Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] be the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He or she is the chief executive with overall responsibility for running the institution . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | You must always keep your reader in mind because he or she is the true reason for writing the report . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Or they 're the right size but they 've got the hard bristles |
| 7 | All I can say is , this is either bullshit , or it 's the biggest story in the history of mankind . ’ . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | Either the evil they seek to prevent is the suffering of animals … or it is the moral corruption of human beings . |
| 10 | And I am the legitimate heir . ’ |
| 11 | cos Edmund and I are the same age |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | I 'm Jo Kelly and I 'm the Labour party candidate for Hereford . |
| 14 | I want it , I need it and I 'm the right person for it . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | " 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Derby manager Harry Storer swanked in those days : ‘ I have a team of bastards — and I 'm the biggest bastard of them all . ’ |
| 19 | and I 'm the mail-out coordinator we 've we 've so far mailed out all but one of the of the new magazines and er we did n't do the last one but we 're we 're scheduling up for doing this one . |
| 20 | I 'm Colin Shepherd and I 'm the Conservative Party Candidate for Hereford . |
| 21 | And I were the only boy , |
| 22 | Perhaps by my middle-aged presence , the suggestion that Flora and I were the same age ? |
| 23 | Matt and I were the same age within a month but Alfred was two or three years older and Maurice quite a bit younger . |
| 24 | I felt that he and I were the same sort of person , that there was something in my brain and heart , in my blood and bone , that connected me to him for ever . |
| 25 | So the accent was no problem and I was the right age . |
| 26 | When I arrived Jules and Sherry were nowhere in sight , and I was the only performer without a day job as a singing teacher in Coventry . |
| 27 | When he finished reading , he began to sing his favourite song , If You Were The Only Girl In The World And I Was The Only Boy , except he turned the words round — for a laugh , he always said — and sang : ‘ If I was the only girl in the world and you were the only boy … . ’ |
| 28 | " If you were the only girl in the world and I was the only boy , nothing else would matter in the whole wide world , " my mother would sing inappropriately . |
| 29 | I told him about the sunsets , when the Jungfrau had turned pink and I was the only person on the Aletsch . |
| 30 | The line went on into a big Jamaican area , and I was the only white left in a full carriage . |