Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [be] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there he is now or I 'm a Dutchman . ’ |
| 2 | That 's a miserable farmhouse , and the people in it are perilously unhappy or I 'm a monkey 's uncle . |
| 3 | He 'll fight his way up or I 'm a Dutchman . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ( ii ) at all times at least one share in the body must be so held either by a member who or which is a solicitor or a recognised body and who or which beneficially owns that share ; or by a member who or which holds that share as nominee for a solicitor or for a recognised body or for a receiver appointed under section 99 of the Mental Health Act 1983 in respect of a solicitor . |
| 6 | ( ii ) at all times at least one share in the body must be so held either by a member who or which is a solicitor or a recognised body and who or which beneficially owns that share ; or by a member who or which holds that share as nominee for a solicitor or for a recognised body or for a receiver appointed under section 99 of the Mental Health Act 1983 in respect of a solicitor . |
| 7 | ( 3 ) The permitted hours for premises in respect of which a hotel licence a restricted hotel licence , a restaurant licence , an entertainment licence or a licence under Part III of this Act is in force or which are a registered club shall , on weekdays , be the period between eleven in the morning and half-past two in the afternoon and the period between five and eleven in the evening and , on Sundays , be the period between half-past twelve and half-past two in the afternoon and the period between half-past six and eleven in the evening . |
| 8 | I can talk about it freely now & we have all picked ourselves up & dusted ourselves down … says that she is a stronger person ( maybe even ‘ harder ’ ) … & she is a very efficient business person & lives & works in Glasgow . |
| 9 | They are forces which are spreading wealth faster than at any time in human history and in one 's political approach I think you either are an enthusiast anxious to embrace the forces that are at work or you are a sceptic , perhaps inclined to resist them , hoping that you can frustrate them . |
| 10 | Write in your own handwriting , unless it is so bad it would be a point against you or you are a typist and a typewritten letter has been specified . |
| 11 | or you are a dog — or worse . ’ |
| 12 | Suffice to say keep your skis parallel or you 're a goner . |
| 13 | Probably because he 's an author or she 's an author . |
| 14 | Forgiven as a sinner , accepted by Christ , secure in God the defender come life or death , he or she is a person in the fullest sense . |
| 15 | He or she is a qualified Solicitor or Barrister and is paid . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The paradox of counselling is that almost everyone in the caring professions believes that he or she is a " natural " counsellor when in fact very few have that natural skill . |
| 20 | Socialisation is thus a process that integrates the individual into the ways and standards of the community of which he or she is a part . |
| 21 | The use of particular terms in thesis titles proclaims not just that the author is a member of a particular sub-discipline group , but that he or she is a member at a particular time , characterised by terms rooted in the paradigms then current ( Dott ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | We have to pay the hotel fee , because the hotel does n't know that he is an inspector , or she is an inspector . |
| 24 | In spite of his distaste for ‘ frills ’ , he saw church-going as something one did out of obedience ; something which shaped the life of prayer and reminded each individual that he or she was a ‘ member incorporate in the blessed company of all faithful people ’ ; but not something which needed to be added to , still less enjoyed as a hobby . |
| 25 | Among those in residential homes the frequency with which bad temper was reported was 31 per cent when the respondent was a relative , friend or neighbour , 45 per cent when he or she was a staff member — a difference which did not reach statistical significance . |
| 26 | Those spending any time in a residential home were less often described as having a poor quality of life if the respondent was a staff member than if he or she was a relative : 10 per cent compared with 42 per cent . |
| 27 | During the Tokugawa period the position of an individual was governed by the various groups of which he or she was a member , and this remained true in the post-Restoration years . |
| 28 | Either that , or she was a very good actress . |
| 29 | that he or she is or has been a director of a company which has at any time become insolvent ( whether while he or she was a director or subsequently ) ; and |
| 30 | Either that , or she was a mistress of the art , pretending to trip , stumble and fall just to thrill the crowd . |