Example sentences of "she is the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But whereas Ms Tomei was Best Supporting Actress in My Cousin Vinny ( with Joe Pesci ) , here she is the fully-fledged leading lady of a romance which appears to have Beauty and the Beast and Tarzan and Jane as dual inspirations . |
| 2 | She is the one hundredth thousand person to take part in the project which sends teachers out of the classroom and into industry . |
| 3 | The baby soon learns that her presence is necessary for the satisfaction of its needs and she is the first individual " other " whom the infant recognises . |
| 4 | In the idiom of mythology , when the Goddess is actively destructive She is depicted alone , whereas when She is the nurturing cosmic mother and the embodiment of God 's benign grace , She is represented as the spouse of a dominant male god , Shiva or Vishnu . |
| 5 | She is the only decent character among the money-grabbers and hangers-on surrounding the Rake . |
| 6 | She is the only female character allowed into the fortress den and as the story develops she is shown to be both sensitive and sensible . |
| 7 | Elspeth Barker ( Independent on Sunday ) did not agree : ‘ Those who know Angela Carter 's work will need no encouragement to read these stories ( she is the only late 20th-century writer I know who can use an exclamation mark and get away with it ) ; for others they offer a joyous introduction . ’ |
| 8 | Only her light appears on ‘ the tossing hills ’ and she is the only important figure streaking through the night air . |
| 9 | At the age of 12 , she is the youngest First Child since Amy Carter 's arrival at the White House aged nine in 1977 . |
| 10 | She is the stunning young beauty dripping red lipstick and he is the wayward , womanising , ageing sophisticate with a young son and terribly understanding wife . |
| 11 | Now 92 , she is the last surviving member of what came to be dubbed ‘ the Glasgow Girls ’ , the group who went through Glasgow School of Art during the early part of the century . |
| 12 | She is the same wholehearted trouper she has been through war and peace for three generations . |