Example sentences of "woman [unc] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A one-time regular denizen of city theatres and radio broadcast suites , one might argue that only an ex-Goon would have chosen to live along Dumb Woman 's Lane in a small hamlet near Rye in West Sussex . |
| 2 | A Woman 's Place |
| 3 | The first book to alert linguists to the political implications of sex differences , Robin Lakoff 's 1975 work Language and Woman 's Place , is remarkable for creating a stereotype of its own — and one not so very different from its overtly chauvinistic precursors . |
| 4 | Interest in sex differences at this level of language was stimulated by Lakoff 's Language and Woman 's Place . |
| 5 | He had been asked to speak some months ago on the subject , ‘ A Woman 's Place ’ . |
| 6 | He had meant to ask his research assistant to sketch something out for him on ‘ A Woman 's Place ’ or some such subject , but the silly girl 's talents did not encompass putting pen to paper . |
| 7 | I would say that she is the strongest woman er heroine that we 've read . |
| 8 | Therefore the woman 's dismissal was unlawful sex discrimination . |
| 9 | Stick legs in dirty grey stockings protruded from where the breeches finished and the cracked shoes were a woman 's shape . |
| 10 | I am often bemused by the men who criticize a woman 's shape when they are quite clearly looking down on their own unsightly ‘ pregnant'-looking stomachs . |
| 11 | We now turn to one woman 's battle with satanism — a mother 's fight for her son who was offered to Satan only hours after his birth . |
| 12 | Not just one woman 's battle but a plea to all of us to understand the problem . |
| 13 | Hogarth devised a line of beauty that has an uncanny similarity to a woman 's back ! |
| 14 | The romantic ‘ line of beauty ’ has been associated with curvature of a woman 's back and is an asymmetric reverse curve . |
| 15 | A small battery-operated box with electrodes wired up to it is placed against the woman 's back and sends mild electrical charges to her brain , stimulating the production of endorphins , the body 's own natural painkillers . |
| 16 | She went across , touching the woman 's back . |
| 17 | Hers is every woman 's fallacy and every woman 's fate . |
| 18 | In 1952 Hall became a reporter on the Sunday Mirror , and soon moved from there to the Daily Sketch as woman 's editor . |
| 19 | In 1970 Hall joined the News of the World , where she was woman 's editor until 1988 . |
| 20 | Breakthrough are a new charity set up after the death of Daily Express woman 's editor Jean Rook to provide funds for research into breast cancer in women . |
| 21 | The Woman 's Editor had managed to unearth yet another EXCLUSIVE under the headline MY BATTLE WITH THE FOX : A tap on my shoulder … a violent struggle , then I 'm stabbed with my breadknife . |
| 22 | To draw attention to that would compound the woman 's error . |
| 23 | In the other case , two neighbours were helping to care for an 88-year-old single woman ; service-providers were not happy with this care and were suspicious about the neighbours ' management of the woman 's finances , so she was also admitted to hospital under a guardianship order . |
| 24 | Primitive woman 's drive was too strong , too susceptible to the fluctuating extremes of an impelling , aggressive erotism to withstand the disciplined requirements of a settled family life … |
| 25 | If Jennens thought that Leapor had a future as a poet , Leapor also relied on this woman 's criticism and encouragement . |
| 26 | From the demonstrations of British pluck and enterprise in The Wooden Horse ( 1950 ) , the first of a series of escape pictures , and the celebration of one woman 's heroism in the Anna Neagle-starring Odette ( 1950 ) , through action films such as The Dam Busters ( 1955 ) , The Battle of the River Plate ( 1956 , Pursuit of the Graf Spee in US ) and Sink the Bismark ( 1960 ) , there is a sense of well-known events being played out for an audience that already knew about them . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ He 's fond of snooping , especially through the half-open doors of any woman 's bedchamber . ’ |
| 29 | But Moira says no it 's paperbacks only , insisted on lending us some of those Virgo Books and Woman 's Press and that , you know ‘ I Stand Here Ironing ’ and so on , could n't be bothered to try and make sense of them . |
| 30 | Smith denied committing any crime and dismissed the woman 's accusation as a " damnable lie " . |