Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( b ) A solicitor , a registered foreign lawyer or a recognised body who or which is the personal representative of a deceased member of or beneficial owner of a share in a recognised body may elect to be entered in the register of members of the recognised body but no member shall hold any share as personal representative for longer than twelve months from the date of the death of the deceased . |
| 2 | ( b ) A solicitor , a registered foreign lawyer or a recognised body who or which is the personal representative of a deceased member of or beneficial owner of a share in a recognised body may elect to be entered in the register of members of the recognised body but no member shall hold any share as personal representative for longer than twelve months from the date of the death of the deceased . |
| 3 | Can I er take the opportunity to clear up some technical sort of er technical points to do with the plans , however , probably inadvertent , the first one , erm in the er letter copy of the letter that you sent to the er Planning Authority , erm and you mentioned one plan being erm handed , it does n't say , actually it did n't specify which house or which is the proper way it should be handled , but in the small plan showing the site , and the position of the houses , the attached er garage on the house on plot number two , that 's the one erm you notice the bridge , this end one , is shown on the right , but in the detailed plan of the house it 's shown on the left , now |
| 4 | But women always seemed to be in the majority and the proprietor and his wife , both of whom spoke excellent English and German , could be seen at every hour of the day advising parties of determined-looking women in sensible shoes how to get to St Peter 's or the Piazza Venezia or the English church , or which were the best shops to buy presents and souvenirs to take home . |
| 5 | she said you 've got the second biggest cock or you are the second biggest cock she 's ever seen ? |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | He or she is the chief executive with overall responsibility for running the institution . |
| 8 | as long as he or she is the best . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | You must always keep your reader in mind because he or she is the true reason for writing the report . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Inevitably , the financial consequences were most immediate and dramatic for those women who were not in receipt of benefit or who were the sole wage earners . |
| 16 | Or there is the grander scenery , and the more spectacular engineering , of the railway from Settle up to Carlisle , some of the finest railway landscape in Britain ; and the route over Shap with its visions of the Lakeland mountains ; and there are the superb night scenes from the railway viaducts that span the industrial towns of Lancashire and Yorkshire . |
| 17 | Or there 's the celebrated case of one of our members speaking in last year 's debate on the maternity leave directive . |
| 18 | Or there was the antique shop in Beaumont Street , only one flummoxed woman who was always shutting for ‘ ten minutes ’ . |
| 19 | Or they 're the right size but they 've got the hard bristles |
| 20 | All I can say is , this is either bullshit , or it 's the biggest story in the history of mankind . ’ . |
| 21 | Or it 's the biggest cause of the budget deficit erm , in this country , is unemployment and social security etcetera , and we get a , a brilliant plan for erm , job creation , and what do they do ? |
| 22 | Either the evil they seek to prevent is the suffering of animals … or it is the moral corruption of human beings . |
| 23 | The planning must then design the introductory and motivating unit ( the " lead lesson " , the " starter pack " , an introductory film , or whatever is the best agent for the particular purpose ) , a schedule of subsequent activity anticipating varieties of use and as many of the consequent hazards as can be foreseen , and the expected conclusion ; and at every stage it is important to be clear about intentions and objectives , learning points , and how it is proposed to monitor the continuing success of the work in achieving these objectives . |
| 24 | exactly but every body who did something like being vegetarian or what 's the other thing ? , goes to church , church people are the bloody worse |
| 25 | Or what 's the Spanish for erm erm you know words like that . |
| 26 | Or what is the ultimate outcome of any learning process ? |
| 27 | If we now compute a weighted sum , or what is the same thing , the sum of the A-measures at each exposure , then for a given subject area this sum will increase as the reflected light intensity increases , since more pixels will be seen at each exposure . |
| 28 | The only duty of the tenant is to use the premises in a husbandlike , or what is the same thing , a tenantlike manner … |
| 29 | Many of the routine social situations we find ourselves in are clearly rule-governed , but it is often extremely difficult to specify exactly what the rules are or what are the potential breaches of the rules . |
| 30 | or what was the highest score on the first one ? |