Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As a player , it 's certainly more gruelling doing my own material than Michael 's , because his is mainly rhythm parts with a few solos . |
| 2 | She is either Joan of Arc or the She-Devil . |
| 3 | Some critics feel that she is either Emma returned from the grave , or a supernatural vision ; though both these interpretations make some sense , I feel that the most obvious possibility is the true one . |
| 4 | She is generally continent but may be incontinent of urine once a week . |
| 5 | c ) At 5 pm. she is again 30km from home . |
| 6 | She is also Flashman 's wife . |
| 7 | She is also authoress of the National Geographic book , Exploring the Deep Frontier . |
| 8 | Joanna Lumley may be better known for her recent performance in ‘ Absolutely Fabulous , ’ but she is also president of Farms for City Children . |
| 9 | She is also Surrey 's newest trainer . |
| 10 | Despite her occasional lapses into the royal ‘ we ’ and her desire to give comfort to victims of disaster , she is not monarch , head of state , nor dictator . |
| 11 | Lord St John of Fawsley , chairman of the Royal Fine Art Commission , who , as Norman St John Stevas , was an early ministerial victim of Mrs Thatcher 's purge of the wets , has admonished the Prime Minister by reminding her she is not head of state ; treating her as such , his lordship suggested , would simply arouse public hostility . |
| 12 | And , she is not terror stricken , she is not horrified , she 's not cowering in a corner , Jane I mean . |
| 13 | THE husband of Camilla Parker Bowles revealed last night : She is not Prince Charles 's lover . |
| 14 | If she is not data she is an intervening variable to be eliminated . |
| 15 | ‘ And as a matter of fact , she is n't Harry 's sister . |
| 16 | And because she ca n't accept that she is n't lady of the bloody manor after all ! ’ |
| 17 | ‘ They must have decided in Cas that she is n't hepatitis , ’ said Juliet . |
| 18 | The jibes that she is simply Rick Astley speeded up and has no voice of her own hurt , she says . |
| 19 | She is both martinet and mother hen . |
| 20 | She is both martinet and mother hen . |
| 21 | Until tragedy and fate catch up with her she is always mistress of the situation , coolly self-possessed . |
| 22 | She is roughly Cocker Spaniel weight , but taller . |
| 23 | Yesterday a Teesside Crown Court jury was told by James Spencer QC , prosecuting : ‘ That lady survives today but she is permanently brain damaged and disabled and she is unable to say what happened to her on the morning on Wednesday , August 29 , 1990 . ’ |
| 24 | I think she is too Alex . |
| 25 | They signed a memorandum which read : ‘ I agree that the terms of the late Mr Farrington 's last will be varied so as to give Mrs Violet Peppercorn all of Mr Farrington 's personal chattels together with the freehold bungalow at 27 Washingly Road , Folksworth , of which she is currently tenant ( tax-free ) and to give a tax-free legacy of £5,000 to Mr and Mrs Arthur Peppercorn . |
| 26 | ‘ But inside she is only dust . |
| 27 | Della Grice , a service controller at Hygiene Bristol recently wanted to jump out of an aeroplane , a strange idea , thought other branch members particularly as now she is only 4′ 6″ ! |
| 28 | At the start she is only so cruel as she is only Miss Havisham 's tool for revenge , and later she seems to have a little pity for Pip when she warns him that she has no heart . |
| 29 | She is then Julie is n't she ? |
| 30 | The pianist Valerie Tryon , was of course well-known to English audiences before her emigration in 1971 to Canada , where she is now Artist-in-Residence at McMaster University . |