Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] is [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you complete this section of the Application Form we can pay the life assurance benefit , subject to a maximum of £5,000 , to your nominated beneficiary provided he or she is over age 18 , immediately we receive official evidence of your death . |
| 2 | A judge should only find a child guilty of contributory negligence if he or she is of such an age as reasonably to be expected to take precautions for his or her own safety ; and then he or she is only to be found guilty if blame should be attached to him or her . |
| 3 | Broadly speaking , the higher an individual is in the social strata the less likely he or she is to be arrested , prosecuted and ( if prosecuted ) found guilty . |
| 4 | The leader or high priest(ess) is chosen for the quality of psychic power exhibited , and how open he or she is to the life-force . |
| 5 | As long as an MP declares he or she is on the take these payments somehow are deemed acceptable . |
| 6 | ‘ And how do you check that the guest will be able to talk once he or she is on the show ? |
| 7 | It is with the subject in mind that Minton restates his belief that unless a painter paints with love , he or she is like a blacksmith hammering away with appropriate tools but no fire . |
| 8 | To provide an illustration , a child who gets into trouble is much more likely to come before a court if he or she is from a poor home and has parents who do not get on with the welfare authorities or the police , than if his or her family is prosperous , respectable and willing to co-operate with the police and social services . |
| 9 | Los Angeles remains governable , the next mayor , whatever ethnic or interest group he or she is from will find acceptance as he had . |
| 10 | It is true that Pound does not readily conceive of a reader who is not also an aspiring writer — something that led Leavis astray when he tried to retort to How To Read ; but there is no harm , and much profit , in letting the student of the history of poetry suppose that he or she is in due course going to write poems . |
| 11 | Anyone who has been alongside a ship when he or she is in a small boat knows the way she towers over you at a dockside . |
| 12 | They do not want to disturb their child by commenting on how good he or she is in case the child starts to demand attention again . |
| 13 | Do you stay with the baby at all times when he or she is in the bath ? |
| 14 | The effect of s. 5 , therefore , is to render unenforceable business contracts entered into by the proprietor , where he or she is in breach of the requirements of s. 5 and this breach has caused some ‘ loss ’ to the other party . |
| 15 | Each novel presents a main character in a situation in which he or she is in some way alienated . |
| 16 | or she is in some way masculinized : |
| 17 | Further , a family member may find it difficult to " let go " of the primary sufferer while he or she is in treatment and may still want to find out everything that goes on in a treatment centre on a day-to-day basis and there by continue to " fix " by proxy . |
| 18 | Downlights should be , if possible , fitted with some sort of anti-glare device or any unfortunate standing underneath could feel that he or she is in an interrogation chamber . |
| 19 | On the other hand , if the right to refuse to transfer does not entail the right to remain for the transferor , perhaps the employee 's right to refuse on the sale of a business is nearly illusory , and he or she is in reality in no better position than the worker who sees the employing company bought over his or her head . |
| 20 | Now legislation arises either from major political commitments made by the Cabinet ( or earlier by the Shadow Cabinet while the party was in opposition ) , or it is of a more routine nature and comes from within the departments when they find their existing powers insufficient or inappropriate for the conduct of administration along accepted lines . |
| 21 | Positivist theories under this latter heading have taken two quite different forms : the acquisition is through the occurrence of some physical damage ( or illness ) ; or it is through learning . |
| 22 | ‘ Scripture ’ he said ‘ puts the great Commission from Jesus right at the heart of the Christian faith , or it is for every disciple ’ . |
| 23 | Either the contract is between the person acquiring a copy of the system ( the " acquirer " ) and the dealer or it is between the acquirer and the software company in which case the dealer acts as the company 's agent . |
| 24 | Or it is like the light pictures that enter the eyes lenses and escape into the vastness of the tundra and like ice crystals on the windows , they freeze and become the light flowers that bloom on the endless snow fields . |
| 25 | The senior nurse on each ward or in each community unit is the lynch pin in developing managerial awareness in registered nurses , as she or he is in the development of any activity within the ward setting . |
| 26 | Nor it is worth pursuing that the sandwiches at 10 Downing Street were probably very much better than those in The Centenary at Norton . |
| 27 | She has just sold her first novel to Doubleday , and she is at work on another . |
| 28 | MAUDE Alice Rand is 107 today and she is to be wished many happy returns by the Queen , the Queen Mother and the Archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 29 | Germany wants all the European currencies at her feet , and she is on the point of abusing her dominant position . ' |
| 30 | In Virginia Woolf 's To the Lighthouse there is a long passage in which Mrs Ramsay meditates after her child has been put to bed and she is on her own : |