Example sentences of "women who have [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a heavy irony in Lady Thatcher 's fulsome tribute to the women who had campaigned for the vote . |
| 2 | The building , which was owned by the church , was made up of a dozen self-contained flats rented out to respectable young women who had gone through the children 's home and school of St Mary 's Convent in Bermondsey . |
| 3 | It was only towards the end of last year , when the book was going to press and space was tight , that I realised how important a contribution was made not only by my work , but also the work of all the women who had contributed to the Project both nationally and internationally . |
| 4 | a reduction in men 's pensionable age is ruled out for the foreseeable future on grounds of cost … on the other hand , the government believes that raising the pensionable age for women would be unfair to women who have contributed over the years in the expectation of a pension at 60 . |
| 5 | On 6 September however , the Evening News carried a report of a clash between women on different sides in the dispute : " we understand the differences of opinion between the women who have amalgamated with the men 's society and those associated with the women compositors , readers " and monotype operator 's union found lively expression in a wordy warfare " , |
| 6 | They are largely women who have got to the top in other careers and found they could not go any further . |
| 7 | There is barely enough to keep a child alive , let alone men and women who have to toil in the fields all day . |
| 8 | THE Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh is packed with portraits of men and women who have sat on the throne , and others like Prince Charles Edward Stuart who have laid claim to it , but this week , for the first time , Holyroodhouse is holding an exhibition of pictures painted by the heir to the throne . |
| 9 | Like many women who have crashed through the glass ceiling — or , perhaps , ignored it — she is strongly opposed to positive discrimination in favour of women and has little time for the argument that women do n't succeed because they are women . |