Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] is [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | The ease with which patients are managed in these settings contrasts with the chaos that commonly ensues when a single anorexia nervosa patient is treated on a general psychiatric or medical ward , where she is either afforded special status or rejected because her illness is seen as self-inflicted . |
2 | Her experience is brought to bear in the Crown 's superior restaurant where she is particularly proud of the French cuisine . |
3 | Since she is illiterate , reading of the Bible is ruled out , but , in whatever activity she finds herself , she can pursue prayer and meditation in meekness , and faith in the teachings of the Church , and the same " continuel desire to God " that he advocated in Mixed Life ( 41.472 ) here stressed as an inner dynamic , where she is never idle " bot alwey liftand up hert by desire to God and to blisse of heuen " ( 22.296a. – 96 ) . |
4 | A mother who is living in an environment where she is very isolated and whose general social contacts with neighbours , relatives , and husband are mostly unhappy or antagonistic is likely to behave differently from a mother who generally has pleasant interactions with most people but occasionally experiences some aggressive reactions from her child . |
5 | The situation with her husband is one where she is very misunderstood . |
6 | Of course , she would die very quickly if she were not to receive intensive and expensive round-the-clock treatment from the staff of the nursing home where she is now a patient . |
7 | Where she is now , in whose hands , whether she 's still alive , these are the questions you need to have answered before paying a ransom . ’ |
8 | Ms Blaazer has spent 14 years with The Industrial Society , where she is now Senior Consultant . |
9 | ‘ Do you have any idea where she is now ? |
10 | Jodie Foster , fresh from her triumphs in The Accused ( released on video last month ) , is the only reason to bother , as with Five Corners ( 15 Pathe 13 Oct ) , where she is almost raped again and is carted about , unconscious , by a psychopath . |
11 | Another symptom is writing numbers or letters backwards — again a common enough thing to do when a child is learning to write , particularly if he or she is left-handed , or perhaps dyslexic ; and probably most absurd of all , children who refer to television characters as real people are showing signs of abuse . |
12 | You should be allowed regular contact with your child while he or she is away . |
13 | The international customer will be looking for as bolthole for the times he or she is here |
14 | Nurse the resident in a position in which he or she is most comfortable , and change that position frequently . |
15 | Unlike a real victim , the interview underdog needs to remember that he or she is also in a position to evaluate . |
16 | The teacher may lead the discussion or the activity , but he or she is also learning from the students . |
17 | The trick here , and in the scores of near-novels that have followed in its wake , is to make the reader , or disciple , imagine that he or she is just as erudite into the bargain : no need to struggle through Dante or The Song of Roland when it is all there in one fat detective story . |
18 | He or she is well within range and unable to defend him or herself with one or both hands . |
19 | He or she is best placed to give you legal advice , and to liaise with the other professional agencies involved . |
20 | If the individual can always predict what will happen after the first drink then he or she is probably not alcoholic and may have no need of a 12 Step recovery programme and therefore can not be said to relapse if occasionally he or she gets drunk . |
21 | In the case of a building , the seller may be ignorant : if the seller knew of a risk and sold without disclosure , he or she is probably liable at law , but builders come and builders go , and those who deliberately mislead mostly go . |
22 | Do not leave the purchaser until he or she is completely satisfied with the demonstration . |
23 | Like the characters and indeed the reader he or she is simply a collection of codes : ‘ The ‘ I ’ which approaches the text is already itself a plurality of other texts , of codes which are infinite , or more precisely , lost ( whose origin is lost ) ’ ( p. 10 ) . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | Yet he or she is usually limited by lack of resources , lack of accommodation , lack of contact outside the institution and downright sexual repressiveness within from any sexual expression whatever . |
26 | He or she is usually a well-known public figure , who need not have any connection with the academic world ( such as a member of the Royal Family ) . |
27 | The chief academic and administrative officer of a Scottish university , he or she is usually styled ‘ principal and vice chancellor ’ , the latter title used when standing in for the chancellor on ceremonial occasions . |
28 | Finally , that a poet has written a good poem does not mean he or she is always capable of another , and to read Duck 's career as an arrested development may be sentimental . |
29 | The beloved is not separate , absent , but present , at the moment of the poet 's writing or speaking , as of the beloved 's hearing or reading the poem — as , indeed , of the reader 's reading , now and always : he or she is always there as we read . |
30 | In most universities , he or she is often called the vice-chancellor — the title " chancellor " being reserved for another notable figure who fills that largely ceremonial and dignified office . |