Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He or she is the chief executive with overall responsibility for running the institution . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | You must always keep your reader in mind because he or she is the true reason for writing the report . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Or they 're the right size but they 've got the hard bristles |
| 8 | Either the evil they seek to prevent is the suffering of animals … or it is the moral corruption of human beings . |
| 9 | And I am the legitimate heir . ’ |
| 10 | Years before , he had suddenly exclaimed with bitter irony , ‘ You are quite the plush gentleman and I am the black sheep . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Ilona and I are the new Adam and Eve , ’ he tells me . |
| 12 | ‘ Apart from a few people at the Kremlin and at Number Ten , you and I are the only people who know of the situation . ’ |
| 13 | Despite Bob 's protestations that he was staying in the Presidential Suite , was trying to avoid fans , and was actually the ‘ BAWB DYLAN ’ , the callow youth grabbed him by the scruff of his ketchup-stained hooded to and sneered , ‘ Oh yeah , and I 'm the Prime Minister Of Ireland , so I am ’ . |
| 14 | I 'm Jo Kelly and I 'm the Labour party candidate for Hereford . |
| 15 | I want it , I need it and I 'm the right person for it . |
| 16 | Mansell snapped : ‘ Hunt is the old champion and I 'm the new one . |
| 17 | There are times when I go down to the beach at The Pit and I 'm the only surfer down there and I 'm so frustrated with it all that I sit on a rock and shout my head off . |
| 18 | " Maybe you 'd better do for me too , then , " Sam replied , " for it was my cockboat we rowed across in , and I 'm the only witness to the murder , for that 's what it was . |
| 19 | I was Flint 's first ship 's officer , and I 'm the only one who knows the place . |
| 20 | I mean , I have done a lot about it , and I 'm the only one that has , as I say , got my mouth going and done something about it . |
| 21 | And I 'm the only one who 's trying . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ But I 'm the only one who can light those fires , Aurora — and I 'm the only one who can quench them . ’ |
| 23 | Not guilty , did n't do it that 's why what gorilla man did sickened me ; no blood well hardly any blood literally a drop , a drip , a fucking pixel on the screen and the only thing slicing into flesh was a needle , tiny and delicate not a chainsaw or an axe or a knife or anything , but it 's that image that idea that old devil meme , I keep dreaming about it , keep having nightmares about it , and I 'm the trapped one , I 'm the man in the leather-and-chrome chair and he 's there with his gorilla face and his squeaky baby voice , explaining to the camera that what he has in this bottle and in this syringe is sperm ; the crazy fucker 's loaded it up with jism man looks like half a fucking milk bottle of the stuff and he 's going to inject it into the little guy 's veins and he ties something round the naked upper arm of the little guy strapped to the chair and pulls it tight and waits for the vein to show while the little guy howls and screams like a child and tries to shake the chair to bits or rip it apart but he 's too well strapped in there no purchase no leverage and then the man in the gorilla mask just does it ; sinks the needle into the little guy 's skin with a bit of blood and empties the whole syringe into him . |
| 24 | and I 'm the opposite |
| 25 | and I 'm the mail-out coordinator we 've we 've so far mailed out all but one of the of the new magazines and er we did n't do the last one but we 're we 're scheduling up for doing this one . |
| 26 | I 'm Colin Shepherd and I 'm the Conservative Party Candidate for Hereford . |
| 27 | The occasion was a small — dinner-party given by Arthur Bryant and his wife at which Moira and I were the only other guests . |
| 28 | So I reached Lochinver in style , had time to look around , and mounted the bus outside the post office : the morning 's collection of mail and I were the only passengers . |
| 29 | Gwenellen and I were the only members of our set on days . |
| 30 | In fact , Alan and I were the only ones to find the old master and pupil just what the doctor ordered . |