Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] is 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 | Either the evil they seek to prevent is the suffering of animals … or it is the moral corruption of human beings . |
| 6 | well and yours is the same look |
| 7 | I saw my first reed bunting 's nest in 1964 in the marsh between the lochs of Spiggie and Brow , and now in the space of twenty-five years they have successfully colonised the islands , and theirs is the only bunting song that today 's Shetland children will know … |
| 8 | For her own part , there was never any question of her not studying science and she is the best sort of role model because of her enthusiasm : ‘ Just finding out what makes things work . |
| 9 | I took her outside this morning and she is the typical scaredy cat she is ! |
| 10 | And she is the usual woman — |
| 11 | ‘ I know that you want to marry Rose , ’ Mrs Maylie told her son , ‘ and she is the nicest person I know . |
| 12 | Guns and Killing magazine currently rate her as the sixth most dangerous solo outlaw in the Americas , and she is the highest-ranked woman on the list , coming in at thirty-seven places above the Antarctic esperado Ice Kold Katie . |
| 13 | As between Morrison and Peter Winterbottom , Morrison had the better season and the better game at Twickenham and he is the better part of three years younger than the 33-year-old English openside . |
| 14 | He lost Manoj Prabhakar , carried away by the exuberance of his own and everybody else 's strokeplay , but Kapil Dev survives - and he is the only Indian who has made a faster Test hundred than Azharuddin 's . |
| 15 | Earth Commander knows about the AOL , and he is the best man — ’ |
| 16 | Matthew 's style was snappy : ‘ John Major was the Chancellor who got us into recession and he is the Prime Minister who is n't going to get us out … ’ |
| 17 | We can only use him in one-day games this season because of his commitments with Cumberland , but his qualities are obvious and he is the aggressive type of batsman spectators love to watch . ’ |
| 18 | Will he also recognise that I have never believed that there are no Tories in Scotland , for one Tory has spoken for Conservative respectability in Scotland , and he is the hon. Member for Dumfries ( Sir H. Monro ) ? |
| 19 | Stewpid is back at school with his arm in plaster , and he is the big HERO with kids queueing to write their names on his plasterised arm . |
| 20 | Yesterday 's bombs are thought to have been Semtex and it is the first time outside the capital that devices have been casually placed by the road side . |
| 21 | ‘ Talisker is not so far from Merkadale , and it is the largest population centre in Minginish . |
| 22 | Basaltic silicates are comparatively rich in iron , titanium and magnesium , and it is the extra iron and titanium that is largely responsible for the lower albedo of the maria . |
| 23 | The council argues that Hazelbank was the original site of the old town hall destroyed by an IRA bomb 20 years ago , and it is the best location in the borough . |
| 24 | In addition to increased acid secretion , duodenal ulcer patients are known to have increased pepsin secretion and it is the increased exposure to this combination of acid and pepsin which is likely to be injurious to the duodenal mucosa . |
| 25 | Another serious offence is buggery ( intercourse per anum ) , but that constitutes a crime whether committed consensually or non-consensually , and it is the non-consensual form which ranks as a serious sexual assault . |
| 26 | Every city had its own individual story and it is the astonishing variety which makes the story of the urban renaissance of these centuries so fascinating . |
| 27 | It is the state which provides the opportunity to practise in a monopolistic or restrictive fashion and it is the legal profession which reinforces the existing social order . |
| 28 | However , I have made claims for the relation of this text to action and it is the final part of this book which bears the burden of substantiating that claim . |
| 29 | And it is the healthy CV system that can cope easily with all the strains placed upon it by modern living . |
| 30 | It is the truth which is being demonstrated in 1975 in Vietnam , in Britain , — and it is the real choice that we face in Southern Africa . |