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 | Usually a woman 's face , like the face of the girl in the coffee bar an hour or two ago . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | Lower still a woman 's name , with green mould edging up to cover it : ANN — BELOVED . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Did it have any connection with the Castle Museum opposite the court , which was once a women 's prison ? |
| 18 | Had the topic not been abortion , unambiguously a women 's issue , the correct inference might not have been drawn . |
| 19 | The lecture took place in the splendid hall of the former British Residency , now a women 's college . |
| 20 | The worse a woman 's education , the less she has to lose by dropping out of the jobs market to have a child . |
| 21 | This season , I have attended a National League game almost every weekend , district matches , the international trial , even a women 's game . |
| 22 | And er they have got it now to a state of what I would imagine almost perfection , and that is that every man , woman and child of the population of those two countries er has got adequate protection and even a woman er who wishes to go out and do shopping in the contaminated er environment has the possibility of , of suiting up and putting a special er cover on the pram of her child and actually pushing this child with a special ventilator out . |
| 23 | Almost immediately a woman 's rather rough voice answered , and I said : ‘ Could I speak to Dana , please ? ’ |
| 24 | Okay , well , the thing is why was there a women 's army , we all know that . |
| 25 | There was a sudden crash , and then a woman 's screams rang through the night . |
| 26 | Then a woman 's hand touched his arm . |
| 27 | Then a woman 's voice at the telephone in the flat . |
| 28 | There was a scuffle , and then a woman 's giggle , among the undergrowth toward the centre of the small coppice . |
| 29 | But there was still a terrified child 's face on a body almost a woman 's . |
| 30 | Yet another reason for regarding romantic suspense as primarily a woman 's art ( though I enjoy reading them , and so do many other old male chauvinists ) is that the archetypal situation they describe echoes the situation of women through the ages . |