Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [be] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She works for American Vogue where she is a contributing editor , and is a proud member of The Academy Club . |
| 2 | Her patronage of Bruce Oldfield notwithstanding , the Princess ' instinct for clothes , once freed from the stultifying dullness of her ultra-yah family , has proved to be more High Street than haute couture ; witness the acres of Di-wear replication in major chain stores and at weddings and company dances the length and width of the land ( and in Australia and the United States too where she is a considerable star ) . |
| 3 | They met at Cornell University , where she was a social work student and he was in the agricultural department . |
| 4 | The letter concerned the mother of the complainant who had died at the hospital , where she was a paying patient . |
| 5 | Arrangements for the funeral have not yet been made but the service will almost certainly be at Llanfwrog Parish Church where she was a faithful member throughout her life . |
| 6 | Sharon worked as an enrolled nurse at Gloucestershire Royal Hospitals Elderly Care Unit , where she was a popular member of staff . |
| 7 | So , for example , Burns and Stalker ( 1961 ) were able to divide forms of management structure into mechanistic and organic , the former being appropriate for firms operating under relatively stable market conditions because routine decision-making handles unchanging tasks efficiently , and the latter being appropriate to rapidly changing product environments where there is a continuous need to innovate and deal with new and unpredictable problems . |
| 8 | Waiting around markets is the correct function of a tack traveller 's legs , not clambering through the foothills of the Himalayas ( where there is a distinct lack of plastic ephemera ) . |
| 9 | Where there is a real emergency , the best tactic is to go straight out on to the street and recruit signatures . |
| 10 | For example , in Littlewoods Organisation Ltd v Harris [ 1978 ] 1 All ER 1026 Megaw LJ said : … it is appropriate that a covenant , restricting an employee from full freedom of taking other employment when he leaves his existing employment , should be included in the contract of employment where there is a real danger that the employee will in the course of that employment have access to and gain information about matters which could fairly be regarded as trade secrets ; and that applies even though the information may be carried in his head and even though ( perhaps , particularly though ) it may be extremely difficult for the employee himself , being an honest and scrupulous man , to realise that what he is passing on to his new employers is matter which ought to be treated as confidential to his old employers . |
| 11 | Most of the cars are based in the US , where there is a thriving fan club , and others can also be found in Australia and throughout Europe . |
| 12 | Parliament , of course , is not limited to the enactment of laws where there is a prior obligation on the subjects to behave in the required way . |
| 13 | In any home where there is a young child , socket guards should be fitted to prevent a finger or pencil being poked into a potentially dangerous electrical socket . |
| 14 | The numbers of teeth involved are often quite small , and where there is a major discrepancy between the digestion of the upper and lower teeth in columns 9 and 10 of Table 3.13 , reference to the actual numbers involved show them to be very small indeed , sometimes no more than one ( columns 7 and 8 ) . |
| 15 | Where there is a skilled director with commitment and an attractive personality in an inner-city parish , it may be possible to produce excellent musical results . |
| 16 | On the seven-day cooling-off period , it is correct , as the Minister says , that there are similar provisions in other European countries , but will he confirm that , in those countries where there is a cooling-off period for unions , there is also a cooling-off period for employers ? |
| 17 | Mediterranean countries , where there is a lower intake of saturated fat and a more balanced intake of unsaturated fat , have a lower heart disease risk . |
| 18 | In the USA , where there is a wide choice of local markets , it is much easier , and experience there has shown that much more reliable results , for all forms of market testing , can be obtained by using a number of markets simultaneously , rather than just a single test . |
| 19 | Headquarters is located in a major conurbation where there is a wide variety of manufacturing industry . |
| 20 | This is seen as a better guide to a school 's and pupils ' performance , particularly where there is a wide difference in social and ethnic backgrounds . |
| 21 | Colleagues , just before we adjourn for lunch , could I ask you to try and take the opportunity to visit the Labour Party and Trade Unions for Labour stand where there is a live link to the national membership system . |
| 22 | This is at least untrue in the USA , where there is a comprehensive system of further education for deaf people in which the medium is an accepted form of ASL which hearing instructors use . |
| 23 | It is probably not coincidental that there exists these two areas of human interest , namely , the areas of religion on the one hand and that of the healing power of the mind on the other , where there is a similar absence of that clear-cut knowledge or faith the attainment of which is so sought after . |
| 24 | This can happen when the wrong PIN is entered more than once or where there is a technical failure of the card or of the machine . |
| 25 | Where there is a causal link between the grant of a rent-free period and the carrying out by the tenant of work to the property , and the tenant is obliged to carry out such work ( eg shopfitting ) , the tenant will be treated as making a supply to the landlord of an amount equivalent to the rent foregone . |
| 26 | In fact where there is a great deal of evidence of use , this could be a substitute for poor employment practice which has failed to take account of matching manpower/patient needs . |
| 27 | Apart from the difficulty of chambers , the ordinary person who has no special connections normally finds it easier to get some kind of start on the common law side , where there is a great deal of small work , in county courts and the criminal courts ; on the Chancery side there is no criminal work and all the civil work tends to be fairly important . |
| 28 | Where there is a non-pecuniary interest it is not necessary to establish actual bias but it is necessary to show that the decision has given the appearance of bias . |
| 29 | This form may , therefore , work hardship to tenants , particularly where there is a genuine dispute as to liability . |
| 30 | Where there is a protracted course of conduct , and those who witness it respond angrily to what is occurring , there will perhaps be no difficulty . |