Example sentences of "that [pers pn] is [verb] " in BNC.

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31 I , I hate to contradict a lady but I does Mrs realise that she is voting against the construction of T five if you support my .
32 Before she is able to break the news to her husband that she is leaving him , Alex dies in a hideous , and strangely convenient boating accident .
33 It may start with the first glimpse she gets of the man she is destined to love , or the man she believes wrongly that she is destined to love .
34 Chrissie is relatively young and inexperienced , and while she may be a hardened liar and criminal , we feel the balance of the probabilities is that she is telling the truth .
35 In the second exercise , in which groups are required to come up with ideas about how to improve education , force of personality ensures that she is elected as chairman , in which capacity she proposes new local authorities to supervise the schools , ‘ from which councillors would be banned . ’
36 But Lesley Beattie , owner of the York-based Friends Estate Agency , yesterday denied that she is biased against male employees .
37 It means that she is freed from the ‘ tutelage ’ of her father and brothers .
38 Dorothy Heathcote would agree with Way and Marthinus that education as we currently understand it is too biased in this direction , but it is a balance between the two that she is seeking .
39 It is precisely this that she is seeking to obtain in this case .
40 Suppose a girl under 16 does not wish her parents to know that she is seeking contraceptive advice : the medical profession is divided between those who give priority to partial consent , and others who , in line with the General Medical Council , hold that the principle of professional confidentiality overrides that of parental consent .
41 She gave notice that she is determined to live the rest of her life as a woman independent in her own right , unfettered by false loyalties to the Royal Family .
42 When she outgrows her cot , it is important for her developing limbs and back that she is given a new bed , not a hand-me-down that has been shaped by somebody else 's body .
43 I 've never even managed to get through a job interview , even if it 's a woman doing the interviewing ; I just have this feeling that she is looking at me and judging me for all the wrong reasons .
44 Letterman thinks that he is failing in love with her but he has the impression that she is using his cosseted and lineamented body in some sinister fashion .
45 You , D , obviously are n't sure you like her very much , but at least you 'll admit that she is trying to raise awareness about important issues , like Mr Dylan , when he was alive .
46 Is my right hon. Friend further aware that she is supported by our party in being circumspect about jumping to conclusions before the official inquiry report to which she referred is received ?
47 If he considers that she is refusing intercourse unreasonably , his remedy is a matrimonial one .
48 Alison Halford has dropped her sex discrimination case against Merseyside Police and announced that she is to retire on medical grounds with a lump sum payment and pension .
49 In the absence of any agreement , or undertaking , then probably out of necessity the wife will have to pay for repairs , and explore the possibility when the trust comes to an end of applying to the court ( under " liberty to apply " ) for a variation of the division of the sale proceeds so that she is reimbursed .
50 The inspiration she gave to her staff and her friends continues now that she is gone .
51 Customers want value for money , and retailers use different strategies to convince the customer that she is getting a bargain .
52 We could say that she is laying the foundations for dressing herself later on .
53 If one of them is aware that she is providing an example for the others , she will have an additional incentive to set a high standard .
54 But we can not trust this wife 's claim that she is starved of cash by her husband .
55 A woman should never flirt with a man other than her husband , but this does not mean that she is oppressed in any way .
56 Not , of course , that she is to know that , and not , of course , that I shall tell her .
57 The protection that she is offered is so grossly inadequate that the Minister should be ashamed that he has done nothing about it .
58 I still have to carry water to her because sometimes she wo n't come out of the byre and follow her mother , which means that she is left all on her own .
59 The second child , however , finds that she is left with one large ring and the third finds to everyone 's surprise , he has two linking rings .
60 Financial arrangements have to be discussed as well , and the matter of her contribution to the household expenses has to be agreed upon , making sure that she is left with enough money each month for her clothing , personal expenses and pocket money .
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