Example sentences of "women [was/were] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As women around the world celebrated International Women 's Week , Tibetan women were reliving the anniversary of the 1959 Uprising , when thousands of unarmed Tibetan women defended their right to life and freedom with sticks and stones on the streets of Lhasa . |
| 2 | In spite of its violent assaults on the female image , Surrealism 's emphatic anti-academicism and dedication to an art of the interior struck a sympathetic chord in a repressive era when women were demanding the right to work and vote . |
| 3 | Women were granted the vote and given equal citizenship for the first time in the 1950 Constitution . |
| 4 | We shall see that in the nineteenth century this limited and special capacity was extended with some modifications to all married women ( see pp. 50–4 ) ; but that in 1935 it was swept away , and married women were given the same capacity to own property and make contracts as a man . |
| 5 | From 1948 when the National Insurance Scheme started , married women were given the option to pay the full-rate contribution for a pension in their own right or to be dependent on their husbands ' contributions and to pay a very reduced rate contribution — called the small stamp . |
| 6 | When one considers that the official State Academy of Arts did not allow women to study there until 1919 , one can imagine how many women were given the chance of becoming professional artists by the mere existence of this institution which attracted tutors of the calibre of Karl Stauffer-Bern , who taught Kathe Kollwitz . |
| 7 | He should recall that in the last two years of the last Labour Government , up to 5,000 police men and women were leaving the police force each year and voting with their feet . |
| 8 | The National Opinion Poll ( NOP ) found that 32% of women were using the pill , compared with 25% in a similar poll taken in 1987 . |
| 9 | While the women were competing the men were Bowling for Nine-pins at the back of the inn . |
| 10 | Parliamentary speeches opposing women 's emancipation singled out feminist repealers-'a defiant sect who would have nothing sacred , nothing veiled , nothing hidden' — as the precursors of what was to come if women were to enter the public arena . |
| 11 | In the end , once again , women were servicing men , women were raising the consciousness of men , women were giving their energy to men . |
| 12 | Even so we do sometimes find admissions that women were doing the more advanced tasks . |
| 13 | Article 5(1) of Council Directive ( 76/207/EEC ) provided that the application of the principle of equal treatment with regard to working conditions , including the conditions relating to dismissal , meant that men and women were guaranteed the same conditions without discrimination on grounds of sex , and the term –dismissal' in that context included retirement in accordance with an employer 's policy . |
| 14 | Inside St Michael and All Angels , women were arranging the flowers in golden tubs . |
| 15 | She argued that if women were paid the same as men " it would result in many women being dismissed from many trades " , and also accepted without demur , when giving evidence to the Fair Wages Committee a few years later , the proposition that women were satisfied with less money because they were earning " pin money " if married , and " pocket money " if not.38 With such pessimism about equal pay entrenched in the mind of their organizers , with such low evaluation being set on their work , one might argue that it would have been surprising if a militant women 's union could really be organized in the prevailing atmosphere . |