Example sentences of "she is [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Likewise in the case of Lewis 's Eve : if she is ransomed by Ransom 's struggle with the Un-Man in the underworld , a sort of Harrowing of Hell sequence , how can she be said to have resisted the temptation on her own ; and if she has not really resisted through her own strength — if she is to be rewarded with immortality and felicity for something she has not done herself — where is the justice in the punishment , on another planet , of Eve and her descendants , for something which again was not wholly her responsibility ? |
| 2 | Strange and really beautiful though she is , still with the fairy air about her and her pretty little head so fine , she is ruined . |
| 3 | Having performed a healing miracle , she is packed off to a remote convent . |
| 4 | She is opinionated , and can confidently predict that William Burroughs , whose books have me aching with boredom , will be read a hundred years from now . |
| 5 | The first , brief account of her long love for Kallikrates which Ayesha gives to Leo Vincey and his guardian in She is expanded in Wisdom 's Daughter to emphasise this spirituality and to excuse her sin as being due to the inexorable power of love . |
| 6 | She is played , as is her double , by Irene Jacob , and the enchantment of the film owed much to her personality ; she is not only beautiful , she communicates beauty . |
| 7 | Violet Kray is the heroine of the film , and she is played by Billie Whitelaw with a warmth which is completely credible and endearing . |
| 8 | For her subjects it will undoubtedly confirm our respect and affection for her as a person ; but , more importantly , by its sequential emphasis , it reasserts the awesome spiritual power with which she is invested . |
| 9 | According to this account , the learning process is determined by the innate structure of the learner operating upon the specific organisation of whichever human language he or she is exposed to . |
| 10 | She is pictured with sous chef Mark Jordan whipping up a storm in the kitchen . |
| 11 | She is pictured with students ( l–r ) Helen Allan , Tim Schaffer , Liz Still and Dee Burrows , who were among this year 's 379 successful IANE graduates |
| 12 | The Princess of Wales makes a solo visit to Egypt where she is pictured alone in front of the pyramids . |
| 13 | She is pictured with astonishingly beautiful delphinium blue eyes , matching the delphiniums growing beside her . |
| 14 | TV personality , Anneka Rice , helped launch the range by receiving a cheque on WWF 's behalf , and she is pictured wearing the purple fleece and silk jumpsuit . |
| 15 | She is pictured in Burston 's impressive reception area with cattle sales manager for East Anglia , . |
| 16 | She is pictured with boyfriend , operations supervisor at the computer centre , who invited to join her on the two-day trip . |
| 17 | She is pictured with her mum Christine and TV personality Julian Simmons who drew out the winning entry . |
| 18 | Jo Durie , who has again carried the ladies game , made her own thoughts very clear and at this rate it could be some years until she is beaten regularly by a British girl . |
| 19 | After all , as he had said — and now every word of our conversation came back to me as clearly as if played back on a tape — a woman has a right to decide , on the basis of her own capacity to cope with the situation , whether she is justified in going on with it . |
| 20 | These sales leads are closely monitored from the head office and , if the salesperson consistently falls below the average success rate of converting leads into orders , then he or she is dismissed . |
| 21 | But Carol said she is baffled over how the girls came to have such good singing voices . |
| 22 | It means that she is freed from the ‘ tutelage ’ of her father and brothers . |
| 23 | She is followed by The Queen ( 22% ) and The Queen Mother ( 23% ) . |
| 24 | When a young female black-backed jackal first comes into heat she is followed by several young males , one of which she selects as her long-term partner . |
| 25 | These not only cause a change in self-concept — the way a woman sees herself — but , more important , a change in the way she is perceived by other people . |
| 26 | Without it , she has become a virtual prisoner in her own home ; she is ruled by the clock and the hours worked by her local authority helpers . |
| 27 | Again , the suggestion has been made that in cases where a woman 's SB is withdrawn because she is found/thought to be cohabiting , a ‘ tiding over ’ allowance should be made to ease the adjustment . |
| 28 | Clarke equalled the United Kingdom junior women 's record of 2.95 metres , and must now wait anxiously to see if she is selected for the junior international match against Hungary later this month . |
| 29 | Ashcroft , one of the brightest young middle distance runners in Britain , had the injection in case she is selected for the World Junior Championships in Seoul in September . |
| 30 | But ‘ at some point in the future ’ , she wants to become again what she is trained to be — a general paediatrician , work that would inevitably involve dealing with child abuse . |