Example sentences of "the young woman " in BNC.

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1 But more importantly , as far as Roddick is concerned , each franchised outlet is required to take on a community project in its area , which she believes gives the young women in the organisation additional status and helps them to realise that everybody has the ability to change the world for the better .
2 For this reason , and because many of the young women I spoke to said that they never saw images of young women who looked anything like themselves , the book includes photographs , taken by Sally Feldt .
3 None of the young women you see in the photographs in this book is a model , and none had cultivated and practised the professional gaze we are used to seeing stare from the pages of a magazine .
4 The young women in this book speak of the importance in their lives of their self-image ; how they feel about their changing bodies , the judgements that they are aware of from others and from themselves , their enjoyment of dressing to ‘ make a statement ’ , the way they want to challenge stereotypes about themselves , the pleasures of looking good on their own terms .
5 Many of the young women in this book spoke of their admiration for other women , other girls .
6 In the first draft of this book , I left out any description of the young women speaking , and the introduction to each chapter was only a few lines .
7 I told most of the young women on the telephone that I 'd be wearing a battered black hat , so that they could find me easily .
8 The following day I asked the young women of an all-girls ' school I was visiting if they had seen her , and what they thought .
9 But the aspiring tenant of 11 Downing Street was a picture of affability and interested concern as he examined toiletries and chatted to the young women on the production line .
10 To the young women kneeling by his bedside he spoke seriously and kindly .
11 In January 1987 a branch of the Young Women 's Association was formed with Mrs Averil Capper as president , Mrs Norma Burke as vice-president , Mrs Sylvia Courtney as secretary and Mrs Gale Davison as treasurer .
12 Confined to their own class and religion , the marriage prospects for the young women who remained dwindled with each passing year .
13 I hope you will print my letter for the benefit of the young women who think they are in love and are willing to overlook ‘ a few things ’ because they are afraid that they ca n't live without the guy .
14 ‘ Belles cottes , pas de chemise ’ sums up Avize in parler Champenois , perhaps because , according to local tradition , the young women of this village would lie naked upon the slopes of Mont-Arme ( now , Mont-Aimé ) on the early morning of 1 March every year , to catch the first rays of sun upon their glistening bodies .
15 Early March was scarcely the time of year for pleasure-sailing , but the young women insisted on going along ; and wrapping up warmly , they went down to the harbour and found fishermen to row them out in one of their high-prowed cobles .
16 The young women had heard that Berwick was besieged and that the English army was none so far off , but they did not know the details , nor of course that Ramsay had been involved .
17 The young women had come downstairs and Dad , who had already had a skinful , addressed Molly in a jovial manner .
18 The young women of the hareem , her foster sisters , cousins and young aunts scurried around her much as they do in any society , running errands , advising , gossiping .
19 A white middle-class man gave a lecture to American High School students about how to avoid rape , giving demonstrations to some of the young women of how to avoid him raping them .
20 It was our unclouded commitment to women , and greater insistence that the fundamentals of sexism should be tackled without compromise , that brought youth service attention back to the young women who for decades had been excluded by boys and men .
21 It 's not unusual on girls ' weekends or at women workers ' conferences for them to be demonstrative with each other , or with the young women , while we remain caught in the straight-jacket of frigidity while we are in the public eye .
22 The youths were black , a fact made clear by the relatively unusual use of photographs by the papers ; the young women were white .
23 In court the young women were cross-examined at length and accounts of this published in the press .
24 They suggested that by being out at night the young women had contributed in some way to their own rapes , even though they were merely returning by bus to their homes .
25 She projected a kind of agelessness , which had made her at the same time an object of attention from both the Young Women 's Fitness Class and the Over-50s Club .
26 The voices of the young women who enter the criminal justice system are even less likely to be heard than those of their male counterparts .
27 All the young women knew the consequences .
28 NATHALIE PROVOST ( STUDENT ) : Let me say to all the young women of Quebec who want to study to be engineers , do n't give up !
29 One of the young women is not honest , and one of the young men is weak , and these two pay dearly for their lapses .
30 A more benign and glamorous model was embodied in the young women teachers with their New Look skirts and wide-belted dresses .
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