Example sentences of "it is women [pron] " in BNC.

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1 In the older generation , incidentally , it is women whose Gullah is more pronounced , probably because women were less likely than men to leave the island in order to trade their produce .
2 It is women who have to go alone ; whose lovers do not have the patience to wait at home and pray for them .
3 Predictably , it is women who can place Izzat most easily at risk .
4 DEEP THINKERS Forward planning O'Donovan also offers the simple but profound thought that it is women who will be giving birth to the next generation of Rugby League players .
5 The general division of labour in peasant and pastoral households is significant — it is women who frequently collect water , fuel , forest litter and fodder , and indeed in some societies do most of the agricultural work as well , except ploughing ( as , for example , in parts of South Asia ) .
6 If the woman does not choose to fulfil this part of the process , then the connection will not hold ; by and large it is women who create the form of the relationship .
7 It is women who are the regular mail order users .
8 There is wide agreement that , in such households , it is women who take the main share of responsibility .
9 One group of people consider fishing men 's work and weaving women 's , while two hundred miles away it is women who fish and men who weave .
10 But it is women who are more likely to buy things .
11 The corollary of this is that it is women who are expected to undertake the reproduction of labour-power within the family , whether they also have waged jobs or not .
12 It is women who bear the brunt of high-rise flats , estates with no open play spaces , inadequate laundry facilities , noise , vandalism and bad access to shops and transport .
13 For instance , if clitorectomy often known as female circumcision — is a ‘ moral ’ requirement to serve male interests , it is nevertheless women who carry out , maintain and insist upon the practice , and it is women who express their moral offence if it is not carried out .
14 The health conditions of the vast majority of Salvadoreans can only be described as critical and it is women who must bear the brunt of caring for the ill .
15 But it still obscures the fact that it is women who are raped .
16 Over four fifths , that 's two million , of these w of those who the wages c wages are protected by the Wages Councils are women and as there would seem no point in abolition unless the wages were gon na fall , then it is women who will suffer disproportionately , along with another vulnerable group , single parents .
17 The argument goes that it is women who are in fact doing all the reproducing of labour power and servicing other people 's escapes .
18 It is women who end up imprisoned in their own homes by the threat of racial and sexual violence on housing estates and the streets .
19 It is women who are not thought to be assertive .
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