Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] she is [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 She enjoys modelling , but is sometimes baffled by the amount of money she is paid for ‘ standing around doing nothing ’ .
2 Can you tell me what is the maximum level of capital she is allowed to be eligible for this benefit ?
3 The blue and white drawing-room with its Howard chairs covered in ciselée Prussian blue velvet , seventeenth-century Van Steenwyk portraits of touchingly formal and grave children , and Dali 's wry , scratchy ink sketch of Winston on horseback as a Spanish grandee , is dominated by Dali 's 1958 portrait of C.Z. She is apotheosised as an icon of glacial chic , staring out from the plains of Gerona in Mainbocher 's equally well bred palamino cardigan and orange brocade gown .
4 When a young female black-backed jackal first comes into heat she is followed by several young males , one of which she selects as her long-term partner .
5 Ashcroft , one of the brightest young middle distance runners in Britain , had the injection in case she is selected for the World Junior Championships in Seoul in September .
6 In Sarrance she is said to have written a part of her celebrated Heptameron , which is the French equivalent , even if frankly not the equal , of Boccaccio 's Decameron , a collection of seventy-two intermittently salacious stories .
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