Example sentences of "woman who have [be] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Vitor caressed her for a moment but then , impatient for the nakedness of the woman who had been such an obstinate aching presence in his bloodstream , he eased the amber silk from her shoulders and unhooked her lacy bra .
2 As she could not afford to keep a nanny or an au pair , having permanently available a woman who had borne and reared ten children , together with a woman who had been one of them , had been to Scarlet a godsend .
3 No sooner one woman in the grave whom he had cheated on , a woman who had been miserable enough to kill herself , than he was in bed with another .
4 ‘ A charitable woman who had been active in the Nationalist movement gave us rooms in an old house and collected money from her friends .
5 ‘ That woman who 's been good to you , would she have her if you asked ? ’
6 The information required will be — the full names of the ceased person , and any other names that they have been known by , including the maiden surname of a woman who has been married ; their date and place of birth ; their recent occupation , and their husband 's full name and occupation , if the person who has died was a married woman .
7 The change of status , too , from ‘ wife , to ‘ widow ’ is felt very keenly by most women as a loss of considerable significance , which indeed it is ; for without a partner , a woman who has been married for some years may , unless she already has well developed interests outside her home , find that her social life is suddenly transformed in a very disturbing way .
8 9.18–26 ; Luke 8.40–56 ) he heals a woman who has been unclean for many years because of a flow of blood .
9 Other recent changes have generally restricted access to unemployment benefit ( Atkinson and Micklewright , 1989 ) and , in particular , they have denied benefit to women who had been eligible to at least some benefit in their own right .
10 In the Highlands it might even be a matter of clanship , for in 1776 Lord Kames declared fugitive five women who had been responsible for assembling a mob which had insulted and attacked Patrick Grant , the new presentee at Boleskine , part of the forfeited Lovat estate , ‘ in resentment that they were not to get a gentleman of the name of Fraser to be their minister ’ .
11 Friedman , writing about the work done by a group of doctors in Family Planning Clinics with women who had been unable to consummate their marriage , typified certain syndromes by reference to myths .
12 There was a tremendous release of tension , particularly for the people , the women who had been permanent workers as opposed to the students .
13 It is rendered particularly difficult for women who have been stereotyped , because the stereotype of women is one which precludes the exercise of active responsibility .
14 This is good news for all women who have been unsuccessful with hip and thigh diets that concentrate mainly on dieting and calorie-counting .
15 We know that in general women who have been married ( that is , separated divorced or widowed ) are more likely to be living with their own parents than those who currently are married ( Martin and Roberts , 1984 ) .
16 Sh I think she sees a lot of women who have been social workers .
17 ANWIC 's steering committee is composed of women who have been active in the WACC women 's programme and the Asia Region workshops covering some 13 countries .
18 It remains to be seen if this impressionistic statement is correct or whether it will apply to future generations of elderly women who have been active in the labour market for most of their adult life .
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