Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] a woman " in BNC.
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| 1 | Iris Morley was a woman of delicate beauty and also ( despite lifelong migraine ) of gracious charm . |
| 2 | On the other hand , it could be argued that Alexandra Maitland was a woman for whom it was more than worth abandoning the rest of the female sex . |
| 3 | All we know is that Gunhilda was a woman of great talent and charm , for — in addition to having fascinated two powerful barons — she had also established the closest friendship with Anselm of any woman known to us . |
| 4 | If Ireland was a woman — as the poet Yeats kept saying — then she was a banshee , a fairy woman , who brought with her nothing but death and despair . |
| 5 | Mrs Marriot was a woman up our street who used to sell things in her front room . |
| 6 | Yet Martha was a woman of courage , and she succeeded nobly in satisfying her hungry lodgers with wholesome fare , and spreading for them sheets a prince might fold around him ; and though the body was often weak , the spirit was lively , and soon found a way whereby to mount with ease over any difficulty that might arise in the government of her household or the entertainment of her hospices . |
| 7 | Maggie Byrne was a woman with plenty of love to give , and the best stimulus of all was to know that she was needed . |
| 8 | Only if their teacher were with them were they allowed to cross the dusty lane to play on the greater green , for Miss Watson was a woman who had no doubt at all that each and every pupil would be run over and either maimed or killed outright if she were not there to keep an eye on their movements . |
| 9 | Working class intellectuals have often come from the ranks of printers in the past , but it is rare to find one such who like Jean Henderson was a woman . |
| 10 | On St Patrick 's Day , 1966 , Lawrence Durdin-Robertson had a revelation that God was a woman . |
| 11 | However , it happened that the first audio typist in Britain was a woman , Mary Ferguson , who was governess to the children of Colonel Gouraud , Edison 's representative in Britain . |
| 12 | Kate was a woman in every sense of the word , and she was a woman who would not give herself to a man lightly . |
| 13 | Louise Carter was a woman in her early eighties . |
| 14 | Listening to Kitty was like listening to a stream , to the wind , to the sounds across the valley floor at night : except that Kitty was a woman , had once been young as she was , had been loved , lost tragically , but lived to be a testament to single-minded passion . |
| 15 | Twice married , a former BBC Radio 4 panellist and one-time Harlech TV ‘ weathergirl ’ , Amaranth was a woman in search of a husband , an income of £100,000 a year and a seat in Parliament . |
| 16 | If Peter Sissons were a woman he would n't stand the chance of a job . |
| 17 | Mrs. Wexford was a woman of few words . |
| 18 | In this myth Isis was a woman who longed to increase her magic powers and join the gods in order to rule over them . |
| 19 | Marietta of Patras was a woman of birth , honoured as a dead monarch 's permanent mistress . |
| 20 | Alice Fernie was a woman of indomitable spirit . |
| 21 | The driver of the Vauxhall was a woman . |
| 22 | Mrs White was a woman in her early forties and Janice was the youngest of her four daughters , and she said again , ‘ My ! yes . |
| 23 | Elise Fox was a woman who prided herself on her ability to deal with crisis , but at eleven o'clock that Saturday night she still lay limp on the sofa in the flat , looking utterly shattered when her young sister came in from the kitchen with yet another pot of strong black coffee . |