Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [be] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can not lovemake to you , ’ he said at the door , ‘ in the house of our ancient Danish friends where you are the nanny . ’ |
| 2 | After all , he or she is the siren who can lure the young graduate or woman returner into their particular workplace . |
| 3 | The business as such is equal to the ‘ legal person ’ of the proprietor ; he or she is the business . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Fermanagh , where they are the target of current exploration by the Aran Group . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Where he is the occupier of premises in or on which the chattels ( not attached to the premises ) are found and , before the finding ‘ he has manifested an intention to exercise control over the [ premises ] and the things which may be upon it or in it ’ . |
| 10 | News of the discovery spread to Maurice Barley at Nottingham University , where he was the tutor in archaeology in the Extra-Mural Department . |
| 11 | Challenging the expert by suing him for negligence , where it is the expert , rather than the decision which is being challenged , is dealt with in Chapter 14 . |
| 12 | In the earlier view a work was regarded as a more or less arbitrarily agglomerated collection of defamiliarizing devices , but now it becomes important to see it as an entity , a structure or a system where it is the system which determines what the function of a given device will be , whether it will be foregrounded or automatized . |
| 13 | The punchcards in the basic packs which are marked for colour changing are for manual yarn changing , where it is the pattern that is intended to change ; so these wo n't work with the colour changer either . |
| 14 | But Mr. Thornton forcefully submits that no more is required to sustain the plea than that the court before whom the defendant had previously been charged should have decided his guilt , whether by the court , where it is the tribunal of fact , announcing its decision to that effect , by the return of a guilty verdict by the jury or by the ‘ acceptance ’ of a plea of guilty . |
| 15 | Of ligaments and joints where it is the number one remedy . |
| 16 | The meaning of democracy shifts even further once it is interpreted within the terms of the Calvinist principle of the Godly society , where it is the lot of the just to assume power and to guide the citizens in the paths of righteousness . |
| 17 | English was the most far-flung language in 1880 ; not only in new nations , but in British colonies where it was the language of official life and therefore a language of record and social advancement for the native . |
| 18 | This article stated that an objective regime existed where it was the intention of the parties to create general obligations and rights in the overall community interest , provided all States with territorial competence over the area subject to the regime were included among the parties , or subsequently consented . |
| 19 | This last is one of the first essentials of a true Suffolk ; for it was bred for use on the farm , and for use on the Suffolk farms in particular , where it was the custom for the horses to work a long day from 6.30 a.m. to 2.30 p.m. without nosebag or any break for rations . |
| 20 | It 's just because or they over estimated it or it 's the price you know |
| 21 | Yes , either that , or it 's the work I 've been doing . |
| 22 | Well some of it , you ca n't tell whether it 's dust or it 's the colouring . |
| 23 | In any case , someone somewhere will turn up as your client and he , she or it is the advertiser as far as you are concerned . |
| 24 | Or it was the Labrador 's hairbrush , ’ Catherine Crane offered demurely , and McLeish burst out laughing , glancing admiringly sideways at her . |
| 25 | Either it was the brandy or it was the heat , but she went out like a light . |
| 26 | The dismissal arrangements set up by the governing body have to provide for the CEO , or representatives , and the headteacher , unless she or he is the person concerned , to be present at all stages when a dismissal is being considered . |
| 27 | This does not mean that the intellectual therefore nihilistically celebrates dispersion , fragmentation or relativity : rather she or he is the person who , facing such dispersion but without conceding to the nostalgic desire for totalization , poses the questions and constitutes the series and continuities for analysis — and thus for transformation — while attempting to respect its heterogeneity . |
| 28 | Only the top three teams in the division have scored more goals than the Brockville side this season , but the fact that only Cowdenbeath have conceded more goals than them is the reason why relegation remains a distinct possibility . |
| 29 | For I am not ashamed to admit that I am The Burpman . |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't like the fact that I am the butt of so many things — a lot of which I think is unfair — but I 'm not inhibited by it . |