Example sentences of "woman [vb mod] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jewish law teaches us that sex is equally important between a married couple who wish to have children and between a couple where the woman may be infertile or menopausal . |
| 2 | In either situation the mental health state of the woman may be significant . |
| 3 | This woman may be technically a virgin in that she has never experienced intercourse , either with the father of this infant or anyone else . |
| 4 | This may be to acquaynt you that their is a pore yong women in oure Towne of Asston-underlyne infected with a filthy deceassed called the French poxe and shee saith shee was defiled by one Henry Heyworth a maryed man , but soe it is the report of that dessease occasioneth neighbours to deny hir harbour and shee is enforced to lye in the streetes and in great danger to bee starved , I do humbly intreate your worshipps to take it into your consideration and to grant your Order that the pore woman may be provyded for to prevent starveing , either upon the parrish charges , or upon the Costs of the said Heyworth whom she saith hath spoiled hir , whether yiur worshipps shall think fitt |
| 5 | Some of the reasons for the caring so often falling on the shoulders of a woman may be unavoidable . |
| 6 | If , in spite of treatment , the foetus is shown to be severely affected the woman may be offered the choice of terminating the pregnancy or undertaking a further course of treatment to help prevent more damage . |
| 7 | At this point a woman may be glad to be released , temporarily , from the struggle with her individual problems , and to be renewed by the light that her sisters generate . |
| 8 | The psychologists have plenty to say about this , about how the repressed emotion can then be projected on to a partner , or cause a kind of dual way of life to develop , where a woman may be sweet and lovely on the surface but grasping and rapacious beneath . |
| 9 | The character of a woman may be attacked in ways other than an explicit recounting of her past sexual relationships or , indeed , that she was having sexual relationships . |
| 10 | Suppose the reformer stops saying that a good woman may be like God and begins saying that God is like a good woman . |
| 11 | He suggests that a woman may be allowed to sit at his feet , rather than preoccupy herself with cooking . |
| 12 | Alternatively , the man or woman may be trying to create a more intimate atmosphere as a prelude to a sexual encounter . |
| 13 | If the disordered chromosome is detected , the woman may be offered a termination of the pregnancy . |
| 14 | Yet the woman may be justifiably petrified of the man and may have good grounds for thinking that whatever steps she takes , his threat will be carried out . |
| 15 | For it is clear that in the traditional view a sexually mature woman should be sexually active . |
| 16 | There 's been advertising for years , not just since the fifties ; there was advertising in Victorian times ; newspapers and magazines , and pornography with drawings of women , and how men thought women should look , and the theatre and books all put out the same sorts of things — this is how a woman should be . |
| 17 | A woman should be married young and have all her children before she 's forty . ’ |
| 18 | No woman should be expected to bring up a large family on her own . |
| 19 | People do say — ‘ Oh , it is all right Teresa is tough she can take it ’ — but no woman should be subjected to this treatment . |
| 20 | In relation to the question of the position of women , it would follow that , since — it is thought — the new testament does not allow the headship of a woman , and through the fact that women did not exercise headship in that society , that a woman should be head of state is as wrong as that a woman should exercise headship within the church . |
| 21 | She was tired of having to adjust to other people 's ideas of what a woman should be . |
| 22 | Since both the Victoria and the Caledonian Press explicitly claimed to be offering work to women who really needed it , and who might never marry , arguments about the appropriateness of married women working were not particularly relevant , but they were made just the same : woman should be " man 's helpmeet not his rival " |
| 23 | A woman should be just as committed as a man to the construction of justice and love . |
| 24 | As she went on talking , making occasional references to the length of my fingers or the breadth of my brow , I thought it ironical that this odd woman should be defending me , not from outright attack but from my mother 's protectiveness . |
| 25 | The comparison was naive in its failure to recognise the burden borne by working class wives , but Becker was rebelling primarily against the idea that the middle class woman should be ‘ kept ’ , if not by a husband then by a father , brother , or other male relative . |
| 26 | Davide sheltered her , as a woman should be sheltered . |
| 27 | The Committee further recommends that the crime of administering a drug to enable a man to have sexual intercourse with a woman should be extended to protect males and to cover acts of gross indecency . |
| 28 | ‘ That woman should be imprisoned for life , ’ she grumbled . |
| 29 | No woman should be treated in a certain way simply because she was drunk when she suffered an assault . |
| 30 | ‘ You really think a woman should be forced to have a baby if she does n't want it ? ’ |