Example sentences of "as a [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | needless to say , was with the welfare feminists , viewing women workers as a threat to men 's jobs and the male family wage — not to mention the sexual division of labour under capitalism . |
| 2 | There were many highlights in her career as a campaigner for women 's rights , but it may be that her greatest contribution was the way she inspired others . |
| 3 | Against the backcloth of conventional Victorian prudery , the writer and publisher Mary Wilson stood as a champion for women 's sexual liberation . |
| 4 | The vote was widely seen as a test of voters ' attitude to greater integration into western Europe . |
| 5 | What was significant about the Banstead strategy in this respect was that offering continued inpatient care to ‘ decantees ’ was presented by psychiatrists as a protection of patients ' rights , particularly the right to stay in hospital where , they argued , ‘ many resist any suggestion that they should leave the hospital and also become more ill when such suggestions are made … to press such a matter against the patients ’ will would certainly not be in their best interests ' . |
| 6 | The conventional sociological approach to housework could be termed ‘ sexist ’ : it has treated housework merely as an aspect of the feminine role in the family — as a part of women 's role in marriage , or as a dimension of child-rearing — not as a work role . |
| 7 | Sometimes discussion which starts well descends into trivia , such as a discussion of women 's part in the labour market in the twentieth century which ends in an uninspired discussion of fashion . |
| 8 | Leapor , surprisingly , includes Pope among saucy wits , for the mayfly as a metaphor for women 's changeable nature is taken from his ‘ Epistle to a Lady ’ : |
| 9 | Our subsequent participation has been conditional upon our acceptance of the inevitable — a curriculum constructed historically as a reflection of men 's ideas , assumptions and priorities , presented as objective truth : and a view of women informed by a range of ideologies collectively based upon notions of male supremacy . |
| 10 | In 1983 , at the time of the introduction of the new Mental Health Act , seen then and now as a breakthrough for patients ' rights , users were barely involved in the mental health debate . |
| 11 | And both of them use drama as a process for children 's enrichment — but here the similarity ceases . |
| 12 | She also mentioned the Factory Acts as a restriction on women 's usefulness to employers . |
| 13 | During the eighteenth century Madeira 's importance grew as a port-of-call for ships en route for the Americas and the East , and the market for wine increased . |
| 14 | I do believe he almost tried to catch them but I was too busy by then , swinging up the trumpet case and trying to use it as a battering-ram into Shifty-Eyes ' midriff , or private parts if I was lucky . |
| 15 | As a result of women 's ‘ unavoidable ’ domestic responsibilities , women are extremely disadvantaged in the labour market . |
| 16 | I thought of myself as a connoisseur of girls ' good looks ; and I knew that this was one to judge all others by . |
| 17 | Figes ( 1972 ) uncritically takes Kohlberg 's description of the highest stage of moral judgements , derived from male samples , as a guide to women 's and men 's psychological liberation . |
| 18 | In an advertisement in the Northampton Mercury of 27 April 1747 he describes himself simply as a millwright , but goes on to offer his services as a manufacturer and repairer of many kinds of agricultural machinery , weighbridges and ‘ mathematical and philosophical instruments ’ , as a designer of all kinds of mills , as a maker of ventilators for hospitals , gaols , granaries , or ships , and as a surveyor of gentlemen 's estates . |
| 19 | If they were not actively asserting their authority they were taking a role of judge and referee as a consequence of children 's requests . |
| 20 | Sappho is invoked purely as a predecessor in women 's poetry : sexual rivalry is not an issue . |
| 21 | It would not be surprising if there were ; if science courses tended to act as a brake on students ' intellectual formation . |
| 22 | NARAL is asking readers of the New York Times to see a loss of women 's rights as a loss of Americans ' rights , thus implying that this is a novel way to look at the matter . |
| 23 | It also approved the Democracy and the Individual review , proposing : To replace the House of Lords with an elected second chamber ; Devolved assemblies for Scotland , Wales , and the regions of England ; Unification of Ireland only by consent of the majority in the North ; A Freedom of Information Act ; A Ministry for Women ; A Department of Legal Administration to run the courts ; Extend legal aid ; A statutory duty on local councils to provide integrated child care services for the under-fives ; A Children 's Commissioner to act as an ombudsman on childrens ' rights ; Firm opposition to reform of the voting system for the House of Commons . |
| 24 | Bilingual children offer opportunities to explore language in a novel context , and a study of the different ways in which different languages convey and produce meanings should feature as an element of teachers ' schemes of work , wherever this is practicable . |
| 25 | Under U.S. GAAP accounting for goodwill as an offset against shareholders ' equity is not permitted ; rather goodwill must be amortized over the period of its expected useful life , subject to a maximum write-off period of 40 years , through the income statement . |
| 26 | The parson 's words can surely be read as an indictment of women 's education which , though it improved through the period , generally failed to realize the intellectual potential of women . |
| 27 | The intention therefore is significantly different although both are concerned with presenting oneself as an object of others ' attention and finding a public language to do so . |
| 28 | Both women stressed the idea of service , which Butler saw as an outgrowth of women 's role in the home , while neither envisaged impinging on men 's work . |
| 29 | Nineteenth-century feminists had viewed this as an impediment to women 's employment and as an extension of a legal framework that denied adult women the freedom to contract . |
| 30 | Local politics were considered to be an extension of philanthropic work , and were seen as an extension of women 's domestic sphere . |