Example sentences of "a woman be [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A WOMAN is pregnant with 12 embryos , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 2 | The conventional family division of labour not only reduces the number of hours a woman is available for paid work but also reduces the amount she could expect to earn per hour even in a non-discriminatory labour market . |
| 3 | The starting point the courts use in making financial orders is the one-third rule : that a woman is entitled to one-third of her husband 's joint income and capital . |
| 4 | Er a woman is alright in a shop just serving , like they do today , but we were actually cutting meat , you know , we were |
| 5 | ‘ A woman is beautiful to the extent that she most completely incarnates the secret aspirations of man ’ , wrote the poet Benjamin Peret in his Anthologie de l'Amor ; and whether in the work of Magritte or Masson , Max Ernst , Dali or most chillingly of all , Hans Bellmer , the female form appears distorted , dissected , feathered , bound and strapped to machines , she rarely even wears a face . |
| 6 | Arguing against those who said that women could not be ordained , the Anglican theologian of the last generation Leonard Hodgson comments that to say ‘ that a woman is incapable of receiving the priestly or episcopal character involves saying that her sexual differentiation carries with it a deficiency in spiritual receptivity and power ’ . |
| 7 | In the belief that it was time a woman was honest about the experience , my paintings try to convey the sensation of giving birth and my feelings at the time . |
| 8 | But a marriage could be smooth and peaceful , and many were , as long as the man carried out his duties towards his wife and a woman was submissive to her husband . |
| 9 | Being a woman was central to Mrs Thatcher 's political personality , and she knew it . |
| 10 | In one case the Divisional Court held that assault was committed where a woman was frightened by the sight of a man looking in through the window of her house , although there seems to have been little suggestion that the man was threatening to apply force either immediately or at all . |
| 11 | That is to say , it was not true , as every novel , film , and TV commercial implied , that a woman was incomplete without a man . |
| 12 | A woman was entitled to her own savings . |