Example sentences of "woman [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Robson had told his wife he had been scratched by a woman during a pub fight . |
| 2 | The blood discharged by a woman during birthing is also seen as rendering her unclean . |
| 3 | Researchers working with this substance set about trying to remove a fertilized ovum from a woman during the few days that elapse between actual conception and the implantation of the cell into the uterus — where it must be to develop into an infant — and then replacing it . |
| 4 | It was ironical that the man she had just rebuked should be the only one who had shown interest in her as a woman during the fifteen months she had been on the station . |
| 5 | These attacks included sexually assaulting an elderly woman during a burglary ; heterosexual rape ; rape of women when their husbands , brothers or boyfriends were watching ; homosexual rape ( for which he got five times as long a prison sentence as for heterosexual rape ) ; as well as burglary . |
| 6 | ‘ He and a Ukrainian Nazi attacked and killed a woman during the Russian campaign . |
| 7 | In all developing countries for which data are available , the number of children born to a woman during her childbearing years was , on average , 70 children if she married at age 17 or earlier , 6.1 if the marriage occurred at age 20–21 , and only 4.2 if she was older than 24 years when first married . |
| 8 | ‘ You 'd have known if I was involved with someone else , the same way I 'd have known if you were making love to another woman during the week . ’ |
| 9 | He has formed a close relationship with a woman during his six months in Bosnia and now wants to end his 19-year marriage , the Sun newspaper reported today . |
| 10 | A DOORMAN who struck a woman during a ‘ confused ’ incident at Suzi Cue 's pool club at Bebington finished up with a broken leg , Wirral magistrates were told . |
| 11 | Much play is made of the dual nature of Woman as madonna and whore : a chestnut by now , surely to God . |
| 12 | In the earlier theory man is separated from woman as different stages in a teleological development . |
| 13 | Freud argues that the man who is sexually jealous of a woman would ‘ not only feel pain about the woman he loves and hatred of the man who is his rival , but also grief about the man , whom he loves unconsciously , and hatred of the woman as his rival ’ ( ‘ Some Neurotic Mechanisms ’ , x. 197 — 8 ) . |
| 14 | This is the date which will see the taxman treat a married woman as a person in her own right . |
| 15 | Female artists are allowed to be vulnerable , frail , because this corresponds with the idea of woman as lack . |
| 16 | In one case , decided in 1975 , Lord Justice James commented : ‘ The popular meaning of ‘ family ’ in 1975 would , according to the answer of the ordinary man , include this woman as a member of the man 's family . ’ |
| 17 | Man has always seen woman as his enemy . |
| 18 | It may see a woman as a bossy mare , and best to be avoided . |
| 19 | ‘ Advice to Sophronia ’ describes the woman as a decayed beauty of fifty-five who ought to prepare herself for a ‘ Virgin Grave ’ . |
| 20 | Throughout her work , she tends to regard the happy , mature , and stable woman as an ideal reached only occasionally , and to believe that most women are unhappy and inclined to unworthy behaviour . |
| 21 | Entitled The Industrious Muse : Narrativity and Contradiction in the Industrial Novel ( the title was foisted on her by the publishers , the subtitle was her own ) it received enthusiastic if sparse reviews , and the publishers commissioned another book provisionally entitled Domestic Angels and Unfortunate Females : Woman as Sign and Commodity in Victorian Fiction . |
| 22 | Alain Robbe-Grillet , admired in The French Lieutenant 's Woman as a mentor of Fowles 's own tactics , once suggested : |
| 23 | A PCC will be able to pass a resolution that it will not accept the ministry of a woman as a priest and will not accept a woman as incumbent , priest-in-charge or team vicar . |
| 24 | The Administrative Body may pass a resolution that it will not accept the ministry of a woman as a priest in the cathedral , or that it will not accept a woman as dean , or both . |
| 25 | The Administrative Body may pass a resolution that it will not accept the ministry of a woman as a priest in the cathedral , or that it will not accept a woman as dean , or both . |
| 26 | Do you think these might have a bearing on your feelings about a woman as your parish priest ? |
| 27 | Classic narrative film , said Mulvey , constructs a male viewer by privileging the look of the male protagonist at the woman character(s) : as the camera follows this fictional male gaze so also is the spectator 's look directed at woman as object . |
| 28 | She did not do much for the female stereotype , but she did do away with the idea that you can not have a woman as boss . |
| 29 | It is hard to picture this woman as a gawky teenager , arriving in a new town , terribly self-conscious at being a new student . |
| 30 | Sarah was in the kitchen when she arrived , and her heart gave a sudden leap as she recognized the plump , rosy-faced woman as one of the two who had driven away from the Foundling Hospital that fateful day . |