Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] be the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Would we not be touching on areas that are sub judice , or which are the subject of possible legal action , which may or may not be taken ?
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 Or Who 's the King of the Jungle .
7 ( a ) a student who is a national of a member state of the European Community * , or who is the son or daughter of such a national , if —
8 ( c ) a student who is a national of a member state of the European Community , or who is the son or daughter of such a national , whose failure to satisfy the three-year EC residence requirement outlined above arises only because the student , or the student 's spouse or parent , was temporarily employed outside the EC .
9 ( a ) a student who is a national of a member state of the European Community * or who is the son or daughter of such a national , if :
10 ( c ) a student who is a national of a member state of the European Community , or who is the son or daughter of such a national , whose failure to satisfy the three-year EC residence requirement outlined above arises only because the student , or the student 's spouse or parent , was temporarily employed outside the EC ;
11 or who is the fox 's predator ?
12 It 's just recently I read about this it 's not getting air into it or something is the reason it ex it can suddenly shoot up all over you .
13 Or there is the possibility that A killed his baby in the course of a dream .
14 Or there 's the chance Mills got murdered by a sadistic lunatic , ’ Urquhart added .
15 Or there 's the tent .
16 Or there 's the lift , ’ said Tabitha .
17 Or there was the horse-racing , cricket or football in the parkland , a visit to the skating-rink , or simply marvelling at the mixture of bravura , vulgarity and confidence with which the Victorians had dropped this gigantic testament to British economic expansion into what were then the sleepy rural outskirts of the fast-expanding city .
18 If you , erm , and you as president or whoever 's the chairman of the night
19 The official receiver or whoever is the chairman of the meeting must certify the appointment of the trustee , but not until the per son appointed has provided him with a written statement that he is a qualified insolvency practitioner and consents to act ( r 6.120(2) ) .
20 While the personality is forming , until the age of seven or eight or so , the child is closely identified with its mother , or whoever is the mother figure in the child 's life .
21 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 ?
22 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 .
23 It 's just because or they over estimated it or it 's the price you know
24 Yes , either that , or it 's the work I 've been doing .
25 Well some of it , you ca n't tell whether it 's dust or it 's the colouring .
26 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 .
27 Or it was the Labrador 's hairbrush , ’ Catherine Crane offered demurely , and McLeish burst out laughing , glancing admiringly sideways at her .
28 Either it was the brandy or it was the heat , but she went out like a light .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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