Example sentences of "it be [verb] that women " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you think the danger in positive discrimination is that er it 's implying that women ca n't compete on equal terms with the men in the first place ? |
| 2 | By contrast , the Corinthians passage in which Paul speaks of male headship , and in which it is said that women should be silent ( a verse which is probably an interpolation and does not owe to Paul ) , he is concerned with a practical situation which has arisen , a situation in which the church , still insecure in a pagan world , was likely to cause scandal if it departed too far from social convention — and his concern is that it should not unnecessarily put itself in jeopardy . |
| 3 | If they are placed in secondary roles , or it is assumed that women 's identity is to be found in mothering , then the fact of their presence reinforces a certain understanding of the feminine . |
| 4 | By the year 2000 , it is expected that women will represent almost 50% of the workforce , so , assuming women have the same potential management skills as men , and bearing in mind that women gained 45% of first degrees in 1989 , companies that fail to recruit or promote them are cutting their reservoir of managerial talent by half . |
| 5 | It is advised that women who are pregnant or planning to become pregnant should avoid drinking alcohol altogether . |
| 6 | Only the unmarried mother was given specific mention ; for the rest it was assumed that women would follow their husbands . |
| 7 | ‘ It was understood that women dated , went to college and married . |
| 8 | " Men worked very hard , " said the deputy , " and there were no baths — it was accepted that women would , do it all , they did n't think that the women were working all hours . |
| 9 | In the past it was felt that women and their health services were neglected , But now I think we are neglecting men 's health needs . ’ |
| 10 | It was suggested that women move from one factory to other factories at the rate of 50 to 60 a week . |
| 11 | In addition , it was shown that women living in the same household as the person for whom they were caring were more likely to be either working full-time or not at all ; part-time employment was taken when the sick or elderly person lived elsewhere . |
| 12 | It was found that women on the high fat diet gained weight more easily than women on the low fat diet and a similar project for men reached the same conclusion . |
| 13 | In contrast , high-rise housing was originally intended in part to undermine this definition of the domestic ideal ; by using a quite different urban built form and providing communal facilities such as creches and canteens , it was thought that women would be liberated both from the ideology of domesticity and its actuality . |
| 14 | In addition it was established that women tended to receive less support services than male carers ( EOC , 1982 ) . |