Example sentences of "[conj] well as men " in BNC.
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1 | People ( women as well as men ) often have fatal heart attacks at an earlier age . |
2 | We 've all seen pictures of Page 3 girls and pornographic images of women showing the female body in a constantly inviting , sexual way just walking into a newsagent 's on a Sunday morning often means you are surrounded by them ) and it is hardly surprising if girls themselves , as well as men , sometimes feel confused ; believing that girls might ‘ want ’ to be raped , or are asking for trouble , if they dress up to go out , or behave independently by going out or walking home alone . |
3 | When they left four hours later , 500 of the villagers , children and women as well as men , were dead . |
4 | Is it possible for the Church of England to proclaim this redemption with integrity and conviction in our day unless it ordains women as well as men as priests ? |
5 | The duties of class leaders ( women as well as men in 1847 ) were to ‘ ask each member in turn to speak of their experience in the Christian life , after which he ( she ) would give a word of encouragement , advice or reproof , as was necessary . ’ |
6 | It was this that accounted for [ the ] breadth and resiliency [ of the militancy ] , its tendency to spill over the boundaries of normal industrial action , its unique ability to involve women as well as men , and its political dimensions . |
7 | Egalitarian feminist psychologists try to make the discipline fairer , by using gender-balanced procedures with both female and male subjects , and by bringing traits associated with women as well as men into psychological design . |
8 | Qureshi and Simon 's ( 1987 ) work , on exchanges of assistance between elderly people and their kin , and Wilson 's ( 1987 ) findings on grandparents ' support for their grandchildren , both show that women as well as men give economic support to younger generations , but there are some gender differences in the type of support given . |
9 | For example anthropologists have argued that in those societies where women are allowed to inherit as well as men this can determine many other aspects of social relations . |
10 | Death rates from lung cancer , coronary heart disease , chronic obstructive lung disease , peripheral vascular disease and overall mortality rates are significantly increased among women as well as men smokers . |
11 | Besides , even those who argue that the answer to women 's dependency/op-pression in the home is for them to take outside jobs ( as if the sort of jobs open to most women were in any way more congenial and less exploitative than housework , except in so far as they are paid ) and put their children into publicly funded day-care centres , must surely allow that some women ( as well as men , of course ) would choose freely to look after children , otherwise how are the centres to be staffed ? |
12 | Overcoming such discrimination is difficult , particularly if many teachers — women as well as men — are unaware of what they do . |
13 | And there now is the knowledge that women have a breath of sexual desires , and lives , as well as men , and in that area there certainly has been advances . |
14 | Again , no excuses for being without — and that applies to women as well as men . |
15 | Now it is a sport , and it is a skilled game you know , and I think women can play it just as well as men , or against men and you know , you can have your fans who are very strong for your women 's team tha just as much as the men , but yet , would they also be branded as hooligans because they go along and stand on the terraces and shout for the girls ? |
16 | People are not always satisfied with a quiet life , and women as well as men need action . |
17 | Passageways were pierced through the walls of houses in some places , and in others they were supported on props along the faces of warehouses and shops , and it was across one of these — a sturdy bridge of timber which was designed to withstand the weight of carts as well as men — that Burun 's party moved without very much opposition from the revellers , most of whom clearly preferred the breadth of the main streets . |
18 | There were quite a few people about , women as well as men , nearly all Indians , some of them on mules . |
19 | By interviewing up to three generations in each family , and women as well as men , the project brings a fresh approach to these questions . |
20 | Cultural attributes ( English language skills , style of life , adoption of US or European rather than local ‘ attitudes and values ’ ) appear to be just as important as more formal job skills in the promotion of women as well as men in the TNCs in developing countries . |
21 | No more did they do so in the Black Country 's nail-making trade , where the family 's output depended upon women as well as men working at the anvil . |
22 | When in 1795 it began holding a series of open-air demonstrations in London , surprising numbers seem to have attended — possibly more than 100,000 , given the tendency for such occasions to become " fairs " with women and children attending as well as men . |
23 | Furthermore , it is now clear that some of the houses were used as workshops not dwellings , and that others were occupied by women and children as well as men . |
24 | These religious tensions go a long way towards explaining why the party divide cut so deep into society : political strife during the first age of party did not just affect the political elite at the centre and a minority of the more affluent and better-educated classes in the localities , but all sorts of people , including those of fairly humble backgrounds , women as well as men , were caught up in the party divide . |
25 | If the Community is truly to mean a better life for the people of the United Kingdom and all the people of the Community — women as well as men , ethnic minorities as well as the white majority — then the EC 's future development can not simply be ‘ left to the market ’ . |
26 | Out of it came an imperative on women , as well as men , not to be swayed by traditional culture and educational choice into seeing only obstacles to advancement . |