Example sentences of "women [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it any wonder that more and more women resort to wearing jeans and anoraks ? |
| 2 | Why should women resort to such devious tactics ? |
| 3 | Perhaps the commonest explanation of the patterns which emerge from a stratificational analysis is that in the absence of opportunities to mark status by occupation , women resort to language . |
| 4 | From 1923 onwards the party was to single out key categories of the rural population for education : these included ex-Red Army men , Komsomol members , and women deputies to the local Soviets . |
| 5 | A letter I came across in the Houghton Library at Harvard bemoans to his father an incident in which , for some reason , he had offended a women clerk to whom he had consigned some typing . |
| 6 | The conference brought together the largest number of women organizations to date and included representatives from the following women 's organizations ; |
| 7 | POLICE are warning lone women drivers to be on their guard after a 21-year-old woman was abducted and beaten about the head by a kidnapper . |
| 8 | Detectives are warning lone women drivers to be on their guard after a 21-year-old woman was abducted in Manchester and beaten about the head , after she had stopped to ask directions . |
| 9 | Lindsey Gallanders , a senior employee relations officer with the Personnel Services Division , said : ‘ We have a grant from the European Commission to test teleworking and we are targeting women returners to the labour market . |
| 10 | The STA delegate meeting of 1905 passed a resolution urging branches to ban any new women entrants to the trade , and over the next year or so Edinburgh became increasingly isolated as first Aberdeen , then Dundee and Perth succeeded in closing the trade to new women recruits ( there were far fewer women compositors in these towns anyway ) . |
| 11 | As I represent 25% of the total population of women presidents to date , if my predecessors did not share my feelings a 25% opinion still deserves to be heard , and I believe that some of my successors may well be of the same mind as I am . |
| 12 | A charity has accused a psychiatric hospital of exposing women patients to the risk of sexual abuse . |
| 13 | As a starting point for my research I decided to find out about the numbers of teachers who worked in secondary schools , the posts that they held and the distribution of men and women teachers to various posts , together with their qualifications and salaries . |
| 14 | I think it still is the way forward and I do n't think it was so much that things went wrong as that they did n't go as well as we had hoped for the women elections to the shadow cabinet . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She also regularly accompanied groups of her women students to the Cambridge Summer School . |
| 17 | In their eighties , they were still living in Norham Gardens , the North Oxford avenue that leads to Lady Margaret Hall , the women 's college where they had studied and taught ; they had been among the first women students to be allowed officially to take a degree , though woman sat the examinations in order to make the point after the college 's foundation in 1878 . |
| 18 | The introduction of women students to an ancient residential university , already pioneered at Cambridge by Henry Sidgwick and S. Emily Davies [ qq.v. ] , was a challenge that appealed to the ‘ young married Oxford ’ of the 1870s . |
| 19 | Certainly there are many more women barristers to be seen around beneath the horsehair wigs , and the occasional black or Asian face . |
| 20 | But feminist groups fighting for the right of women soldiers to be in combat zones criticised the figures . |