Example sentences of "a woman [pron] have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she could not afford to keep a nanny or an au pair , having permanently available a woman who had borne and reared ten children , together with a woman who had been one of them , had been to Scarlet a godsend . |
| 2 | No sooner one woman in the grave whom he had cheated on , a woman who had been miserable enough to kill herself , than he was in bed with another . |
| 3 | The information required will be — the full names of the ceased person , and any other names that they have been known by , including the maiden surname of a woman who has been married ; their date and place of birth ; their recent occupation , and their husband 's full name and occupation , if the person who has died was a married woman . |
| 4 | The change of status , too , from ‘ wife , to ‘ widow ’ is felt very keenly by most women as a loss of considerable significance , which indeed it is ; for without a partner , a woman who has been married for some years may , unless she already has well developed interests outside her home , find that her social life is suddenly transformed in a very disturbing way . |
| 5 | 9.18–26 ; Luke 8.40–56 ) he heals a woman who has been unclean for many years because of a flow of blood . |