Example sentences of "[that] woman had [art] " in BNC.

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1 The diplomacy came to nothing , but the Hague Congress did much to crystallize the belief that women had a special role to play in the politics of peace .
2 Two obvious , and ultimately successful , candidates were cited above ; the first being the alleged right of those elected to Parliament to be paid for their services , and the second the claim that women had a moral right to vote .
3 They pressed for a particular re-reading of Darwin to add weight to the older evangelical claim that women had a rightful place in regulating sex .
4 Stella Browne , the Canadian socialist feminist , argued that female desire was a powerful natural force and that women had a valid right to sexual enjoyment .
5 Now , much of what they were saying — particularly their insistence that women had a right to control their bodies and therefore a right to family planning — was welcomed by all sides of the population industry .
6 Day-care provision also lacked the support of women trade unionists ; Mary MacArthur declared that women had no desire to keep working in factories while trying to nurse their children in crèches .
7 Here was a new wave of feminist militancy , proclaiming that women had the right to a life of their own and should not be the sexual property of men .
8 They argued for birth control primarily on the grounds that it would improve the health of the mother rather than on the grounds that women had the right to control their fertility .
9 Duncan had been appalled to find that women had the vote ‘ down South ’ and got off to a shaky start in the motor trade when one of the local spivs conned him into thinking a Pina Colada was the latest model Ford built in Spain .
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