Example sentences of "women who were [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interestingly , two of the carers in Glendinning 's study were single women who were sharing a household and some of the responsibilities of care-giving with an unmarried brother as well as their elderly parent . |
| 2 | She stood out of the way of a party of scantily clad Scandinavian women who were leaving , then waited while her eyesight adjusted to the contrasting darkness . |
| 3 | Menopausal state , pregnancy , and oestrogen containing drugs — Because of the possible influence of menopausal state , pregnancy and oestrogen containing drugs , details about these factors were sought by questionnaire in the 65 women who were followed up for more than six months . |
| 4 | ‘ Very grand women who were prized for their minds as much as their bodies were taken on board by powerful individuals . |
| 5 | It appears primarily amongst women who were born and remained in a rural area , and she detects a striking rise in rural illegitimacy . |
| 6 | Why should Parliament not make abortion criminal for pregnant women who were born in even years but not for those born in odd ones ? |
| 7 | She had stayed there , always conscious that she was preparing herself for an existence of unutterable boredom , and was one of an enormous number of women who were training themselves for an ‘ if I do n't marry ’ life . |
| 8 | When women were referred by GPs , others were consulted significantly more frequently ( 88 per cent ) than women who were referred by other referrers ( 61 per cent ) ( p=0.02 ) . |
| 9 | Subservience was expected by all levels of employer , titled or otherwise , and Marie Thwaites was one of a number of young men and women who were packed off to a life which was not only unacceptable by today 's standards , but hardly believable . |
| 10 | Women who were inspired neither by feminism nor revulsion against the prescribed role of the middle class wife and mother , but who nevertheless found a sense of purpose in philanthropy , often wrote of their work with a cloying sentimentality and in terms that reveal a strange mixture of humility ( expressed in religious terms ) ; insecurity , class superiority and a grim determination to do God 's will . |
| 11 | A short report in the Financial Times for 19/20 December 1992 states that women who were sacked from a mushroom farm after refusing new contracts that they alleged had made cuts in their pay , had been given permission by the Court of Appeal on 18 December 1992 to carry out a leaflet campaign to persuade shoppers not to buy the farm 's produce . |
| 12 | English had a dual role ; as Baldick ( 1984 ) has shown , it was initially used as a sop to women who were demanding higher education ; in the very first intake of students of English at Oxford University , the majority of them were women . |
| 13 | From the 500 women who were questioned all over England and Scotland the following facts emerged : |
| 14 | Suddenly he exploded , yelled at the porter to buzz off , and broke union regulations by pushing the children 's luggage himself to the two West Indian women who were meeting them . |
| 15 | In half-a-dozen cases during 1989 , the court made it much harder for blacks , Hispanics and women who were seeking compensation for job discrimination . |
| 16 | There was a notice outside the sauna asking people to keep quiet in consideration of the other clients but the two women who were discussing men were ignoring it . |
| 17 | The first was in terms of the invisibility of women who were ignored , or under-represented . |
| 18 | One of a group of women who were seen in their own lifetimes as emblems of Pre-Raphaelitism , she made a considerable executive contribution to this important British art movement , and was recognized at her death as the last surviving link with it . |
| 19 | It was women who were defined as the human agents of infection , threatening national health and security and challenging the social order by their active and autonomous sexuality . |
| 20 | Peter Clark has shown that at least half the Gloucester men and women who were called as witnesses in church courts during the early seventeenth century were first generation immigrants . |
| 21 | Briefly , over a 14 month period starting in May 1968 , 1400 general practitioners throughout the United Kingdom recruited 23000 women who were using oral contraceptives and a similar number of women who had never used these preparations . |
| 22 | The women who were employed as surface workers at Cornish copper mines were predominantly young and unmarried — that is , unless things had changed very drastically by the mid nineteenth century , for by the time of the 1851 census very few women seem to have continued after their early twenties . |
| 23 | To determine the effect of cholecystectomy , the women who had had this operation were compared with the women who were discovered on ultrasonography to have gall stones ( n=48 , aged 25 to 67 , mean 45 ) , all but three of whom were asymptomatic . |
| 24 | Howard , which was the ‘ muppet house ’ [ house for women who were disturbed or particularly distressed ] , also had screws on all night . |
| 25 | Emancipation for women was beginning to rumble and Cook may have embraced the idea , but , being a shrewd opportunist , it is more likely that he saw potential customers among women who were striving for more freedom . |
| 26 | Nothing had been done for the women who were exploited by prostitution . |
| 27 | Would you like me to check the mail — or attend to the women who were to go for a bush walk ? ’ |
| 28 | Two of the women who were moved up with me had already been in prison , one for about a year , one for about eight months , so they knew what to expect . |
| 29 | For example , adjustment increased the low perinatal mortality rate for women who were delivered at a general practitioner unit and decreased the high rate in hospital 1 , which had an accident and emergency department . |
| 30 | Some of those who had absconded , and some women who were brought before the Board , were taken to the magistrate 's and on the Sunday evening after Christmas the house was in a very disturbed state so far that we did not think it prudent to assemble for Divine Worship . ’ |