Example sentences of "women with [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women with cervical problems , for example , are quizzed about their sexual history . |
| 2 | The corridor walls are covered in photographs ; barrel-bellied women with scrunched-up faces strain to deliver , post-birth beatific smiles radiate satisfaction . |
| 3 | Women with troublesome children find their cases [ in Glasgow Sheriff Court ] being taken early — The Scotsman . |
| 4 | The idea was to get a fairly homogeneous sample , to look at housework attitudes in a group of women with similar backgrounds . |
| 5 | The implication is that White women with bourgeois aspirations when denied sexual satisfaction are susceptible to ‘ irrational ’ racial prejudice . |
| 6 | The doctor refused to give her more sleeping tablets but scribbled a prescription for tranquillizers , which were increasingly prescribed for women like Clare , with symptoms of anxiety in stressful situations such as poverty , divorce , or bereavement ; women with marital problems and women who were out of work also found them helpful , although the pills did nothing to resolve the problem responsible for the initial anxiety . |
| 7 | Babies born to teenagers , especially those who are unmarried as is frequently the case in developed countries , and to older women with many children are often unwanted . |
| 8 | She dragged herself back to reality , and began joining in the conversation , listening with amusement while Simone regaled them with stories of some of their customers — fat women with strange tastes in colour , young girls with more money than sense . |
| 9 | Mary Georgina Boulton observes that women with pre-school children , in order to restore a sense of control in their lives and cope with their workload , need to create a structure to their work . |
| 10 | For women with young children , returning to work can be a problem . |
| 11 | There would be dangers in making the enjoyment of the entitlements of citizenship conditional on the performance of the legal or moral duties of citizenship , especially the ‘ voluntary obligations ’ of service to the community , since these entitlements are , it is suggested , too important to be ‘ bought ’ by community service and forfeit for lack of the required track record of active citizenship ; also , it would be unduly intrusive to place these burdens on citizens who should be entitled to a private life , and many of whom — women with young children or dependent relatives to care for , for example — do not have the time or resources to do service to the wider community . |
| 12 | Married women with young children feel they have to take a job as well , jeopardising their family relationships . |
| 13 | Major topics in this literature are marital happiness , the division of labour and the general patterning of husband-wife roles ; the combination of women 's employment with marriage , and its consequences for husband-wife and mother-child relationships ; the inter-relationships between the nuclear family and the wider kinship system ; and the ‘ captive wife ’ syndrome — the socially isolated situation of women with young children . |
| 14 | They are opposed to the suggestion that women with young children should stay at home rather than go to work , accept that women are still at a disadvantage when it comes to advancement at work , but they do n't think there should be more positive discrimination in women 's favour . |
| 15 | However , Northern men are likely to agree that men do n't do enough to look after their children , and they support the idea of women with young children going out to work . |
| 16 | For example , they are the most likely to say that the balance of power is now tipped too much in favour of women and that women with young children should n't work . |
| 17 | There are complex variations in this , women with young children putting in the largest number of hours of work and women with neither young children nor paid jobs the least . |
| 18 | Nevertheless the essential social situation remains they same — they are marginal and disposable as workers , they are isolated , even more than women with young children who do n't work , for they do n't have time to meet others in parks and playgrounds , and they have the stress of simultaneously minding children and working . |
| 19 | No point making a fuss ; plenty more women with young kinds anxious for work , as Mr Silver will explain to silence the muttering that occasionally drowns even the machines . |
| 20 | The short-term objectives of the network are to raise women 's awareness of their image in the mass media , to obtain relevant information from research and networking that would motivate women to lobby for change , and to equip women with specific skills that would help build and strengthen alternative communication for and by women . |
| 21 | Her tights were pale , pale , a whiter shade of pale , only women with perfect legs can wear that shade . |
| 22 | Indeed , this whole topic was resurrected some three years ago by the demonstration of Y chromosome specific product obtained by the technique from pregnant women with male fetuses . |
| 23 | No justification therefore exists for treating subfertile women with contraceptive drugs , and the endometriosis should be considered to be coincidental unless it has caused tubal and ovarian damage that requires repair . |
| 24 | IVF , at first touted as a ’ last resort ’ measure for women with blocked tubes , is now being promoted for another group of women , those who can become pregnant but who are ’ carriers ’ of inheritable conditions such as haemophilia , and who may give birth to a child with the condition . |
| 25 | Behind the expensive Georgian facade of his Harley Street headquarters , Courtney drugged women with spiked drinks and then raped or molested them . |
| 26 | The estate girls , for all their loyalty , could be as foolish as any other group of young women with dull lives and minimal education , and on this occasion most of Britain was also speculating about the death of her brother 's wife . |
| 27 | Increasingly , however , such units are being asked to assess the quality of mothering by women with chronic disorders , particularly schizophrenia but also poor control of impulses . |
| 28 | ‘ Workers have to be treated as ‘ factors of production ’ rather than as men and women with distinctive needs and aspirations ’ ( Hyman 1980 , p. 305 ) . |
| 29 | Most people imagine that the Inquisition terrorised the population , swooping like the Gestapo on wide-eyed villagers , dragging old women with black cats off to the nearest duck-pond to be drowned as witches . |
| 30 | I looked through the window and there were people lined up on both sides of the street , the women with black aprons and the men with their caps and hats off , bared heads bowed as we passed . |