Example sentences of "a women 's [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many such agencies now have a women 's unit to deal with women 's needs vis-a-vis employment . |
| 2 | oh I can assure you I work , I work in a women 's unit and I can assure you its still frowned on by lots of people . |
| 3 | The presentation took place during a women 's enterprise forum , held at the Impasse Centre , Corporation Road , Middlesbrough . |
| 4 | In Port Erin , where a women 's camp was set up , landladies were asked if they would accept internees at 3/ a day . |
| 5 | Avuncular and sociable , he was a warm and friendly person who might be encountered conducting a Women 's Institute choir , accompanying an audition at the piano , as a freelance organist or providing harpsichord continuo . |
| 6 | The giant wrought-iron entrance gates , for example , came from the people of Tetbury , the fruit trees espaliered against the walls of the vegetable garden were presented by the Worshipful Company of Fruiterers and the herbs came from a women 's institute in Sussex . |
| 7 | There is a Women 's Institute branch ( the W.I. — known , inevitably , as the Witches International by the habitués of the Smoke Room of the Red Lion ) , a Choral Group , and an Amateur Dramatic Society . |
| 8 | Thus I have seen an interesting application of group dynamics to the study of a Women 's Institute , and a voluntary social agency studied as an example of a bureaucracy . |
| 9 | Among these are a Women 's Institute , a village hall and institute and a Darby and Joan Club as well as Scouts , Guides , youth clubs and football clubs for the younger members of the community . |
| 10 | How , I mean , is it just each village that has a Women 's Institute ? |
| 11 | ACAW is a women 's art/photography collective . |
| 12 | The small number of women involved in white water paddling , she feels , is due to a women 's attitude to fear and taking risks rather than any negative feelings from male paddlers . |
| 13 | The money will help a number of UN-recommended projects worldwide including a soil erosion programme in Bolivia , a women 's tree planting project in Kenya and a clean water campaign in Cambodia . |
| 14 | Scattered through the policy review are proposals to : Drastically alter the status and organisation of the Department of Trade and Industry ; Create two departments — a Department of Consumer Affairs , and a Department for Legal Administration ; Create a Department of Environmental Protection within the existing Department of the Environment ; Set up a plethora of new commissions and executive agencies ; Set up a Women 's Ministry . |
| 15 | The Labour Party unveiled plans for a women 's ministry , which would have a seat in the cabinet . |
| 16 | Let's stop trying to get women to support us by crawling to them — it 's obvious they prefer voting for devils or weeds than for decent men ( let alone decent women ) , and bribing them with a Women 's Ministry did n't work . |
| 17 | I mean unless we had erm a change of government , say , and we had a women 's ministry where someone was putting a lot of thought into the role of women in our society , and what one could do to improve the position for women , but we have n't got a government that 's thinking in those kinds of ways . |
| 18 | My work experience includes one year as an accounts clerk , and two years as a shop assistant in a women 's clothes shop . |
| 19 | Although unfortunately details of the projects are tantalizingly hard to ascertain , at least two attempts were made after 1888 by the Edinburgh Typographical Society to set up a women 's union , The first , in the late 1880s , is referred to only in the retrospective " statement on the Female Question " , published in 1904 ; Miss Black of London [ who must have been Clementina Black ] a lady who was well-known for her efforts to improve the social condition of her sex , offered to make an endeavour to organise the female compositors in Edinburgh , with a view to remedying the evils complained of by the journeymen . |
| 20 | So in the late 1890s , another attempt , this time apparently not vetoed by the membership , was made to organize a women 's union . |
| 21 | Marks & Spencer has turned Brooks Brothers ( which it owns ) into ‘ Brooks Sisters ’ , with a women 's range of classic gilt-buttoned navy blazers , grey flannels and front-pleated pinstripes . |
| 22 | If a man who can generate pretty decent clubhead speed were inadvertently to use a women 's ball , the result would be higher trajectory with some distance loss — the clubhead will have compressed the ball beyond the point where the ball achieves its most efficient velocity . |
| 23 | It 's the only day , really in a women 's life where everybody at her and she 's made to feel like the most special person on this earth , so I 'd highly recommend it . |
| 24 | Some of the most inspiring work of Chattisgarh Liberation Front has been the formation of a women 's organisation that has set up a popular tribunal to deal with wrongs against women — desertion , rape , abuse . |
| 25 | I recently had to speak firmly , harshly to a women 's organisation here . |
| 26 | It is the name of a Women 's Centre opened in February 1987 in Olongapo City in the Philippines . |
| 27 | And er I think i we thought from that well why not set up a women 's support group and er see what the reaction was really from from the women you know and an I and we said in that lodge meeting will you ask everybody all the women that you know that er are involved , the friends the girlfriends and wives , to come along the next Tuesday and we 'd have a meeting of our own . |
| 28 | I mean suddenly we had the example of a women 's support group from the miner 's strike th that we had the idea you know fr from that erm and Yona really put it in a nutshell when she said I think er er you know behind closed doors the women worrying about what was gon na happen next you know they felt very frustrated and in a way it was a way to channel o our energies away i i i it was seen as that really in the beginning you know as a a sort of a more as a way of getting rid of the well y you know the sort of desperation er the impotence one felt of not being able to do anything in this situation and it 's er and by now of course we 've all become as a group very close er you know we 're we 're more like a big family now really an sort of er a lot of the women have never really sort of regularly been to meetings an th the commitment there is very strong really that we all turn up to our Tuesday meetings sort of . |
| 29 | Okay , well , the thing is why was there a women 's army , we all know that . |
| 30 | During 1987 a women 's household production network ( in fact inspired and organized by a foreign worker ) also began to produce pickled vegetables for retail in grocery stores in the West Bank , to displace Israeli produce . |