Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a [adj] woman ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She loves gym workouts , swimming and playing netball — she is a leading light in a local women 's team . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , no , ’ Luce whispered , unwilling to believe that anyone could stoop so low as to steal a ring from a dead woman 's finger . |
| 3 | This originally appeared as part of a Fabian Women 's Group report based upon research from 1909 – 13 into the daily lives of families living in Lambeth . |
| 4 | This points to the existence of a distinctive women 's politics and culture prior to the entry of the term feminism into linguistic usage . |
| 5 | OXFORD university students were branded ‘ over-privileged plonkers ’ by the editor of a top women 's magazine yesterday after a debate turned into a drunken farce . |
| 6 | The great majority of refugees are legally recognized and receive basic assistance from the United Nations through the Costa Rican government , The training centre is organized jointly by a group of Costa Rican women and AMES and receives financial assistance from a Swedish women 's organization , the " Swallows " . |
| 7 | In 1943 , practically the entire team relegated during 39/40 got back together during ‘ Buy a Spitfire ’ week to play a fund-raising match against a local Women 's Land Army XI . |
| 8 | It 's hardly ever reported in the Third World and er taking the facts that we 've just been talking about into account , it would be tempting to see anorexia as related to conflicts about the beginning of a young woman 's reproductive life because what normally happens is , and has certainly happened in the only case of this that occurred in my family , the young woman in question lost so much weight that she stopped cycling and in fact erm puberty changes went into reverse , she actually regressed , she started puberty and er she had this anorexia problem and she stopped cycling and , and all her body changes reversed , she went back to pre-puberty again erm because of oh no , oh no it did n't , she lost her body hair and stuff yeah , er her , her , her hormonal changes . |
| 9 | Police have issued a warning after tricksters stole money from a 71-year-old woman 's home in Hundens Lane , Darlington , at about 11am on Tuesday . |
| 10 | Increasingly , it has been necessary to think in terms of creating our own learning environment in a separate Women 's Education Centre in which men as students , teachers or visiting authorities are unwelcome and in which women act independently for themselves . |
| 11 | On the one hand it is a bittersweet story of communication difficulties between a mother and daughter ; on the other , it is a poignant portrayal of a young woman 's life in old China before the revolution . |
| 12 | However , it is not the propriety of marriage itself they question — this remains the inevitable end of a young woman 's life ; the issue is what kind of marriage they should aspire to . |
| 13 | It is a sad document of a young woman 's promiscuity in an age when AIDS has made most thinking members of the public chaste . ’ |
| 14 | She suggests that in the 1850s divorce became the ‘ solution ’ to the threat of a Married Women 's Property Act ( not achieved until the last quarter of the nineteenth century ) , which would have threatened ‘ the symbolic economy that depended on and institutionalized ( such ) binary oppositions ’ . |
| 15 | Andy is a store detective at a major women 's clothes store in north London . |
| 16 | The results of a card vote will be announced today on a proposal by the NEC for the creation of a Labour women 's committee . |
| 17 | He had gone on to a party at a rich woman 's house , he explained , and seen a display of drinks such as he had never seen on earth before . |