Example sentences of "woman 's [noun sg] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In The Hague with Sien he had given himself over to light , like a Myshkin who was all love , meek as a lamb , becoming the woman 's servant and in this roundabout fashion returning himself to infancy . |
| 2 | ‘ Kabir worked at his loom and sang and his songs washed the stains from that woman 's heart and by way of return found a home in her sweet voice . |
| 3 | Getting older may be ‘ less profoundly wounding for a man ’ , because throughout life being physically attractive counts more in a woman 's life than in a man 's , and for women especially beauty is identified with youthfulness . |
| 4 | The bill , the most draconian to have been passed by any state , prohibited abortion in cases other than to save a woman 's life or in cases of rape ( if reported within five days ) or incest , where abortion would be permitted only in the first 13 weeks . |
| 5 | ‘ I did a section on one incisor from each of them and I would estimate both the man 's and woman 's age as in the early twenties . ’ |
| 6 | Eating spaghetti , Clare began to suspect that James would rather talk about a relationship than have one ; wolfing boeuf bourguignon , she wondered whether James was flaunting his insecurities in order to attract the maternal feelings he clearly believed nestled within every woman 's breast- and from which Clare was trying to escape for the evening . |
| 7 | Shaila : Until very recently I worked with Outwrite women 's newspaper and for those of you who do n't know it , it was a monthly internationalist feminist newspaper which published for about 7 years . |
| 8 | News of the threats came just three days before an historic vote on women 's ordination and as a poll was published showing most church-goers are in favour . |
| 9 | As chairperson of the National Women 's Council and of the co-ordinating scientific bodies , Elena Ceauşescu was the dominant organizer of the regime 's pro-natalist policies . |
| 10 | A postage-paid questionnaire published in a mass market women 's magazine and in the ethnic press will be used to collect up-to-date national-level data on the incidence and range of homeworking , its relation to local labour market conditions and the sectoral distribution of suppliers . |
| 11 | Feminist psychology also finds it difficult to deal with apparent irrationalities in women 's subjectivity except by pathologizing the women , or seeing them as social victims . |
| 12 | There certainly have been many changes in both attitudes to women 's sexuality and in women 's sexual practices over the last few decades . |
| 13 | In Central America , we have no other way of achieving women 's emancipation except through revolutionary changes in the economic , political and social system . |
| 14 | In Britain , we now have three publishing houses committed to women 's writing and at least two of the large publishing companies now carry a separate list for books of special interest to women . |
| 15 | And I think that since feminism involves a belief in women 's equality and of women organising and struggling on issues that affect our lives , that the emphasis will vary depending on where we are . |
| 16 | Nineteenth-century feminists had viewed this as an impediment to women 's employment and as an extension of a legal framework that denied adult women the freedom to contract . |
| 17 | , Evelyn ( 1869–1955 ) , writer and campaigner for women 's suffrage and for peace , was born in London 4 August 1869 , the ninth child and third daughter of the ten children ( one of whom died in infancy ) of ( John ) James Sharp , slate merchant of London , and his wife Jane , daughter of Joseph Bloyd , lead merchant of London . |
| 18 | in view of the prominent part taken by the women 's movement and of the general position of women in society , it was not surprising that women felt particularly strongly on such issues . |
| 19 | In the early seventies I was active in both the Women 's Movement and in Gay Liberation Front ; more of GLF later . |
| 20 | Growth in the women 's movement and in a concern for the environment are currently having an impact on the philosophy and practices of CBHP . |
| 21 | Recent feminist historians have insisted that the repeal struggle needs to be seen not just as one of the single-issue campaigns which characterized the reform politics of radical liberalism , but as a landmark in the history of the nineteenth-century women 's movement and in the development of a feminist politics of sexuality . |
| 22 | Such a romantic view of the family has been demolished by the women 's movement and by recent empirical work on domestic relations . |
| 23 | I meddle with no tradesmen 's matters nor women 's matter but with awl . |
| 24 | I meddle with no tradesmen 's matter nor women 's matter but with awl . |
| 25 | I meddle with no tradesmen 's matter nor women 's matter but with awl I am indeed sir a surgeon to all shoes . |