Example sentences of "[pers pn] [is] [adv] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She 's only the same age as Tommy but I think she 's already a good enough organist to start playing in church on Sundays . ’ |
| 2 | She 's currently the hottest actress in Hollywood , but Michelle Pfeiffer struggled for 10 years to achive star status ; overcoming drink , drugs and a quasi-religious cult on the way . |
| 3 | TO MANY she 's still the chirpy Cockney who made it on her looks and has little else to offer . |
| 4 | Still national treasurer and she 's o well over eighty , she 's still the national treasurer . |
| 5 | She 's obviously the bossy sort . |
| 6 | She is exactly the same age as Mrs Smith and came to Britain from Jamaica in 1957 as a 20-year old with her father ( a skilled motor mechanic who came to work on the London buses ) , her mother and her three brothers . |
| 7 | Less surprisingly , she is also the first Green . |
| 8 | Here , by contrast , it is Charlotte Brontë who is the implied subject of " encouraged " ; and she is also the grammatical subject of the sentence . |
| 9 | But she is still the same MP ; I do n't think she has moved an inch . ’ |
| 10 | Nor are all bruises evidence of battering : I have vivid memories of my own older daughter 's accident-proneness in her earlier years ( she is possibly the only individual in the country to have given herself two black eyes by collision with a holy-water stoup ! ) and on one or two occasions her appearance would inevitably , today , have landed her on the " At risk " register . |
| 11 | She is possibly the only woman in Britain , other than Mrs Major , to hold that view . |
| 12 | She is now the proud owner of an enviable figure , comparable with someone half her age . |
| 13 | Within months , her condition improved and she is now the proud mother of Alexandra . |
| 14 | She is now the best singer in Paris . |
| 15 | 1947 saw her launched from the Kelvin yard and she is now the last sea going paddle steamer in the world , faithfully paddling the old route down the Clyde and out to the islands of the west when there are enough tourists to cram her nostalgic upper decks and saloons . |
| 16 | She is certainly the greatest serve/volley player ever , and at 35 years of age , the greatest player of this age of teenage baseline clones . |
| 17 | Because very often you , a father can be very keen on gardening and getting the children to help him is just the last thing . |
| 18 | It 's already the only place in Britain where eleven year olds are learning Japanese under the National Curriculum . |
| 19 | When he accidentally gets talking to women who have children , it 's practically the first question he asks them — it 's the first test they face . |
| 20 | Nowadays , it 's probably the only profession that enables you to spend time close to birds of prey and watch them in action . |
| 21 | But at this time , it 's probably the only record Public Enemy could , or should have made . |
| 22 | Well yes , it 's probably the smallest skip . |
| 23 | Now for er sensing people it 's probably the other way round . |
| 24 | Well it 's probably the best way , then your all in the same dish . |
| 25 | It 's probably the best way like that you see and walk it in er you see . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's probably the best thing , Rachaela . |
| 27 | ‘ If he feels up to it , it 's probably the best thing for him , ’ said Melissa . |
| 28 | Actually for me it 's probably the best thing |
| 29 | I mean in a way I think it 's probably the best thing that 's happened to me for a while cos I could see myself see the thing is I can I was n't ever planning to be here for even six months . |
| 30 | It 's probably the best training that can be done . |