Example sentences of "woman and [pos pn] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 To the conventions of the romantic historical novel , then , Anthony Hope added the colour of society in his day and the pattern of love and courtship which appear , in a far less interesting way , in his novels of his own London society , and he drew in a more general way from the Victorian version of medieval chivalry , with its idealisation of woman and its desire for service to an ideal .
2 Through centuries this image has become a Serbian ideal of woman and her part in mens ' wars .
3 On the other hand , he grasped the high value of the old woman and her nurse as hostages .
4 Divorce or the death of a husband is enough to catapult a middle-class white woman and her children into poverty .
5 Still thinking about the woman and her aura of sadness , Polly started .
6 Dave and I er were grabbed by the throat by em a woman and her husband from Worksop called and woman called Barbara , and she 's been involved with er a fella called Superintendent er in West Yorkshire .
7 This will lead to an exploration of the household division of labour and how far the effects of the year long strike generated enduring changes in the lives of men and women and their views about society and the community .
8 What is required in history , if girls are to have equal opportunity with boys in school , is both a full investigation and exposure of women 's past — recorded and documented in special women 's history books — plus an integration of women and their contribution to history within existing accounts .
9 For example , a search for " women and their fight in society " would lead to a message to the effect that there is no book described by all the words of the search , but the system would nevertheless retrieve four items ( in the PCL catalogue ) , the first of which is titled Hidden from history : 300 years of women 's oppression and the fight against it .
10 I hate men like you who proclaim that they are supportive of women and their efforts for equality .
11 From one interpretative angle , Chaucer makes the axioms and ethics of the fabliau models — the availability of beautiful women and their longing for fornication ; the exaltation of practical cunning in the French fabliaux or the carpe diem theme of Dame Sirith — turn into a tale of prostitution with the deception of an undeserving husband who gains sympathy rather than scorn .
12 Schulz considers a number of explanations for the phenomenon she describes , and concludes that it arises from men 's prejudice against women and their fear of women 's ‘ natural ’ power or biological superiority .
13 I said I understood this , but did not add that I had been told of the beauty of these women and their attention to make-up , of their fine skin and care for the traditional in their clothes and way of life .
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