Example sentences of "woman [Wh pn] [vb past] no " in BNC.

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1 Only if their teacher were with them were they allowed to cross the dusty lane to play on the greater green , for Miss Watson was a woman who had no doubt at all that each and every pupil would be run over and either maimed or killed outright if she were not there to keep an eye on their movements .
2 In spite of these initial advantages , furnishing fabrics , as clothes , were badly in need of overall direction and it was also in Paris that a young woman who had no formal design training but had worked for the exclusive Colefax and Fowler , was hired .
3 The problem remained also of women who had no male to give them at least partial support , because they were widowed , deserted or never married ; the census of 1911 counted 327,737 aged between 15 and 55 and thus likely to have dependent children .
4 Perhaps not surprisingly , we have copious evidence throughout the period of women who felt no sexual pleasure because of the fear of pregnancy , and there is here some indication that working class women may have internalised middle class ideas of passionlessness and its correlate : male sensuality .
5 However , several women who received no benefits also registered , although the majority in this position did not , because they desired to be self-sufficient and free from official agencies .
6 About 42 per cent of unwanted pregnancies resulted in live births and there were about 15 unwanted births per year per 1,000 married women who wanted no further births ; almost 10 per cent of the marital fertility rate .
7 A massive 42-country World Fertility Survey , commissioned by UNFPA and USAID , demonstrated that half the women who wanted no more children had no access to contraception .
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