Example sentences of "woman who [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A DARLINGTON woman who failed to supply exotic food hampers tried to creating some food parcels of her own , a court heard yesterday . |
| 2 | It could n't have been very nice for her , thought Karelius , seeing her sister substituted by a woman who had obtained cheap success by such a blatant display of sexuality . |
| 3 | In another murder case , after a 19-year-old youth had been found guilty of a stabbing murder in Oakley Street , a woman who had given crucial evidence against him was ill-treated by neighbours and eventually turned out of her Oakley Street home amidst ‘ a terrible scene ’ . |
| 4 | She would be fifty-three or four now and I find it difficult to believe that any woman who had had three children would n't show some curiosity about what happened to them once the glamour of life had worn a bit thin . ’ |
| 5 | Under Kandyan law it was not an offence to kill a high-caste woman who had had sexual relations with a low-caste man . |
| 6 | Police have been continuing the search for the body of a woman who went missing twenty years ago . |
| 7 | Police searching for the remains of a woman who went missing twenty years ago have recovered a body . |
| 8 | of a man and woman who conspired to eat each other — |
| 9 | Nevertheless , the risk of endometriosis was low in women currently taking oral contraceptives ( relative risk 0.4 ; 95% confidence interval 0.2 to 0.7 ) , but higher in women who had formerly taken them ( 1.8 ; 1.0 to 3.1 in women who had stopped 25–48 months previously ) compared with women who had never taken the pill . |
| 10 | Part of the problem is that as most women who had attended single-sex schools had not known anything else , their comments will focus on the school itself rather than the fact of its being single-sex . |
| 11 | My own political education was rooted in the more down-to-earth practical realities of the day-to-day running of a refuge for women who had suffered domestic violence . |
| 12 | He was specialising , with terrible irony as it turns out , in the treatment of women who had suffered sexual abuse and those who were HIV positive . |
| 13 | In contrast , a sustained increase in bowel frequency was noted in 12 of 17 unselected women who had received pelvic radiotherapy for gynaecological malignancy 1–26 years previously . |
| 14 | It was the first centre of its kind , and was offering treatment to women who had suffered problems with previous pregnancies — women who had had handicapped babies , for example , or stillbirths . |
| 15 | To determine the effect of cholecystectomy , the women who had had this operation were compared with the women who were discovered on ultrasonography to have gall stones ( n=48 , aged 25 to 67 , mean 45 ) , all but three of whom were asymptomatic . |
| 16 | Depression in the previous twelve months was experienced by three times more women who had experienced maternal loss or separation ( of at least one year ) in childhood than by women with no such childhood experiences . |
| 17 | Women who had used intrauterine devices in the past had a slightly increased rate of endometriosis over never users . |
| 18 | It was the women who had to make hard decisions and choices as to what expenditure to cut or what bill could be postponed for yet another week . |
| 19 | Lined up against the working mums were women who 'd given up work to look after their children , women who 'd had working mothers themselves and felt they had missed out , and women who had tried to do it all and given up the struggle . |
| 20 | In our study women who smoked had lower conception rates , though this did not reach significance . |
| 21 | The technical pensions literature of the early 1960s advised employers to leave women out of pension schemes and give ex gratia ( unfunded ) pensions to that dwindling minority of single women who did become long-serving employees ( Pilch and Wood , 1960 , p. 80 ) . |