Example sentences of "[adv] a woman [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is very much a woman 's weapon . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's been interesting to see how much a woman 's sense of herself comes from how she looks . |
| 3 | In one case it stretched to below a woman 's knees and in another the pubic hair was gathered into a tasteful plait that reached behind her back . |
| 4 | So a woman 's take home pay will always be proportionally less . |
| 5 | No , he had not seen a body , still less a woman 's body . |
| 6 | To serve and suffer is considered not only a woman 's lot but right . |
| 7 | We have a long way to go before society really shifts in attitude , and both men and women assume that caring is not only a woman 's job . |
| 8 | Again , this is not only a woman 's prerogative . |
| 9 | I believe it is entirely a woman 's right to choose whether or not she has an abortion . |
| 10 | Yeah it 's just a woman 's name or |
| 11 | Whatever the law says — and there 's now a new law on the future of children which abolishes the concepts of custody and access — in reality divorce is still largely a woman 's prerogative . |
| 12 | It was the sort of car that a successful young man bought for himself , not a woman 's car in the generally used sense of the phrase , nor a car that a man would choose for a woman . |
| 13 | For funerals , the Reverend Bottingley felt , were not a woman 's occasion , they were too hard on the emotions , and on the feet and knees , and he did not like to see women weep in public . |
| 14 | The mission attracted further media coverage when the flight commander , Anatoly Artsebarsky , stated in a pre-launch interview that he believed Sharman 's male back-up , Maj. Timothy Mace , was better qualified for the trip and that it was " not a woman 's business to fly into space " . |
| 15 | wear and tear of the job , you see , it 's not a woman 's job really . |
| 16 | Usually a woman 's face , like the face of the girl in the coffee bar an hour or two ago . |
| 17 | As Young and Willmott ( 1973 , p. 227 ) say ‘ there was still a women 's world and a men 's , in social contacts as in other ways . ’ |
| 18 | Lower still a woman 's name , with green mould edging up to cover it : ANN — BELOVED . |
| 19 | He may be like a banana tree or a coconut tree , half human in appearance , revolting in every way , but caring for him is still a woman 's duty if he 's her husband . |
| 20 | But as the men in suits — the politicians — give way to the men in the studios — the experts — it seems too obvious even to mention the fact that these days there is hardly a woman 's face to be seen on television . |
| 21 | That 'e 'd nicked them off a woman 's washing-line in Brixton . |
| 22 | Without any explanation , he jumped out and approached one of the Ayurvedic healers who for centuries have sat on the roadside here , surrounded by the ingredients of their trade : live iguanas whose fried juices are said to cure impotence ; ginseng for philtres used to spread or extinguish the fires of love ; tree bark to ward off a woman 's menopause ; the bringraj herb from the high Himalayas said to conquer baldness or thicken the beard of the most effete Sikh . |
| 23 | ‘ The roof came off a woman 's house , and we all helped to save what we could . |
| 24 | Did it have any connection with the Castle Museum opposite the court , which was once a women 's prison ? |
| 25 | Had the topic not been abortion , unambiguously a women 's issue , the correct inference might not have been drawn . |
| 26 | Scattered through the policy review are proposals to : Drastically alter the status and organisation of the Department of Trade and Industry ; Create two departments — a Department of Consumer Affairs , and a Department for Legal Administration ; Create a Department of Environmental Protection within the existing Department of the Environment ; Set up a plethora of new commissions and executive agencies ; Set up a Women 's Ministry . |
| 27 | Then for a couple of years she helped set up a women 's bookshop and café run on high but unmanageable collective principles . |
| 28 | Although unfortunately details of the projects are tantalizingly hard to ascertain , at least two attempts were made after 1888 by the Edinburgh Typographical Society to set up a women 's union , The first , in the late 1880s , is referred to only in the retrospective " statement on the Female Question " , published in 1904 ; Miss Black of London [ who must have been Clementina Black ] a lady who was well-known for her efforts to improve the social condition of her sex , offered to make an endeavour to organise the female compositors in Edinburgh , with a view to remedying the evils complained of by the journeymen . |
| 29 | Hesitantly at first , and in the face of some opposition , the male union leadership , in consultation with the women , decided to set up a women 's section of the ETS instead of pursuing the strategy of recruiting the remaining women compositors into the Warehousemen and Cutters " Union . |
| 30 | And er I think i we thought from that well why not set up a women 's support group and er see what the reaction was really from from the women you know and an I and we said in that lodge meeting will you ask everybody all the women that you know that er are involved , the friends the girlfriends and wives , to come along the next Tuesday and we 'd have a meeting of our own . |