Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] of a woman [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Some writers suggest that reduced participation in work was encouraged by Victorian moralists through an idealization of the role of the home , while others saw that in the early twentieth century ‘ the development of separate suburban environments in the maturing industrial/commercial city was itself of crucial importance in the establishment of the home as a separate sphere and in the enforcement of the social definition of a woman 's place as being in the home ’ ( Mackenzie and Rose , 1983 , 169 ) . |
| 4 | And possible harmful effects sink into the depths of the medical literature , such as : the serious condition of over stimulation of a woman 's ovaries and other adverse effects from the powerful drugs and hormones used on women in earlier fertility treatments , as well as for IVF now ; higher risks of miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy and damage to women 's fertility from the invasive methods . |
| 5 | The Dupatta ( or Chunni as Hindus and Sikhs call it ) is the most obviously symbolic part of a woman 's clothes . |
| 6 | For Louisa this crucial moment of a woman 's life — ; the very act by which life itself was assured of continuity — ; remained a mystery . |
| 7 | Beatrice Webb 's admiration for the philanthropic work of Mary Booth rested on the way in which the latter expressed ‘ gentle and loving contempt for any special work outside the ordinary sphere of a woman 's life , [ and ] her high standard of excellence which should discourage any vain attempt to leave the beaten track of a woman 's duty ’ . |
| 8 | The requirement for abstinence after menstruation and the time for resuming relations correspond precisely to the natural tides of a woman 's sexual desire . |
| 9 | Her stomach did an odd flip as her brain registered a new-found awareness of a woman 's absolute power over the seemingly stronger sex . |
| 10 | A man can be aroused , even to erection , by a printed photograph of a woman 's body . |
| 11 | Her work almost perfectly illustrates debates as to the nature of traditional exclusions of a woman 's art . |
| 12 | Twined about the fingers of his free hand were long strands of a woman 's hair . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This contrasts with the two major irreversible shifts of a woman 's life , first to puberty , then to menopause . |
| 15 | Chela and Urna are dancers at La Fama night club , a grotty little joint comprising one bar , 15 or so rickety wooden tables , and an illuminated picture of a woman 's bottom which flashes on and off . |
| 16 | Chela and Urna are dancers at La Fama night club , a grotty little joint comprising one bar , 15 or so rickety wooden tables , and an illuminated picture of a woman 's bottom . |
| 17 | Chela and Urna are dancers at La Fama night club , a grotty little joint comprising one bar , 15 or so rickety wooden tables , and an illuminated picture of a woman 's bottom . |
| 18 | This case covers perhaps in classic form the problematic use of a woman 's previous sexual history in determining the outcome of a rape trial . |
| 19 | Thus in an extraordinary manner the physical manifestation of a woman 's fertility which had always been welcome and extolled in ancient and traditional Hindu society , where even mother earth was conceived to be menstruating in the beginning of the rainy season , came to be associated with a sin.s |
| 20 | ’ As well as its rather old-fashioned view of a woman 's place , the film represents gays as ‘ men who walk poodles ’ . |
| 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 | Both poems are somewhat conventional in their idealized descriptions of a woman 's beauty captivating young men . |
| 23 | Unlike the rounded curves of a woman 's plump nether cheeks , which were pleasantly padded , a man 's bum was slim , with little flesh covering the bone . |
| 24 | The film combines a heroic tale of a woman 's courage , talent and endurance with the spectacular sights and sounds of the Chinese opera . |
| 25 | He is an irresponsible boy , Alida thought , making malicious fun of a woman 's anxiety , not understanding symptoms , uncaring . |
| 26 | She searched her handbag for the handkerchief , lipstick and eye pencil that are necessary parts of a woman 's grief . |
| 27 | Beatrice Webb 's admiration for the philanthropic work of Mary Booth rested on the way in which the latter expressed ‘ gentle and loving contempt for any special work outside the ordinary sphere of a woman 's life , [ and ] her high standard of excellence which should discourage any vain attempt to leave the beaten track of a woman 's duty ’ . |