Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] be [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If your parent receives this allowance it can only continue for up to four weeks after admission to a National Health Service hospital ( unless he or she is a private patient ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He or she is a qualified Solicitor or Barrister and is paid . |
| 4 | The last is always the more interesting type ; not infrequently he or she is an impressive doer , sometimes an eloquent speaker ; some , very few , are both . |
| 5 | He or she is the chief executive with overall responsibility for running the institution . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | You must always keep your reader in mind because he or she is the true reason for writing the report . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In such a situation of role confusion and role strains a person at the end of the line is not disposed to react to new policy initiatives from above as if he or she were a mere functionary . |
| 11 | Or they 're the right size but they 've got the hard bristles |
| 12 | Also now I tend , as you 've probably come to realise I 've tended to include specific types of bonding arrangements as a functional group for example , I call a carbon carbon double bond , I call that a functional group for the simple reason that that arrangement of bonds dictates the principle properties of those compounds and in that context I 'm then using the word group a bit more liberally instead of saying it 's a group of atoms which dictate the properties I 'll say it 's a group of atoms or it 's a special grouping of electrons , which dictate the properties . |
| 13 | All I can say is , this is either bullshit , or it 's the biggest story in the history of mankind . ’ . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | It is a cuddly pet , an animal to be loved and treasured by children , or it is a real pain in the neck — for Britain 's farming community . |
| 16 | This is either some magic geometry of which I know nothing or it is a happy coincidence . |
| 17 | Either the evil they seek to prevent is the suffering of animals … or it is the moral corruption of human beings . |
| 18 | Garland was murdered because he was Garland , or it was a motiveless killing , or it was a mistake . |
| 19 | If you do n't make a sale , or it was a successful day , it 's the fact that you 've had a full day of activity that matters . |
| 20 | It was n't lumber or it was a funny name , backscratch or something , a dance . |
| 21 | ‘ He must go , ’ fretted Rhodri , tramping the length of his solar like a caged wolf , ‘ or he 's a dead man , and his blood will be on our heads . |
| 22 | Some teachers felt that the advantages were directly linked to the headteacher and whether or not she or he was a good business manager . |
| 23 | and me being a great innovator |
| 24 | And me being a silly idiot , see if I 'd realized I did n't think you do n't think that there 's three parts of the tank , you think it 's a tank and you just turn your tap on and the water comes out or |
| 25 | She always turns the conversation away when Aunt Minnie starts about marriage and me being an old maid . ’ |
| 26 | My name is Private A and I am a part-time soldier in the 4th ( County Fermanagh ) Battalion of the Ulster Defence Regiment . |
| 27 | ‘ We shall walk barefoot and dusty and alone and suffer many things , and within our sufferings we shall find the pearl of great price , the untarnished joy , the secret treasure , and we shall find it because he is a pure saint and the bravest man in the world and I am a simple singer robed in humility , one risen from the dead ’ |
| 28 | She said : ‘ I have never been in an aeroplane and I am a little bit nervous . ’ |
| 29 | On the other hand I have Theosophy and I am a staunch supporter . |
| 30 | As he is a natural pessimist and I am a natural optimist , I quoted the good and he quoted only the bad . |