Example sentences of "her [adv] important [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most successful writer who had lived in an English colony was Aphra Behn , who was brought up in Surinam before it was transferred to the Dutch in 1668 , and her most important novel of American life , Oronooko , was so completely sympathetic to the Indian hero that it should be considered as an early contribution to the cult of the noble savage rather than a book which could help its English readers understand the wider world . |
| 2 | Very much an advocate for women 's equal rights , especially in education and suffrage , Harriet Taylor began writing her most important works after meeting Mill . |
| 3 | She claimed to have been ‘ scarce fourteen years ’ when she wrote The Female Advocate , her most important work , which was published in 1686 . |
| 4 | The queen 's central position , by contrast , was an ex officio one , and Hincmar therefore highlighted it ( c. 22 ) : her most important responsibility was for the " good order [ in both practical and model senses ] of the palace , and for the dispensing of the annual gifts , apart from their food , drink and horses , to the king 's warrior-retinue " — the latter a quasi-maternal role which enabled the queen to form a network of personal relationships with a younger generation of budding leaders . |
| 5 | She composed her most important poem , The Woman 's Labour : an Epistle to Mr. Stephen Duck , as a riposte to his comments about the idleness of rural women . |
| 6 | Thus woman 's sexuality is held to be her most important asset . |
| 7 | But perhaps her most important legacy was in divesting the public culture of political language and political idealism . |
| 8 | Her most important results in this area , constituting her demonstration of the existence of the synaptic phase in living cells , were published in the Annals of Botany in 1896 and 1897 . |
| 9 | For a woman , her most important acquisition of wizardry are her ‘ beads of menstruation ’ . |
| 10 | Her most important essay , ‘ The Enfranchisement of Women ’ ( 1851 ) , published under Mill 's name in the Westminster Review , follows in the same vein as her chapter in Principles of Political Economy , but is devoted solely to women 's rights . |