Example sentences of "she is [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On this occasion she is at a posh party , where she has taken a glass of champagne , but only ‘ to be sociable ’ — a motive which in anyone else would have driven Patrick to contemplate another of the umpteen blows he feels like unleashing — when the novelist unleashes one of his phonological jokes , which play on vagaries of pronunciation . |
| 2 | She is on a constant diet . |
| 3 | She is like a spoiled child . ’ |
| 4 | She is from a good family ( by Le Bavard ) and has plenty of speed , but needs it soft . |
| 5 | To provide an illustration , a child who gets into trouble is much more likely to come before a court if he or she is from a poor home and has parents who do not get on with the welfare authorities or the police , than if his or her family is prosperous , respectable and willing to co-operate with the police and social services . |
| 6 | She is from a noble family . |
| 7 | Anyone who has been alongside a ship when he or she is in a small boat knows the way she towers over you at a dockside . |
| 8 | Alison , of Trimdon Avenue , Middlesbrough , told her sister Karen , 26 , she is in a great deal of pain because of her broken rib which will not mend for three months . |
| 9 | The faces around her suppliant , wary — she is in a benevolent lull , she measures out wit and wisdom . |
| 10 | I 've visited her in hospital and she is in a bad state . |
| 11 | ‘ She is in a vegetative state and the prognosis is that she will remain in that condition for up to 25 years , ’ said Mr Hodson . |
| 12 | All the time she is in a mindless frenzy , he is thinking , comparing , and second-guessing . |