Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] be the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , second baby has a P K U gene from his mum and a normal gene from his dad and he is not affected , but he is a P K U carrier , right , third baby gets a normal gene from his mum and a P K U gene from his dad and he 's the same , or she 's the same P K U carrier , but not affected , unfortunately the last baby gets a P K U gene from , from mum and a P K U gene from dad and this baby has got P K U and that is a simple , simple sort of exercise of how genetic disorders sometimes appear and sometimes do n't |
| 2 | He or she is the chief executive with overall responsibility for running the institution . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | You must always keep your reader in mind because he or she is the true reason for writing the report . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | So you see , that it is important for every coach in the country , even if he is giving a lesson to a child who does n't have any kind of tennis talent , to give the lesson as if he or she was the future Wimbledon champion . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Or they 're the right size but they 've got the hard bristles |
| 9 | All I can say is , this is either bullshit , or it 's the biggest story in the history of mankind . ’ . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | Either the evil they seek to prevent is the suffering of animals … or it is the moral corruption of human beings . |
| 12 | And I am the legitimate heir . ’ |
| 13 | Years before , he had suddenly exclaimed with bitter irony , ‘ You are quite the plush gentleman and I am the black sheep . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Ilona and I are the new Adam and Eve , ’ he tells me . |
| 15 | ‘ Apart from a few people at the Kremlin and at Number Ten , you and I are the only people who know of the situation . ’ |
| 16 | cos Edmund and I are the same age |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | I 'm Jo Kelly and I 'm the Labour party candidate for Hereford . |
| 19 | I want it , I need it and I 'm the right person for it . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | " 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Derby manager Harry Storer swanked in those days : ‘ I have a team of bastards — and I 'm the biggest bastard of them all . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I 'm Colin Shepherd and I 'm the Conservative Party Candidate for Hereford . |
| 26 | Gwenellen and I were the only members of our set on days . |
| 27 | And I were the only boy , |
| 28 | In fact , Alan and I were the only ones to find the old master and pupil just what the doctor ordered . |
| 29 | So I reached Lochinver in style , had time to look around , and mounted the bus outside the post office : the morning 's collection of mail and I were the only passengers . |
| 30 | In the spring of 1520 Benjamin Daunbey and I were the proud occupants of a large manor house on the outskirts of Ipswich . |