Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [prep] women [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had always devoted considerable time to patient observation of her surroundings , her staff and humanity in general and , now , her assessment of women 's needs and desires precisely matched the throwback mood of the Seventies . |
| 2 | Her feeling for freedom as ‘ the condition of all development ’ infused her teaching , her patriotism , and her support for women 's suffrage . |
| 3 | Bishop Leo Maher , head of the San Diego diocese , banned Mrs Lucy Killea from communion after the 67-year-old grandmother began screening television commercials promoting her support of women 's right to choose abortion . |
| 4 | He contacted her when he heard of her research into women 's self-defence and invited her to his surgery . |
| 5 | Bridget Hill has headed her chapter on women 's work in the eighteenth century : " Ignored , unrecorded and invisible . " |
| 6 | Blaxter ( 1983 ) in her study of women 's thoughts on health and the cause of disease clearly identifies an acceptance of poor health as an attribute of normal ageing . |
| 7 | Lynne Segal 's previous Virago book Is the Future Female ? was a spirited discussion of the nature and function of ‘ femininities ’ , especially in recent decades ; published in 1987 , at the most politically depressing period of Thatcherism when the socialist-feminist vision seemed a distant memory or hopeless pipedream , Segal defended her optimism about women 's astonishing progress since the 1960s , and about the fracturing of gender identities which she saw as irreversible . |
| 8 | Schulz considers a number of explanations for the phenomenon she describes , and concludes that it arises from men 's prejudice against women and their fear of women 's ‘ natural ’ power or biological superiority . |
| 9 | In spite of the increasing diversity of their work on women 's experiences with children , for instance , this work remains dominated by studies of mother-child relations and the problems they encounter . |
| 10 | In a very lighthearted manner , Leapor connects her poetry with women 's friendship , and with women 's physical experience . |
| 11 | Tennis Interlink is run on a day to day basis by Barbara Wancke , former ITS Director of Women 's Tennis , and Isolda Montero , who serve as Managing Director and Company Secretary respectively . |
| 12 | Her commitment to women 's causes continued for the rest of her life , and when female suffrage was granted in 1918 she was one of the first women to contest a parliamentary seat , standing unsuccessfully as Labour candidate for Rusholme in 1918 . |
| 13 | Eva Figes , for example , bases her interpretation of women 's writing until 1850 on the belief that : ‘ Until the eighteenth century marriage , like life , tended to be brutish and short . |
| 14 | Yet while we readily blame employers for their extra exploitation of women as cheap labour , and the state for regulating women 's economic dependence on men , we protect men from the shame of their participation in women 's poverty by keeping the secret . |
| 15 | Lakoff is a feminist , and her explanation of women 's language is not like Jespersen 's , however much the language itself may seem to be . |
| 16 | Butler took up precisely this issue in her introduction to Women 's Work and Women 's Culture , 1869 . |
| 17 | Instead of only seeing Angelica Kauffman 's history paintings as part of a neoclassical revival and a feature of 18th century history painting , might a psychoanalytical-cum-anthropological approach allow us to see a pattern of latent meanings , around themes of abandonment , grief , mourning or see her dramatisation of women 's complex relations to emotional and civic loyalties ? |
| 18 | Olympic bronze medallist , Jackie McWilliams , of Randalstown and Gt Britain , was awarded the Winifred Templeton trophy for her contribution to women 's hockey in Ulster . |
| 19 | Feminist psychology 's consciousness of these ambiguities encourages its interest in women 's representation , not just among psychologists , but among psychological subjects . |
| 20 | We 'll make your blood run cold and make you laugh on the Sinister side of your face at Women 's Wit and Wickedness . |