Example sentences of "for woman " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they launched themselves into production in 1922 , Balcon and Saville with Woman to Woman , the story of a shell-shocked officer who comes out of amnesia to discover the truth about his sordid past , and Wilcox with two films of which the second , a florid melodrama called The Flames of Passion , was a hit , they used the same director , Graham Cutts , and judged it worthwhile incurring the expense of bringing over American stars , Betty Compson for Woman , Mae Marsh for Flames , in order to increase their films ' marquee value at home and abroad . |
| 2 | Life for woman 's killer . |
| 3 | Praise for woman clerk who locked gunman in bank |
| 4 | ‘ What greater love can man have for woman ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ The bicycle is the greatest emancipator for woman extant … ’ exclaimed a ‘ lady-writer ’ in 1901 . |
| 6 | Abby , 30 , has worked for Woman 's Own and writes for Cosmopolitan , Best and Total Fitness , along with a regular column in Weight-watchers magazine . |
| 7 | It was ironic that as we deified womanhood , we unleashed more anger , suspicion and even , I think , hatred — woman for woman — than any issue had aroused since feminism began . |
| 8 | Instead of being recuperated to the masculine gender , though , as has happened to words like astronaut , person has become a kind of euphemism for woman . |
| 9 | More than half those polled for Woman 's Own reckoned the ECU was anything from toothpaste to an exotic animal , while 90 per did not have a clue what ERM stood for . |
| 10 | I tend to dish out the red for man trouble , the blue for woman trouble , the yellow for baby trouble , and green for anything else . |
| 11 | In other cases the particular translation of a sign may fail to show similarity : the Danish and British signs for WOMAN are different , but the British sign LADY resembles the Danish sign WOMAN ; such information is not picked up by this method of data collection . |
| 12 | The most significant stones of man 's quest for woman in this genre — like Rider Haggard 's ‘ She ’ novels , Masefield 's Odtaa and Sard Harker , William de Morgan 's Joseph Vance , Milton 's Lost Horizon — override the convention of the happy ending in a conclusion of happy pessimism , an almost cherished melancholy , a sense of emotional growth coming from loss and failure . |
| 13 | For woman , he says , is in a state of subjection ( quia mulier statum subjectionis habet ) . |
| 14 | The conservative position , in which God has created a fixed place for woman in an ordered universe , is actually not in the same way morally objectionable and is much more coherent . |
| 15 | For woman as maker and subject , earth has particularly strong associations . |
| 16 | It was an incredibly rich time for woman artists with the whole area of debate around the body and representation opening up . |
| 17 | For a child who was reliant upon charity it was difficult to escape the determining rules which governed the public understanding of ‘ training up the child to be the man ( for woman ) ’ . |
| 18 | The word for woman is guiné in the Susu language . |
| 19 | For those too young to remember the 1960s , Niki de Saint Phalle 's name conjures up wacky and colourful Nanas ( French slang for woman ) , whose harmlessness is matched only by their price tag and Partisian chic , neatly caricatured by a tacky perfume she put her name to in 1982 . |
| 20 | And the audience for Woman 's Hour is now larger than it was . |
| 21 | Ships impounded in hunt for woman 's killer . |
| 22 | Two charged with murders as hunt for woman continues |
| 23 | But — ‘ time waits for no man ’ and that goes for woman too — bombarded as she is with ever new vogues , ever changing fads and fashions — constantly confronted with remonstrations to be ‘ with it ’ and keep up to date . |
| 24 | I must say Jean , you did n't do a bad job for woman ! |
| 25 | She wrote theatre plays , often for all women casts , which anticipated her work on Gainsborough films , with their dominant roles for women stars and strong appeal to women audiences . |
| 26 | ‘ I gave her a gruesome murder to deal with … homicide is new territory for women — the need for capture and revenge is largely masculine . ’ |
| 27 | IUDs are especially useful for women who have had children . |
| 28 | For women who have had no children at all , they are not a first-choice method of contraception , but can be used . |
| 29 | Not suitable for women over 45 and smokers over 35 . |
| 30 | More difficult to practice for women with irregular cycles , after childbirth and at the change of life . |