Example sentences of "woman to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | To accept finally and irrevocably that there was no romance in her life , that romance was a deep killer , a consuming passion and that she was too tough a woman to be consumed . |
| 2 | As Jordanova says , ‘ Science and Medicine as activities were associated with sexual metaphors which were clearly expressed in designating nature as a woman to be unveiled , unclothed and penetrated by Masculine Science . ’ |
| 3 | She remembered the bride of one year , alight with the happiness of those early celebrations when the Grand Duke had granted the first liberties , and thought how strange it was for an English woman to be so mad with joy . |
| 4 | Masha : ‘ It 's perfectly possible for a woman to be responsive to a sexual advance and yet feel she has been compelled . |
| 5 | Yourcenar ( an anagram on the family name of Crayencour ) was not an academic , but as one of France 's most highly-regarded novelists , she was the first woman to be elected to the French Academy . |
| 6 | In the Holy City of Mashad , Mrs Ghodssieh Alavi , a 50-year-old doctor associated with the ‘ pragmatist ’ faction supporting Mr Rafsanjani , took the highest number of votes and became the first Iranian woman to be elected outside Teheran . |
| 7 | Lady Astor became the first woman to be elected a member of parliament in 1919 , and Sir Herbert Austin , a major car manufacturer , was elected as the member of parliament for King 's Norton . |
| 8 | She was a devout Anabaptist and befriended James Burton , who was involved in the Rye House Plot , and gave him sanctuary , but she was betrayed and taken to London , where she was tried and became the last woman to be burnt at the stake at Tyburn on 16th October , 1685 . |
| 9 | It shall be lawful for the General Synod to make provision by Canon for enabling a woman to be ordained to the office of a Priest . |
| 10 | But it is essential for the man or woman to be prepared to admit that they have a drink problem and be ready to receive help , if there is to be any cure . |
| 11 | In an age when the sea was even more of a man 's world than at present , and when women 's work outside the home was generally menial , Betsy Miller was the first woman to be recorded as a ship 's captain in the British Register of Tonnage at Lloyds . |
| 12 | Also in the series are An Uncommon Murder , which tells how an East End Jewish refugee was found battered to death on Clapham Common , and the story of Louise Masset , the first woman to be hanged this century after she was accused of killing her young son . |
| 13 | It was not until the Life Peerages Act 1958 that it became possible for a woman to be created a life peer and sit and not until the Peerage Act 1963 that hereditary peeresses in their own right were allowed to join them . |
| 14 | And a friend and neighbour of hers , who played for the local cricket team , was wantonly murdered by the poor , dreadful Ruth Ellis , the last woman to be hanged in England . |
| 15 | The basic fee for a ‘ guaranteed attractive ’ woman to be your partner for an evening is £50 an hour . |
| 16 | But , within a family , it is much less common for a woman to be listed as ratepayer than a man . |
| 17 | Sheriff Carl Peed of Virginia in America , said the un-named officer was the first woman to be been sacked for sexual harassment . |
| 18 | Despite her desolation , Nora Simpson was not the sort of woman to be beaten by a twist of fate . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , Croydon and Cooper , you shall see me face to face soon enough and then you will know that Emily Grenfell is not a woman to be trifled with , ’ she said grimly . |
| 20 | He knew the woman to be a protégée of Count Zhinsky , head of Russian Intelligence , and the man he had met in Collins Coffee House . |
| 21 | JEANETTE CUNNINGHAM is the first black woman to be appointed to Bolton 's adoption and fostering panel . |
| 22 | Some people would even question whether it is any longer right for a married woman to be expected to depend on her husband and to be unable to claim SB in her own right . |
| 23 | Jean Grimshaw looks at some of the ways in which feminists have tried to conceptualise what it is for a woman to be autonomous , and the relationship between these conceptions and philosophical ways of thinking about the human self . |
| 24 | In this paper , I want to look at one kind of way in which some feminists have tried to conceptualise what it is for a woman to be ‘ autonomous ’ , and at the implications this has for ways of thinking about the human self . |
| 25 | But why does Thomas consider a woman to be defective by nature ? |
| 26 | It is part of their folklore that the men go out to the pub or club at Sunday dinner time and there is n't a woman to be seen . |
| 27 | At a meeting of the Association in 1913 , Bailey was described by Caroline Spurgeon ( the first woman to be appointed to a British university professorship in arts — she was a University of London Professor of English Literature at Bedford College from 1913 — and a member of the Newbolt Committee ) as " a treasure keeper " in , his role as " a custodian of some of the greatest and most precious national possessions , England 's places of historical interest and beauty " . |
| 28 | That is , the critics assert that there is significant inequality between men and women , and that for a woman to be married to a man does not mean that she gains all the privileges that he has access to . |
| 29 | They were gaudy and sexually suggestive and each tailored to the individual characteristics of the woman to be wed . |
| 30 | However , Miranda , who could n't stand indecision , was n't the sort of woman to be fobbed off for much longer . |