Example sentences of "is that [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 ’ . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | However , one advantage is that women 's clothes can be folded into a very small space . |
| 35 | 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 . ’ |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | 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 ? |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | One fact that contradicts it immediately is that women are often in the vanguard of linguistic change towards the standard variety . |
| 41 | Lakoff 's claim is that women are denied access to ‘ powerful ’ styles of speech , those that confer authority and credibility on a speaker . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | 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' . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | In small group discussions , the consensus is that women and men have different priorities in sex . |
| 47 | Explicitly or implicitly the suggestion is that women are children or lunatics or whichever other company they keep . |
| 48 | What he did not mean is that women lack rationality ; they can and do deliberate . |
| 49 | One reason for this is that women ( and men , of course ) are often faced with the problem of negotiating contradictory or conflicting conceptions of themselves . |
| 50 | In short , the probability is that women will more often gain access to heroin through a male , frequently via a ‘ romantic relationship ’ , than any other social route . |
| 51 | The short answer , as far as employers are concerned , is that women were cheap , and increasingly gave good value for money . |
| 52 | The important thing to emphasize is that women are given the opportunity to participate in all areas of work and that there exists a definite attempt to organize and train women for tasks outside the domestic sphere , One finds many women who are in charge of supplies , or working in the munition workshops , in tailoring , shoe-making , pottery or local manufactures , such as hammocks and so on . |
| 53 | What is happening is that women have shown their competence in practice and this has helped to change machista attitudes . |
| 54 | One of the main problems for women 's pay is that women are in occupations which are badly paid , rather than that women are poor workers . |
| 55 | The cumulative impact of these three determinants of redundancy payments is that women are discriminated against both directly and indirectly by the legislation . |
| 56 | A consequence of this is that women with undiagnosed non-insulin dependent diabetes , which is potentially as risky for the pregnancy as insulin dependent diabetes , are lumped together with women who have abnormalities of glucose tolerance that are trivial so far as the index pregnancy is concerned . |
| 57 | ‘ The assumption is that women like to be desired by many men . |
| 58 | Increased participation rates have occurred chiefly among mothers with children at school , and the immediate cause is that women are spending fewer years than before exclusively in child rearing . |
| 59 | The difference is that women collude in their subjection . |
| 60 | But the sexist truth is that women do n't give a damn . |