Example sentences of "[to-vb] women [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A total of 128 adults and 22 minors were reported to have been arrested as anti-abortionists clashed with pro-choice stewards attempting to escort women patients into the clinics . |
| 2 | It 's still rare to find women artists making it to the top . |
| 3 | Traditionally , therefore , building societies have been extremely reluctant to grant women mortgages on their own , since they are generally regarded as a bad risk on the grounds of their present or future income . |
| 4 | Women in Accountancy aims to encourage women members within the six accountancy bodies by channelling ideas , exchanging information and providing input to their organisations , while at the same time offering a practical forum for processing any issues that the bodies wish to develop . |
| 5 | A split was avoided when the synod rejected proposals to allow a separate church of those who refused to accept women priests . |
| 6 | Upon completion of the hot whisky order the women planned to ask for fifteen pints thereby coercing a reluctant publican to serve women pints . |
| 7 | In particular , they 're said to help women officers . |
| 8 | All the Wilsons ladies ' clubs incorporate features designed to help women players improve and enjoy their game . |
| 9 | Many Training and Enterprise Councils already have specific plans to help women trainees . |
| 10 | We will encourage all TECs to adopt plans to help women trainees have equal access to training opportunities . |
| 11 | Facilitator , an organisation to help women travellers feel at ease while staying on their own in hotels , was established . |
| 12 | So although I 'd assume a potential audience of mainly women who 'd be interested in this topic , the programme actually distanced that audience by addressing a hypothetical man who 'd think it rather ‘ odd ’ to select women candidates at all . |
| 13 | Last year the Church of England voted to ordain women priests . |
| 14 | An Oxford priest has become the first in the country to announce he 'll leave the Church of England following the vote to ordain women priests . |
| 15 | Her promotion , following last week 's appointment of Ms Margaret Beckett as shadow Treasury Chief Secretary , underlines Mr Kinnock 's willingness to put women MPs into subject areas traditionally regarded as male preserves . |
| 16 | Advice , prospectuses , fact sheets , helplines , career and benefits experts , course counsellors , businesswomen , and mature returners and learners , who had been through it all and come out stronger , were all there to persuade women learning is for life and it 's never too late or too hard to start . |
| 17 | Other influences can include , in some areas , religion and quite often age and sex : local parties are reluctant to adopt women candidates ( the folklore being that women voters dislike voting for them ) and anyone aged under 30 or over 50 years . |
| 18 | The ultimate aim is to inform policy makers and project planners about possible ways to ensure women farmers have greater opportunities to improve their own lives . |
| 19 | Dr Runcie said the new rules ‘ tried to steer a course between what I described as legislative schism and a measure which would reduce to second class membership those who find themselves unable to recognise women priests ’ . |
| 20 | The General Synod of the Church of England voted last November to allow women priests but the Church Society which opposes the move has won permission for a High Court hearing . |
| 21 | Women 's weak labour-market position is a source of disadvantage to women from which only employers benefit , since it enables them to pay women workers less than they would men . |
| 22 | I HOPE when the Church of England Synod meets again it will decide not to have women priests in the ministry . |
| 23 | While the employers tended to cast around for reasons outside the work process when they wished to disparage women workers , unionists spoke more often of the low level of women compositors " skill . |
| 24 | Ms Kennedy , who is writing a book on women in the criminal justice system , said it had become common practice in rape trials to employ women lawyers for the defence . |
| 25 | He also had to keep secrets , for he knew the real shape of things : " I am surprised the ladies have not found out a way to employ women stay-makers rather than trust our sex with what should be kept as inviolably as Free-Masonry . " |
| 26 | A first draft , giving the clergy powers to block women priests , frightened members — including Dr Runcie — and risked a split . |
| 27 | Laura found an occasional outlet in humorous accounts of their lives related to close women friends with an infectious laugh . |
| 28 | The vote came five years after the synod called for draft legislation to introduce women priests . |
| 29 | Mr Gummer resigned from the General Synod of the Church of England last November when they sent draft legislation to introduce women priests to Parliament . |
| 30 | Be that as it may , the last two state-supported military schools that refuse to admit women cadets are fighting a rearguard action for their cause . |