Example sentences of "to [be] a woman " in BNC.
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| 1 | There used to be a woman sergeant in [ place ] who used to refer to the reserve men as ‘ dick-head reserve men ’ , ‘ fucking idiots ’ , till one day this reserve man says to her , ‘ See that man over there , before he came to this job he was a aircraft technician , [ name ] used to be a chief mechanic . |
| 2 | Thinking about this now , I know that what I was saying in wanting my periods back was that I wanted to be a woman , that I wanted and liked my female body , that my years of confusion and self-dislike were beginning to be over . |
| 3 | To be a woman ruler of course posed problems , severely practical ones . |
| 4 | The main tenet of Sobchak 's philosophy is that a woman should never forget to be a woman . |
| 5 | So a Primary school headmaster , for instance , could find his school offering movement experience to children who had female teachers to the neglect of those children who were unfortunate enough to have a man as their teacher , and similarly , Movement and Drama appeared as a subject on the time-table in our Secondary schools where there happened to be a woman in the P.E . |
| 6 | Her imaginative and generous appreciation of his stone head at a time when his sculpture was rarely valued or sold shows her to be a woman of taste and courage as well as a dangerous and destructive lover . |
| 7 | All that Ormrod J. is in fact saying is that there has to be a woman in a marriage , because someone has to perform the essential role of a woman in the marriage , and this essential role is to be a woman , biologically so determined . |
| 8 | All that Ormrod J. is in fact saying is that there has to be a woman in a marriage , because someone has to perform the essential role of a woman in the marriage , and this essential role is to be a woman , biologically so determined . |
| 9 | Yet Ormrod J. follows his own logic to conclude that April Ashley , in purely biological terms , is not a woman ; yet biological terms are all that count , because there has to be someone who can perform the essential role of a woman ( remember , the essential role is to be a woman , since marriage is the relationship between a man and a woman ) : therefore , for marriage purposes , April Ashley by law is a man , and there is no marriage.45 No way out of this particular self-made legal thicket is provided , unfortunately , by an amendment to the Nullity of Marriages Act , passed into law as section l(c) . |
| 10 | They want to find out what it would be like to be a woman freed from all those age-old taboos . |
| 11 | Jocelyne Saab , the Lebanese director , interestingly nuanced the question of what it actually means to be a woman film-maker by pointing to the need , for her , to make connections with other Oriental women . |
| 12 | Sometimes It 's Hard to be a Woman |
| 13 | Sometimes it 's hard to be a woman |
| 14 | Sometimes it 's hard to be a woman Stuck in wi' the weans |
| 15 | Or to be a woman and hear people claiming that men are victims in advertising when the generic term for a whole category of TV commercial is ‘ Two Cs in a K ’ ? |
| 16 | ‘ If you get the right judge , it can help enormously to be a woman . |
| 17 | On the other hand , must a man breathe on a woman for her to be a woman ? |
| 18 | If she had happened to be a woman out of touch with real life , that would have bored him . |
| 19 | An anchoress had to be a woman of means or she would become a drain on the community . |
| 20 | The inescapable fact is that I did n't want to be a woman , although I was unaware of this at the time . |
| 21 | It seemed to me obvious at the time that to be a child was safer and easier than to be adult and that , specifically , to be a girl was safer and easier than to be a woman . |
| 22 | Thus far the sub-text had a certain logic , but fear ( or , rather , anxiety ) can lead to panic , and the second part could have been expressed as , ‘ I do n't want to be a woman because I would rather be myself . ’ |
| 23 | On the other hand , I had also been instructed in what it was to be a woman and how to function successfully in that role . |
| 24 | Perhaps , I thought , sitting on the bed and watching Flora , perhaps I feel like this because I am ashamed to be a woman , a member of that subjugated race whose preoccupations are so trivial and unimportant . |
| 25 | ‘ When I first moved to LA , I still had this idea of swinging glamour — to be a woman in control but sexy and fun . |
| 26 | Beckenbauer told Penthouse magazine that next time he comes back he hopes to be a WOMAN — because he would like to bear children . |
| 27 | The higher the position , the less likely is the occupant to be a woman . |
| 28 | ‘ What is it to be a woman ? ’ ) , but of the very qualifications for inclusion in the human species . |
| 29 | If you are addressing an organisation or a person known only to you by their title — the Head of Business Studies , The Metal Consortium PLC the Department of Health and Social Security — then the salutation will be Dear Madam if the recipient is known to be a woman and , traditionally , Dear Sir if the sex is unknown . |
| 30 | CEPROR offered general courses on health , nutrition , community organization and , for women , included a special course entitled : " What does it mean to be a woman ? " |