Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [prep] [art] woman [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that time a variety of the women 's presses were mooting ideas for conventional anthologies of Black writing in the UK . |
| 2 | And out he goes and gets this woman and in she comes with a chart with a woman 's name the job number , that done it week by week or fortnight , whatever it does . |
| 3 | Focusing on the ‘ ideological cracks ’ e.g. internal contradictions of the film text , they made a case for a women 's discourse where it was previously thought none could possibly exist . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She twisted out of Miss Liberty 's grip , and sank a foot into the woman 's midriff . |
| 6 | McCandless , accompanied by a Canadian student named Arthur Jaffray , spotted Mrs. O'Connor about an hour later and whilst Jaffray ran for a boat and some ropes , McCandless with complete disregard for the dangers , fought his way through the strong current to reach Mrs. O'Connor and supported her until Jaffray arrived in a boat with the woman 's father . |
| 7 | Even after she had been caught in that ruined church with Ginger Higby , that old bitch of a commandant in the women 's ambulance service had n't wanted to lose her . |
| 8 | The men and the boys have other and different interests , many of them outside the home , and he is a boy in a woman 's world . |
| 9 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 10 | Its sign consisted of a portrait of a woman 's head , styled in what she guessed was intended to be Tudor fashion . |
| 11 | This touched a chord in the women 's experience : most had been , at some time , dependent wives responsible for feeding and clothing a family . |
| 12 | Charlotte Bronte 's ‘ going away ’ dress has been used as a basis for the women 's gowns and the men 's costumes made from contemporary illustrations . |
| 13 | Below : A conference of the Women 's Liberal Federation setting out for a tour of Blackpool and St. Annes in May 1926 , using six toastrack trams , here drawn up on both tracks at North Pier . |
| 14 | A MAN who stuck a drill in a woman 's side was guilty of ‘ outrageous conduct ’ , a Londonderry Magistrate said yesterday . |
| 15 | In a paper awarded a prize by the women 's caucus of the M.L.A. , Beth Kowaleski-Wallace writes : |
| 16 | She pushed past Julie Ndobe , grabbing a medkit from the woman 's hands , and running further into the smoke , only to fetch up hard against a metal barrier . |
| 17 | During World War I she became involved in organizing war work for women , and after the war became a leading promoter of professional employment for women , a founder of the Women 's Employment Federation , and first chairman ( 1930–9 ) of the Cambridge University women 's employment board . |
| 18 | But by the end of the 1890s , although her work had long been recognized and she had been made a founder-councillor of the London county council in 1899 , Emma Cons was approaching a breakdown caused by overwork , not only at the theatre but in all her other housing and philanthropic efforts ( she was also vice-president of the London Society for Women 's Suffrage , an executive member of the Women 's Liberal Foundations , and a founder of the Women 's Horticultural College at Swanley ) . |
| 19 | Constance was accepted because Nora was a pillar of the Women 's Voluntary Service and worked closely with Lady Wardley in the war effort . |
| 20 | Cool response to temptation from slice of Forbidden Fruit Alison Daniels , in Dublin , gauges reaction to the publication of extracts from a book about a woman 's affair with the former Bishop of Galway |
| 21 | There was a phase of the women 's liberation movement in the 70s that just saw the kinds of things that affect middle class women , they were into things like equal pay . |
| 22 | A report from the Women 's Environmental Network ( WEN ) shows that the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) has brought only five prosecutions against polluting paper mills since 1990 , even though 42 of the country 's 56 mills have broken the law . |
| 23 | ( ‘ I 'm a member of the Women 's Sportsfighting Club ’ , explains Carri a 17 year old skin from Clapham , ‘ I do wrestling , judo , boxing and sportsfighting . |
| 24 | In the Paratroopers ’ case thirty men were arrested and thirteen paratroopers were actually charged with the rape of a member of the Women 's Royal Army Corps . |
| 25 | Mrs. Layton , a member of the Women 's Cooperative Guild , made the decision to allow her husband the 1/6d to join the Cooperative Society in the first place . |
| 26 | A member of the Women 's Cooperative Guild remembered working as a nursemaid to a doctor 's family at the age of nine in 1867 , and being unable to read or write , could not let her parents know about the unkind treatment she received . |
| 27 | A member of the Woman 's Royal Army Corps and a passer-by were injured on Feb. 20 when an IRA bomb fell from underneath a van and exploded in Leicester city centre . |
| 28 | In one unreported case , a threat to the woman 's boyfriend was held to be insufficient . |
| 29 | Once you understand that your Visa card is not a passport into a woman 's knickers , a dinner date becomes a much scarier business . |
| 30 | In this painting , a memorial to a woman 's tragic death is transformed into an indictment of the culture which destroyed her . |