Example sentences of "the [noun sg] of women [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old Hall yes , yes , yes , yeah and so I think and of course erm I have talked erm I talk in the different clubs you know , as I say , and I think erm the majority of women usually like this , they look forward to the divi to buy say a major item , you know . |
| 2 | Though I might , in working for a different future , find the struggle of women politically inspiring , I am unlikely to find a community in which women were not counted equal a medium through which I can gain a glimpse of God . |
| 3 | There 's been recent reassessment of the traditional picture of the enforced flight from the labour force to domesticity on the part of women just after the war , and far from a flight , large-scale recruitment to the new industries in the early 1950s now seems to present a more historically accurate picture . |
| 4 | The social taboo placed on discussion of birth control and sexuality , and the acceptance by a majority of middle class women of the idea that they lacked sexual drives — what Judith Walkowitz has called the doctrine of passionlessness — meant that little information was likely to come within the purview of women generally . |
| 5 | We would do well to transpose Orwell 's transposition of Chesterton : the metabolism of the Western world is founded on the work of women more completely than we realise until we stop to think about it . |
| 6 | The latter is indicated by an analysis of data from 27 developing countries which showed that there are significant differences among populations as to the proportion of women already infecund in the early childbearing ages of 20–24 years , when fecundity and , usually , fertility too , are at their peak . |
| 7 | The proportion of women still childless by age 25–9 doubled from 20 per cent in 1961 to 40 per cent in 1981 . |
| 8 | In turn , the propensity to marry can be measured by estimating the proportion of women still unmarried at ages 35–44 . |
| 9 | In a given country , the higher the percentage of women ever married at exact age 16.0 years , the greater the proportion infecund among wives 20–24 years old . |
| 10 | No , ffeatherstonehaugh 's understood the point of women all right . |
| 11 | Much of this work is already in hand , aided by advances made in the organisation of women outside and inside the sociology profession . |
| 12 | I 'm interested in the role of women all over the world , particularly in terms of what effect development strategies have had on women 's position , not merely in India but in other parts of the world as well , because I feel that there are a lot of common experiences which impinge on the problem as it relates to India . |
| 13 | In one group discussion we explored the role of women further . |
| 14 | The recruitment of women therefore added to the degree of unsettling change experienced by the TDC system . |
| 15 | They were all agreed that the provision of family allowances would enhance the status of women not only as mothers but as workers because ‘ it would strike at one of the main popular objections to ‘ equal pay for equal work ’ , i.e. the plea that a man requires a family wage whereas a woman requires only an individual subsistence wage ’ ( NUSEC , 1920 , p. 3 ) . |
| 16 | The lot of women definitely did not improve after the war . |
| 17 | I shall look at the endeavour of women both within and outside Christianity to create a different concretion . |
| 18 | This is due to a variety of circumstances ranging from accessibility and remoteness of locations and their suitability for women to local legislation in some countries which prohibits the employment of women either completely or in certain types of jobs . |
| 19 | For example , insisting on conditions that would in theory make the employment of women more likely often has the opposite effect . |
| 20 | It was taken for granted that the introduction of women generally to any trade carried the risk of lowering wages ; basically because as we have seen , the wages paid for " women 's work " were so low . |
| 21 | Fighting my way through the milling crowds of private view enthusiasts which announce the opening of this years round of degree shows , my curiosity was aroused by the number of women consistently achieving standards of excellence . |
| 22 | It is because of this historical dimension to the religion that those arguing ( for example ) for the ordination of women apparently find it so difficult to say , in the way in which it has been possible to maintain in the sphere of politics , that we hold these truths to be self-evident , that all human beings are created equal and must not be discriminated against . |
| 23 | Not only were we not interested in how socialism was realized , we did n't believe it would make the slightest difference to the position of women even if it were . |
| 24 | Yet another avenue of explanation might develop from a comparison of certain properties of the language of care-takers of young children ( who are usually women ) with the language of women generally ( Snow and Ferguson 1979 ; J. Milroy 1985 ) . |