Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , she 's about that age , yeah she is about that age |
| 2 | Carlotta de Leyva belongs to one of the liberal families opposed to the dictator Lopez and as the betrothed of the leader of that opposition , Don Manuel of Encinitas , she is to some extent a figurehead , a political symbol : moreover , to the youth of eighteen , Highworth Ridden , who is introduced to her soon after his arrival in Santa Barbara , she is an ideal because she is in effect the first woman who has ever touched his love , as someone to be served , not someone to aspire to . |
| 3 | This can meet her need temporarily when she is at some crisis point , providing , for all concerned , a trial period of living under the same roof , in this tactful guise of a holiday — without commitment on either side . |
| 4 | His secretary , Shirley , smirks from behind her desk , self-righteous at being at her post before the boss , even though she is at this moment inspecting her face in a compact mirror . |
| 5 | ‘ They say she is on borrowed time , ’ someone else said . |
| 6 | Over there , at the , you ca n't see her she is behind that pillar and she 's wearing a peach jumper and |
| 7 | Molly is aware that she has cancer but she is in great heart . |
| 8 | She is in great need of comfort . ’ |
| 9 | She is in great demand at Hindu social and religious functions . |
| 10 | ‘ She is in great distress and needs your help . ’ |
| 11 | She is in usual house attire … white blouse open at front , with large breasts ready to jump into view , no frock or dress , but long blue bloomers elasticated at waist and at knee ends . |
| 12 | She is out of danger and she is in good shape . |
| 13 | That she is in good health at the moment , but health is a precarious commodity … ’ |
| 14 | A spokesman for Vietnam Airlines said : ‘ She is in good condition , but has lost two teeth . ’ |
| 15 | She is in good form and hoping to break the 10-hour barrier today , having already done so in the European Ironman in August , where she took an individual bronze and a team gold medal . |
| 16 | In the early scenes she sometimes seems less like a human than a terrified wild animal , and she is in extraordinary form in her first public apppearance at Mrs Higgins 's tea party , moving with the stiffness of an automaton and speaking in a voice that sounds like a Martian after a course at the Berlitz . |
| 17 | It is true that Pound does not readily conceive of a reader who is not also an aspiring writer — something that led Leavis astray when he tried to retort to How To Read ; but there is no harm , and much profit , in letting the student of the history of poetry suppose that he or she is in due course going to write poems . |
| 18 | She is in frequent contact with Mary Pring ( M.C.R. 1983 ) and Sara Fletcher ( 1980 ) . |
| 19 | Each novel presents a main character in a situation in which he or she is in some way alienated . |
| 20 | or she is in some way masculinized : |
| 21 | Unless she has money of her own — which is an eventuality we can ignore for practical purposes — she is in extreme difficulty . |
| 22 | In the latter case the judge thought that the term " services " had been too narrowly construed in the past and that allowance should be made for the fact that a wife and mother does not work set hours and that she is in constant attendance on the home . |
| 23 | These days Hannah keeps an engagement diary She is in constant demand to make public appearances and to give television and other media interviews . |
| 24 | Among his successors as Duke of Aquitaine only Richard is known to have written verse and certainly neither of the two surviving poems attributed to him is of this quality . |
| 25 | New work by her is on this month at Germans van Eck , running until the 23rd . |
| 26 | Well actually it , it is down this quarter , it is down this quarter , because our erm , our total last , last quarter , the balance brought forward was seventeen pounds fifty five and this time it 's six pounds seventy six , so we 've reduced the erm the deficit so it is down |
| 27 | Well actually it , it is down this quarter , it is down this quarter , because our erm , our total last , last quarter , the balance brought forward was seventeen pounds fifty five and this time it 's six pounds seventy six , so we 've reduced the erm the deficit so it is down |
| 28 | It is with worrying regularity that many of today 's major tours offer a ‘ home label ’ support act as the majors fight desperately to gain attention for their smaller acts . |
| 29 | She will make it clear right from the start by her tone of voice that it is with tired reluctance that she has decided to deal with you at all . |
| 30 | It could read something like this : It is with continued concern that I write to you about the suffering of the Cambodian people and put forward the following suggestions re where government aid should be concentrated . |