Example sentences of "women tend to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One possibility is that women tend to be less involved than men in formal and public speech events where the appropriate or customary style is especially explicit , where logical connections are made on the surface and where information and argument are more important than interpersonal solidarity . |
| 2 | As a result of the bi-modal pattern of female involvement in paid employment ( reflecting the demands of child rearing ) , women tend to be absent from work during the period in which men tend to acquire the post-entry professional qualifications which are required for promotion . |
| 3 | Within Catholic thought these different positions of men and women tend to be thought ‘ natural ’ , and it is contended that the same gender arrangements are to be found in all known human societies . |
| 4 | These women tend to be fairly rough and uncouth , and their clientele are mainly from the criminal underworld — thieves , drug-dealers , heavy drinkers . |
| 5 | Women tend to be concentrated in certain kinds of occupations and in the worst-paid levels of those occupations . |
| 6 | Women tend to be able to laugh more than men — perhaps they have to ’ . |
| 7 | Women tend to be the carers in a family and do n't take time to look after themselves properly , but who will look after them ? ’ |
| 8 | that this increase in female employment has not been evenly distributed through the occupational hierarchy ; that is women tend to be concentrated in particular occupations ( for example , clerical work ) , and in low-level positions within those occupations . |
| 9 | In sub-Saharan Africa , where land hunger is more rare , women tend to be left alone to cultivate and market their produce . |
| 10 | And I mean I think women tend to be inv having to cope with things like school and er and health and you know they 're a at the grass roots if you like of you know at the receiving end of you know say cuts in in services like that and bus services and just quality of rural life and I mean the quality of life in Blaenau is depopulation and unemployment and you know and and in a sense there is lot of scope for women to break down the barriers of you know cos it is true that the the Councillors they 're supposed to represent the people or whatever tend to be quite well to do they 've done it thank you very much and then oh you know they 've got the time on their hands and they tend to be men and s school ex school teachers ex You know and they 're not having to cope with really situations that go will put them in touch with what it 's like not to have a bus service or not to have proper health care and this sort of thing you know . |
| 11 | In the related genre of graffiti-writing , women tend to be more restrained than men , apparently , in their language , although just as preoccupied with sex ! |