Example sentences of "woman whose [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are writing to a woman whose marital status you are unaware of , then the title Ms can be used . |
| 2 | as if the time would make any difference to a woman whose only son had just been killed . |
| 3 | Lying , both with Annie and to the world at large , is one of the underlying themes of this intensely touching and often searing account of the shameful treatment by a prince of the Church of a woman whose only sin was to fall hopelessly in love with him . |
| 4 | By the time she was thirty she was a bored , disgruntled woman whose only interest in life was squandering money . |
| 5 | A Grave With No Name opens with the funeral of a prematurely aged woman whose only mourners are a goat and a young former patient of the doctor narrator . |
| 6 | A man is being questioned by detectives hunting the killer of a woman whose burned body was found in a bin liner . |
| 7 | So then Nigel wrote a piece saying how marvellous the party was , despite reports to the contrary written by ‘ a woman whose present companion … ’ and so on . |
| 8 | But at least the mystery was nearing a solution — even if she had no idea why Luke Hunter should want to go out to dinner with a woman whose sole contact with him up till now had been violently centred somewhere round the solar plexus . |
| 9 | Gilligan mentions here the anonymous woman whose nonlegalistic thinking enabled Solomon to display his legendary wisdom . |
| 10 | Mother-fixated Norman Bates is a harrowing portrait of a neurotic impotent schizophrenic ( ! ) unable to see beyond his nightmare world and Leigh 's Marion Crane — a woman whose impulsive lunge for freedom leads to his door . |
| 11 | It is attributed to an Indian woman whose two daughters had been raped . |
| 12 | A WOMAN whose unborn child died in the last days of her pregnancy is seeking compensation from South Tees Health Authority . |
| 13 | They bought a flat in the capital , Nick attended art school for a while there , and Laura made a very close friend of a woman whose unusual shop had been opposite the Ashley 's first boutique on the Left Bank . |
| 14 | And her last sight of them was Dr Neil standing cold and upright , the scar on his white face angry and vivid , facing the lovely woman whose whole posture was that of a pleading Niobe — McAllister wondered where all these classical allusions were suddenly coming from , remembering that Niobe was famous for her tears , and for their power . |
| 15 | Folly remembered the grey-haired , motherly-looking woman whose whispering voice had confirmed her earlier misconceptions . |
| 16 | She appears , somehow , just as a woman whose main desire is to satisfy the wants of the one who gazes at her . |
| 17 | The vicar would never have agreed to any kind of mock funeral , but he finally yielded to Midge 's plea that some intercession should be made for the souls of the unknown man and woman whose charred corpses lay in the refrigerator at the mortuary . |
| 18 | The culprit was assumed to be the young woman whose charred body had been trapped by the flames ; she was identified as a feminist — funny , when PopCon had been giving money and moral support to feminist groups . |
| 19 | Within three years the couple were established in London where Lillie became celebrated , not only as a ‘ professional beauty ’ — a society woman whose photographic likenesses were on sale to the public — but as the mistress of Albert Edward , Prince of Wales . |
| 20 | ‘ The young man and woman whose naked bodies were found in the marsh ? |
| 21 | Shelley found herself with a woman whose slashed arm required urgent suturing . |
| 22 | This group of 12 included nine of the ‘ career ’ users , that is , seven daily opioid users and two daily speed users , two women whose male partners were dealing in heroin , and one young employed male . |
| 23 | The final salvo was that of jumping on the bandwagon , a wagon we were informed which was already jam-packed with Black and Jewish women : women whose political history among white gentile English women , in some ways , paralleled our own . |
| 24 | Women whose seductive sexuality is essentially a projection of patriarchal fear and a means of control are also robbed of their own expression . |
| 25 | Instead , the work should consider what has culturally negotiated this experience for the artist and for other women whose personal experiences so closely echo her own . |
| 26 | However , there are two groups of women whose marital status can put them at risk of poverty in old age because of their inability to qualify for dependants ' benefits . |
| 27 | He further recommends the use of the term gestational impaired glucose tolerance for those women whose two hour value lies between 9 and 11 mmol/l , reserving the term gestational diabetes for those women who have a result indicating diabetes on a glucose tolerance test in pregnancy . |
| 28 | Martin and Roberts ( 1984 ) show that , among women whose first child was born between 1970 and 1974 , 51 per cent had returned to paid employment within 5 years , and that the median period before return to work for this group was 4.8 years . |
| 29 | With parliamentary life now dominated by machines rather than individuals , the back benches are packed with men and women whose only hope is to be offered a job in the Whips ' Office or a junior ministerial brief . |
| 30 | The above scenario helps to explain the part played by access to occupational pension scheme benefits in determining the income levels of the elderly women whose financial circumstances were studied between 1959 and 1965 . |