Example sentences of "women have been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women had been at the lowest end of Paul 's spectrum of the human race . |
| 2 | Women had been on the paper since the beginning — with Maureen McGrath as news editor- and it had been women who had been providing the typesetting , the listings , the ad selling . |
| 3 | DH Lawrence 's " The Rainbow " was destroyed in 1915 , and " The Well of Loneliness " suffered the same fate in 1928 at the hands of a magistrate who felt that a passage which implied that two women had been to bed ( " And that night they were not divided " ) would induce " thoughts of a most impure character " and " glorify a horrible tendency " . |
| 4 | For some of them their changed lives had brought a realisation of what their roles as women had been in the past . |
| 5 | Jack was in his studio , and the two women had been in the drawing room watching a video-recording of Alison 's play about the ballet school . |
| 6 | Most of these women had been in what they called ‘ the therapy situation ’ for years . |
| 7 | The best thing of all , however , is the inspiration these women have been to others . |
| 8 | Women have been at the forefront of many community health initiatives , reclaiming knowledge of and control over their own bodies ; redefining their own experience of health and illness ; rejecting inappropriate high-tech birthing methods ; questioning the over-prescribing of drugs ; revitalising the role of traditional medicine . |
| 9 | The women at the sit-in issued the following appeal : ’ On the occasion of International Women 's Day , we , the Palestinian Women have been on a hunger strike since February 23 , 1989 in solidarity with our sons who have been holding hunger strikes in Israeli jails in protest against their inhuman prison conditions . |
| 10 | This is the time of life at which friends and acquaintances begin to die ; women have been through the menopause and men can no longer deny that their virility is diminishing . |