Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [art] women [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The vast majority of " common criminals " , as opposed to the political prisoners in the Women 's Prison , are prostitutes serving a six-month sentence for working without a licence . |
| 2 | The political prisoners in the Women 's Prison on the outskirts of San Salvador have shown enormous resilience despite their very difficult situation . |
| 3 | What Alice said was , There are many different formulations in the Women 's Movement . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | At the same time the issues around heterosexual/lesbian women and socialist/separatist lesbians had created deep and painful divisions in the Women 's Movement . |
| 6 | Similarly , in the case of relationships between spouses , it can be shown that clear divisions between the women 's sphere and the man 's sphere persist , and the illustrations of this do not come exclusively from rural or traditional working class communities . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Tomorrow she switches to adult competition and the West European zone of the Women 's World Championships . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 15 | It 's a thought that concerns mother of three , Maureen Gerard , a Vice Chairman in the Women 's Institute : |
| 16 | Of those very early times in the Women 's Movement , I am left with a memory of two distinct feelings . |
| 17 | Isabel was silent , unable to share Ellen 's seeming indifference to the women 's fate . |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Rather than only recording those instances of violence that the women had reported to official agencies such as the police , they explored a wide range of violent incidents from the women 's points of view . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The two women named by the local press as leading lights of the women 's union — Jean Symonds and Amelia McLean — both worked at Skinners , a firm employing 19 women and 7 men in its composing room . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Lesbianism held no terrors for the Major , who had long experience of the women 's services . |