Example sentences of "women [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's very common for a women to be depressed after giving birth : if on top of that the parent 's hopes are dashed , and life seems desperately fraught because they have a handicapped child , it 's absolute hell . ’ |
| 2 | These two tendencies — looking for natural difference and failing to see cultural difference — reinforce one another , causing men to be studied and women to be stereotyped . |
| 3 | Not that he particularly wanted women to be equal . |
| 4 | The gaps in our data do not make it possible to say anything of statistical value , merely to point out that the evidence fragmentarily available suggests that it was by no means exceptional for women to be sole breadwinner in a household , usually in three precise sets of circumstances : in widowhood , with or without children ; after marriage when the husband was away , unemployed or chronically sick ; when unmarried , either living alone or — more frequently in our sample at any rate — caring for and responsible for an elderly parent or sick sibling . |
| 5 | Thus , analysing the attempt by political philosophers to justify the exclusion of women from public life on the grounds of their defective capacities ( either rational , moral or cognitive ) , she suggests that there is a hidden argument which takes the exclusion of women to be unquestionable and attempts to justify the status quo by seeking an explanation in the defective capacities that women must then be assumed to have . |
| 6 | ‘ All men wish all women to be gentle , ’ Mrs Browning commented , ‘ just as all women wish men to be strong and to alter this we must first start with our sons and what they are brought up to . |
| 7 | Because he liked women to be gentle and soft and obedient he thought that women would like being that way since it would make him like them . |
| 8 | Well that 's interesting the Kipsigies are er traditional people who live in Kenya and if they have , in other words er men have to pay a certain amount to the erm you know , woman if they 're gon na marry her and what they did was they study the and related it to the , to the girl that was actually getting married and what they found of course was that it fits the predictions of our theory er just as you 'd expect , given that the cultural things you have to allow for like , like for example in that most traditional cultures they like er women to be plump as we 'll see in the , in the actually fat is critical to female fertility and er so they might not have been plump , so what they did was they simply weighed the girls and they compared their , their , their weights with , with the , with the and sure enough strong correlation the fatter the girl , the bigger the . |
| 9 | There was an emphasis on the need for women to be confident , to set themselves high standards , to believe in themselves whatever the consequences . |
| 10 | We discussed pressures from the media for women to be slender . |
| 11 | If the military regimes of the Interregnum were prepared within reason to allow lay men and women to be godly in whichever way seemed most appropriate to them , they did expect them to be godly in some way . |
| 12 | I believe the enormous pressure put on women to be skinny is the most important feminist issue in Western society . |
| 13 | Up to now he had considered women to be distant , almost foreign creatures , who had nothing to do with him . |
| 14 | ‘ A few years back , you could not get young women to be active , ’ said Judy Miller , president of the Los Angeles-based Trusteeship , an organisation of influential women in business and the arts . |
| 15 | The Guild also encouraged women to be active in local government , to criticize or improve the administration of the Poor Law , education , housing and public health . |
| 16 | ‘ There 's no need for us women to be ashamed of our bodies any more . ’ |
| 17 | He is always telling the women to be quiet . |
| 18 | Meanwhile she has given the impression that , by looking to the earliest community of women and men , she has found a way for women to be Christian . |
| 19 | Detectives warned women to be careful while the attacker was on the loose and said people going for a walk — especially women — should go with a friend or a neighbour , not alone . |
| 20 | In Hinduism there is a burden placed on women to be responsible for protecting the community from their potential ‘ pollution ’ . |
| 21 | For they concentrate on building up co-operatives which allow women to be responsible for the whole production and marketing process . |
| 22 | It seems that it is of continuing importance for women to be able to call upon relatives to assist them with child care , and that this still is a key element in women 's organization of their daily lives , as it has been in the past ( see for example Roberts , 1984 ) . |
| 23 | Now that we do live much longer with better health care generally , what we want is for women to be able to live that last third of their lives in health and being able to enjoy themselves and contribute to the community , not feeling that they 're crippled by pain . |
| 24 | Eating disorders tend to come from childhood , or problems , or ways people have approached food in the past and the pressure is on women to be slim to fit into these categories are er , just more pressures that make it very difficult for somebody who has an eating disorder to sort the problem all these pressures just make it more difficult . |