longingly to wifehood as the hope and purpose of their lives , and ridiculing and condemning any individual woman of their acquaintance whom they suspect of entertaining such a longing . |
| 8 | However , the prevailing view seems to be that it is preferable for women to withdraw from the labour market rather than for men to have to retire five years earlier . |
| 9 | The pressure to please must have been especially strong for women writers who , if they wrote novels of ideas , were in danger of either being rejected as over-cerebral or having the intellectual content of their work ignored . |
| 10 | These barriers are especially strong for women and younger people . |
| 11 | Second , at each age mortality rates are lower for women as compared with men ( this is considered in more detail below ) . |
| 12 | In the individual fighting categories there are ten weight divisions for men and eight for women . |
| 13 | For example , certain materials such as denim and corduroy are considered by orthodox Muslims as unpleasant western stuff , unsuitable for women 's clothing . |
| 14 | Others are recalled as causing unease because of ways thought unsuitable for women of their age . |
| 15 | The Chibis suit ( resembling the lower half of a diving suit ) which the cosmonauts use to draw the blood into the lower pad of the body and legs has apparently been found unsuitable for women . |
| 16 | This was particularly great in Britain after the introduction of male conscription in 1916 , but in some other countries , including Germany , many tasks were considered unsuitable for women and initially their employment in war work was discouraged . |
| 17 | Britain is 20th in the table with 71.4 years for men and 77.2 for women . |
| 18 | The relative risk of carcinoma in situ has been found to be 3.6 for smokers compared with 1.0 for women who have never smoked . |
| 19 | It seems to be the case that we interweave desire and pleasure with pain and punishment ; that for women , the chasing of elusive sexual goals remains familiar , and our pleasure is indeed obscured behind a barbed wire fence of masochistic images . |
| 20 | The Piaroa definition of ideal maturity for men is identical to that for women ; but the Shavante define ideal manhood as the achievement of a state that is both opposed and superior to the feminine . |
| 21 | Public policy should assume , and seek to encourage , the spread of voluntary parenthood ; it should also assume also that women will take an increasing part in the cultural and economic life of the community and should endeavour , by adjustments of social and economic arrangements , to make it easier for women to combine motherhood and the care of the home with outside interests . |
| 22 | Laws were passed to make it easier for women to participate filly in the development of their country as well as maintaining their family life . |
| 23 | It 's easier for women to get work . |
| 24 | The Abortion and National Health Service ( Family Planning ) Acts made conditions significantly easier for women to take advantage of increased social freedoms and to take control over their own sexuality , while the Sexual Offences Act ended a ten-year battle to decriminalize homosexual acts between men . |
| 25 | ‘ We are winning in the sense we are finding it easier for women to make progress in the organisation and they are not the exception any more . |
| 26 | Absolutely now I mean i i it 's interesting for women because I suppose in Australia I was a Republican and here I suppose I thought I saw about two erm now for me to have used that word thirty years ago I would possibly have been locked in the garden shed and left without food and drink |
| 27 | ‘ It seems to be that as they get older the prospect of cohabitation is less exciting for women . |
| 28 | And that 's why it is wrong for women to be financially penalised when they have children . |
| 29 | The question is whether , in a society that 's meant to be as free for women as for men , we should have to . |
| 30 | It was not so bad for a privileged minority , though even they had to do without modem medicine , and childbirth was highly risky for women . |