Example sentences of "woman 's [noun sg] to " in BNC.

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1 Woman 's inability to be content with either living in the orbit of the male ‘ I ’ or repressing her desire into ‘ hystery ’ is a result of the fact that male desire is an essentially narcissistic ‘ Pygmalion urge ’ to invent woman in its own image , while permitting the male subject the freedom to enjoy multiple reflections .
2 Because of this prolonged infectious period , the woman 's contribution to the infected population is potentially much greater than the man 's .
3 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 .
4 He received a brisk and bewildering up-date on the progress , so far , in woman 's struggle to be a person in her own right , and not the property of some bloody man .
5 Turning to Bridget , she sensed the other woman 's hesitation to be as great as her own .
6 Julia was horrified , thinking that the last thing David 's mother would want to hear just then would be about another woman 's wish to be with her husband .
7 Worry was considered by Woman 's magazine to be the main cause of an unattractive appearance .
8 Facts about woman 's access to contraception and the annual death toll of illegal abortion ; about the number of children they want and the number they lose to malnutrition and disease ; facts about rape , incest and infibulation .
9 Another aspect of the white woman 's burden to be shouldered and borne with .
10 Her last film ‘ RATTLE OF A SIMPLE MAN ’ ( 1964 ) whose commercial and critical failure ended her career , can be seen as a woman 's reply to the eulogies of the working class male celebrated by John Osbourne and his like , and it does so by poking fun at the ideology of the male and his crude sexism .
11 But as the men in suits — the politicians — give way to the men in the studios — the experts — it seems too obvious even to mention the fact that these days there is hardly a woman 's face to be seen on television .
12 I do n't like a woman 's face to be artificial . ’
13 Accordingly , in Clarence ( 1888 ) 22 QBD 23 , a woman 's agreement to sexual intercourse with her husband meant that , surprising as it is to modern ears , he was not guilty of inflicting grievous bodily harm when he infected her with VD .
14 The author of A Woman 's Guide To Adultery packs some punches in this , her third novel about the war between the sexes .
15 Thank you for your wonderful Divorced woman 's guide to dating ( August SHE ) .
16 However , the editorial endorsement may still be fairly strong in that the booklet may carry the name of the magazine in its own title such as the " Modern Woman 's Guide to House Buying " .
17 While Lady Chatterley outrages viewers on BBC1 , and Carlton Television invest in a major three-part drama called A Woman 's Guide to Adultery ( to be screened in the autumn ) Ray has pulled off a major scoop now .
18 Among women in the general population , having three or more children at home was found to increase a woman 's vulnerability to depression in the face of provoking agents .
19 In particular , they will often have an unsatisfactory marital relationship , a factor central to a woman 's vulnerability to depression .
20 Does a married woman 's adherence to stereotyped ideals of ‘ feminine ’ behaviour in dress , appearance and so forth , have any influence on social perceptions of her family 's status ?
21 Given the Committee 's proposals on buggery , this would have meant that a man who procured a woman 's submission to anal intercourse by threats other than of violence would not necessarily have been guilty of any offence .
22 He even put the woman 's view to a certain extent : ‘ Miriam knew that their marriage was dead , but took comfort in the old rituals of going to bed together and getting up in the morning . ’
23 How should the law deal with cases where the woman 's consent to sexual intercourse stemmed from a mistake on her part ?
24 In fact she imagined the woman 's body to be filling the room , spreading right across it , blotting out the men behind her .
25 The camera moved up the woman 's body to her eyes , searching , searching .
26 This denigrated order is highly creative and productive , and women 's closeness to each other persists within it .
27 A second phase of the successful campaign is planned by Edinburgh District Council 's Women 's Committee to be launched in September of this year .
28 Women 's attraction to successful men is well known and already well explored .
29 It looks at women 's contribution to family income , and examines pensioner 's incomes , low income families , the costs of children , at how families divide their income , and at patterns of family spending .
30 Topics covered during the seminar include ‘ An Analysis of Books on Women 's Issues ’ ; ‘ Women 's Contribution to Christian Literature ’ ; ‘ Women in the Media — a Global Perspective ’ and ‘ Women 's Contribution to Children 's Literature ’ .
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