Example sentences of "woman ['s] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been an inquest and the coroner had dwelt with what the family considered unnecessary emphasis on the theft of the car and the woman 's motives for driving recklessly about the countryside at the dead of night . |
| 2 | Is it and it 's a multiple , is it A , a woman 's preference for men 's clothes erm two other answers . |
| 3 | Sometimes there 's just the totally outrageous funny answers to , sort of , some of the questions , sometimes they 're similar and it 's like verversity woman 's preference for mens clothes . |
| 4 | In a small town in Surrey an old woman 's plea for help leads to an unsettling encounter |
| 5 | Laetitia Mukurasi , Post Abolished : One Woman 's Struggle for Employment Rights in Tanzania , The Women 's Press , £12.95 |
| 6 | Indeed , as the majority of consumer " buyers " are women , a woman 's point of view is most valuable and a woman 's capacity for detail , at least in my opinion and that of many employers , is an eminently valuable asset in work where detail and exactness are essential . |
| 7 | Shae worked swiftly , reluctant to be in the woman 's company for a split second longer than was absolutely necessary . |
| 8 | A LOVELORN man hid in a woman 's attic for three days and recorded her every move on video after she spurned his advances at work . |
| 9 | But three or more children would limit a woman 's opportunities for social activities considerably . |
| 10 | Not a penny : a judge rejects a paralysed woman 's claim for damages . |
| 11 | The film , Him , is a romantic comedy role about a woman 's search for a soul mate . |
| 12 | Then , holding the younger woman 's eyes for a moment , she asked , ‘ Can I trust you , Ellie ? ’ |
| 13 | But they feel that they belong to two families and , as one girl put it , ‘ I was part of that woman 's body for nine months ’ , so discovering her birth-mother 's identity seemed , to her , an urgent necessity . |
| 14 | I suppose he 'd feel entitled to use a woman 's body for this purpose as he would any other . |
| 15 | I think I can count on the fingers of one hand the men I know who were desperate to experience fatherhood and regarded a woman 's desire for children as paramount when it came to choosing a partner . |
| 16 | When I visited , I carried home great piles of well thumbed women 's magazines for my mother . |
| 17 | You can buy a large well-sewn satchel-briefcase for £20 , and a good strong pair of women 's sandals for £4 . |
| 18 | When twelve women who professed to be virgins were found , only two would swear an oath to that effect , but the executors decided to take the women 's word for it . |
| 19 | Railways ( 334 for 8 ; Shashi Gupta 121 not out ) have won India 's national women 's championship for the sixth successive season , defeating Karnataka ( 161 ) on first innings in the final at New Delhi . |
| 20 | Yesterday she won the Royal Bank of Scotland Scottish Women 's Championship for a third time there and a fourth time overall . |
| 21 | The 1927 Conference heard a moving appeal on the issue from a miner 's wife who referred to the women 's support for male trade unionists during the 1926 General Strike : ‘ Surely you will not turn the women down on this question because it was the women who stood four-square with you in your dispute ? ’ |
| 22 | Why did they not rather try to recruit them into the STA in some way , as a separate women 's branch for instance , as in the past ? |
| 23 | BARNET COPTHALL dethroned Leeds , who had remained unbeaten for a decade , for the men 's Mycil British Team Club Championship in Sheffield , while Portsmouth Northsea , pressed all the way by Nova Centurion , won the women 's title for a second year by just three points . |
| 24 | Amanda Wright ( Tipton ) , winner of the women 's race for the past two years who set a new course record last year , will not be defending her title and so Cardiff veteran Liz Hughes looks like starting as favourite . |
| 25 | They 've just won the Southern Women 's Championships for the second time . |
| 26 | Thank you and all my friends at the Women 's Institute for the lovely flowers , cards and letters sent to me during my illness . |
| 27 | Ever since the Pill revolution of the sixties , it 's been taken for granted that the only obstacle to women 's enthusiasm for heterosexual sex — fear of pregnancy — has been removed . |
| 28 | Fragmented evidence suggests that questions about married women 's reasons for taking jobs tap the normative tip of the iceberg — that women say they work for the money because this is the socially acceptable reason . |
| 29 | But the peculiar nature of the relationship between women and men means that women 's struggle for liberation is particularly delicate and difficult because it involves the most intimate facets of life and affects social and personal relations within the family . |
| 30 | Access to men 's institutions , with a transformation of the ways in which they operate , will not in itself assist women 's struggle for independence . |