Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] be the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( b ) A solicitor , a registered foreign lawyer or a recognised body who or which is the personal representative of a deceased member of or beneficial owner of a share in a recognised body may elect to be entered in the register of members of the recognised body but no member shall hold any share as personal representative for longer than twelve months from the date of the death of the deceased . |
| 2 | ( b ) A solicitor , a registered foreign lawyer or a recognised body who or which is the personal representative of a deceased member of or beneficial owner of a share in a recognised body may elect to be entered in the register of members of the recognised body but no member shall hold any share as personal representative for longer than twelve months from the date of the death of the deceased . |
| 3 | Can I er take the opportunity to clear up some technical sort of er technical points to do with the plans , however , probably inadvertent , the first one , erm in the er letter copy of the letter that you sent to the er Planning Authority , erm and you mentioned one plan being erm handed , it does n't say , actually it did n't specify which house or which is the proper way it should be handled , but in the small plan showing the site , and the position of the houses , the attached er garage on the house on plot number two , that 's the one erm you notice the bridge , this end one , is shown on the right , but in the detailed plan of the house it 's shown on the left , now |
| 4 | He or she is the chief executive with overall responsibility for running the institution . |
| 5 | The teacher always has to operate within a number of constraints such as agreed syllabuses , governors ' wishes , heads of department , parental pressures , and so on , which mean that he or she is the only person who is competent to decide on content and method . |
| 6 | You must always keep your reader in mind because he or she is the true reason for writing the report . |
| 7 | The manager may be wary of the chief sales executive because he or she is the obvious choice to replace the manager , since he or she enjoys high active status with the rest of the team . |
| 8 | This involved a teacher treating a pupil in a manner which suggested that he or she was the same sort of person as an older brother or sister who had either offended in some way or was being offered as a worthy model . |
| 9 | Inevitably , the financial consequences were most immediate and dramatic for those women who were not in receipt of benefit or who were the sole wage earners . |
| 10 | Or there is the grander scenery , and the more spectacular engineering , of the railway from Settle up to Carlisle , some of the finest railway landscape in Britain ; and the route over Shap with its visions of the Lakeland mountains ; and there are the superb night scenes from the railway viaducts that span the industrial towns of Lancashire and Yorkshire . |
| 11 | Or there 's the celebrated case of one of our members speaking in last year 's debate on the maternity leave directive . |
| 12 | Or there was the antique shop in Beaumont Street , only one flummoxed woman who was always shutting for ‘ ten minutes ’ . |
| 13 | Or they 're the right size but they 've got the hard bristles |
| 14 | All I can say is , this is either bullshit , or it 's the biggest story in the history of mankind . ’ . |
| 15 | Or it 's the biggest cause of the budget deficit erm , in this country , is unemployment and social security etcetera , and we get a , a brilliant plan for erm , job creation , and what do they do ? |
| 16 | Either the evil they seek to prevent is the suffering of animals … or it is the moral corruption of human beings . |
| 17 | The planning must then design the introductory and motivating unit ( the " lead lesson " , the " starter pack " , an introductory film , or whatever is the best agent for the particular purpose ) , a schedule of subsequent activity anticipating varieties of use and as many of the consequent hazards as can be foreseen , and the expected conclusion ; and at every stage it is important to be clear about intentions and objectives , learning points , and how it is proposed to monitor the continuing success of the work in achieving these objectives . |
| 18 | exactly but every body who did something like being vegetarian or what 's the other thing ? , goes to church , church people are the bloody worse |
| 19 | Or what is the ultimate outcome of any learning process ? |
| 20 | If we now compute a weighted sum , or what is the same thing , the sum of the A-measures at each exposure , then for a given subject area this sum will increase as the reflected light intensity increases , since more pixels will be seen at each exposure . |
| 21 | The only duty of the tenant is to use the premises in a husbandlike , or what is the same thing , a tenantlike manner … |
| 22 | or what was the highest score on the first one ? |
| 23 | And I am the legitimate heir . ’ |
| 24 | cos Edmund and I are the same age |
| 25 | Despite Bob 's protestations that he was staying in the Presidential Suite , was trying to avoid fans , and was actually the ‘ BAWB DYLAN ’ , the callow youth grabbed him by the scruff of his ketchup-stained hooded to and sneered , ‘ Oh yeah , and I 'm the Prime Minister Of Ireland , so I am ’ . |
| 26 | I 'm Jo Kelly and I 'm the Labour party candidate for Hereford . |
| 27 | I want it , I need it and I 'm the right person for it . |
| 28 | There are times when I go down to the beach at The Pit and I 'm the only surfer down there and I 'm so frustrated with it all that I sit on a rock and shout my head off . |
| 29 | " Maybe you 'd better do for me too , then , " Sam replied , " for it was my cockboat we rowed across in , and I 'm the only witness to the murder , for that 's what it was . |
| 30 | If he 's never caught his breath at the sight of your crooked smile , or felt his heart lurch with love at the sound of your voice , or watched you walk across a room and wanted you and finally found out that you return his feelings , then he 's a poor man and I 'm the richest man in the world . |