Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] the women [unc] " in BNC.

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1 The fourth response is more to do with the response of the women 's movement to adult education than the other way round and about welcoming adult education as just one more arena in the battle for women 's liberation .
2 The knock-on effect of the advancement of the women 's game has also led to refreshing developments at girls ' level .
3 The Sex Disqualification ( Removal ) Act of 1919 paved the way for changes in women 's employment rights , but the weakness of the Women 's Movement in that period meant that the Act remained a dead letter .
4 By this time , the trade was completely unionized , and the existence of the women 's section of the union gave the group a certain coherence and identity ; so much so that to avoid overloading the present chapter , the union 's creation and activity is discussed in Chapter 7 .
5 That lack of sensitivity has not made her especially popular in the locker room , but she has nevertheless gained enough respect to be selected to the board of the Women 's Tennis Association over many years , and she currently serves as its President .
6 DESPITE the riches on offer in the men 's game , the prize for the winner of the women 's World Championship , which starts tomorrow , will be a miserly £3,500 .
7 For instance , it has no brief to propose a change in the law to give women wage parity in agricultural work because , as the Director of the Women 's Office explained , that was the responsibility of the Women 's and Minors ' Section of the Ministry of Labour .
8 After she finished with the silver in the women 's lightweight judo final , team boss Roy Inman claimed she was robbed of the title .
9 Mrs Grandison , the mother of Sophia and Penelope , had the remains of her daughters ' Pre-Raphaelite beauty , now much faded and overlaid with some other quality , which had made her the President of the Women 's Institute in the village where she lived but which did not seem to be quite Pre-Raphaelite .
10 Thus as a consequence of their history and experience , the Palestinian women 's movement has become the vanguard of the women 's movement in the Arab world . ’
11 The failure of the WTUA in 1894 led to the formation of the Women 's Industrial Council .
12 The Anti-Apartheid Movement and the women active within it fully support the work of the Women 's League and the struggle of Black women for liberation .
13 She later published an account of the work of the women 's branch in Women in the Factory : an Administrative Adventure , 1893–1921 ( 1922 ) .
14 It is clearly acknowledged that without the work of the women 's movement , the Intifada would be in jeopardy .
15 It 's 0530 hours , and the sound of birdsong rings around Queen Elizabeth Park , Guildford , the home of the Women 's Royal Army Corps .
16 Those attitudes fed into It and continued to inform — or divert — the underground press up to , and beyond , the inception of the women 's movement .
17 The villages of Oxfordshire have come under the microscope of the Women 's Institute in the new Oxfordshire village book .
18 For instance , it has no brief to propose a change in the law to give women wage parity in agricultural work because , as the Director of the Women 's Office explained , that was the responsibility of the Women 's and Minors ' Section of the Ministry of Labour .
19 The emergence of the Women 's Peace Crusade was symptomatic of a growing war-weariness among the population at large .
20 The initiative for the women 's group came out of a seminar on ‘ Women and Mass Media ’ , which was organised by the Joint Women 's Programme , 22–24 August .
21 The International Hockey Federation have announced the draw for the Women 's Internations Cup , the first of two qualifying tournaments for the World Cup .
22 If I could first of all deal with the presentation of the women 's gold badge and the executive has decided that the award should go this year to Peggy from the Midland and East Coast region .
23 On the other hand the revival of the women 's movement since the 1960s bears witness to the failure of women 's suffrage in itself to achieve substantive equality between the sexes , or even to abolish some of the more blatant forms of discrimination against women enshrined in much traditional law and practice .
24 The difficulty is well illustrated by the facts of Nicholson v. Gage , in which a Peeping Tom was caught in a public lavatory looking through a hole in the wall into the women 's lavatory .
25 The town lacked architectural distinction but the colour of the women 's clothes , predominantly red , yellow and orange , was unforgettable , especially when large numbers were assembled at the wells or in the marketplace .
26 EALING went to the top of the Women 's Typhoo National League with a comfortable 3-0 win away to Exmouth at Ottery St Mary , writes Bill Colwill .
27 Although there are girls who talk glibly of how they intend to reach the top of the women 's professional game by the age of 25 , and from there move on to marriage and a family , the Solheim Cup served as a salutary reminder that no-one should expect quick results .
28 A good example of this well into the twentieth century is the evidence of the Women 's Co-operative Guild investigation into Maternity during the First World War , which found that pregnant working-class women often saved for the coming confinement by stinting on food , and there is plentiful evidence of similar attitudes earlier .
29 A brief look at the content of the women 's programme gives us a flavour of how homosexuality was represented : a good deal of time was devoted to an interview with Steve , a prospective female-to-male transsexual ( displaying a common confusion with homosexuality and transsexuality ) .
30 I enclose herewith an extract from Spare Rib Magazine , in which reference is made to an agreement between Spare Rib Magazine and W H Smith in regard to placing the magazine in the Women 's Section .
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