Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [be] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We aim straight at the art of The Possessed by observing that the follow-up , I 'm a lukewarm man , or I 'm an indifferent , an apathetic man , is beyond Stavrogin . |
| 2 | She works for American Vogue where she is a contributing editor , and is a proud member of The Academy Club . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | They met at Cornell University , where she was a social work student and he was in the agricultural department . |
| 5 | The letter concerned the mother of the complainant who had died at the hospital , where she was a paying patient . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Sharon worked as an enrolled nurse at Gloucestershire Royal Hospitals Elderly Care Unit , where she was a popular member of staff . |
| 8 | She attended Wellesley College where she was the first student to deliver the graduation address . |
| 9 | Brig Ramsey arrives from the Women 's Royal Army Corps ( WRAC ) , where she was the final director before its abolition last week under Options for Change . |
| 10 | So suddenly fatherless , and so abruptly given to a husband , translated from the familiar company of her sisters at Brecon to this barbarous foreign court where she was the last and loneliest of the children , Isabella had looked round her forlornly for an anchorage to which she might ride in safety . |
| 11 | she said you 've got the second biggest cock or you are the second biggest cock she 's ever seen ? |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | If your parent receives this allowance it can only continue for up to four weeks after admission to a National Health Service hospital ( unless he or she is a private patient ) . |
| 14 | He or she is a third party intermediary in a broadly defined accountability relationship between , on the one hand , government and management , and on the other hand , politicians and the public at large . |
| 15 | There remains however the subtle difference that in this case no board member can be hijacked unless he or she is a willing and compliant co-conspirator . |
| 16 | He or she is a qualified Solicitor or Barrister and is paid . |
| 17 | The last is always the more interesting type ; not infrequently he or she is an impressive doer , sometimes an eloquent speaker ; some , very few , are both . |
| 18 | He or she is the chief executive with overall responsibility for running the institution . |
| 19 | as long as he or she is the best . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | You must always keep your reader in mind because he or she is the true reason for writing the report . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In such a situation of role confusion and role strains a person at the end of the line is not disposed to react to new policy initiatives from above as if he or she were a mere functionary . |
| 27 | Summarising prospects for a US-Soviet summit , Baker said : " I think we are right where we were the last time . " |
| 28 | You 've given me enough food to keep me alive and Cousin Genti 's cast-off clothing , seeing we 're the same size . |
| 29 | Once women have reached senior management , for instance , where they are the only woman among 20 or 50 men , some companies tend to see them as the token woman singlehandedly proving that the company is encouraging and supporting women to reach the top . |
| 30 | The Conservatives now have six representatives on the local council , where they are the largest party , and desperately need a victory in North Down on Thursday to establish themselves in the province . |