Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] [art] women [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The appointment of Bernard Gallacher as British National Coach three years ago , was another boost for the women 's game — ‘ He has done a great deal of good , ’ confirmed Sally Hepburn — and the LGU was delighted when the Wentworth professional agreed to continue his duties this season , despite the distraction of captaining the European Ryder Cup side at Kiawah Island in September . |
| 2 | An exciting development in the women 's movement over the last few years has been an attempt by feminists to organise together around housing issues and to develop a feminist analysis of how the organisation of housing in Britain specifically affects women . |
| 3 | Not surprisingly , the popular trivialisation of the women 's movement in the 1960s and 1970s has now sharpened into a more concentrated and vicious backlash against feminism . |
| 4 | The Dungannon bowler also showed top form in the women 's singles to beat Pat Day of Leinster 21–17 to win a place in the third round where she was due to meet Inter-Association player Enid Hilton . |
| 5 | While the quality of play , and competition , at the top end of the women 's game has increased superbly in the last few years , the drop off after the first half dozen or so , is still equally evident . |
| 6 | ‘ Listen , ’ she said , ‘ someone told me today about this survey in a women 's magazine . |
| 7 | One of the earliest to be shown was the 1950 film Caged , screened on ITV in 1968 : this featured Hope Emerson as a mannish , sadistic matron in a women 's prison . |
| 8 | After the war this became the British section of the Women 's International League for Peace and Freedom , a transnational organization which exists to this day . |
| 9 | Despite their preponderance in the population , they are usually ignored by the wider society and also to some extent by the women 's movement ( Peace , 1986 ) . |
| 10 | Last season 's women 's champion Anne Pashley is the top seed for the women 's singles with Stockton 's former England No 1 junior Jane Durham in second place . |
| 11 | Tomorrow she switches to adult competition and the West European zone of the Women 's World Championships . |
| 12 | ‘ I am familiar with the darker view which encompasses bestiality , incest , parricide , rustling , infanticide and the murderous rivalry within the Women 's Institute , but I had imagined that this view was the product of a warped approach to life and greatly exaggerated . ’ |
| 13 | It 's a thought that concerns mother of three , Maureen Gerard , a Vice Chairman in the Women 's Institute : |
| 14 | Isabel was silent , unable to share Ellen 's seeming indifference to the women 's fate . |
| 15 | Why has housing never been a central issue for the women 's liberation movement in Britain , despite the crucial place that it occupies in all our lives ? |
| 16 | The most serious charge against the women 's union was that it proposed to carry on working if the men went ahead with their strike . |
| 17 | AT the end of an exciting morning 's play in which all three foursomes matches went to the final green , England established a one-point lead over Ireland on the second day of the Women 's Home international golf championship 's at Hermitage . |
| 18 | The second day of the women 's Home Internationals at Hermitage — but Strabane 's Lynn McCool was not at all down-hearted . |
| 19 | This started on the second day with the women 's quarter and semi finals and the men 's semi final . |
| 20 | An 1894 survey by the Women 's Cooperative Guild showed that 50 per cent of working mothers left their children with grandmothers or other kin ( whom they usually paid ) , while the remainder used neighbours as childminders . |
| 21 | An interdenominational service celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Women 's World Day of Prayer will be held at St Catherine 's Church , Crook , on March 6 at 7pm . |
| 22 | There was little drama in the women 's event , with Monica Seles beating Mary Joe Fernandez 6–2 6–3 in another fairly mediocre final . |
| 23 | In the suburbs , in houses with gardens , women like Myra , the fictional heroine of The Women 's Room , lead lonely and often depressed lives , and discover that the additional space that goes with ‘ higher ’ housing standards daily threatens to whirl out of control unless they invent — as Myra does — controls which themselves threaten to take over their entire lives . |
| 24 | In 1894 Gertrude Tuckwell ( Secretary and later President of the Women 's Trade Union League ) advocated ‘ the gradual extension of labour protection to the point where mothers will be prohibited from working until their children have reached an age at which they can care for themselves ’ , and the Women 's Labour League agreed that mothers with children under five should not be employed . |
| 25 | After a large lunch in the women 's majlis , I had just settled myself to do a little reading when there was a knock at my door . |
| 26 | In the winter of 1970 I attended the second national conference of the Women 's Liberation Movement , held in a grim out-of-season holiday camp at Skegness . |
| 27 | The political developments of 1968 and the first national conference of the Women 's Liberation Movement spanned my time as a student and rapidly thereafter as a mother . |
| 28 | And Amelia McLean , a compositor who played a leading role in the women 's opposition in 1910 , said in a letter to the Evening News : " This is the first time the women have heard that the employers want to reserve monotypes for women . |
| 29 | by no means all purists identified with feminism , but the rapid growth of the women 's movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century can not be understood without reference to the purity crusades , which drew thousands of women into the political arena for the first time . |
| 30 | Because women 's work is never done , and underpaid , or unpaid , or boring or repetitious and we 're the first to get the sack , and what we look like is more important than what we do , and if we get raped it 's our fault , and if we get bashed we must have provoked it , if we raise our voices we 're nagging bitches , and if we enjoy sex we 're nymphs and if we do n't we 're frigid , and if we love women it 's because we ca n't get a real man , and if we ask our doctor too many questions we 're neurotic and if we expect the community to care for our children we 're selfish , and if we stand up for our rights we 're aggressive and unfeminine , and if we do n't we 're typical weak females , and if we want to get married we 're out to trap a man , and if we do n't we 're unnatural , and because we ca n't get adequate safe contraceptives , but men can walk on the moon , and we ca n't cope or do n't want a pregnancy we 're made to feel guilty about abortion , and for lots and lots of other reasons we 're all part of the Women 's Liberation Movement . |