Example sentences of "woman 's [noun] be [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A woman 's love is not like a man 's . |
| 2 | The woman 's mind was out of balance , totally disturbed . |
| 3 | Women were no longer needed in the factories , and the traditional view that a woman 's place was properly in the home and that young children were best cared for by their mothers reasserted itself . |
| 4 | Much of the history of women and women 's movements is still to be written . |
| 5 | By then an issue on women 's rights was already in the planning stage . |
| 6 | Automatically , women 's bodies are again to the fore . |
| 7 | Women 's bodies are now to be covered up , in reaction to the confusing sexual messages of the underwear-as-outerwear flaunting of recent years . |
| 8 | Lakoff is a feminist , and her explanation of women 's language is not like Jespersen 's , however much the language itself may seem to be . |
| 9 | It is based on the conviction that women 's liberation is principally about personal and social change but that the opportunity for consciousness-raising and intellectual clarification of ideas and strategies , together with the consolidation that can come from collective support and struggle , constitutes really useful knowledge in the old radical sense . |
| 10 | In this view , women 's place is firmly in the home , providing a ‘ haven in a heartless world ’ , servicing the needs of their men — who spend most of their time in the ‘ public ’ world of work — and socialising their daughters and unmarried female servants into the ways of domesticity and sexual chastity ( Davidoff et al . , |