Example sentences of "that women had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rough weather fell when the platform called the sisters ‘ back to the fold ’ , stirring protest that women had never left any mythical fold in the first place , and if anyone needed to find their way home , it sure was n't the sisters ! |
| 2 | Salah persuaded the fathers or brothers of the girls to consider the schemes and these men were reassured to know that women had discussed the matter and had achieved some consensus . |
| 3 | Evidence from Huaiwiri in 1975–9 also suggests that women had crucially important influence on men 's decisions . |
| 4 | Before long a good deal of the poetry that women had written would seem decidedly out of date . |
| 5 | Delegates felt that women had more talent than men for spotting potential sources of trouble and taking action at an earlier stage . |
| 6 | The diplomacy came to nothing , but the Hague Congress did much to crystallize the belief that women had a special role to play in the politics of peace . |
| 7 | Two obvious , and ultimately successful , candidates were cited above ; the first being the alleged right of those elected to Parliament to be paid for their services , and the second the claim that women had a moral right to vote . |
| 8 | As it happens , of course , this conclusion conforms to the observations of Freud , who believed that women had less sense of justice than men and are more often influenced in their judgements by feelings of affection or hostility . |
| 9 | Here a series of influences — the isolation of mining communities , the absence of any opportunities for female work outside the home in an area like South Wales — were important in establishing a firm familial tradition , while a high infant mortality rate , 50 per cent higher than for most factory workers , meant that women had to bear 4½ children to achieve the average family size in 1911 . |
| 10 | By this stage it could fairly be said that women had gained a footing in the Edinburgh book-houses . |
| 11 | Ileana felt that women had won a new respect after this military operation , not only from their own organization but throughout the FMLN . |
| 12 | They pressed for a particular re-reading of Darwin to add weight to the older evangelical claim that women had a rightful place in regulating sex . |
| 13 | Here was a new wave of feminist militancy , proclaiming that women had the right to a life of their own and should not be the sexual property of men . |
| 14 | Stella Browne , the Canadian socialist feminist , argued that female desire was a powerful natural force and that women had a valid right to sexual enjoyment . |
| 15 | Headlines screamed of this fabricated outrage and ignored the many injuries , including broken bones , that women had suffered . |
| 16 | They argued for birth control primarily on the grounds that it would improve the health of the mother rather than on the grounds that women had the right to control their fertility . |
| 17 | Day-care provision also lacked the support of women trade unionists ; Mary MacArthur declared that women had no desire to keep working in factories while trying to nurse their children in crèches . |
| 18 | The signatories of the Appeal argued that women had adequate opportunity to make their influence felt in local government . |
| 19 | Now , much of what they were saying — particularly their insistence that women had a right to control their bodies and therefore a right to family planning — was welcomed by all sides of the population industry . |
| 20 | Duncan had been appalled to find that women had the vote ‘ down South ’ and got off to a shaky start in the motor trade when one of the local spivs conned him into thinking a Pina Colada was the latest model Ford built in Spain . |
| 21 | And one of the reasons why the black women in Liverpool put this exhibition together erm and they tried to pick out different kinds of jobs that women had to show that black women could do those jobs , and they were saying look , there 's lots of stereotypes erm about the kinds of jobs that black and Asian women can do that fit in with their personalities , and you know the world is wide open and you are able to do this and you do n't have to be erm a singer or a model or erm or erm erm a runner , you know , the whole stereotypes in terms of what black people are good at and they 're saying let's break away from this , let's show the kinds of things that we can do and we can do anything that we set our minds to and erm the exhibition is very positive , actually . |