Example sentences of "woman [Wh pn] [be] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the woman who is already a mother , the challenges are now those of coping with growing children and seeing them leave home ; the challenges are always somehow different from how you have imagined them . |
| 2 | Or take the old woman who is really a slave to the Gluttony of Delicacy but thinks she is the very model of abstinence : She is a positive terror to hostesses and servants . |
| 3 | Her condemnation of the home and family as the source of women 's subjection and inferiority , and her assertion that ‘ any woman who is really a rebel longs to destroy the conventions which bind her in the home as much as those which bind her in the state ’ , has a modern ring , although in practice her solution , like that of Florence Nightingale , amounted to a complete rejection of family life rather than a demand for its restructuring . |
| 4 | Just another rowdy street game , a half dozen ragamuffins playing rough-and-ready with a woman who was probably a drunken whore , on market day . |
| 5 | It was the third day after she had dressed , gone out , without wearing her underclothes , into her car , driving on the main road through Tadley , driving all the way to Kingsclere , knocking at the front door of the home of a woman who was almost a stranger , going into a house that she hardly knew . |