Example sentences of "[prep] a woman 's " 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 | Taken regularly it stops ovulation the release of a woman 's egg each month . |
| 3 | By February 1915 , he was sending Aiken ‘ Suppressed Complex ’ , a poem about a soul-like shadow dancing in the firelight of a woman 's room , before passing out of the window . |
| 4 | Her work almost perfectly illustrates debates as to the nature of traditional exclusions of a woman 's art . |
| 5 | The Dupatta ( or Chunni as Hindus and Sikhs call it ) is the most obviously symbolic part of a woman 's clothes . |
| 6 | Chela and Urna are dancers at La Fama night club , a grotty little joint comprising one bar , 15 or so rickety wooden tables , and an illuminated picture of a woman 's bottom which flashes on and off . |
| 7 | Chela and Urna are dancers at La Fama night club , a grotty little joint comprising one bar , 15 or so rickety wooden tables , and an illuminated picture of a woman 's bottom . |
| 8 | Mr Geoffrey Robertson , QC , submitted that the scenes which had caused the board to ban the video were to be seen as ‘ manifestations of a woman 's subconsciousness ’ . |
| 9 | Chela and Urna are dancers at La Fama night club , a grotty little joint comprising one bar , 15 or so rickety wooden tables , and an illuminated picture of a woman 's bottom . |
| 10 | Thus in an extraordinary manner the physical manifestation of a woman 's fertility which had always been welcome and extolled in ancient and traditional Hindu society , where even mother earth was conceived to be menstruating in the beginning of the rainy season , came to be associated with a sin.s |
| 11 | The power of a woman 's sexuality is very strong and the orthodox woman must take responsibility for that . |
| 12 | They depict the most advanced lifestyle in the world today , being in total harmony with the functioning of a woman 's body . |
| 13 | The requirement for abstinence after menstruation and the time for resuming relations correspond precisely to the natural tides of a woman 's sexual desire . |
| 14 | He is an irresponsible boy , Alida thought , making malicious fun of a woman 's anxiety , not understanding symptoms , uncaring . |
| 15 | The romantic ‘ line of beauty ’ has been associated with curvature of a woman 's back and is an asymmetric reverse curve . |
| 16 | The husband had coercive powers to govern most aspects of a woman 's life , particularly through his control of money . |
| 17 | Both poems are somewhat conventional in their idealized descriptions of a woman 's beauty captivating young men . |
| 18 | A man can be aroused , even to erection , by a printed photograph of a woman 's body . |
| 19 | A new paperback edition of Maeve Kelly 's first novel — an urgent , provocative story of a woman 's escape from the claustrophobia of provincial family life and her baptism of fire into the feminist movement , working for a battered women 's refuge . |
| 20 | The author of A Woman 's Guide To Adultery packs some punches in this , her third novel about the war between the sexes . |
| 21 | Further up , like part of a discarded doll , was the top half of a woman 's torso , blood billowing from where the head should have been , the remnants of a flowered dress settling under the dust . |
| 22 | ’ As well as its rather old-fashioned view of a woman 's place , the film represents gays as ‘ men who walk poodles ’ . |
| 23 | I doubt whether the language of a woman 's clothes has ever had such a large vocabulary before , in any society . |
| 24 | Story-telling is considered a part of a woman 's magical repertoire — a device she can use to affect the listener , melting his heart , distracting him or binding him to her as the occasion demands . |
| 25 | This fear of being left empty and , more simply , that of being left , seems to be the most basic feminine fear , extending over the whole of a woman 's existence . |
| 26 | This case covers perhaps in classic form the problematic use of a woman 's previous sexual history in determining the outcome of a rape trial . |
| 27 | This connection between the two factors suggests that the nature of a woman 's early relationship to the housewife role helps to shape her own housework behaviour in later life . |
| 28 | An early ( 1909 ) pencil study of a woman 's head , a coffer and apple brought $80,000 ( £44,400 ) ( est. $60–80,000 ) and a brilliant brush drawing of a female nude from 1920 $85,000 ( £47,200 ) ( est. $60–80,000 ) , both better buys , I thought , than a rather vapid pencil ‘ Pierrot ’ ( 1918 ) that sold for $220,000 ( £122,200 ) ( est. $100–150,000 ) . |
| 29 | In addition to this decrease in size child bearing is now concentrated into a much shorter period of a woman 's life . |
| 30 | She points out that much of a woman 's life is based on a spontaneity of moral response that many philosophers , in particular Hegel and Kant , would say had no moral worth ( McMillan , 1982 ) . |