Example sentences of "be [adv] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 31 | That 's why it 's so tempting to think that it 's always women erm because power is in the hands of men on the whole , especially in this university . |
| 32 | Thus , not only is the housewife role specifically a feminine role , it is also women 's major occupational role today : the responsibility for running a home is one which is shared by the majority of all adult women . |
| 33 | ‘ … and , in any case , cooking and looking after children is strictly women 's work , ’ he told her flatly . |
| 34 | For in common with all extensional definitions , it provides no criteria for the inclusion or exclusion of further phenomena that may come to our attention ; at best one can say that what warrants pragmatic treatment for some new topic is simply linguists ' consensus based on intuitive " family resemblance " to more familiar pragmatic topics . |
| 35 | What we do not yet know is how women 's changing opportunities for paid work have affected their relative risk of poverty . |
| 36 | This , supposedly , is when students are most committed to independent study and this is when students ' weaknesses in study skills techniques are most readily exposed . |
| 37 | That is why children 's games are so important . |
| 38 | While men and women contribute to both these spheres , the former is primarily men 's domain and the latter primarily that of the women . |
| 39 | Nothing is going to be handed to us on a plate ; on the contrary , everything must be fought for and that 's why women 's organizations are necessary . |
| 40 | Well that 's why women 's basketball 's better than guys |
| 41 | Footpaths through parks have a significant number of users who are actually pedestrians en route to another destination , but such use depends on the accident of alignment rather than any attempt to meet defined flows through conscious planning . |
| 42 | ( She joined the Club in 1910 , aged 13 ) , she was also Ladies ' President for many years and made an Honorary Member in 1965 ) . |
| 43 | Was n't doctors ' handwriting supposed to be hard to read ? |
| 44 | It was n't children 's television . |
| 45 | She felt that it was n't children 's job or children 's responsibility to look after the world , it was our job , and that it was not fair to make children feel responsible for doing that erm I mean that seems to me to be a legitimate viewpoint and erm but it 's one of many and I mean other people may feel that in order to save the planet , or indeed prevent wars in the future , it is important to expose children to the dangers of , you know , the current situation . |
| 46 | One of the key issues was how parents ' messages about their needs were being heard , and here the researchers were able to shed some light . |
| 47 | One of the most disturbing features of the case was how patients ' protestations of abuse were ignored . |