Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [vb pp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Likewise in the case of Lewis 's Eve : if she is ransomed by Ransom 's struggle with the Un-Man in the underworld , a sort of Harrowing of Hell sequence , how can she be said to have resisted the temptation on her own ; and if she has not really resisted through her own strength — if she is to be rewarded with immortality and felicity for something she has not done herself — where is the justice in the punishment , on another planet , of Eve and her descendants , for something which again was not wholly her responsibility ? |
| 2 | The first , brief account of her long love for Kallikrates which Ayesha gives to Leo Vincey and his guardian in She is expanded in Wisdom 's Daughter to emphasise this spirituality and to excuse her sin as being due to the inexorable power of love . |
| 3 | Violet Kray is the heroine of the film , and she is played by Billie Whitelaw with a warmth which is completely credible and endearing . |
| 4 | She is pictured with students ( l–r ) Helen Allan , Tim Schaffer , Liz Still and Dee Burrows , who were among this year 's 379 successful IANE graduates |
| 5 | She is pictured with boyfriend , operations supervisor at the computer centre , who invited to join her on the two-day trip . |
| 6 | She is pictured in Burston 's impressive reception area with cattle sales manager for East Anglia , . |
| 7 | In the second exercise , in which groups are required to come up with ideas about how to improve education , force of personality ensures that she is elected as chairman , in which capacity she proposes new local authorities to supervise the schools , ‘ from which councillors would be banned . ’ |
| 8 | That she sometimes has bouts of overeating in no way contradicts this assertion : after each one she is overcome by self-disgust and depression , and her sense of futility is confirmed . |
| 9 | If she is withdrawn from school for two years to help produce a new language course eighty children will lose out . |
| 10 | However , she needs to ask evil spirits for strength , but this power can not be maintained and when her true emotions permeate her denial of her own conscience they completely overwhelm her and she is punished with madness . |
| 11 | She is dressed in black ; her favourite wide-brimmed black hat never leaves her head . |
| 12 | She is flanked by director of human resources George Stonier , left , assessor Geoff Willey , centre left , and production director Graham Massey , right . |
| 13 | There , she is befriended by Stoney , a sexy rock ‘ n ’ roller who rescues her from a world of LSD that she has dropped into . |
| 14 | She is courted by Mr Venus but has an objection to his trade . |
| 15 | She is killed by Marduk in a battle with her children whose noise had angered her , and her corpse is formed into the world . |
| 16 | He has no problems finding work here in his native Britain , but she is ignored by TV and stage bosses on this side of the Atlantic . |
| 17 | But still she is exploited by men — and a lot poorer . |
| 18 | Catherine Dalton is the first to be appointed and she is based in Cleveland Health Centre , Middlesbrough . |
| 19 | She is based in Basingstoke and reports to Martin Neild . |
| 20 | ‘ Since she is separated from Prince Andrew , she is free to do whatever she wants . ’ |
| 21 | On Fame ’ , she is criticized by Parthenia for her dirty shoes and by Sophronia for her posture : ‘ Still o'er a Table leans your bending Neck : / Your Head will grow prepost'rous , like a Peck ’ [ ML , 2 , 52 ] . |
| 22 | Now Yasmin is pregnant again she is prepared for bouts of morning sickness . |
| 23 | She is seen with Paris , whom she has persuaded to stay in Troy while his companions fight ; and Pandarus is also present , soaking up and intensifying the sensual atmosphere . |
| 24 | ‘ Gerald does — decisively ; my wife too , but she is swayed by loyalty to her father . ’ |
| 25 | Myself and English , as she is taught in schools , came to a conflict and gradually to a more and more friendly agreement through the necessity of writing long letters daily to one who was neither a schoolboy nor an elder , the subject of the letters being matters concerning nobody else in the world . |
| 26 | And that is exactly what it sounds like to the new mother , until she is persuaded by others , against every instinct she possesses , that this is ‘ normal ’ or ‘ naughty ’ … . |
| 27 | But we can not trust this wife 's claim that she is starved of cash by her husband . |
| 28 | On the Isle of Man , she is known as Lhiannon-Shee and appears as a blood-sucking VAMPIRE . |
| 29 | She is equipped with Reckmann forestay and in-mast furling systems , all controllable from the cockpit . |
| 30 | She is admired by business , which is looking forward to an industrial policy for France : something it has lacked for years . |