Example sentences of "women [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eight out of 10 women passed the 15-week course of physical training , weapon firing , survival and first aid . |
| 2 | The union really wanted women out of the trade , but in public statements like Mr Battersby 's after-dinner speech , said that they were prepared to settle for equal pay ; while the women regarded the latter call as unrealistic if not hypocritical , since they felt ( and were daily told ) that they were not doing the equivalent of a skilled man 's work ( though even they thought the differentials too high ) . |
| 3 | And the first thing you learn is that all women make the same mistakes . |
| 4 | ‘ The reason a lot of women and men argue without hearing each other is that many women lack the bottom harmonics in their voices , while men do n't allow themselves the upper harmonics . |
| 5 | Awareness of the social reality of the USSR , recognition that Soviet men and women experienced the same angst as those peoples living in pre-revolutionary societies disturbed Nizan but did not shake his faith in the ultimate justice and morality of the Soviet cause . |
| 6 | A committee of the Irish Medical Association put the numbers of women using the contraceptive pill in 1978 as 48,000 ; and the Family planning Association saw 30,000 people in 1976 and more than 53,000in 1978 ( Whyte 1980 : 403–4 ) . |
| 7 | Two-thirds of women using the injectable , Depo-Provera , experience what has been dubbed ‘ menstrual chaos ’ in the first year , some bleeding so frequently and profusely that they have to receive transfusions . |
| 8 | However according to the Rapoports ' analysis of the dual career family , women remain the domesticated individuals . |
| 9 | Men in Trudgill 's study under-reported their use of the standard whereas women over-reported the same thing ( see the discussion of status above ) . |
| 10 | The former is a large scale study of women with depression , and offers an explanation of why certain women develop the clinical symptoms of depression , which focuses on the significance of a close , confiding relationship . |
| 11 | Harman herself warned that men 's libertarianism only meant that women became the common property of the herd , instead of the property of one man . |
| 12 | Some felt that women lacked the cultural and political training necessary . |
| 13 | Many women display the chronic kind and are continuously putting themselves down . |
| 14 | Very gently the two women drew the light quilt away , sliding it from under the arm of the sleeper , drawing it down at both sides , peeling it off and over the end of the bed . |
| 15 | Many women described the particular pain of not being able to share their tears . |
| 16 | Some women say the old idea that a man is uncontrollable past a certain point is absurd . |
| 17 | Both men and women rated the standard seat as the most uncomfortable . |
| 18 | Yeah , yeah , the coloured women won the twelve hundred pounds . |
| 19 | Many women report the total surprise caused by the swiftness of random attack leaves them paralysed and unable to fight back . |
| 20 | Employment law provides employees with a range of rights including the right not to be unfairly dismissed , the right not to be subject to discrimination on the grounds of race or sex , and the right for women to receive the same pay as men if employed to do the same work or if the work is considered to be of equal value . |
| 21 | Women believed the first phase of feminism was all that was necessary , but it was n't . |
| 22 | Britain 's women reaped the wild wind in Nottingham yesterday to blow away Turkey and book a place in the Federation Cup finals in Frankfurt in July . |
| 23 | In this society where women hold the ultimate responsibility for the welfare of children , it is vital that money paid for the children is paid to the mother on that basis alone , in order to avoid real hardship particularly in times of crisis . |
| 24 | Editor , — It is true , as James Owen Drife points out , that it has become at least partially acceptable for women to stereotype the worst of male behaviour and make fun of it , but somehow I find it hard to feel sorry for him . |
| 25 | Despite being the ostensible representative of women 's interests in the Party leadership , it was under her auspices that ordinary Romanian women suffered the worst effects of the Communist regime 's insatiable intrusiveness . |
| 26 | Hickson says the women rejected the self-help group for complex reasons . |
| 27 | But from this broken and scattered group of men and women came the startling message of the cross and resurrection with a conviction and power that neither the Jewish authorities nor the Roman rulers could stem . |
| 28 | It can be argued that community care still remains essentially sexist in that it assumes a large labour force of low-paid women to staff the formal sector . |
| 29 | They tend to concentrate on policies that would help women follow the same age-related career path as men . |
| 30 | The women wear the same blue uniforms as the men . |