Example sentences of "a woman ['s] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it is not stated explicitly in the constitution , in 1965 the Supreme Court decided that there was a constitutional right to personal privacy , and in Roe v. Wade ( 1973 ) it ruled that this included a woman 's decision regarding abortion . |
| 2 | Figure 4 Ivory carving of a woman 's head from Brassempouy , Landes , France . |
| 3 | That 'e 'd nicked them off a woman 's washing-line in Brixton . |
| 4 | Then a woman 's voice at the telephone in the flat . |
| 5 | As she mounted the stairs she heard a radio playing in one flat , a woman 's voice in another . |
| 6 | A woman 's voice in the crowd of warriors and attendants , and a slight figure appeared , hooded against the rain , the Ivrigar people making way for her . |
| 7 | A woman 's position in Egyptian society depended upon her children , particularly her sons . |
| 8 | If any man out there thinks that this book written by a man is a woman 's idea of a romantic fantasy , they are mistaken . |
| 9 | Consequently , a woman 's sense of self-worth is very bound up with her image . |
| 10 | A woman 's sense of validity should lie in her feelings about herself . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's been interesting to see how much a woman 's sense of herself comes from how she looks . |
| 12 | Is it and it 's a multiple , is it A , a woman 's preference for men 's clothes erm two other answers . |
| 13 | A fine thing you 're going to be to warm a woman 's bed at night . |
| 14 | Indeed , as the majority of consumer " buyers " are women , a woman 's point of view is most valuable and a woman 's capacity for detail , at least in my opinion and that of many employers , is an eminently valuable asset in work where detail and exactness are essential . |
| 15 | And a woman 's girdle at two guineas struck Charlie as quite ridiculous . |
| 16 | Some women artists would say that as ‘ the personal is political ’ , to depict a woman 's experience of premature childbirth is , in itself , a political act ; and , in some respects , it is . |
| 17 | There is also a risk of infected vaginal fluids entering a woman 's bloodstream through her vaginal walls if she shares a vibrator or other sex toys with a partner with HIV , or if infected blood or vaginal fluids are able to get into an open cut during sex . |
| 18 | a woman 's cape with long ends coming down in front ( Fr. pelerin , a pilgrim ) . |
| 19 | ‘ Rowdy Salford ’ , complained a local rag in 1876 , was too much in the headlines : ‘ Brutal Assault in Salford : Maliciously Wounding with a Knife ’ ; ‘ A Kicking Case in Broughton ’ ; ‘ Knocking a Man 's Eye Out in Salford ’ ; ‘ Assault with a poker in Salford ’ ; ‘ Breaking a Woman 's jaw in Salford ’ ; ‘ Another Assault on the police in Salford ’ . |
| 20 | actually , she did say that erm she sent back every short list that did n't have a woman 's name on it . |
| 21 | A woman 's way of learning to ‘ fly in the dark ’ is an individual one , for it must come by discovering her own source of power , the potential of her emotional and sexual drives . |
| 22 | Cool response to temptation from slice of Forbidden Fruit Alison Daniels , in Dublin , gauges reaction to the publication of extracts from a book about a woman 's affair with the former Bishop of Galway |
| 23 | Conception of oneself as a housewife or not is liable to influence a woman 's behaviour in a variety of ways . |
| 24 | There is little evidence that a woman 's chance of advancement is any worse in the TNCs than in domestic industry . |
| 25 | If a woman 's relationship with a man breaks down , and he abandons her , she will usually blame herself , having been taught that success in personal relationships is her responsibility . |
| 26 | There will always be varying ways in which a woman 's relationship to her home is expressed , depending on the period and culture in which she lives . |
| 27 | When the swallow swooped through a woman 's song in a cavern |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | And she was thrilled by that , for she found it hard to come back to a woman 's life in Egypt after tasting life in France . |
| 30 | 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 . |