Example sentences of "women in the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The activity rate of women in the age-group just above the retirement age , 60–64 , fell from 29 per cent in 1971 to 21 per cent in 1986 . |
2 | A large proportion of the women in the column were pregnant , and many were carrying young babies in their arms . |
3 | Two of them had died young , one of Lewis 's aunts had married and gone to America , the other two had remained spinsters , living as many unmarried women in the country used to do , in tiny cottages in the middle of a village , busy in a mouse-like way about parochial matters , having no youth , earning nothing , buried alive . |
4 | If suffering a ropey marriage automatically led to that sort of state of grace , half the women in the country would be walking round with an outsize halo above their head . |
5 | Welensky is also said to have been much impressed by the calibre of the Zambian Cabinet , and by the obvious advancement to women in the country since independence . |
6 | Opposing pressure groups were already in existence and preparing for the campaign : in favour , the Divorce Action Group ; and against , such groups as Family Solidarity , Women in the Home , and the Knights of Columbanus . |
7 | Faragher ( 1985 ) found that police in Great Britain downgraded the seriousness of violence against women in the home , for although formal regulations state that it is to be treated as an arrestable offence , policemen often redefined the incident as lying outside law enforcement ( emphasized by Policy Studies Institute 1983b : 64 ) . |
8 | The image of woman has been moulded and portrayed in numerous ways by men , this series of paintings and drawings explores a fantasy in which women in the home are engaged in a bizarre recreation of themselves and their men , using all of women 's traditional ‘ homemade ’ handicraft skills . |
9 | Of course , this can be , and has been , used to ‘ lock ’ women in the home environment . |
10 | In the first place it is argued that this growing equality has been a ‘ relational ’ equality between men and women in the home . |
11 | Where are the men who are speaking out about the abuse of women in the home ? |
12 | The doctors conclude in the British Medical Journal that there would be little benefit if all women in the UK were given zinc supplements during pregnancy . |
13 | Since the 1970s fertility rates have dropped for all women in the UK irrespective of country of origin . |
14 | It is not known exactly how many pregnant women in the UK catch toxoplasmosis but it could be up to 1,400 cases each year . |
15 | According to Laboratoires Garnier who make Permifique , over 6 million women in the UK have permed hair , a third of whom choose a home per . |
16 | While I appreciate that in many cultures a woman 's failure to marry can have serious socio-economic implications which may not exist for many women in the UK , I was distressed by AI promoting this view of marriage as the raison d'etre of a woman , and of a woman whose hymen has been perforated as ‘ damaged goods ’ . |
17 | However , five million men and women in the UK suffer excessive hair loss . |
18 | More than 250 women in the UK are worth more than £2 million each and about 700 women own cash and assets worth more than £1 million . |
19 | Very rarely HIV may have been transmitted in breastmilk and women in the UK who are HIV antibody positive are advised not to breastfeed . |
20 | He had trained all the suitable women in the Manchester area . |
21 | In 1989 , 24 102 men and 6 130 women in the USA committed suicide . |
22 | The very expansion of the school systems has by itself created an enormous job market for teachers , with women in the majority . |
23 | Half the women in the villages round here have one . ’ |
24 | Young women are not poorly paid because they work for TNCs in export zones , they are poorly paid wherever they work , but TNCs may well employ young women in the zones because they are cheaper to employ than older men in some countries . |
25 | It is through the exchange of women in the alliance of marriage that culture and society are founded . |
26 | Quite a large group apparently went to work as compositors in the south of England , if that is the right interpretation to put on the mention " gone to Colchester " which is recorded against the names of some women in the trade-union membership registers which are the chief source for this information . |
27 | The task given to this group is to discover what is happening already to involve women more fully in the life and mission of the Church and to draw up some possible and practical steps by which the participation of women in the life of the Church can be developed . |
28 | The women of Britain — the women in the work force and those who want to be in the work force — will not look to the Minister to offer them any hope of liberation or any hope of a better future . |
29 | There are those who are identified , more or less , as ‘ religious ’ leaders and who uphold all the abstract things which a vast majority of the human race are agreed on as being good , and there are those who have risen above their fellow men and women in the activities of the arts and sciences , and have therefore made their contributions to goodness by providing human happiness through the material gratification of the senses . |
30 | Will he also condemn the scandalous proposal that when the PSA is privatised , up to £85 million of taxpayers ' money should be handed over by the Government to Tarmac , which will take it over , so that any proposed redundancies of men and women in the PSA will be paid not by the privatising company but by the taxpayer ? |