Example sentences of "[verb] of women " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't really approve of women earning a living , but the extra income would come in useful . |
| 2 | I can not approve of women in key positions . |
| 3 | The NARAL advertisement is an example of nonsexist language being used apparently as the norm , but in reality to make a point , to make people think of women in a context where ordinarily they might not ( as the inheritors of constitutional rights ) . |
| 4 | ‘ What do you think of Women 's Lib ? ’ she said to Emily . |
| 5 | The hall smelled of women , too . |
| 6 | Violet had heard of women like that . |
| 7 | I 've heard of women so depressed that they spend their 40th birthday incommunicado , having a mini nervous breakdown in bed . |
| 8 | The Edinburgh branch of the union faced particular problems from the start , then , with a sub-category of skilled , fully apprenticed but low-paid compositors in the trade well before any mention is heard of women , and with a division of labour between groups of compositors already well established . |
| 9 | I , I 've never really heard of women attacking lesbian women or women attacking gay men , its usually if there 's a if there 's a row something or other because the male of the species seems the one who 's been , feels very , very threatened at the |
| 10 | We 've all heard of women giving up work for their children , but men ? |
| 11 | In 1911 it required that one-third of all boarding-out committees should consist of women , for their assumed superior sensitivity to children 's needs , and that relieving officers should no longer supervise boarded-out children , thus removing such children from direct stigmatizing contact with the official administration of the Poor Law . |
| 12 | ( Yet again it must be said — an argument which does not directly arise out of a golden thread approach but which is pertinent here — the two passages in the new testament which speak of women 's subordination both rely on the Genesis account of creation and fall , an account no longer valid in a post-Darwinian age . ) |
| 13 | THE principle of retrospectively punishing men for their past supposed disadvantaging of women is a feminist catch-all by which a counter system of justice arises . |
| 14 | Just as there are faces that ask to be slapped , can one not speak of women who ask to be raped ? ’ |
| 15 | Whether that is achieved by a woman on this side or the other side of the House , to talk of women gaining promotion as part of a target number is one of the most stupid and fatuous things that anyone could suggest . |
| 16 | In Chapter 4 I argue that the concept of women 's ‘ domesticity ’ which is used loosely in sociological writing needs to be broken down into a number of more precise concepts before much sense can be made of women 's similarities/differences on this dimension . |
| 17 | What experience have you had of women in positions of authority ? or in jobs involving caring for people ? |
| 18 | The largest scale intervention was the VISTA programme , which consisted of women scientists and technologists visiting schools to talk to children about an aspect of their jobs already being covered in the school science syllabus . |
| 19 | During much of the nineteenth century almost half of the Lothian agricultural force consisted of women , though some of these were seasonal workers imported from Ireland and the Highlands . |
| 20 | Geoffrey Gorer , investigating English attitudes to sex by questionnaire in 1950 , found that 55 per cent of men and 73 per cent of women disapproved of women having sexual experience before marriage . |
| 21 | They tell of women murdered by Iraqi soldiers , because husbands or sons had joined the rebellion ; of heavy shelling of residential areas ; of summary executions of anybody suspected of aiding the rebels ; of bodies left lying in the streets . |
| 22 | Drake Hall is an open prison and other stories tell of women taking crack , Wicked drops or deliveries of parcels containing drugs , drink , and cigarettes , and a boyfriend of one of the inmates having sex inside the prison . |
| 23 | But the picture she paints of women is nevertheless often a derogatory one . |
| 24 | POOR old Jeffrey Bernard , so terrified of women , shaking in his frail , alcoholically reinforced misogynists shoes — cynical and brittle , propping up the bar and amusing his ( male ) audience by spilling his wit and intelligence in bar-room bons mots . |
| 25 | No amount of reflection on first principles will stop a Christian from assuming that the morality demanded of women , which in Islam he judges to be imposed by the physically stronger sex in its own interests , is in his own religion true to the equality of the sexes before God ; not until women become conscious of and vocal about their own interests does he appreciate that the difference from Islam has from the very first been only one of degree . |
| 26 | Emily smiled , she knew instinctively that here was a man who thought of women as merely creatures of decoration and , if it would serve her purpose , it was a view she would exploit to the full . |
| 27 | The Primate of New Zealand ( where a woman has recently been consecrated as a diocesan bishop ) speaks of women priests bringing ‘ an overwhelmingly positive contribution ’ to the life of the church . |
| 28 | Education officials readily admitted that a decade of Sandinista rule had not yet resolved ‘ the cultural problem we have inherited of women being relegated to second place ’ . |
| 29 | What next would be asked of women and what would women do , when at last peace came ? |
| 30 | The evidence here is often contradictory , and suggests that in practice , there were variations in what was asked of women . |