Example sentences of "woman 's [noun] be [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , the high status of the woman 's influence is in no way diminished . |
| 2 | Last Fri last Wednesday and she got the trolley like and when she pulled the trolley a woman 's handbag was on the trolley and on the you know what was it ? |
| 3 | But the woman 's husband was in the RAF once . |
| 4 | A woman 's number was at the bottom of the Time Out piece and it was with some feelings of fear that I decided to ring it , not knowing who or what I would find . |
| 5 | ‘ If woman 's place is in the home , ’ he went on , relentlessly , his voice full of venom , ‘ then why are n't you there ? ’ |
| 6 | There is still a strong view prevailing in the Conservative Party that ‘ a woman 's place is in the home ’ . |
| 7 | As the saying goes , ‘ a woman 's place is in the wrong ’ ; and this is as true of language as it is of anything else . |
| 8 | A woman 's place is in the home — not only is this common sense , it is also backed by scientific evidence . |
| 9 | How does Arnold Jago ( Letters NI 191 ) make the logical leap from Dr Dianne McGuiness 's research-findings to his conclusion that a woman 's place is in the home ? |
| 10 | If a woman 's place is in the home doing the cooking ( Letters NI 191 ) — how come most of the top chefs in restaurants are men ? |
| 11 | That old cliché ‘ a woman 's place is in the home ’ was a perfect cop-out ! |
| 12 | It is the business of language to represent reality , so to the extent that it is stuck in a vanished world where woman 's place was in the home , and so on , language is misleading us and failing to do its job . |
| 13 | Most working women 's groups accepted that the respectable woman 's place was in the home , emphasising women 's contribution as wives and mothers and the need to bring the ‘ mother spirit into politics ’ . |
| 14 | The room was twice the size of their back-street Holland Park offices but for a couple of hours all comers were invited to believe that Women 's Word was on the same financial footing as its big competitors . |
| 15 | In other words , how disobedient will women 's studies be in the 1980s ? |
| 16 | ‘ Now that women 's judo is on the main Olympic agenda in Barcelona , the competition has become much tougher , ’ he said . |
| 17 | A far greater number of women work in television than did ten or fifteen years ago , but , as far as the industry is concerned , women and women 's issues are off the agenda ; non-subjects . |
| 18 | However , working women generally were by no means in favour of the double burden of work at home and in the factory and Mary MacArthur may well have spoken for a majority when she said : ‘ We are all familiar with the old ideal that women 's place is in the home , and I am sufficiently old fashioned to agree that there is something to be said for it ’ . |
| 19 | In the nineteenth century , they turned around the idea that women 's place was in the home to argue that motherly values should be extended beyond it . |