Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [prep] [art] woman [unc] " in BNC.

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1 The fourth response is more to do with the response of the women 's movement to adult education than the other way round and about welcoming adult education as just one more arena in the battle for women 's liberation .
2 The knock-on effect of the advancement of the women 's game has also led to refreshing developments at girls ' level .
3 The Sex Disqualification ( Removal ) Act of 1919 paved the way for changes in women 's employment rights , but the weakness of the Women 's Movement in that period meant that the Act remained a dead letter .
4 By this time , the trade was completely unionized , and the existence of the women 's section of the union gave the group a certain coherence and identity ; so much so that to avoid overloading the present chapter , the union 's creation and activity is discussed in Chapter 7 .
5 That lack of sensitivity has not made her especially popular in the locker room , but she has nevertheless gained enough respect to be selected to the board of the Women 's Tennis Association over many years , and she currently serves as its President .
6 DESPITE the riches on offer in the men 's game , the prize for the winner of the women 's World Championship , which starts tomorrow , will be a miserly £3,500 .
7 For instance , it has no brief to propose a change in the law to give women wage parity in agricultural work because , as the Director of the Women 's Office explained , that was the responsibility of the Women 's and Minors ' Section of the Ministry of Labour .
8 Furthermore , amongst those who influence the development of the law , it is still far from accepted that the overriding objective of the law of rape and allied offences should be the protection of sexual choice , that is to say , the protection of a woman 's right to choose , whether , when and with whom to have sexual intercourse .
9 These needs are already understood and it will not be the function of a women 's organization in a new society to fight for such rights .
10 After she finished with the silver in the women 's lightweight judo final , team boss Roy Inman claimed she was robbed of the title .
11 There were deep lines at the side of the woman 's mouth which pulled her lips downwards ungraciously .
12 Mrs Grandison , the mother of Sophia and Penelope , had the remains of her daughters ' Pre-Raphaelite beauty , now much faded and overlaid with some other quality , which had made her the President of the Women 's Institute in the village where she lived but which did not seem to be quite Pre-Raphaelite .
13 Thus I have seen an interesting application of group dynamics to the study of a Women 's Institute , and a voluntary social agency studied as an example of a bureaucracy .
14 They depict the most advanced lifestyle in the world today , being in total harmony with the functioning of a woman 's body .
15 The headlines included a row between two Conservative MPs over remarks one of them had made about the weight of the Princess of Wales , an attack on the Prime Minister by a junior bishop in the Church of England , a house fire in Cardiff , and the discovery of a woman 's body in South London .
16 Thus as a consequence of their history and experience , the Palestinian women 's movement has become the vanguard of the women 's movement in the Arab world . ’
17 Some of the most inspiring work of Chattisgarh Liberation Front has been the formation of a women 's organisation that has set up a popular tribunal to deal with wrongs against women — desertion , rape , abuse .
18 The failure of the WTUA in 1894 led to the formation of the Women 's Industrial Council .
19 Apart from angry descriptions of the narrowness of a woman 's lot , the poems also describe the poet 's feelings for Pierce whom she calls ‘ Alexis ’ .
20 Mrs Blakey , only a little less sceptical than her husband of this line of talk , nevertheless recalled how Timothy Gedge had affected her when he 'd come on to the telephone with a woman 's voice , and her bewilderment when the silence had first begun in the house .
21 The Anti-Apartheid Movement and the women active within it fully support the work of the Women 's League and the struggle of Black women for liberation .
22 She later published an account of the work of the women 's branch in Women in the Factory : an Administrative Adventure , 1893–1921 ( 1922 ) .
23 It is clearly acknowledged that without the work of the women 's movement , the Intifada would be in jeopardy .
24 The concluding paper , by Paula Boddington , returns to the issue of a women 's point of view and what difference this might make to philosophy , leaving the reader with a kind of map of the basic issues to be explored : ‘ an opening up of complexities ’ .
25 It 's 0530 hours , and the sound of birdsong rings around Queen Elizabeth Park , Guildford , the home of the Women 's Royal Army Corps .
26 The elegance of the woman 's appearance , her hoop ear-rings , is carefully realized , but the couple stare out of the canvas blankly , nothing has registered on their faces , neither pain nor passion , and Modigliani remains detached , if faintly amused , by their front of respectability .
27 It is a funny story , but it seems that the reviewer mainly liked it because it was not very likely to please the editor of a women 's magazine .
28 Those attitudes fed into It and continued to inform — or divert — the underground press up to , and beyond , the inception of the women 's movement .
29 For a supper date , an office party or a simple dinner with friends , here 's the answer to the question on every woman 's lips this Christmas
30 The villages of Oxfordshire have come under the microscope of the Women 's Institute in the new Oxfordshire village book .
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