Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [be] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , he or she is the siren who can lure the young graduate or woman returner into their particular workplace . |
| 2 | The business as such is equal to the ‘ legal person ’ of the proprietor ; he or she is the business . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It 's just because or they over estimated it or it 's the price you know |
| 8 | Yes , either that , or it 's the work I 've been doing . |
| 9 | Well some of it , you ca n't tell whether it 's dust or it 's the colouring . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Or it was the Labrador 's hairbrush , ’ Catherine Crane offered demurely , and McLeish burst out laughing , glancing admiringly sideways at her . |
| 12 | Either it was the brandy or it was the heat , but she went out like a light . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The essential difference between Sam and me was the fact that I took life seriously . |
| 16 | And I am the cargo |
| 17 | And I am the water |
| 18 | Jesus said , I am the resurrection , and I am the life ; he who believes in me , though he die , yet shall he live , and who ever lives and believes in me shall never die . |
| 19 | And I am the daughter of a Welshman , a settler in this town for many years , but still Welsh . |
| 20 | ‘ And I am the rest of us . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ However bitter you may feel about it , the properties were entailed and I am the heir to them , like it or not . ’ |
| 22 | … and I am the seed of all that is born … |
| 23 | Look who 's I says get the job done , and I am the father like |
| 24 | ‘ But I believe Enya , Roma and I are The Entity . |
| 25 | Each named designer is donating an outfit to be auctioned off and I 'm the auctioneer . |
| 26 | And I 'm the Duchess of York ! ’ |
| 27 | I 'm Nick and I 'm the development director for Moat , responsible for all of our new development activities and I have with me tonight Sally our assistant development manager for Essex , who 'll be responsible for this project and also two of our consultants dealing with the scheme , Alan from Anglian Design who are acting as architects on the scheme and Howard from Space , who have been acting as our employer 's agent and consultant and will administer the building contract for , for all the phases of this , this project . |
| 28 | His first two albums ( Look Sharp ! and I 'm The Man , released at either end of 1979 ) owed their sweaty energy to the push and shove of new wave . |
| 29 | ‘ And I 'm the man you 'll have tonight , when we reach Thailand ! ’ |
| 30 | and I 'm the dude , oh |