Example sentences of "[conj] woman [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was especially true when young people were compared to up-graded existing employees , those recruited from other firms or women returning to work . |
| 2 | In addition , it was shown that women living in the same household as the person for whom they were caring were more likely to be either working full-time or not at all ; part-time employment was taken when the sick or elderly person lived elsewhere . |
| 3 | Doctors are worried that women turning to prostitution to finance the habit are at risk of contracting Aids . |
| 4 | A second possibility is that women talking to other women can leave many things more implicit because they assume a great deal of shared knowledge and cooperation . |
| 5 | It all comes down to practical implementation of flexible working hours and job sharing , so that women working in the nursing profession do not have to follow male patterns of employment , where eventually they find that combining family responsibility with work is simply too difficult , and they leave . |
| 6 | It was still only eight thirty and , apart from themselves and a man and woman sitting in the far corner , the bar was empty . |
| 7 | a. a man and woman sitting in the living room + the woman sitting reading quite happily — the man 's bored goes to the window looks out the window + and gets himself ready and goes out + |
| 8 | and woman sitting in the living room … the man 's bored goes to the window looks out the window … and goes out + goes to his goes to a club + has a drink talks to the barman |
| 9 | ( 29 ) a man and woman sitting in the living room … the man 's bored goes to the window … goes out … goes to a club |
| 10 | Laura found other themes in Victorian novels to bolster what she already believed ; for example the home was viewed as a haven isolated from the trials and tribulations of the ‘ real ’ world and women presiding over the home were to make it as attractive as possible to persuade men to stay there rather than , for example , drinking in a pub all evening . |
| 11 | Such a picture is of necessity tragic , and this " tragic " dialectical interaction between the objective social forces crushing men and women in their everyday lives , and the dynamic subjective response of those same men and women refusing to be crushed , has as its counterpart a " tragic " dialectical interaction between revolutionary writer and oppressed reading public . |
| 12 | And women stooping to each blank white face |
| 13 | as we walked , sunshine seeped through the canopy of branches , bathing the forest in clear pools of light , and women raking in the distance would be suddenly spotlit , their pine-needles turning from tawny to amber . |
| 14 | In her study of Chilvers Coton , a ribbon-making village , Jill Quadagno found more elderly men and women living with their children in 1901 than in 1851 . |
| 15 | Another study reported by the Equal Opportunities Commission ( address on page 146 ) in their book Carers and Services , which compares the situation of men and women looking after dependent elderly relations , shows that 59 per cent of all carers are women . |
| 16 | He went to investigate and , seeing an open door in the side of the mound , looked inside and saw men and women preparing for a ceremonial meal . |
| 17 | We had been taking into the adult wards men and women suffering from the most serious fevers , encephalitis lethargica , polio-encephalitis , serious poliomyelitis , with two ‘ Iron lung ’ cases in a special isolation ward and unit , tuberculous meningitis , and poliomeningitis were also with us . |
| 18 | I decided to go to St Paul 's , walk past Duke Humphrey 's tomb and along the Mediterranean , the main aisle where most men did business ; there , the dirty round pillars were festooned with notices , men and women begging for work or prospective employers offering terms . |
| 19 | It was not filled with crusty old men and women poring over the paintings ; the whole building had a bright and open atmosphere , instead of the sullen brooding one she 'd expected . |
| 20 | We need to make more progress in achieving a decade of retirement between the ages of sixty and seventy with men and women deciding for themselves when they want to retire . |
| 21 | Nowhere has there been a greater example of ordinary men and women witnessing to their faith by their service to the neighbourhood . |
| 22 | He says ; There was a Jaguar parked and by it a group of four people men and women dancing to music from the jaguar car and there was a man standing far away from the group not connected but also dancing . |
| 23 | Men and women dancing in formal couples , plenty of women together too . |
| 24 | The Department operates a Sports Bursary Scheme offering an educational programme , conditioning , medical and other support services and financial assistance to selected outstanding sportsman and women studying at the university . |
| 25 | The difference was just as large if one compares men and women studying on conversion courses only . |
| 26 | In Scotland in particular there is a coterie of men and women working on VAT for whom he set an example to be followed . |
| 27 | Thus , amongst policemen and women working in ‘ hard ’ areas of high tension , policing in Easton is abused as family disputes and barking dogs , a caricature which many respondents hold and is even reproduced by constables at Easton : ‘ One minute you could be called out , someone 's budgie has escaped and is flying around the living-room . |
| 28 | But we do not have to follow him further , to the view that authentic Producers ' Co-operation is to be found in factories owned and ultimately controlled not by the men and women working in them , but by the members of the Consumers ' Co-operatives whose capital built and equipped the factories , and employed labour to work in them . |
| 29 | Given that industrial democracy , defined as the ultimate right and duty of the men and women working in an industrial enterprise to call management to account for its performance , and , if that performance does not satisfy them , to replace management , is desirable in principle and as a means of making the efficient conduct of the enterprise their natural concern ; recognising that the rights of use attaching to ownership , whether in the private or public sector , are inalienable ; recognising the value in general of competition as a means of keeping production and provision sensitive to public needs and tastes , and as a means of relating the distribution of resources to them ; to consider ( i ) in what sort of industrial organisation would industrial democracy be feasible ; ( ii ) how far and in what circumstances would the adoption of such a form of organisation be feasible ; ( iii ) by what means should its adoption be promoted and how long would it take to establish it as a characteristic feature in the industrial scene ; ( iv ) what part should trade unions play in its promotion and adoption and what changes would that part require in their functions as they are commonly understood ; and ( v ) where in the case of a particular industry , or organisation , the general interest requires that accountability should be to the public at large , considered for example as consumers or users of goods produced or beneficiaries from services provided , what compensatory measures should be introduced so as to make good as far as possible the permanent denial to employees of a right which is in principle generally desirable ? |
| 30 | When formulating its eventual recommendations , the National Consultative Group will have to take into account two essential differences between agriculture and the rest of British industry : it is for the most part composed of relatively small-scale and highly efficient enterprises employing limited numbers of men and women working in relative isolation from one another ; and , as we have seen , the boundaries between the craftsman and technician in agriculture are shifting and difficult , if not impossible , to define . |