Example sentences of "one [prep] [art] [adj] women " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 's as good , for his age , as they 've got , and his wife is one of the sweetest women I know in this town . |
| 2 | ‘ One of the women who works for me is one of the toughest women I have ever come across , and most of the women graduates are more than competent . |
| 3 | On the way back to the Hankses ' cottage with Anna , Seb and the navvies met one of the gipsy women who had been enquiring after the missing girl in the village . |
| 4 | One of the young women is not honest , and one of the young men is weak , and these two pay dearly for their lapses . |
| 5 | One of the defeated-looking women , sullen and grimy , came in once with cups of tea for them all . |
| 6 | One of the shawled women must have seen Sharpe and Doggett approaching for she suddenly called the small girl who ran nervously towards the thatched cottage . |
| 7 | Before that I 've always been involved in women 's journals , including Women 's Report which is one of the early women 's monitoring journals in this country . |
| 8 | The last few years they had been more apart , until in 1969 they both rediscovered each other in one of the first Women 's Liberation groups in London . |
| 9 | Perhaps I was one of the first women in the entire province of Parma to be ‘ liberated ’ in that sense . |
| 10 | Her commitment to women 's causes continued for the rest of her life , and when female suffrage was granted in 1918 she was one of the first women to contest a parliamentary seat , standing unsuccessfully as Labour candidate for Rusholme in 1918 . |
| 11 | She took great delight in physical freedom , was one of the first women to cycle , loved to row , and climbed the Matterhorn twice . |
| 12 | She became one of the first women fellows in 1919 , when women were finally admitted . |
| 13 | An ardent but always non-violent feminist , she campaigned vigorously for women 's rights , fought hard to improve rudimentary state education and medical services , and was one of the first women to stand for election to a borough council after the passing of the Qualification of Women Act in 1907 . |
| 14 | She was one of the first women to be elected to the fellowship of the Linnean Society ( 1905 ) . |
| 15 | One of the first women to be awarded a master 's degree in business administration from Harvard University , Franklin had served in the White House under President Richard Nixon . |
| 16 | The girl , who was reading English at Puddephat 's college — one of the first women students there , in fact — had been found dead in her room just before the end of the summer term . |
| 17 | Peggy Lucas was one of the first women to fly Spitfires and went on to become the first woman in Britain to hold a commercial pilot 's licence . |
| 18 | Peggy Lucas was one of the first women to fly Spitfires and went on to become the first woman in Britain to hold a commercial pilot 's licence . |
| 19 | Michael George Wittet was born in Bombay in 1918 , the son of a consulting architect from Perth and a French mother who was one of the first women to graduate in history and languages at the Sorbonne in Paris . |
| 20 | A star item of a different kind was T.H. Gillespie 's Story of the Edinburgh Zoo , for it contains illustrations by Nancy Brackett , one of the first women elders at St.A 's & St.G 's . |
| 21 | Melanie turned to one of the other women and handed over Antiope . |
| 22 | One of the other women , angry at Montag 's reading , says |
| 23 | Shortly afterwards , another golfing-designed stamp was issued in memory of Mildred " Babe " Zaharias , one of the greatest women golfers the game has known , and a founder/charter member of the American Ladies ' Professional Golfing Association . |
| 24 | In these days of full employment any one of the skilled women could find a job elsewhere easily . |
| 25 | Deborah Coleman was one of the highest-flying women in Silicon Valley with the title chief financial officer until she suddenly took a long sabbatical a couple of years ago : she did return to Apple Computer Inc and became vice-president for information systems , but quit again suddenly last week ; she has now resurfaced at Tektronix Inc as vice-president for materials operations , which is a new post . |
| 26 | A public favourite was Pen Gui Qing ( The Actress and her Ghost ) by Huang Shu On , one of the seven women filmmakers currently employed by the Shanghai film studios . |
| 27 | She was chosen ad one of the 66 women and 66 men ( 66 being the Queen 's age ) , to mark her service to the church and community . |
| 28 | Only one of the 20 women referred by GPs did not have her wishes considered . |
| 29 | One of the youngest women in the refuge , twenty-one years old with two children , worked before she was a mother as a shop assistant : |
| 30 | The screening will follow a Guardian Talk with Lynda La Plante , one of the few women to have established herself in television drama as a writer . |