Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] women [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well one of the aspects that I have been looking at is erm the impact of technical change on women 's position in the rural areas , and particularly as it concerns women who belong to landless households , or women who belong to small peasant cultivator households . |
| 2 | Bored with the formalities of mid-Victorian high society , often scornfully documented in her private diaries , she sought refuge in a form of neurasthenia and turned her hand to writing popular fiction , producing half a dozen still very readable novels which reflected her rebellious discontent with women 's role as second-class citizens in a world dominated by largely untalented men . |
| 3 | She does have strong views on women 's role in employment , on child care facilities and on the effect on part-time employment of the Social Chapter . |
| 4 | These interviews concentrate on the impact of new agricultural inputs on women 's work , changes in the arrangement of marriages ( including dowry payments ) and differences in women 's access to health care particularly in relation to pregnancy and childbirth . |
| 5 | News of the threats came just three days before an historic vote on women 's ordination and as a poll was published showing most church-goers are in favour . |
| 6 | Anne Higonnet 's essay on 19th century women 's ‘ Secluded Vision ’ , by contrast with these analyses of women 's professional practice , explores images of feminine experience in women 's albums and ‘ amateur ’ paintings . |
| 7 | So the Wife of Bath and the Prioress together challenge the social norms of women 's roles ; the shifting surfaces of the Pardoner 's blatant hypocrisy tease the reader into an uncomfortable awareness of the unfathomable nature of human motivation for the onlooker ; the Nun 's priest 's juxtaposition of intellectual solemnity with quick-witted pragmatism and his stress on the saving grace of social charity cuts self-importance down to size . |
| 8 | A spirited campaigner for women 's rights and for abortion at a time when birth-control was practically unavailable , Beatrice was sometimes incomprehensible and hysterical in her arguments , driven by her exposed position to extremes . |
| 9 | Some believe that it is inappropriate to ‘ export ’ a cultural ideology of women 's advancement from one society to another , |
| 10 | Russo 's ( 1982 ) review of current , mainly feminist , psychology of women courses enumerates the ignored elements of women 's lives on which they concentrate : birth control , abortion , lesbianism , minority women 's experience , and the effects of male power and violence . |
| 11 | It must also be recognised that ‘ housing need ’ will vary at different periods of women 's and men 's lives . |
| 12 | While the familial basis of women 's oppression remains for all classes , upper class women have more chance for freedom than their working-class sisters who suffer a double oppression . |
| 13 | The office has no grassroots support — indeed few women know of its existence , The project merely highlights the vacuous nature of women 's development programmes as conceived in El Salvador at the present time . |
| 14 | One of the event organisers said : ‘ Mr Gummer is expected to make a clear distinction between women 's ministry , which he fully supports , and the Apostolic male priesthood , which he seeks to preserve . |
| 15 | A slim dose of women 's erotica from France ( and a whole lot less risible than The Lover . |
| 16 | They were , however successful in arguing that charitable endeavour represented an acceptable extension of women 's domestic work , and many late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century middle class mothers and daughters became active voluntary social workers . |
| 17 | These issues include : whether the continued decentralisation of population from Greater London improves or worsens the job prospects for those remaining there ; the effectiveness of new job creation in off-setting employment lost through redundancies ; the relationship between skill levels and unemployment in inner London ; housing policy influences on labour mobility ; and the effect of outward movement on women 's employment prospects . |
| 18 | This is the second time in less than two weeks that the Government have failed to respond to the Prime Minister 's so-called commitment to women 's equality . |
| 19 | It is n't giving away much of the story to say that Miranda at first sees her mother 's behaviour — alternately doing everything she can to please her husband and then screaming rage at him for letting her down — as a clear example of women 's oppression . |
| 20 | Prostitution , in which men buy sexual access to women 's bodies , has not been eradicated by changes in sexual mores . |
| 21 | and I 've re I have quite a high awareness about women 's position in society , but because of that I feel that I 've now come to reject the term feminism because erm I think it 's also harming the people who , you know , it 's harming the women that are holding on to that er , label because it is label and that is erm because it 's , because it 's a label it then it 's blocking er forms progress for women . |
| 22 | The female ‘ imaginary ’ which is often counterposed to the phallic code of the symbolic , belongs in history and culture as closely as the law of the father , and it has been the self-elected quest of women 's art to elucidate the character of that interaction , participation and combination . |
| 23 | Shoplifting , undetected female crime and the social interior of women 's prisons are no longer completely uncharted territories ; we know more about the career of the prostitute and about the characteristics of delinquency in girls . |
| 24 | The most recently popular explanation for women 's tendency to use more standard forms comes from the social network approach within sociolinguistics . |
| 25 | Set in the glossy world of women 's magazines , it centres on Rose Summers a plump , talented , unsophisticated girl who rises to top editor . |
| 26 | In other words , the proliferation of terms that function as sexual slurs on women 's reputation is used as a weapon to keep women in line . |
| 27 | Isabella 's situation as a tragic widow is soon forgotten in a charming world of women 's friendship : secret betting on the races , and exhausting attempts to lose weight . |
| 28 | In the longer term , as Alan Walker and Dulcie Groves show in Chapters 12 and 13 here , current state , occupational and private pension schemes do not take adequate account of women 's caring responsibilities and this is as true of women 's care of disabled and elderly people as it is of young children . |
| 29 | In March 1983 , the newspaper Libération urged that the French Minister for Women 's Rights should put on her Index for ‘ public provocation to sexist hatred ’ the following works : Pantagruel , Jude the Obscure , Baudelaire 's poems , all Kafka , The Snows of Kilimanjaro — and Madame Bovary . ) |
| 30 | The historical legacy of women 's artistic practices must be acknowledged and researched not only for the sake of justice . |