Example sentences of "woman and [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ms Kennedy said that coupled with the suggestion — left over from a case in 1976 — that woman and boys tend to lie , this initial suggestion of doubt can be an ‘ appalling ’ for the victim , who was already having to relive the ordeal in court . |
| 2 | The woman and children burst out laughing again , getting up from the table and crowding round me . |
| 3 | There is the mysterious feeling that men have for women and women have for men . |
| 4 | CAR STICKER : Puberty is when little girls become women and boys become bastards . |
| 5 | THE self-confessed murderer of 55 girls , women and boys faced his victims ' relatives yesterday on the opening day of a trial which will enter legal and medical history . |
| 6 | Until May 1978 , all married women and widows had the right to rely on their husbands ' contributions and forgo claims to short-term benefits ( sickness , unemployment and maternity ) as well as claims to pensions in their own right . |
| 7 | From 6th April 1991 , there are important changes for married women and widows paying reduced rate NI contributions under contracted-out table E ( or O for mariners ) . |
| 8 | Routine household chores like washing cleaning cooking sewing and mending were often done by women and girls employed as resident domestic servants . |
| 9 | Whitechurch then saw ‘ one shop where a group of female polishers and varnishers were rubbing seat-arms and panels … the upholstery department … a room above , where was a row of sewing machines , worked by steam , and an army of fifty women and girls stitching busily at cushions , and cordings and hand-rests , and the like , while in another room were more of the gentle sex preparing strips of leather for window straps . |
| 10 | There is some confusion as to the exact origins of the first Apprenticeship and Skilled Employment Committee , but it probably derived from the activities of the Charity Organization Society ( COS ) in assisting women and girls to find skilled occupations . |
| 11 | The lack of feminist perspective is emphasized by statements such as : ‘ There can be no doubt that women and girls have failed to make full use of the opportunity now open to them ’ , which implies an ideologically and materially unfettered equality of opportunity . |
| 12 | The instances of the over-valuation of the male are endless and penetrate the entire curriculum ; more disturbing is the corresponding under-valuation of the female , and the fact that when women and girls do appear they often have negative images . |
| 13 | Furthermore , many of the women and girls working at fruit-picking and jam-making were related to railway workers at nearby Cambridge Station and were brought to work by the 8.20 train from Cambridge in the morning and taken back home by the 6.34 in the evening . |
| 14 | Wills make it clear that fathers and sons worked together in the same little workshop , and perhaps the women and girls helped occasionally . |
| 15 | Both women and girls appear to have worked underground in some of the Lancashire pits in the eighteenth century but had ceased to do so by 1815 . |
| 16 | Wrapped in lace and linen , they stared at the women and girls forbidden to enter the sanctuary . |
| 17 | Pregnant women and grandmothers kept the children entertained with puppet shows at a safe distance from the tips , while others worked together to pile up , burn and bury the rubbish . |
| 18 | Its implications for women and families have been explored , rather than dismissed as marginal phenomena . |
| 19 | And if a chapter on women and managers warranted the inclusion of an additional female contributor , why did the authors not include a chapter by People First on users ' views ? |
| 20 | Women and men sharing the service and much erudite discussion of the Torah text . |
| 21 | In the absence of more sophisticated data , the calculation of the numbers of married women and men living on low incomes has been forced to assume an equal division of income within the income unit . |
| 22 | It only applies to women and men living as couples . |
| 23 | Women and men living together as couples who apply for Poll Tax benefit will have their joint incomes assessed when the amount of benefit is calculated . |
| 24 | Women and men respond to material pressures on their speech , and these pressures are different because — outside a tiny elite anyhow — women and men participate in different status hierarchies which are not readily comparable . |
| 25 | ‘ The reason a lot of women and men argue without hearing each other is that many women lack the bottom harmonics in their voices , while men do n't allow themselves the upper harmonics . |
| 26 | Other recent researchers , like Janet Holmes and Cameron , McAlinden and O'Leary have found women and men using roughly equal numbers of tags . |
| 27 | This social process of exclusion has denied both older women and men access to earnings and the other economic , social and psychological aspects of the workplace . |
| 28 | He turned his attention to the exploited — and , it was believed , unreachable — casual workers in the iron ore mines , women and men earning only a few rupees a day , living in squalor in dusty shacks on devastated hillsides . |
| 29 | For many feminists resist the relativist conclusion in this case to demand that both women and men shake themselves free of their conditioning . |
| 30 | The main problem with contraception is that many young women and men know about it , but they do n't use it . |