Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Need it be a matter of wonder , when we see her capable of such restraint in general , that she should retire within herself and exercise that control we find her continually exerting over all her thoughts and actions the more energetically at a time when she is taught that a stray thought of desire would be impurity and its fruition pollution . |
| 32 | Similarly , a child who creates dangerous mayhem in the kitchen can not do so if he or she is taught and learns never to enter the kitchen . |
| 33 | Furthermore , aggregated data from this source presented to the House of Commons Select Committee on Health show that in approximately two thirds of births registered solely by the mother she is classified as unoccupied . |
| 34 | However when she is heeling and lurching her way to windward the aggregate of the tensions in the shrouds and stays which support the masts is comparable to the ship 's displacement and may thus amount to several thousand tons . |
| 35 | As the subject of Harry Bates 's statue of 1890 she is transformed and re-made by Rose Garrard , as the generative point of her reworking of the myth of the first woman in the videos Tumbled Frame(1984) and Pandora the Bringer of Gifts ( 1982 ) . |
| 36 | Tantrums at this time are common when she is thwarted and she hits out at people and objects when they do not bend to her will . |
| 37 | She is maddening and charming . |
| 38 | In each case , the child must not only find a way of getting the adult to notice the object , but she must do this in such a way that the adult is aware of what she is doing and why she is doing it . |
| 39 | As Carolyn observes : ‘ I 'm not a terribly spiritual person but I do believe that she was meant to do what she is doing and she certainly believes that . |
| 40 | But the promise of the student 's higher education is realized when the student is able to raise him or herself out of that state of ‘ delight ’ ( to borrow again from Marjorie Reeves ) and to reflect on what he or she is doing and thinking . |
| 41 | I have the right to know what she is doing and , if she is having an affair , it has got to stop because it is driving me out of my mind . ’ |
| 42 | But we 're grateful to Eileen for what she is doing and will continue to do and we 're grateful to John for what he intends to do erm for three years at any stage wha at any stage in which they choose . |
| 43 | Helping an elderly woman to adjust and to find a new identity is never easy , but it can nearly always be achieved if she is shown that she is still loved and needed , by her family and friends . |
| 44 | Sally 's parents keep themselves aware of her circle of friends and make sure they know where she is going when she goes out . |
| 45 | She creates a world where she is admired and rich . |
| 46 | She fancies her handsome American lodger like mad and , as he seems equally keen , she is devastated when another woman starts creeping into his room late at night . |
| 47 | When she is finished and suitably stunning , regally stunning , I am disappointed . |
| 48 | One strange thing about her books is that they nearly all tend to be set a little bit back in the past , so that the position of the women that she is describing and the society in which she is describing them is n't quite what 's actually going on a the time she 's writing . |
| 49 | Today , Renee Henry is convinced that she is cured and that the Gerson therapy is responsible . |
| 50 | She is depicted as regal , beautiful , smart and successful . |
| 51 | What can be wrong , however , with fantasising , treating a woman as an object , if there is no connection between the fantasy and real life and if she is depicted as wanting to be treated this way ? |
| 52 | She is able to eat and drink normally on the day she is admitted but on the following day is allowed nothing at all by mouth for 4 hours prior to surgery . |
| 53 | When Novella — whose name so aptly means new — discloses herself , we find her looking into a mirror where she is refracted and multiplied , clustered and polymorphous , beheld and beholding in infinite variety . |
| 54 | But in both these situations she is marked as unclean and is segregated , as in both cases she bleeds . |
| 55 | In the new year 's gift list of 1563 she is described as ‘ gentlewoman ’ and by her son , in 1595 , as ‘ sworne as one of the privye chamber to the Quenes Majestie ’ . |
| 56 | Firstly , in relation to users and carers , the practitioner may well be aware that she is identifying and discussing needs which are unlikely to be met within the current limits and range of available services . |
| 57 | She pronounces ‘ liver ’ with a long vowel , so that for a second he thinks she is asking if he likes geese saliva . |
| 58 | She is saying that this good thing , this knowledge , can be used — to tell us , for example , that Amis is not a Tudor writer : but she is rather more moved to say at the same time that it ca n't or can hardly be used , devoted as she is to the thought of a separation between , in this case , Amis 's friendships and politics , his life — and his art . |
| 59 | In the language of contemporary sociology , she is saying that juvenile delinquency is a subculture … |
| 60 | described two distinct states of affair , namely , ( a ) where the wife is alive to what she is signing and is procured to sign by the undue influence of her husband ; and ( b ) where the wife is not aware of what she is signing and the only ground for impeaching the document is her want of understanding . |