Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [be] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We aim straight at the art of The Possessed by observing that the follow-up , I 'm a lukewarm man , or I 'm an indifferent , an apathetic man , is beyond Stavrogin . |
| 2 | she said you 've got the second biggest cock or you are the second biggest cock she 's ever seen ? |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He or she is a qualified Solicitor or Barrister and is paid . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He or she is the chief executive with overall responsibility for running the institution . |
| 10 | as long as he or she is the best . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | You must always keep your reader in mind because he or she is the true reason for writing the report . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In such a situation of role confusion and role strains a person at the end of the line is not disposed to react to new policy initiatives from above as if he or she were a mere functionary . |
| 18 | Or they 're the right size but they 've got the hard bristles |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | All I can say is , this is either bullshit , or it 's the biggest story in the history of mankind . ’ . |
| 22 | 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 ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | This is either some magic geometry of which I know nothing or it is a happy coincidence . |
| 26 | Either the evil they seek to prevent is the suffering of animals … or it is the moral corruption of human beings . |
| 27 | Garland was murdered because he was Garland , or it was a motiveless killing , or it was a mistake . |
| 28 | If you do n't make a sale , or it was a successful day , it 's the fact that you 've had a full day of activity that matters . |
| 29 | It was n't lumber or it was a funny name , backscratch or something , a dance . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . |