Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a young female black-backed jackal first comes into heat she is followed by several young males , one of which she selects as her long-term partner . |
| 2 | These not only cause a change in self-concept — the way a woman sees herself — but , more important , a change in the way she is perceived by other people . |
| 3 | But Lesley Beattie , owner of the York-based Friends Estate Agency , yesterday denied that she is biased against male employees . |
| 4 | She is supported in this by her husband . |
| 5 | She is looking for critical views against which to pitch her own ; it seems that she may have chosen the wrong sort of topic , since on a holiday in Italy she had been stunned by the newly renovated Michelangelo ceiling in the Sistine Chapel in Rome , and although there were plenty of books about it , many of them went into extravagant detail . |
| 6 | The bikini is tiny , three triangles of cotton crochet , and her ribs protrude so much that she looks as if she is made of corrugated paper . |
| 7 | And in turning the fear into laughter by speaking it out , she is participating in one of comedy 's most valuable functions : that of disrupting the status quo . |
| 8 | In the video she is dressed in plain black robes and a head cloth . |
| 9 | You are entirely forbidden to touch Miss Abbott when she is dressed like this , entirely forbidden . |
| 10 | Now the cartoon Princess stops at the point where she is clad in sexy underwear , instead of stripping down further to the G-string . |
| 11 | The daughter 's story proceeds serenely at first , then hits a sickening crunch ; raped at 11 , she is shot into wary adulthood . |
| 12 | She is born in first mm mm first week in August a year later . |
| 13 | Alison Halford has dropped her sex discrimination case against Merseyside Police and announced that she is to retire on medical grounds with a lump sum payment and pension . |
| 14 | The high society platinum beauty brought up in a secluded hot-house may look a million dollars on the show stand , but is all too liable to fall flat on her face at the first pinprick of adversity and does not stand a chance unless she is cocooned in protective sprays . |
| 15 | She is saving for another trip , probably in an informal group of friends . |
| 16 | Again she prays and for three days and three nights she is swept through cold northern seas until she is cast ashore on the sands of Culleross on the north side of our Solway Firth . |
| 17 | She pauses , she is thinking of this scene ; Xanthe 's eyes widen . |
| 18 | Mrs Thatcher is an activist Prime Minister and her Press Office is keen that she is seen as such . |
| 19 | She is rescued from this fate however by Eros , the god of Love , who himself falls in love with her . |
| 20 | The second child , however , finds that she is left with one large ring and the third finds to everyone 's surprise , he has two linking rings . |
| 21 | Financial arrangements have to be discussed as well , and the matter of her contribution to the household expenses has to be agreed upon , making sure that she is left with enough money each month for her clothing , personal expenses and pocket money . |
| 22 | She is imprisoned within massive earthen walls from which she can never escape for her body is far too big to get through the passages that lead to it . |
| 23 | If I tell you she is known by some here as ‘ Aunty ’ Muriel , you may get the picture . |
| 24 | Another of the sheets is ‘ Studies of the penitent Magdalene ’ , in which she is shown in two stances , kneeling before a crucifix and asleep ( est. £12–18,000 ; $21–32,000 ) . |
| 25 | Other traditions claim she is a pale and beautiful young woman wearing a grey cloak and green gown , or a HAG in a winding sheet , though most often she is attired in loose white drapery , ‘ putting forward her mournful wail ’ with the coming of dusk . |
| 26 | Her international trade negotiations are already hindered by Norway 's attitude to whaling and sealing , and she is blamed for poor results . |
| 27 | She is going to some home , that is all , nothing could be less remarkable . |
| 28 | Beverley Allitt 's weight dropped from 13st to 7st before the start of her trial at Nottingham Crown Court and defence barrister James Hunt QC told the jury she is suffering from severe anorexia . |
| 29 | Like the rest of the group she is working against considerable odds — yet these odds are in part created by the nature of the scheme itself . |
| 30 | Forced to acknowledge the impossibility of achieving perfection in both love and work , she is driven to self-destruction . |