Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | What this means to you or me is that if we happen to fancy a cup of the most expensive tea in the world , we would have to hurry off to Knightsbridge this month and shell out £35 for a quarter of a pound of Indian brew named Castleton . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Coaching can be a great help — but it can also get in the way , for slavishly following a pedantic teacher can produce very strange results , with the candidate ending up trying to sound like someone he or she is n't . |
| 4 | Altogether , tutorials take place over a period of about twenty-four weeks in the last year of a course , and usually by the last twelve tutorials a student has a much clearer idea of what he or she is about . |
| 5 | Couple this with a quality assessment system which is riddled with jargon and technical description and the caterer has a hard time deciding what he or she is going to buy and from which company . |
| 6 | When your child wakes up , be reassuring ; he or she is likely to be upset . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | You can not blame a brilliant young player who takes , say , the $200,000 he or she is offered , to play just for one night but it inevitably gives them a totally false impression of life and what their tennis priorities ought to be . |
| 9 | Every choreographer must have a motive if he or she is to give proper thought , impetus and significance to the movements made by the dancers whether : they are telling a story ; describing and/or expressing the thoughts behind a theme ; or interpreting music either by expressing personal feelings about the melody and rhythm or by so framing the dance that it parallels the music and reveals its structure . |
| 10 | If the character moves sideways with the head , body and arms in some way averted from the front , i.e. croisé , possibly with a twist of the shoulders , he or she is usually playing some evil or cunning person . |
| 11 | Each nomination must be proposed and seconded by two members of the Campaign and be accompanied by a signed declaration from the candidate that he or she is willing to stand . |
| 12 | It is true that Pound does not readily conceive of a reader who is not also an aspiring writer — something that led Leavis astray when he tried to retort to How To Read ; but there is no harm , and much profit , in letting the student of the history of poetry suppose that he or she is in due course going to write poems . |
| 13 | The new Employment Act will also make it unlawful for organisations to refuse to employ a job applicant on the grounds that he or she is not a union member . |
| 14 | Sometimes they are told to demonstrate what new recruits ( and the field-worker ) can expect ; on other occasions they are told to illustrate the funny or the tragic sides of policing ; or are used as a vehicle for the story-teller to display some features about him or herself , such as his or her experience and skill and ability in handling all things , and that he or she is professional in being able to talk about horror in a cold and detached manner . |
| 15 | The telling of atrocity stories is therefore a highly structured occasion which reveals little about the teller other than that he or she is performing a ritual for a contextually specific purpose . |
| 16 | Use this where your employee has not entitlement to SSP or where that entitlement has run out but he or she is still sick . |
| 17 | He or she is sick on Sunday and continues sick until the following Sunday . |
| 18 | Ideally , the manager should be there at the beginning of a band 's professional career because he or she is going to operate the various deals which are set up . |
| 19 | If a member leaves the band , he or she is only responsible for the debts incurred prior to his or her leaving . |
| 20 | he or she is required to give a certain amount of notice . |
| 21 | However , although your accountant is your ‘ servant ’ he or she is n't clairvoyant . |
| 22 | If he or she does n't act for a number of successful bands , he or she is unlikely to have a thorough understanding of accounting in the music business . |
| 23 | Except that already it is not quite that simple , since the post-modern sophisticate is also the critic of these other , negative ways of relating to the other ; he or she is the one who diagnoses their social and psychic economies . |
| 24 | The imbalance in coverage stems partly from the Prime Minister 's engagement in more newsworthy activities and partly from the fact that , as leader of the government , he or she is newsworthy . |
| 25 | Big organisations are terribly bad at making a customer feel he or she is the most important person in the world . |
| 26 | He or she is not house-proud or much concerned with appearances . |
| 27 | Be careful how you choose — your child wo n't learn to his maximum potential in an environment where he or she is not happy . |
| 28 | The martial-law administrator , Crown Prince Saad , says that nobody will be expelled unless he or she is known to have collaborated with the Iraqis . |
| 29 | Thus , in Doughty ( 1986 ) , the crying of a 17-day-old child was held to be sufficient to fall within the requirement ( even though such an infant is not aware of the significance of what he or she is doing ) , whereas someone who loses self-control after a storm or explosion has destroyed his property would be outside the requirement . |
| 30 | Practitioners seem to accept that worthy cases of mercy killing invariably have this outcome , but this informal approach provides the defendant with no legal basis for a defence — he or she is truly at the mercy of the psychiatrists , the prosecutor , and the judge . |