Example sentences of "[pers pn] [is] a [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But whether yours is a local area network or a global one , your problem is the same . |
| 2 | 'E 's a terrible racking cough . ’ |
| 3 | One commercial problem which had faced Lipton was that although theirs is a worldwide trading name , outside America the brand is marketed by rival companies . |
| 4 | Theirs is a brief Mayfly existence . |
| 5 | She 's still in business , but now she 's a one woman band working at home from her garage . |
| 6 | ‘ Mark 's ma has got a livery stable — she 's a real leathery Jane . |
| 7 | Corn plaster queen lands weekly spot on ‘ Kelly ’ ‘ She 's a one-woman shock force ’ |
| 8 | " Ee , ah 'm sorry , Mr Herriot , she 's a right awd bugger . |
| 9 | but she 's a right library type , miserable as sin |
| 10 | ‘ But she 's a simple country girl with hardly a thought in her head . |
| 11 | It makes me cough a bit because when I came on the scene he was the one academically everything and she was the one who was academically rather disadvantaged but she , she was , you know , no not having the greatest of , of , of success but erm it was said that she would n't be able to be a student nurse because she was n't bright enough but you know she clocked up the O levels and A levels like guide badges and she went off on this pre-nursing course in South Notts you know and she was in and out of the Queens on a course and people and , you know , and she said I do n't know all the answers but I 've a rough idea about some of the questions , I want to be a nurse and off she went to , to , to Walsall and I 'm not saying she 's a brilliant student nurse but erm absolutely clear that she 's better than some of the others . |
| 12 | She 's a big Portuguese man-of-war . |
| 13 | Yeah that 's obvious , she 's a fucking sex maniac |
| 14 | She 's a lovely girl Bev int she ? |
| 15 | " She 's a little slave girl , " said Paul , a lascivious note creeping into his voice . |
| 16 | But she proved to be a highly effective change master in her organization , responsible for many successful new projects , because she is a superb coalition builder , drawing hardly at all on her relationship with the CEO . |
| 17 | She is a part-time shop assistant and a housewife . |
| 18 | She is a good role model for young players with her excellent attitude and obvious love of the game . |
| 19 | She is a brilliant mechanic engineer , especially in spacecraft structures and Intelloid analysis . |
| 20 | the girls of my school have to take the place entirely of the mother of the family ; the families are generally large ; the woman goes out in the morning , she works in a pickle house , if she is a better class woman she goes out charring , or she goes out step cleaning during the day and the little girl takes the place of the mother of the family . |
| 21 | Within the family , John 's father was the only one to express reservations , ‘ and not because Kathie is white , but because she is a committed career woman . ’ |
| 22 | She is a past RNA winner . |
| 23 | He or she is a third party intermediary in a broadly defined accountability relationship between , on the one hand , government and management , and on the other hand , politicians and the public at large . |
| 24 | Yes she is a full time worker |
| 25 | ‘ It 's a pleasant stopping place , ’ he replied , and Fabia could n't help it , she just burst out laughing . |
| 26 | It could be that you 've never taken your family abroad on holiday , so you set yourself a little objective , that in two years ' time , I want to take them all , even if it 's a damn package deal on a flight to Tenerife , do it , will you feel good , will the family enjoy it ? |
| 27 | Bright and very comfortable to wear , it 's a perfect summer cover-up . |
| 28 | push the disk in if it 's a floppy disk version , if you have n't got a floppy disk er it 's got its own hard disk , you do n't need a floppy |
| 29 | Set on Corton Cliffs high above the beach , it 's a lush meadowland course ideal for mixed ability groups . |
| 30 | It 's a dry summer time . |