Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] [art] women [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Tomorrow she switches to adult competition and the West European zone of the Women 's World Championships . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 10 | It 's a thought that concerns mother of three , Maureen Gerard , a Vice Chairman in the Women 's Institute : |
| 11 | Isabel was silent , unable to share Ellen 's seeming indifference to the women 's fate . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The first book-length studies of women in film appeared in the early to mid 1970s and were an integral part of the women 's movement 's push for cultural and political change . |
| 21 | Daalny was shaking out and combing her long black hair in the women 's rooms , and listening to the chatter of a merchant 's widow from Wem , who had availed herself of a night 's lodging here on her way to Wenlock for her daughter 's lying-in . |
| 22 | Lesbianism held no terrors for the Major , who had long experience of the women 's services . |
| 23 | Was it a greater crime to let her drown or to cross the great divide to the women 's section to rescue her ? |
| 24 | She 's celebrating her first international victory in the women 's doubles at the Spanish Open . |
| 25 | Women had all the constraints of family life to cope with ; children at school , shopping and housekeeping , but no sympathy was expressed by male members of the group as to the comparative hardness of the women 's lives in terms of demands on them , such as few hours of sleep . |
| 26 | It is however an important part of the women 's movement , which might lack the explicit analysis of male oppression and resistance , but is none the less an affirmation of women 's allegiance to each other . |
| 27 | Dr Alan Stewart is a doctor specializing in nutritional therapy and a founding member of the British Society for Nutritional Medicine , as well as medical adviser to the Women 's Nutritional Advisory Service . |
| 28 | Those who operate according to total ignorance about the women 's movement also pay scant attention to social class and race as critical concerns in the content and teaching and provision of what passes as adult education . |
| 29 | The Admiral dismissed the rumour without a second thought and concentrated on more important matters : his goddaughter 's immediate entry into the Women 's Royal Naval Service , no less . |
| 30 | There was an immediate outcry from the women 's movement , particularly women prominent in the so-called ‘ wages for housework ’ campaign that was very active at the time ( Malos , 1980 ) . |