Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [is] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | If your parent receives this allowance it can only continue for up to four weeks after admission to a National Health Service hospital ( unless he or she is a private patient ) . |
| 3 | He or she is a third party intermediary in a broadly defined accountability relationship between , on the one hand , government and management , and on the other hand , politicians and the public at large . |
| 4 | There remains however the subtle difference that in this case no board member can be hijacked unless he or she is a willing and compliant co-conspirator . |
| 5 | He or she is a qualified Solicitor or Barrister and is paid . |
| 6 | The last is always the more interesting type ; not infrequently he or she is an impressive doer , sometimes an eloquent speaker ; some , very few , are both . |
| 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 | If somebody 's saying to you do you want our guarantee — it 's fifty pounds , or it 's a hundred pounds — if you 're spending that sort of money you 'll probably pay out for it and you 'll think you 're covered for all sorts of things that might go wrong . |
| 14 | Also now I tend , as you 've probably come to realise I 've tended to include specific types of bonding arrangements as a functional group for example , I call a carbon carbon double bond , I call that a functional group for the simple reason that that arrangement of bonds dictates the principle properties of those compounds and in that context I 'm then using the word group a bit more liberally instead of saying it 's a group of atoms which dictate the properties I 'll say it 's a group of atoms or it 's a special grouping of electrons , which dictate the properties . |
| 15 | All I can say is , this is either bullshit , or it 's the biggest story in the history of mankind . ’ . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | It is a cuddly pet , an animal to be loved and treasured by children , or it is a real pain in the neck — for Britain 's farming community . |
| 18 | Strict logical positivists only have two categories for the logical status of propositions : a proposition is either verifiable or falsifiable , using empirically observable and measurable , variables ; or it is a mystical , poetic , emotional insight . |
| 19 | This is either some magic geometry of which I know nothing or it is a happy coincidence . |
| 20 | Either the evil they seek to prevent is the suffering of animals … or it is the moral corruption of human beings . |
| 21 | ‘ He must go , ’ fretted Rhodri , tramping the length of his solar like a caged wolf , ‘ or he 's a dead man , and his blood will be on our heads . |
| 22 | Total amount missing is close on fifteen grand and yours is the first to turn up . ’ |
| 23 | well and yours is the same look |
| 24 | But they are all old men , and theirs is a dying profession . |
| 25 | I saw my first reed bunting 's nest in 1964 in the marsh between the lochs of Spiggie and Brow , and now in the space of twenty-five years they have successfully colonised the islands , and theirs is the only bunting song that today 's Shetland children will know … |
| 26 | I knew 'e would like you , because you are a wonderful girl , and 'e is a wonderful man . |
| 27 | to do it and she 's no different towards |
| 28 | She gets me food and she 's a marvellous person , with a great sense of humour . |
| 29 | He 's an architect and she 's a bisexual social scientist . |
| 30 | And she 's a super lady . |