Example sentences of "woman [Wh pn] do 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 .
11 There has been a steady rise in the number of women returners and ‘ apart from women who do not want to let go of that career , there are all the millions of women faced with the fact that either their income will enormously increase the lifestyle of their family or without that second income they will be very hard pushed to cover the basics .
12 People think women who do not want to marry unfeminine , people think women who do want to marry immodest — people combine both opinions by regarding it as unfeminine for women not to look forward longingly to wifehood as the hope and purpose of their lives , and ridiculing and condemning any individual woman of their acquaintance whom they suspect of entertaining such a longing .
13 Androgynous women who do not blend their behaviour are less affected by traditional ideas of gender .
14 Such changes would be likely to increase the incidence of some of these conditions , as well as of births to women who do not report , or even discover , their unwanted pregnancies until late in gestation ( see Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists 1984 ) .
15 Those women who do not conform to constructed aesthetic ideals are punished and excluded .
16 This is an uncommon but dangerous situation , that can also occur in women who do not have IUDs .
17 ‘ Church growth means all that is involved in bringing men and women who do not have a personal relationship to Jesus Christ into fellowship with him and into responsible church membership ’ ( Wagner 1976:12 ) .
18 However , they particularly misrepresent the numbers of women who do not have paid work and want employment or who are underemployed ( Callender , 1985 ) .
19 His KL collection is in a sense a continuation of the looks he designed for Chloé in being soft , rather sexy and highly individual and tends to be worn by women who do not need the reassurance of the double C on gilt buttons .
20 But there are many women who do not belong to any groups or organisations .
21 There are 15,000 places for married women who do not qualify for benefit in their own right .
22 There are very few women who do not find that their own happiness and the quality of their home life are vitally linked .
23 A negative side of the pro-baby culture is that women who do not breed are ‘ mules ’ .
24 The fashionable discussion of incentives usually overlooks what may be one of the more potent of the disincentives operating on the productivity of the British labour force : the anticipation of domesticity , discouraging young women from seeking training and employers and educational institutions from providing it , even to women who do not take on a family or a traditional role within one .
25 Oncogenic human papillomavirus was found in the cervix of 26 ( 41% ) of the 63 women who did not smoke , 22 ( 58% ) of the 38 who smoked 1–10 cigarettes a day , 28 ( 61% ) of the 46 who smoked 11–20 cigarettes a day , and 26 ( 76% ) of the 34 who smoked >=21; cigarettes a day .
26 Of the 63 women who did not smoke , 23 women had smoked at least 10 cigarettes a day at some time .
27 The 39 women who did not start treatment before January 1989 were excluded from the analyses .
28 It was normal practice to live at home with one 's parents until marriage ( and women who did not marry usually continued to live with parents , often supporting them into old age , see below ) .
29 Instead , they focused their main arguments on the position of women who did not marry , using the individualistic framework of nineteenth-century liberalism and political economy to argue for a ‘ fair field and no favour ’ and the removal of all barriers that hindered single women from earning a decent living .
30 Women who did not tell anybody else about their first sexual experience 25%
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