Example sentences of "[prep] a woman 's [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fourteen Mafia bosses have been arrested by Sicilian detectives after a woman 's Mafia Godfather lover was gunned down by the organisation . |
| 2 | It is the name of a Women 's Centre opened in February 1987 in Olongapo City in the Philippines . |
| 3 | Some of the most inspiring work of Chattisgarh Liberation Front has been the formation of a women 's organisation that has set up a popular tribunal to deal with wrongs against women — desertion , rape , abuse . |
| 4 | I mean suddenly we had the example of a women 's support group from the miner 's strike th that we had the idea you know fr from that erm and Yona really put it in a nutshell when she said I think er er you know behind closed doors the women worrying about what was gon na happen next you know they felt very frustrated and in a way it was a way to channel o our energies away i i i it was seen as that really in the beginning you know as a a sort of a more as a way of getting rid of the well y you know the sort of desperation er the impotence one felt of not being able to do anything in this situation and it 's er and by now of course we 've all become as a group very close er you know we 're we 're more like a big family now really an sort of er a lot of the women have never really sort of regularly been to meetings an th the commitment there is very strong really that we all turn up to our Tuesday meetings sort of . |
| 5 | Thus I have seen an interesting application of group dynamics to the study of a Women 's Institute , and a voluntary social agency studied as an example of a bureaucracy . |
| 6 | On the plane she found herself sitting next to the Knitting correspondent of a women 's magazine who was on the same press jaunt . |
| 7 | It is a funny story , but it seems that the reviewer mainly liked it because it was not very likely to please the editor of a women 's magazine . |
| 8 | In this volume , the possibility of a women 's point of view in philosophy is discussed directly by Paula Boddington from within the analytic tradition . |
| 9 | The opening paper , by Mary Midgley , discusses the central issue of the possibility and necessity of a women 's point of view . |
| 10 | The concluding paper , by Paula Boddington , returns to the issue of a women 's point of view and what difference this might make to philosophy , leaving the reader with a kind of map of the basic issues to be explored : ‘ an opening up of complexities ’ . |
| 11 | These needs are already understood and it will not be the function of a women 's organization in a new society to fight for such rights . |
| 12 | Interviews focus on piecing together events in the village with a particular emphasis on problems of organisation , community support , the informal social security system , policing , strikebreaking , rumours , the formation and activity of a Women 's Action Group , the impact of national events , community divisions , changes in social relations and the lasting effects of the strike . |
| 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 | Twined about the fingers of his free hand were long strands of a woman 's hair . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | During a seminar on recent advances in reproductive technology , a gynaecologist presenting his latest research put on the screen a slide of a woman 's uterus and said : ‘ This , gentlemen , is the battle ground . ’ |
| 18 | Should the whole harvest of the farm , worth at least seven hundred and fifty pounds , be lost because of a woman 's weakness ? |
| 19 | The jury at Bristol Crown Court was told that Mantack took with him a tape he had made of a woman 's voice crying for help . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | Figure 4 Ivory carving of a woman 's head from Brassempouy , Landes , France . |
| 22 | Its sign consisted of a portrait of a woman 's head , styled in what she guessed was intended to be Tudor fashion . |
| 23 | Her work almost perfectly illustrates debates as to the nature of traditional exclusions of a woman 's art . |
| 24 | This fear of being left empty and , more simply , that of being left , seems to be the most basic feminine fear , extending over the whole of a woman 's existence . |
| 25 | I looked for some sign of a woman 's occupation , and found none . |
| 26 | He is an irresponsible boy , Alida thought , making malicious fun of a woman 's anxiety , not understanding symptoms , uncaring . |
| 27 | The husband had coercive powers to govern most aspects of a woman 's life , particularly through his control of money . |
| 28 | In addition to this decrease in size child bearing is now concentrated into a much shorter period of a woman 's life . |
| 29 | She points out that much of a woman 's life is based on a spontaneity of moral response that many philosophers , in particular Hegel and Kant , would say had no moral worth ( McMillan , 1982 ) . |
| 30 | This contrasts with the two major irreversible shifts of a woman 's life , first to puberty , then to menopause . |