Example sentences of "[art] woman [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew the woman to be a protégée of Count Zhinsky , head of Russian Intelligence , and the man he had met in Collins Coffee House . |
| 2 | They were gaudy and sexually suggestive and each tailored to the individual characteristics of the woman to be wed . |
| 3 | To accept finally and irrevocably that there was no romance in her life , that romance was a deep killer , a consuming passion and that she was too tough a woman to be consumed . |
| 4 | As Jordanova says , ‘ Science and Medicine as activities were associated with sexual metaphors which were clearly expressed in designating nature as a woman to be unveiled , unclothed and penetrated by Masculine Science . ’ |
| 5 | Masha : ‘ It 's perfectly possible for a woman to be responsive to a sexual advance and yet feel she has been compelled . |
| 6 | It shall be lawful for the General Synod to make provision by Canon for enabling a woman to be ordained to the office of a Priest . |
| 7 | It was not until the Life Peerages Act 1958 that it became possible for a woman to be created a life peer and sit and not until the Peerage Act 1963 that hereditary peeresses in their own right were allowed to join them . |
| 8 | But , within a family , it is much less common for a woman to be listed as ratepayer than a man . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , Croydon and Cooper , you shall see me face to face soon enough and then you will know that Emily Grenfell is not a woman to be trifled with , ’ she said grimly . |
| 10 | Jean Grimshaw looks at some of the ways in which feminists have tried to conceptualise what it is for a woman to be autonomous , and the relationship between these conceptions and philosophical ways of thinking about the human self . |
| 11 | In this paper , I want to look at one kind of way in which some feminists have tried to conceptualise what it is for a woman to be ‘ autonomous ’ , and at the implications this has for ways of thinking about the human self . |
| 12 | But why does Thomas consider a woman to be defective by nature ? |
| 13 | It is part of their folklore that the men go out to the pub or club at Sunday dinner time and there is n't a woman to be seen . |
| 14 | That is , the critics assert that there is significant inequality between men and women , and that for a woman to be married to a man does not mean that she gains all the privileges that he has access to . |
| 15 | As a result , the government added an amendment to the Sex Discrimination Bill ( 1986 ) to make it unlawful for a woman to be dismissed on grounds of age when a man would not be . |
| 16 | When he had recovered from his embarrassment , Alexei 's father had freed her — on the grounds that it was improper for a woman to be bought and sold like merchandise — and with Mei Ling 's consent had opted to marry her . |
| 17 | Though her outstanding achievement is undoubtedly the composition of the first original poetry by a woman to be published in the seventeenth century , a volume of religious verse entitled Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum ( 1611 ) , she has become notorious as a result of attempts made to identify her as the ‘ dark lady ’ of Shakespeare 's Sonnets ( 1609 ) , on the conjectural grounds of her racial colouring , musical ability , and promiscuity . |
| 18 | And of course sterilizing er you know for a man to be sterilized or a woman to be sterilized er you just it , just wo nobody ever , even considered it . |
| 19 | Mercy said , ‘ It 's a little difficult for a woman to be romantic about her husband 's amours . ’ |
| 20 | At the time when you started your first gallery was it unusual for a woman to be in charge ? |
| 21 | She adds : ‘ That encourages a woman to be hopeful things will improve but , unfortunately , there is no way of knowing how he will react to anything . ’ |
| 22 | Edwina Currie had kept him talking and Edwina is not a woman to be rushed . |
| 23 | And of course , if you look at it er , logically , I mean , for a a woman to be tied up and kept in a room , you know , and kept prisoner all her life you could hardly expect her to be sane even if she did |