Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | she said you 've got the second biggest cock or you are the second biggest cock she 's ever seen ? |
| 2 | And , what 's more , ’ she added , for she was fond of her crazy friend , ‘ do n't tell him you want the man trap back , or you 're the one he 'll be keeping his eye on . ’ |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | Except that already it is not quite that simple , since the post-modern sophisticate is also the critic of these other , negative ways of relating to the other ; he or she is the one who diagnoses their social and psychic economies . |
| 5 | Big organisations are terribly bad at making a customer feel he or she is the most important person in the world . |
| 6 | He or she is the ‘ fairy godmother ’ of the force , the suspect 's friend , and the person the Act expects will stand up to his or her ( often more senior ) colleagues if there is anything amiss : a dramatic invitation to insubordinated heroics . |
| 7 | Grandparents can be of special help to a child who feels — mistakenly or not — that he or she is the odd one out or a failure compared to the others in the family . |
| 8 | You must always keep your reader in mind because he or she is the true reason for writing the report . |
| 9 | In addition , Clause 19 gives every individual citizen a new right to seek the protection of the law if he or she is the victim of unlawful industrial action affecting the supply of goods or services to him or her . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | After all , he or she is the siren who can lure the young graduate or woman returner into their particular workplace . |
| 12 | He or she is the chief executive with overall responsibility for running the institution . |
| 13 | The business as such is equal to the ‘ legal person ’ of the proprietor ; he or she is the business . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | as long as he or she is the best . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The reader feels entertained , but in an excluded sort of way , rather as though he or she were the butler at a particularly lively dessert at Lincoln 's Inn . |
| 19 | Or they 're the right size but they 've got the hard bristles |
| 20 | Are their open jaws the jaws of Hell , or they are the equivalent of a near-Satanic Dirty Dozen , under the command of the angels — the church 's way of fighting like with like ? |
| 21 | Or they are the more diffused poor of the Old South and of the region of the Rio Grande in Texas . |
| 22 | But , you know , when you explain these concepts to the people who are part of that committee , or they are the chairman of that committee — it 's very easy to say , ‘ Yeah , that other committee is really bad . |
| 23 | These were not able to afford education or were unable to pass the necessary scholarship or entrance exams , or they were the sons and daughters of artisans seeking similar type craft training for their offspring . |
| 24 | Or they were the wings of that sweet-faced Gabriel who appears in so many pictures , whose scarlet plumes brush the ceiling of the bedroom in which he has alighted ; whose shadow fills the whole of the bedroom wall , whose robes cover half the bedroom carpet and whose single , beckoning finger silences the virgins of history , making them forget the books which they have been surprised reading , and sends them sinking to their knees . |
| 25 | The Germans were the bombs which smashed the towns and villages of England or they were the words in the newspapers which told of defeat . |
| 26 | All I can say is , this is either bullshit , or it 's the biggest story in the history of mankind . ’ . |
| 27 | Yes , either that , or it 's the work I 've been doing . |
| 28 | 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 ? |
| 29 | It 's just because or they over estimated it or it 's the price you know |
| 30 | Well some of it , you ca n't tell whether it 's dust or it 's the colouring . |