Example sentences of "that [pron] is a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So Rickie Crowninshield is an irresponsible idiot , ’ Ellen said coldly , ‘ but you ca n't run society on the assumption that everyone is a retard , and you have to accept that there will be casualties in a free society . |
| 2 | He would probably say that his is a case of the unexcitable in pursuit of the unexciting , but the sound , and at times beautiful hockey which he has inspired ( particularly in the second half of the season ) gives the lie to such modesty . |
| 3 | In that his is a daily paper , and that Fiji is quite close to the Date Line , probably he is technically correct . |
| 4 | Where a plaintiff contends that his is a case justifying a departure from the general approach that contention , and the facts relied upon to support it , should be pleaded . |
| 5 | After a brief opening spot by local musician Jim Malcolm , which suggested that his is a talent to watch , Guillory came on . |
| 6 | Saying that someone is a doctor may refer to office , status , role , or all three together . |
| 7 | We eventually learn that Someone is a psychiatrist called Larry who works for a group of astrophysicists at a scientific research laboratory . |
| 8 | Instead of the advertiser stating directly that someone is a with-it swinger if he smokes , he implies that to young people by showing them smoking Peter Stuyvesant cigarettes on airliners . |
| 9 | Peter responds that the fact that someone is a single parent does n't mean they 're not a decent person . |
| 10 | They represent to the world that theirs is a relationship based on strong human emotions , exclusive commitment to each other , and permanence . |
| 11 | This may be to acquaynt you that their is a pore yong women in oure Towne of Asston-underlyne infected with a filthy deceassed called the French poxe and shee saith shee was defiled by one Henry Heyworth a maryed man , but soe it is the report of that dessease occasioneth neighbours to deny hir harbour and shee is enforced to lye in the streetes and in great danger to bee starved , I do humbly intreate your worshipps to take it into your consideration and to grant your Order that the pore woman may be provyded for to prevent starveing , either upon the parrish charges , or upon the Costs of the said Heyworth whom she saith hath spoiled hir , whether yiur worshipps shall think fitt |
| 12 | I can see now that she is a blessing in red-booted disguise . |
| 13 | Goldsmith talks with some conviction , but she is the first to admit that she is a phoney . |
| 14 | The Bulgarians sombrely suggest that she is a dead mother looking for her own baby , while the Spanish say she is the GHOST of an aunt or grandmother , looking to make a gift to her descendants . |
| 15 | Her employer is perfectly aware that she is a sans-papiers . |
| 16 | The individual not only operates in a social context but also is determined , to the extent that she is a social being , by that context . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's really not to easy to tell that she IS a girl , is it ? |
| 18 | This is better for the male , too , and he may actually inform the female in some way that she is a secondary female , but as yet we do not know how . |
| 19 | She lost 7–5 6–3 to Seles in the quarter-finals after disposing of last year 's finalist Jana Novotna , but she showed enough , as he has done before , to show the rest of the watching world that she is a major force waiting to erupt . |
| 20 | Marlborough , a neighbour in Albemarle Street , opens a third exhibition of Therese Oulton ( 1 May–12 June ) , whose new paintings should dispel any lingering suggestion that she is a painter of the landscape . |
| 21 | But if Trible 's position is that she is a literary critic , pursuing rhetorical criticism without commitment to the text , then it must be said that the impression she gives is often very different . |
| 22 | That she is a steady worker ( much emphasis must not be placed on this as the contrary is also alleged[ ! ] ) and nimble at mechanical processes such as folding and collecting sheets . |
| 23 | I know that she is a silly woman , a vain woman — I speak now in confidence , of course . |
| 24 | ‘ I understand that she is a bad , evil woman . |
| 25 | I only know that she has your love , and that she is a very lucky woman . ’ |
| 26 | Since then I have come to see that she is a woman of qualities , some of which one detects in Barbara Castle and Margaret Thatcher . |
| 27 | She firmly refuses to concede that she is a celebrity , merely saying that she ‘ leads two lives ’ but is essentially an ordinary Daleswoman . |
| 28 | Prosecutor : Do you appreciate that she is a person who has the right to refuse ? |
| 29 | When she is successful , this success is attributed , not to her as a female character , but to the fact that she is a ‘ tomboy ’ ; as the author makes clear . |
| 30 | We believe that she is a very fine ship and that she is needed by the Royal Navy and the Foreign Office . |