Example sentences of "[noun] of a woman [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A man can be aroused , even to erection , by a printed photograph of a woman 's body . |
| 2 | An early ( 1909 ) pencil study of a woman 's head , a coffer and apple brought $80,000 ( £44,400 ) ( est. $60–80,000 ) and a brilliant brush drawing of a female nude from 1920 $85,000 ( £47,200 ) ( est. $60–80,000 ) , both better buys , I thought , than a rather vapid pencil ‘ Pierrot ’ ( 1918 ) that sold for $220,000 ( £122,200 ) ( est. $100–150,000 ) . |
| 3 | and then , the ceiling turns into a sky , and then a , this sort of head and shoulders of a woman er , compassionate woman , an arm reaches through , and a , and a face comes , and er , she says , erm er , and it says , my child do n't give in to temptation . |
| 4 | As Kenneth Clark states in his classic study The Nude : ‘ [ Artists ] have found it easier to compose harmoniously the larger units of a woman 's torso ; they have been grateful for its smoother transitions , and above all they have discovered analogies with satisfying geometrical forms , the oval , the ellipsoid and the sphere ’ . |
| 5 | The husband had coercive powers to govern most aspects of a woman 's life , particularly through his control of money . |
| 6 | The requirement for abstinence after menstruation and the time for resuming relations correspond precisely to the natural tides of a woman 's sexual desire . |
| 7 | Ken did n't want to think there was any remnant of a woman 's sexual smell on a man he had previously trusted as one of his own . |
| 8 | They depict the most advanced lifestyle in the world today , being in total harmony with the functioning of a woman 's body . |
| 9 | The Dupatta ( or Chunni as Hindus and Sikhs call it ) is the most obviously symbolic part of a woman 's clothes . |
| 10 | Story-telling is considered a part of a woman 's magical repertoire — a device she can use to affect the listener , melting his heart , distracting him or binding him to her as the occasion demands . |
| 11 | From reading sex manuals I knew I wanted to give oral sex because I love that part of a woman 's anatomy and I wanted to get close to it . |
| 12 | Or consider Magritte 's The Rape , in which the sexual trial of a woman 's erogenous zones ( breasts and pubis ) are superimposed onto the rhyming facial triangle of eyes and mouth . |
| 13 | [ Hilary Spurling , Ivy When Young , 1974 , and Secrets of a Woman 's Heart , 1984 ; A Conversation between I. Compton-Burnett and M. Jourdain , Orion : a Miscellany , vol. i , 1945 ; personal knowledge . ] |
| 14 | Furthermore , amongst those who influence the development of the law , it is still far from accepted that the overriding objective of the law of rape and allied offences should be the protection of sexual choice , that is to say , the protection of a woman 's right to choose , whether , when and with whom to have sexual intercourse . |
| 15 | This contrasts with the two major irreversible shifts of a woman 's life , first to puberty , then to menopause . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Mr Geoffrey Robertson , QC , submitted that the scenes which had caused the board to ban the video were to be seen as ‘ manifestations of a woman 's subconsciousness ’ . |
| 18 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 19 | Its sign consisted of a portrait of a woman 's head , styled in what she guessed was intended to be Tudor fashion . |
| 20 | Apart from angry descriptions of the narrowness of a woman 's lot , the poems also describe the poet 's feelings for Pierce whom she calls ‘ Alexis ’ . |
| 21 | Before I came here I too believed that love and duty were the compatible ingredients of a woman 's life … that loyalty and patience and service were all . |
| 22 | Further up , like part of a discarded doll , was the top half of a woman 's torso , blood billowing from where the head should have been , the remnants of a flowered dress settling under the dust . |
| 23 | Both poems are somewhat conventional in their idealized descriptions of a woman 's beauty captivating young men . |
| 24 | The sort of thing you read about for a cheap thrill in the advice column of a woman 's magazine — it really happens , it happens to you . |
| 25 | The headlines included a row between two Conservative MPs over remarks one of them had made about the weight of the Princess of Wales , an attack on the Prime Minister by a junior bishop in the Church of England , a house fire in Cardiff , and the discovery of a woman 's body in South London . |
| 26 | For Louisa this crucial moment of a woman 's life — ; the very act by which life itself was assured of continuity — ; remained a mystery . |
| 27 | This connection between the two factors suggests that the nature of a woman 's early relationship to the housewife role helps to shape her own housework behaviour in later life . |
| 28 | The deep divisions within the party over the abortion issue were illustrated by Bush in an interview on Aug. 12 in which he appeared to have softened his own stance of opposition to abortion under almost all circumstances , by recognising the importance of a woman 's personal choice in the matter . |
| 29 | In addition to this decrease in size child bearing is now concentrated into a much shorter period of a woman 's life . |
| 30 | Implicit in this is both a fear of female competition for scarce jobs and a sense of the need of a woman 's domestic labour at home . |