Example sentences of "she is a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is a small , passionate , very striking young woman with deep shining black eyes and a glittering smile , talking ten to the dozen in a strong Moroccan accent . |
| 2 | She is a bit like Dyer . |
| 3 | If you do want to portray an older figure , it would be preferable to try Hermione in The Winter 's Tale — she is a more fantastical character , without the added complications of historical authenticity , and so allows for greater flexibility of characterisation . |
| 4 | She is a busybody who likes talking and has cultivated her own style . |
| 5 | She is a unicorn , thought Jay , contriving ways to have their paths cross . |
| 6 | She is a good role model for young players with her excellent attitude and obvious love of the game . |
| 7 | She is a little short but she has these other advantages . |
| 8 | Look after her like this and she is a sweet tempered old soul . |
| 9 | She is a little playful , first accepting and then rejecting his advances , whilst he suggests there are stronger feelings behind his efforts to steal a kiss . |
| 10 | She is a child-like figure who dances innocently to Fauré 's Pie Jesu . |
| 11 | She is a 34-year-old lady who lives in the suburbs of a city with her husband or partner . |
| 12 | She is a first cross between two well-known breeds . |
| 13 | ‘ She is a qualified international referee and although the players are entitled to their opinions , I think they might say something different in the morning , ’ Foo said . |
| 14 | She is a very conscious stylist , who constructs the form of her sentences , her paragraphs , her narratives , with precise attention . |
| 15 | On her best form she is a cut above the rest , but Carson 's mount , Princess Sobieska , could be a dangerous rival . |
| 16 | In public and private she is a relentless educator . |
| 17 | For all the pejorative talk of her being an ‘ ideologue ’ , however , she is a practical Conservative . |
| 18 | She is a teacher of primary school kids and decides , probably rightly , that these two English boys are really only ten years of age and should be treated as such . |
| 19 | She is a piece in an international game of chess ; she is gloomy and melancholic ; she is also , rather more strongly than in English , unlucky , wretched , doomed . |
| 20 | She is an essential but individually helpless cog in the colonial machine ; she is pinned out like a pre-columbian sacrificial victim , bruised and blood-stained ; she is a religious icon , like a popular image of the Virgin Maria ; she is a mannikin from some popular religious festival . |
| 21 | She is an essential but individually helpless cog in the colonial machine ; she is pinned out like a pre-columbian sacrificial victim , bruised and blood-stained ; she is a religious icon , like a popular image of the Virgin Maria ; she is a mannikin from some popular religious festival . |
| 22 | There she is a slave . |
| 23 | If she is a teacher in a girl 's school and even one man is employed there , people start saying there is a man there among the women . |
| 24 | She is a modern woman , with a modern consciousness . |
| 25 | Or take the old woman who is really a slave to the Gluttony of Delicacy but thinks she is the very model of abstinence : She is a positive terror to hostesses and servants . |
| 26 | You have only to read her bestselling books , In the Shadow of Man and Through a Window , to recognise that by temperament she is a romantic and a child of nature . |
| 27 | In conjunction with her passion for insects and butterflies , on which she is a leading authority , she had a scheme underway to reintroduce wild flowers to the countryside . |
| 28 | As such , she is a compulsive user of the telephone , and rings everyone , especially friends and family . |
| 29 | He added : ‘ I think Esther Rantzen does a tremendous amount of good work , but she is a media star and I would hope that she will realise that people accept what she says as gospel truth . |
| 30 | Asked whether the same applied to Mrs Thatcher , Dr Kohl replied : ‘ She is a democrat , she supports self-determination , but her ideas about a time frame for German unity are different . ’ |