Example sentences of "[noun sg] women [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | [ Memorials of Agnes Jones by her sister , 1871 ; Edwin Pratt , Pioneer Women in Victoria 's Reign , 1897 ; Margaret E. Tabor , Pioneer Women , 2nd series , 1927 ; Cecil Woodham-Smith , Florence Nightingale , 1950 ; Monica E. Baly , Florence Nightingale and the Nursing Legacy , 1986 . ] |
| 2 | He also bought a teaspoonful of tea from one of the artillery women for ten pounds , to be paid after the siege was over or , in case of death , by his executors to certain of her relations ; to lend substance to this rather nebulous arrangement which at first only seemed to excite the suspicion of the woman selling the tea , Fleury had drawn up an elaborate letter which began impressively : " To Whomsoever May Find This Missive , I , George Fleury , Being Then Deceased , " and which seemed to Fleury to give a certain legal solemnity to the transaction . |
| 3 | As can be seen in figure women in Nepal and the Ivory Coast spend the majority of their time in housework , whilst the men spend very little time . |
| 4 | Further research is necessary to investigate mechanisms responsible for the low conception rate in normal weight women with an increased waist-hip ratio . |
| 5 | While it is true that village women in India have little power or status in society as a whole , Janet misunderstands what lies behind the caring and ‘ fussing ’ . |
| 6 | For village women in Punjab , Bengal or Gujerat , there is usually only one source of comfort in their new life — the presence of other women — to love them , caress them , sing songs with them and soothe their sorrows . |
| 7 | Erm cos the Guild has sort of , this is a new thing , we 've adapted the International flag and we wear the er scarves , which , which the asked us to wear , we , at the church service you see , but you , mainly the Guild women in those days would be wearing the red rosettes of the Labour Party you see . |
| 8 | Thus , in a group of 15 countries where median age at first marriage was between 15.2 and 18.3 years , the median age at first birth fell in the range of 18.6–19.9 years , irrespective of whether , within that age range women in that country married earlier or later . |
| 9 | Ageism … is as old as the history of the family … men used family as a way of colonizing women as a class . |
| 10 | One group might consist of the younger consumer end of the market and one might be business women of thirty-plus . |
| 11 | It really wo n't do to talk airily about businessmen and business women as if emergency pools of these super-executives exist all over the country , ready to plug the numerous gaps left by the incompetence of Noddy and know-nothing councils that are councillors and magistrates . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , until 15 December , Area is exhibiting standing women by Serge Plagnol , sun-drenched silhouettes virtually cut from a thick layer of paint . |
| 13 | In talking of unity , how are we to build unity with , for example , the organisation Women Against Pit Closures , which developed out of the miners strike . |
| 14 | The false generic " Man/mankind " should be replaced by " people " , " humankind " , " etc. ; and further bias against women is expressed by referring to adult women as " girls " . |
| 15 | Reproduction demands its victims ; many young and adult women in the childbearing ages are to make the ultimate sacrifice in the process of propagation . |
| 16 | The employers of child workers in the factories were not partic-ular about gender , but what of the employment of adult women in manufacturing and mining ? |
| 17 | This was particularly true for some groups , for example women in some Muslim communities . |
| 18 | Close friends since schooldays , Joanna and Helen are now successful career women in their twenties . |
| 19 | WITH no obvious metamorphosis , the Diary spent part of yesterday among an organisation called Teesside Women at a ‘ meet the politicians ’ lunch . |
| 20 | In reality it is , according to a survey conducted by swimwear company Slix , the garment women like buying least . |
| 21 | Now they sat eagerly on the rows of brittle gilt chairs with red velvet seats , their exquisitely made-up faces carefully devoid of expression as they made brief notes on their programmes , pretending not to notice that sometimes the clicking cameras were directed not at the catwalk models , all of whom had already done a photo-call session for the photographers the previous day , but at them — the society women of America and the international circuit , the bored charity conscious wives of big businessmen , the famed actresses of stage and screen , even the occasional European princess . |
| 22 | Barnes and Maple have tackled the job of recording the mental health problems experienced by western society women across the lifespan in a positive and clear fashion . |
| 23 | Jacob divides his party into three groups , putting the slave women with their children in front , his wife Leah with her children next , and his favourite wife Rachel with her son Joseph last . |
| 24 | Perinatal mortality rates by place of delivery , however , showed substantial differences between general practitioner units ( 3.3/1000 ) and consultant units ( 9.4–12.6/1000 ) because of the selective referral of high risk women from general practitioner units to consultant units . |
| 25 | This may be to acquaynt you that their is a pore yong women in oure Towne of Asston-underlyne infected with a filthy deceassed called the French poxe and shee saith shee was defiled by one Henry Heyworth a maryed man , but soe it is the report of that dessease occasioneth neighbours to deny hir harbour and shee is enforced to lye in the streetes and in great danger to bee starved , I do humbly intreate your worshipps to take it into your consideration and to grant your Order that the pore woman may be provyded for to prevent starveing , either upon the parrish charges , or upon the Costs of the said Heyworth whom she saith hath spoiled hir , whether yiur worshipps shall think fitt |
| 26 | In the adjusted analysis subfertility of the partner became indicative for the fertility of the woman because of the fact that within this subgroup women with lower fertility are over-represented among those entering a donor insemination programme . |
| 27 | Despite some evidence to the contrary of Third World women in EOZs organizing fierce resistance to exploitation , of a sexual as well as a general nature , the overwhelming weight of evidence SuppOns the view that most women workers in EOZs , while not necessarily enthralled by their jobs , are glad to have them and much prefer them to the alternatives on offer . |
| 28 | It is difficult to know whether the increasing participation of Third World women in managerial , technical and professional employment in TNCs in the Third World is simply pan of the ‘ indigenization ’ process of replacing expatriate with local personnel , or whether it is a qualitatively different phenomenon in its own right . |
| 29 | THE fish and chip women of Barnard Castle have hit back at claims that ladies serving Britain 's best-loved dish are traditionally fat and ugly . |
| 30 | The referral of a set of questions under Article 177 EEC by the House of Lords in Webb v EMO Air Cargo ( UK ) Ltd raises the issue of the ambit of anti-discrimination law in relation to pregnant women under the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 and Council Directive 76/207/EEC and also the scope of the protections offered under Council Directive 92185/ EEC ( OJ L 348/1 ) which gives improved rights to pregnant and breast-feeding women in the United Kingdom . |