Example sentences of "[adj] women [unc] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the 1985 Women 's Hearings on Reproductive Technology at the European Parliament , Theresia Degener recognised the difficulty , saying ’ fear of the birth of a handicapped child is all too justified because for mothers it usually means isolation and discrimination , giving up their jobs and/or poverty … |
| 2 | They are interested in the experiences of these age groups , and often conduct their own quasi-psychological studies , recording individual young and old women 's accounts of their lives and feelings . |
| 3 | William Douglas gave me some old women 's clothes . |
| 4 | For feminists , the marginality of young and old women 's lives is a greater focus of concern . |
| 5 | Before the financial axe fell in 1976 , occasional shafts of light shone through the darkening sky : the old women 's prison at Holloway was demolished and replaced on the same site by a completely new prison stressing medical supervision ; whilst at Grendon Underwood the Prison Service pioneered a special establishment for the treatment and management of mentally abnormal offenders who had been sentenced to imprisonment . |
| 6 | It was up two stairs in the Crockers ' house , and level with many of the old women 's beds in the Blue Coat School almshouses . |
| 7 | She sat over her sewing , complaining that her eyes were getting old , and the yellow wax from the candle , skewered and hung up above their heads on a thread , dripped on the backs of her hands and made marks like the stains on old women 's hands . |
| 8 | These included meetings with Saadi Mahdi Saleh ( President of the Iraqi Parliament ) ; Taha Yasseen Ramadan ( Vice Prime Minister of Iraq ) ; Latif Nasseef Gassem ( Minister of Information ) ; Ghanem Aziz ( Vice President of the Parliament ) ; a number of deputies in the parliament , both men and women ; Nawal El Ghazaui ( Vice Chairwoman of the Iraqi Women 's Federation ) ; Haifa Abdel Rahman ; Ilham El Zoubedi ; Azza Kobba and other women in the Federation . |
| 9 | We were unable to meet with the Chairwoman of the Iraqi Women 's Federation , Manal Younis , as at the time she was on a ship bound for Iraq with a cargo of medicines and milk . |
| 10 | We also published a joint declaration with the Iraqi Women 's Federation which upheld similar ideas . |
| 11 | The 16-page glossy brochure based on commercial women 's weeklies contained articles on Labour 's policy to help working and stay-at-home mums . |
| 12 | A brand new weekly women 's magazine , Woman 's Day , is launched . |
| 13 | Its publications reach over 300 women 's groups in Argentina , and it organises regular workshops on women and religion and alternative communication . |
| 14 | White working-class and black women 's stories of employment difficulties and success are heard as case histories of psychic tension , and lesbian women 's attempts to redefine relations between women become assimilated to accounts of pre-oedipal intimacy . |
| 15 | E. Hindmarsh , Dene Side , Lanchester , Durham : A number of our Methodist Women 's Fellowship were gathered in our church for a weekly prayer reading . |
| 16 | Groups like the British Women 's Temperance Association and the NUWW began to define their long standing crusade for purity and the reform of male sexuality as part of the contemporary feminist struggle . |
| 17 | We are still languishing in the Edwardian era , when our great British Women 's champions wore corsets under their tennis dresses and our great British men 's champions wore corsets under their tennis dresses and our great British men 's champions wore long flannels … when the bulk of entrants at Wimbledon were British because it took six weeks to cross the Atlantic , and another six to reach Australia ! |
| 18 | 19 year old Barbara Griffiths from Middlesex , won the 17th annual British Women 's Tennis Association tournament which was held at the Queen 's Club just prior to Christmas . |
| 19 | Durie , who has already lamented the standard of British women 's tennis on show at Telford this week , has now dropped only 16 games in four matches . |
| 20 | WENDY RUSSELL became the first woman to hole in one twice during a top-class event yesterday when she sank two tee-shots in the opening round of the British Women 's Seniors ' Championship at Wrexham . |
| 21 | FIVE schoolgirls from City of Liverpool Gymnastics Club took bronze in the British Women 's Championships , at Park Road Sports Centre . |
| 22 | Next on the list was the British Women 's Championship at Hoylake where she defeated Mary McKenna , Aline van der Haegen , Linzi Fletcher , Catriona Lambert and Elaine Farquharson , in that order , after having qualified for the match-play stages with only a shot to spare . |
| 23 | HAVING had a summer of fair-weather golf , competitors in the British Women 's Stroke-Play Championship at Southerness , many of whom had not had to don a sweater in months , were faced with the foulest of conditions over the first two days . |
| 24 | After her five Wimbledon singles wins , she retired from lawn tennis at the age of twenty-one , and , turning her talents to golf , she became a semi-finalist at the Open Championship in 1898 and 1899 and won the British Women 's Golf Championship in 1904 at Troon . |
| 25 | Alongside the changes in the British family reviewed in chapter 3 , there have been some dramatic changes during the twentieth century in British women 's work . |
| 26 | Roy Inman , manager of the British women 's team , said : ‘ I think Pierantozzi got quite a shock at the worlds in Barcelona last summer , and she wants to try and get the measure of Kate before they meet at the Olympics . ’ |
| 27 | Gunnell , captain of the British women 's team , showed exactly how it should be done with what turned into a near-perfect performance . |
| 28 | Gunnell , captain of the British women 's team , showed exactly how it should be done with what turned into a near-perfect performance . |
| 29 | The new scheme , which , it is hoped , will introduce tennis to some 20,000 youngsters over the next three years , has been masterminded by former British Women 's Team manager , Sue Mappin , most recently remembered for her success in staging the 1991 Federation Cup tournament in Nottingham . |
| 30 | Such faith is a timely boost to the former Blaydon Harrier as she prepares to partner McColgan in the British women 's team at the World Cross Country Championships in Boston on Saturday . |