Example sentences of "women [Wh pn] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The caves gave shelter to a new generation of troglodytes — European nomads , Australian girls ending their ‘ Grand Tours ’ by going native , those few English women who had felt the lure of the desert so intently that they now nursed fair-haired , olive-skinned babies and hung their washing-lines from one eroded pinnacle to another . |
| 2 | There were two new women who had joined the group to take part in the study programme . |
| 3 | Habré stated that five seats in the National Assembly would be allocated to women who had achieved the highest number of votes as runners-up , to join the two women who had succeeded in being elected . |
| 4 | There was a heavy irony in Lady Thatcher 's fulsome tribute to the women who had campaigned for the vote . |
| 5 | A comparison of those women who had become hospital patients with women in the community who were not depressed did not , however , fully replicate these findings . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , the risk of endometriosis was low in women currently taking oral contraceptives ( relative risk 0.4 ; 95% confidence interval 0.2 to 0.7 ) , but higher in women who had formerly taken them ( 1.8 ; 1.0 to 3.1 in women who had stopped 25–48 months previously ) compared with women who had never taken the pill . |
| 7 | Even with structured A4 records , computerised recall and repeat prescribing , and a relatively vigilant team , we still found it difficult to ensure that women who had stopped the pill because of a rise in pressure did not resume it , even when they and practice staff were apparently aware of the risk . |
| 8 | In their study of 41 women who had cared for their own mother before she died , Lewis and Meredith comment that to an outside observer ‘ the majority of respondents led remarkably restricted lives ’ ( Lewis and Meredith , 1988 , p. 87 ) . |
| 9 | The building , which was owned by the church , was made up of a dozen self-contained flats rented out to respectable young women who had gone through the children 's home and school of St Mary 's Convent in Bermondsey . |
| 10 | While I was in Germany I took a special interest in the treatment of creative men and women who had lost direction and in some way broken down . |
| 11 | Loss of mother , through separation or death , was a second vulnerability factor : 47 per cent of women who had lost their mother against 17 per cent of remaining women developed depression following a provoking factor during the year under study . |
| 12 | A sample of 225 women was selected from general practice registers to include a large number of women who had lost a parent in childhood . |
| 13 | Not that it had done Oliver Rattrie any good , since he 'd been caught the day after by those same Chartist women who had marched into Halifax singing the One Hundredth Psalm ; sheep no longer but howling Furies who had seized him , puny little thing that he was , and thrown him in the canal where , in his struggle to keep himself from drowning , he had lost every last shilling of the blood-money in his pockets . |
| 14 | Part of the problem is that as most women who had attended single-sex schools had not known anything else , their comments will focus on the school itself rather than the fact of its being single-sex . |
| 15 | ( Luke : Luke records that all his friends stood at a distance , including the women who had followed him from Galilee ( Luke 8:3 ) . ) |
| 16 | In the meantime the women 's liberation movement was changing rapidly ; expanding , feminists were becoming active in a whole range of trade union activities , setting up women 's centres , refuges for battered wives , all kinds of research , discussion … the group , although it continued to meet , give or take a member or two , for a further four years , was a friendship , a support group of women who had struggled through to political consciousness together , and whose own political allegiances sparked off in many directions : a gay commune , further teaching , trade union organising , membership of one of the numerous revolutionary left-wing groupings which flourished in the seventies , involved in producing feminist journals . |
| 17 | In a series of women who had killed their children 84% had mental and behavioural disorders , but diagnoses varied , with 16% being psychotic and personality disorder being the commonest diagnosis . |
| 18 | She praised the gallantry , determination and sense of duty of the servicemen and women who had given their lives for their country . |
| 19 | Conversely , the reverse pattern was found for single women who had given birth who were five times more likely to be local authority tenants rather than owner-occupiers . |
| 20 | A small-scale study of women caring for frail elderly relatives found average earnings losses of £87 a week among women who had given up or been unable to return to work and average weekly losses of £28 among those still in paid work ( Nissel and Bonnerjea , 1982 ) . |
| 21 | A post-mortem examination revealed she was HIV positive and health chiefs decided to alert women who had given birth at the hospital and might feel they were at risk of infection . |
| 22 | The last time I saw prisons like that was in northern Iraq , when the Kurds were knocking down doors and killing guards , freeing men and women who had seen daylight in years . |
| 23 | Mum Pat Hoey , 48 , said : ‘ Vicky is thrilled to bits after the dog was found by two women who had seen the story in the Echo and looked for our house in Tuebrook . |
| 24 | What would happen to these two women who had done nothing to deserve her evil body and heart between them , what would happen to them when she was dead ? |
| 25 | One of the few women who had done so over time without the complement of sexual gratification . |
| 26 | It was the first centre of its kind , and was offering treatment to women who had suffered problems with previous pregnancies — women who had had handicapped babies , for example , or stillbirths . |
| 27 | He was specialising , with terrible irony as it turns out , in the treatment of women who had suffered sexual abuse and those who were HIV positive . |
| 28 | My own political education was rooted in the more down-to-earth practical realities of the day-to-day running of a refuge for women who had suffered domestic violence . |
| 29 | It was only towards the end of last year , when the book was going to press and space was tight , that I realised how important a contribution was made not only by my work , but also the work of all the women who had contributed to the Project both nationally and internationally . |
| 30 | In contrast , a sustained increase in bowel frequency was noted in 12 of 17 unselected women who had received pelvic radiotherapy for gynaecological malignancy 1–26 years previously . |