Example sentences of "woman were [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also coincided with the rise and consolidation of the labour movement in Britain ; and that is a story from which women were for many years absent or in which they featured very much as a minority . |
| 2 | If the rest of the media were anything to go by , you 'd assume that most women were at each other 's throats . |
| 3 | The effects of this trend weakened in the 1970s but the numbers of economically active women were by that time swollen by the fall in the numbers of children and by the fall in the numbers of women entering motherhood in their twenties . |
| 4 | Young , single middle class women were by this time engaging in paid work outside the home . |
| 5 | Dr Jack Cuzick , an ICRF scientist , said that 75,000 of the women were likely to have important underlying disease but , without referring all 250,000 to hospital , there was no way of knowing which women were in that group . |
| 6 | In 1985 , 55% of all people aged over 85 lived alone , but for men it was only 37% while 61% of women were in this position . |
| 7 | As Table 4.6 shows , 32 per cent of male SERC students were looking for work at the end of their courses : 47 per cent of the women were in this position . |
| 8 | Besides , even those who argue that the answer to women 's dependency/op-pression in the home is for them to take outside jobs ( as if the sort of jobs open to most women were in any way more congenial and less exploitative than housework , except in so far as they are paid ) and put their children into publicly funded day-care centres , must surely allow that some women ( as well as men , of course ) would choose freely to look after children , otherwise how are the centres to be staffed ? |