Example sentences of "woman who [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Behind the gentle smiles and the cheery waves she is an utterly determined woman who does not give up her grip on her family easily , ’ says royal-watcher Margaret Holder . |
| 2 | The plot states that an attachment to a strange woman , a woman who does not belong to this community of strangers , is succeeded by a return to the community , and by the dispersal , and survival , of the community . |
| 3 | In this case the judge held that a man is not guilty of rape if he has sexual intercourse with a woman who does not consent to it if he believes she does consent , whether his belief is based on reasonable grounds or not . |
| 4 | The royal commission 's report countered this by reasserting the fundamental difference between occasional soliciting by a man ( ‘ addressed to a woman who does not resent it ’ ) and the prostitute 's immoral business , which was offensive to public decency . |
| 5 | This change in the law was forced on the government by the European Court of Justice which decided in favour of a woman who did not want to retire at 60 . |
| 6 | Blanche opened a road atlas once they left the motorway and navigated with the diligence of a woman who did not have a natural sense of direction . |
| 7 | ‘ The modern woman will note with pleasant surprise that Mary of Nazareth , while completely devoted to the will of God , was far from being a timidly submissive woman , or one whose piety was repellent to others ; on the contrary , she was a woman who did not hesitate to proclaim that God vindicates the humble and oppressed and removes powerful people from their privileged positions … a woman of strength who experienced poverty and suffering , flight and exile . |
| 8 | Another case is that of a woman who did not cry when her mother died ten years before . |
| 9 | ( The education of Dustin towards some understanding of feminism , even though mainly in theory rather than in practice , was only to come after his divorce , the making of Kramer vs Kramer and Tootsie , and marriage to a woman who did not put his ideas to the test . ) |
| 10 | A man and woman who do not want to have a baby can still enjoy lovemaking if they make sure the egg and sperm never meet , or if the egg is prevented from settling in the womb . |