Example sentences of "[be] [that] woman " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jonathan Gershuny 's preliminary estimates of time spent in unpaid work ( from the ESRC 's time budget study in 1983/4 , Gershuny et al. , 1986 , Table 2 ) are that women averaged 16 hours per week more than men . |
| 2 | Possible explanations for these findings are that women are more likely to consult their doctors and so have blood tests , which may lead to an earlier diagnosis of coeliac disease than in men . |
| 3 | Two common folk-beliefs are that women have no sense of humour and can not tell jokes ( clearly Chiaro 's subjects do ) ; it may well be that certain kinds of jokes are preferred by men : the " shaggy dog " kind or narrative type that begins with formulas like " Have you heard the one about … ? " or " A man went into a pub … |
| 4 | The main message seems to be that women , for whatever reason , are less able to aspire to higher spiritual states than men . |
| 5 | It may also be that women have a greater need of seeing some of the qualities of the future . |
| 6 | The message seemed to be that women who are raped are at fault for not having successfully avoided it . |
| 7 | ‘ I happen to believe variety is the spice of life , it just happens to be that women end up victimising themselves a lot , or subjecting themselves to a lot of bullshit to get some sort of coverage . |
| 8 | But because the weight of explanation is preponderantly biological rather than cultural or social , it may be that women 's moral perspective will continue to be one which reflects a distinctive range of values . |
| 9 | Er the things that she said were that women used more hedges , such as I think er hedges are sort of things that get put into the conversation if al allegedly if somebody wants to give the impression that they 're not quite sure , and they would n't w You know like I would n't want to say it for sure but I think that . |
| 10 | What Engels stresses is that women were not inferior . |
| 11 | The reason for this is that women are forced to carry on the main productive activity by themselves because of their subjection . |
| 12 | The implication in all the sexually discriminatory immigration laws ( continued long after the introduction of the Sex Discrimination Act in 1975 ) is that women are slaves and chattels in their communities , and the government sees no reason why it should treat them as anything else . |
| 13 | The reason , Time explained , is that women under the age of 30 picture a feminist , to quote one college senior , as ‘ someone who does n't shave her legs and is doing everything she can to deny that she is feminine ’ . |
| 14 | The final irony and , to me , the bitter one , is that women , the sex that eats in an irregular , disordered and joyless fashion , have a greater capacity to enjoy food than men . |
| 15 | The result is that women typically become ‘ equal ’ by having to do more , to stretch themselves to work as hard as a man , even when experiencing bodily processes that a male has never experienced . |
| 16 | However , one advantage is that women 's clothes can be folded into a very small space . |
| 17 | One is that women 's fear of rape by a stranger is inborn ; another is that crime reporting tends to focus on violent crime , particularly against women . ’ |
| 18 | What we do find , however , is that women 's work is not so divorced from the work of men as it becomes in later times . |
| 19 | Rather than only training women to take on roles that have been shaped by men over the centuries , would it not be far more interesting , more expansive , to look into the questions of priestesshood , to find out what mystery it is that women can touch on , and how they can communicate it to the human world ? |
| 20 | One possibility is that women tend to be less involved than men in formal and public speech events where the appropriate or customary style is especially explicit , where logical connections are made on the surface and where information and argument are more important than interpersonal solidarity . |
| 21 | A second possibility is that women talking to other women can leave many things more implicit because they assume a great deal of shared knowledge and cooperation . |
| 22 | One fact that contradicts it immediately is that women are often in the vanguard of linguistic change towards the standard variety . |
| 23 | Lakoff 's claim is that women are denied access to ‘ powerful ’ styles of speech , those that confer authority and credibility on a speaker . |
| 24 | One aim of it is to make opponents of abortion appear unpatriotic and out of tune with American values ; but the main message being conveyed implicitly here is that women are Americans too : they should not be deprived of the rights and liberties guaranteed to all American citizens by the US Constitution . |
| 25 | The other thing to remember is that women who have sex with women may be at risk of HIV infection if they share needles or syringes to inject drugs , or use semen that has not been tested for HIV if they want to get pregnant through self-insemination . |
| 26 | Again the implication is that women can avoid rape through a display of courage when in reality other rather more fortuitous factors are much more important , as this woman actually recognised' . |
| 27 | The rhetoric of the Right in recent years , is that women have acquired rights and opportunities in the public world , especially in the labour market , but this , it is alleged has been at the expense of their families . |
| 28 | In small group discussions , the consensus is that women and men have different priorities in sex . |
| 29 | Explicitly or implicitly the suggestion is that women are children or lunatics or whichever other company they keep . |
| 30 | What he did not mean is that women lack rationality ; they can and do deliberate . |