Example sentences of "she is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By vulgar , racial accounting , she is primarily white and ‘ one quarter ’ black , and neither her cherubic , pink cheeks or pouty lips suggest much of her mother 's African ethnicity . |
| 2 | If the goats are wrong , the eagle calls out the name of the player she is after . |
| 3 | She is finally defeated by Ripley operating a mechanical lifter , a power loader a more sophisticated reprise of Sarah working the hydraulic press to ‘ terminate ’ her adversary in The Terminator ( Cameron 's self confessed love of machinery is apparent again ) . |
| 4 | Before she is finally arrested , she shoots a number of them , and lobs a grenade into the wings , where it goes off with a loud report . |
| 5 | On the one hand she is a strong and independent woman of power while on the other she is undeniably a patriarchal invention , a master of disguise designed t inspire fear of such female independence and power by associating it with demonic forces . |
| 6 | Like many women who have crashed through the glass ceiling — or , perhaps , ignored it — she is strongly opposed to positive discrimination in favour of women and has little time for the argument that women do n't succeed because they are women . |
| 7 | She also assumes that once a woman marries and has children she is financially provided for . |
| 8 | She is later employed as a maid by Lady Dedlock , who , when threatened with exposure by Tulkinghorn , seeks to shield her protégée from involvement in her disgrace . |
| 9 | Angharad is safer on the hills than she is indoors . |
| 10 | She is curiously slow with ‘ November ’ ( but so is Lisney ) ; otherwise , her touch is secure , whether in the long melodic span of ‘ October ’ or in the nimble rhythmic shifts of ‘ August ’ or the crisp contrasts of ‘ February ’ . |
| 11 | But here , where she WANTS to work , she is curiously cold-shouldered . |
| 12 | She is equally keen that they should have black role-models . |
| 13 | She is equally fascinated by the stone as a specimen and as a phenomenological object , but whereas those of us working in drama who might agree with the wisdom of this position tend to see ‘ personal engagement ’ with the world through dramatic action as a proper way of helping the child to know the world , Dorothy Heathcote tends to delay the phenomenological process by a deliberate depersonalising of objects . |
| 14 | Similarly adventurous is her choice of materials and techniques ; she is equally at home working with enamels , hardstones , Wedgwood china , precious stones and perspex . |
| 15 | She is equally her own Person . |
| 16 | Through the agency of a handsome admirer from her Cambridge days , she is increasingly drawn into the sphere of a dying emigre genius , gobbets of whose tersely enigmatic fiction are interspersed with her narrative . |
| 17 | As Alicia begins to build a new life for herself she is increasingly drawn towards the brusque yet magnetic charms of the Cornishman who owns Tresco , a remote ranch near the High Sierras . |
| 18 | Joyce worries about the fact that Luke does n't eat , yet , every time she is away , he gorges himself — stores up the food so he can starve again when she returns , and really makes her feel bad about leaving him . |
| 19 | She is away for hours ; perhaps a whole day . |
| 20 | Whatever the reason , male marmosets have developed a rearing strategy whereby they greatly assist the mother by carrying , holding , and generally caring for infants while she is away eating elsewhere . |
| 21 | While she is away feeding they take the strange kittens and rub them gently in the bedding that carries the female 's scent . |
| 22 | Helen will also be keeping an eye on the job market while she is away and praying that employers will see her experience in a positive light . |
| 23 | You should be allowed regular contact with your child while he or she is away . |
| 24 | ‘ And your mother has asked me to keep an eye on you while she is away . ’ |
| 25 | The morning fire should be re-kindled from the back-log of the previous day : a smart blow with the poker to break off its embers , small kindling on top of these , a puff with the bellows or breath and she is away . |
| 26 | It 's as if she is away staying somewhere , and we are waiting for her to come back , we can not do anything until she returns . |
| 27 | She is rather like a lyric author herself , a bit of a lyre . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I think in her day people were more reserved , and she is rather proud . ’ |
| 30 | Genuinely considerate and sympathetic to others , she is rather disorganised in her day-to-day functioning but has learned to delegate attention to detail and accuracy while she focuses on broader , long-term objectives . |