Example sentences of "[prep] a woman 's [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fourteen Mafia bosses have been arrested by Sicilian detectives after a woman 's Mafia Godfather lover was gunned down by the organisation . |
| 2 | I mean suddenly we had the example of a women 's support group from the miner 's strike th that we had the idea you know fr from that erm and Yona really put it in a nutshell when she said I think er er you know behind closed doors the women worrying about what was gon na happen next you know they felt very frustrated and in a way it was a way to channel o our energies away i i i it was seen as that really in the beginning you know as a a sort of a more as a way of getting rid of the well y you know the sort of desperation er the impotence one felt of not being able to do anything in this situation and it 's er and by now of course we 've all become as a group very close er you know we 're we 're more like a big family now really an sort of er a lot of the women have never really sort of regularly been to meetings an th the commitment there is very strong really that we all turn up to our Tuesday meetings sort of . |
| 3 | Interviews focus on piecing together events in the village with a particular emphasis on problems of organisation , community support , the informal social security system , policing , strikebreaking , rumours , the formation and activity of a Women 's Action Group , the impact of national events , community divisions , changes in social relations and the lasting effects of the strike . |
| 4 | Motherhood replaced marriage as the occasion for leaving paid work and seldom marked the end of a woman 's labour force membership . |
| 5 | And I have a sister-in-law who used to play for a women 's football team so she 's very interested and a as soon as there 's a big game on , on the satellite they all come round and it 's sort of into the kitchen you can make the the half time |
| 6 | Before the Christmas break , we fitted in two more FIS downhills at Altenmarkt , on a course which had been used for a women 's world cup . |
| 7 | The presentation took place during a women 's enterprise forum , held at the Impasse Centre , Corporation Road , Middlesbrough . |
| 8 | Furthermore , cohort studies in Britain show that the relation between a woman 's family size and the family size in which she is brought up is positive , although not very strong : childless women are more likely to be single children themselves , mothers of large families tend to come from larger than average families themselves , even when other influences are controlled for statistically ( Kiernan 1989a ) . |
| 9 | Special privileges for women who establish businesses are among Labour 's measures which will create a two-tier measure of achievement , with a woman 's career success accorded to the feminist movement rather than the woman herself . |
| 10 | FITNESS enthusiast Angelina Arnott was turned away from a women 's health club because she used to be a man . |
| 11 | For the next few years I threw myself into a whirlwind of activities — involving myself in a Women 's Aid refuge , women 's centres , campaigns , demonstrations and conferences . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've never seen that spelled out in a women 's magazine story , or a film , or … a novel . ’ |
| 13 | Secrets went on to lend its name to a women 's fiction weekly , and for Mills and Boon it laid the basis for a house style . |
| 14 | Harbury rebelled and went to a Women 's Word press reception instead . |
| 15 | It is clearly not Amnesty 's view that damage to a woman 's marriage prospects is the sole or main reason for opposing rape . |
| 16 | The report says that the old boys ' network and prejudice are the main barriers to a woman 's career progress . |
| 17 | She had been at a Women 's Aid conference in London all weekend , and she was tired and depressed . |
| 18 | I was talking to her at a women 's group meeting — we were playing records . |
| 19 | The writing across a woman 's body changes as that body becomes fat or scarred or old . |
| 20 | Nor are they as turned on by a woman 's dress sense . |