Example sentences of "woman [unc] [noun sg] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , about 40 hours after the woman 's contact with the poison , a burning , itchy rash developed on the man 's scrotum , penis and pubic area , even though he had no direct contact with the plant . |
| 3 | She discusses this in relation to the view held by some feminists that ‘ every woman 's experience of the world is valid , not false , illusory or mistaken , and that all views of the world are equally valid ’ . |
| 4 | Then a woman 's voice at the telephone in the flat . |
| 5 | A woman 's voice in the crowd of warriors and attendants , and a slight figure appeared , hooded against the rain , the Ivrigar people making way for her . |
| 6 | Became a man and woman locked in an embrace that was , some said , unnatural ; the man 's head buried between the woman 's legs , the woman 's head between the man 's |
| 7 | The author of Woman 's Work in the Church ( 1865 ) , he also wrote books on the history of India and North America . |
| 8 | She rattled the bone to draw the old woman 's spirit from the wood . |
| 9 | In the article ‘ Illiterations ’ ( 1989a ; revised in 1991a:250–64 ) she demonstrates that the development of the Western conception of creativity in women and men is based on metaphors of reproduction which figure woman 's role as the material ‘ work ’ of child-bearing , and the experience of men as spontaneous spurts of genius . |
| 10 | Because of the developing ideology of woman 's role in the family and her very special responsibility for society 's well being , it was women working outside the home who received the most attention from the parliamentary commissioners in the 1830s and 1840s . |
| 11 | As the speed of the display slowed he seemed to catch — oh so fleetingly — a woman 's face in the mêlêe . |
| 12 | Although there is insufficient evidence to establish the identification , it illustrates a tendency which , interestingly , her own poetry strives to overcome : that is , the tendency to read a woman 's emergence into the sphere of public discourse as a form of indecency , signalling promiscuity . |
| 13 | If all goes as planned , fertilised eggs are placed in the woman 's womb in the hope that pregnancy will result . |
| 14 | Her next job was as editor of the teenage pop magazine Fabulous , and then , at the height of the 1960s , she edited the woman 's page of the Sun . |
| 15 | A police frogman has told a court how he found a woman 's body at the bottom of the River Severn . |
| 16 | Detectives hunting the killer who dumped a woman 's body in the loft of a guest house have renewed their calls for help in tracing the victim 's last movements . |
| 17 | Detectives hunting the killer who dumped a woman 's body in the loft of a guest house have renewed their calls for help in tracing the victim 's last movements . |
| 18 | Her biography displays many of the class and gender contradictions which bedevilled women 's participation in the purity campaigns of the 1880s . |
| 19 | But many men resented women 's participation in the Fraternity . |
| 20 | As the hon. Member for Billericay said , the lack of child care is an enormous obstacle to women 's participation in the work force . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , much repeal work still displayed the ambiguities which had always marked middle-class women 's participation in the domain of social reform . |
| 22 | Women 's participation in the movement has developed a great awareness about women 's particular needs , in terms of nurseries , the socialization of domestic work , etc . |
| 23 | His chapter on the post-1857 situation is confined to a charting exercise in which the context provided is often misleading ( married women 's participation in the labour market did not rise rapidly in the interwar years ) , and in which the facts are sometimes shaky ( not all working-class women were opposed to divorce in the early part of the century ; the Women 's Co-operative Guild gave evidence to the 1909 Royal Commission in favour of it ) . |
| 24 | For a survey of key aspects of women 's experience in the family , at work , in education and in health , in Britain now , see Beechey and Whitelegg ( 1986 ) . |
| 25 | The Inspector failed to find the theology of women 's ministry in the church interesting . |
| 26 | Tansy Spinks and Susan Taylor , in a joint exhibition , Spinks shows work inspired by a visit to Prague , while Taylor has an installation created to mark women 's fortnight in the city ( until 28 Mar ) . |
| 27 | Reaching the ‘ Men Only ’ sign , we laughed loudly and one of the women painted a massive women 's symbol at the entrance , a sort of ritual ‘ open sesame ’ . |
| 28 | Thus ‘ new feminism ’ as Eleanor Rathbone , President of the NUSEC called it , made a deliberate attempt to promote reforms to improve women 's position in the home . |
| 29 | Increasing labour-market experience does not appear to improve women 's position in the way that , for instance , ‘ human-capital ’ theory would predict . |
| 30 | That she could deal with the philosophical and ideological issues related to women 's position in the family is evident from the poem ‘ Man the Monarch ’ in which she debunks the view that men 's sovereignty over women derives from Adam : |