Example sentences of "but the women " in BNC.
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1 | But the women continue to suffer a degrading subjugation . |
2 | But the women were changing as well . |
3 | But the women who have n't bothered with make-up — unless they 've taken superlative care of their complexions — have now got skin that shows the ravages of time . |
4 | But the women liked to talk to us , as we were foreigners , laughing uproariously at our accents and our mistakes in Spanish . |
5 | But the women continued to think about Hubert Gaily 's presence at the funeral . |
6 | But the Women 's Studies people ca n't get their hands on all that stuff to publish as long as poor old Bea is still the official editor . |
7 | A few men were willing to forgive or at least forget ; but the women hated her , for by deserting her man she had somehow disgraced every woman , and where the women were still united against her , what man dared help her openly ? |
8 | They had all come back for lunch but the women had rebelled at going out in the afternoon . |
9 | But the women were crouched so low over their work that their shawls shrouded their whole bodies , and I did n't once see them raise their eyes from the carcass . |
10 | The British Invasion was underway , but the women were still good girls looking for great guys — Cilla , Sandie , Dusty , Lulu — while the blues boom lads were getting laid and getting all the plaudits . |
11 | However , it is not the world 's statesmen that we have to thank for even this limited achievement in arms control , but the women and men whose political activity has ensured that some action must be taken . |
12 | Management claimed they could , but the women consistently produced less than the required targets . |
13 | ‘ I could understand it with the men , who thought I was coming-on to them , but the women 's reluctance puzzled me , until I discovered that the City people discouraged the country dwellers ( she objects to the word ‘ peasant ’ ) from having their picture taken . |
14 | Police investigating sex attacks at knife-point on a 29-year-old Filipino woman said that they ‘ believe there may have been earlier victims — but the women have been too ashamed to report the attacks ’ ( Mail on Sunday ) . |
15 | The reason that such a sequence of events might horrify a patriarchal-capitalist state are obvious — but the women 's liberation movement is also ambivalent about paying housewives . |
16 | But the women whom they find may well not match their feminist consciousness . |
17 | But the Women 's Aid movement is more — it is a radical intervention in the law and order debate , it goes beyond a puritanical protection of women which reproduces their vulnerability , and it transcends the limits of the Left-Right contest between police authoritarianism and police accountability . |
18 | Details of the circumstances at Neill 's emerged only slowly and selectively , but the women apparently exacted a price for their support . |
19 | But the Women fled from us . |
20 | In 1977 , the average pay gap was still almost as large — 58 per cent at the geometric mean — but the women in jobs were more representative of their generation and more dissimilar to men in terms of work experience and education . |
21 | ‘ I could understand it with the men , who thought I was coming-on to them , but the women 's reluctance puzzled me , until I discovered that the City people discouraged the country dwellers ( she objects to the word ‘ peasant ’ ) from having their picture taken . |
22 | But the women of Zurich donned armour , marched to the Lindenhof and manned the battlements . |
23 | Similarly the young Scythians will be unable to learn the language of the Amazons but the women will succeed in picking up theirs , and therefore disappear . |
24 | And the extent to which women 's studies can remember that her mother was not Athena , but the Women 's Liberation Movement , a grass roots political movement with roots in the civil rights movement of the 1960s ; a movement blazing with lesbian energy whose earliest journals had names like , It Ai n't Me Babe , No More Fun and Games , Off Our Backs , Up From Under and The Furies . |
25 | But the women 's movement , especially as it is represented in western-style education , is dominated by white , middle-class , heterosexual women . |
26 | But the women were still there when she looked again ; twenty or thirty of them , in various states of undress — although none , she was relieved to notice once she could take things in , was actually naked . |
27 | Usually in the Labour party any other organization you 're gon na have to wait a year but the women did n't . |
28 | Not simply the women dying of too many children , but the women who were compelled to sell their bodies because that was all that they had to sell . |
29 | But the women know that they themselves made the changes happen . |
30 | But the women 's fight immediately loses control and Spenser depicts them as a tiger and a lioness , beasts confronting one another with animal fury unnaturally seeking to attack their legitimate feminine identity : |