Example sentences of "[noun] in a woman [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do not like to see fear in a woman 's eyes , especially a woman who places so much value in equality . |
| 2 | Child-bearing is thus the primary social duty of a woman , and marriage with its corollary , the puberty rite , is the most important life-cycle ceremony in a woman 's life . |
| 3 | The same someone who taught me that there is no pleasure in a woman 's coldness . |
| 4 | ‘ I seem to recall you telling me you took no pleasure in a woman 's coldness , ’ she said with more assurance than she felt . |
| 5 | The men and the boys have other and different interests , many of them outside the home , and he is a boy in a woman 's world . |
| 6 | For example , medical explanations of the ‘ blues ’ tend to favour as the principal causative element biochemical changes taking place in a woman 's body during pregnancy and immediately after birth . |
| 7 | The clinical interview provided information about the severity and diagnosis of disorders , but also enabled researchers to measure onset and course using a concept of change-points : a point in time when an increase or decrease in the number of symptoms led to a noticeable change in a woman 's psychiatric state . |
| 8 | This belief in a woman 's heightened sexuality during her period may also have contributed to her being considered dangerous and hence polluting to all males . |
| 9 | Abortion : belief in a woman 's right to choose ; support for abortion on request |
| 10 | A MAN who stuck a drill in a woman 's side was guilty of ‘ outrageous conduct ’ , a Londonderry Magistrate said yesterday . |
| 11 | My work experience includes one year as an accounts clerk , and two years as a shop assistant in a women 's clothes shop . |
| 12 | But it was also we who taught ourselves and those younger than we that love is not the most important thing in a woman 's life . |
| 13 | Far too many companies appear to ignore this phase in a woman 's life . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I have ended up with my children in a Women 's Hostel , still black and blue after the battering I got from the drunken unfaithful bully I was stupid enough to marry . |
| 15 | ‘ Listen , ’ she said , ‘ someone told me today about this survey in a women 's magazine . |
| 16 | One of the earliest to be shown was the 1950 film Caged , screened on ITV in 1968 : this featured Hope Emerson as a mannish , sadistic matron in a women 's prison . |
| 17 | Ealing Studios made films as untypical of itself as Dead of Night ( 1945 ) , a collection of mostly unsettling tales of the fantastic and of hidden desires that erupt from below , Pink String and Sealing Wax ( 1945 ) , in which the son of a strict father becomes the unwitting accomplice in a woman 's murder of her husband , and even a costume melodrama , Saraband for Dead Lovers ( 1948 , Saraband in US ) . |
| 18 | She was a slim blonde girl in her twenties who might have stepped out of a fashion advertisement in a women 's magazine . |
| 19 | Events in a woman 's life like childbirth see page 23 , a break-up in a marriage or partnership , or bereavement , can lead to depression . |
| 20 | Events in a woman 's life like childbirth ( see page 23 ) , a break-up in a marriage or partnership , or bereavement , can lead to depression . |
| 21 | Repressive public sanctions would make the move into prostitution a different kind of choice than when it could constitute a temporary and relatively anonymous stage in a woman 's life . |
| 22 | There 's still a lot of mystery , worse , misinformation surrounding this milestone in a woman 's life . |