Example sentences of "[conj] she is [vb pp] " in BNC.
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1 | He is in his third year at sea when the misjudgment of Captain ‘ Battler ’ Cobb , reckless with drink and determined to win the grain race , runs the ship into a typhoon in the South Pacific , where she is dismasted and the Captain is seriously injured . |
2 | Consider the response of a five-and-a-half-year-old girl in a Yorkshire infant school where she is asked to say how two pictures are different from each other . |
3 | After the Dorrits come into their fortune Mr Plornish is found ‘ a small share in a small builder 's business ’ , and Mrs Plornish is established ‘ in the small grocery and general trade in a snug little shop at the crack end of the Yard ’ , where she is joined by her poor father , Old Nandy , to whom she is devoted , and assisted by Maggy . |
4 | And a wife has no other relationship where she is told to submit in everything as the church submits to Christ . |
5 | Usually , when a person is asked to provide a report he or she is given a brief which provides the terms of reference . |
6 | These assumptions will be detrimental to the black child if he or she is seen as being rescued from a life of misery . |
7 | Since a Prime Minister without a majority in the Commons is an impossibility , he or she is seen as in a position to make any law he or she sees as fit . |
8 | It is expensive in terms of paying the salary or the research grant of the researcher for this time , especially if he or she is engaged in no other work . |
9 | He or she is supported by a Minister of State and two Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of State . |
10 | Interaction between judges is probably more significant in the United States with the stable membership on the Supreme Court , but even in Britain the phenomenon of ‘ opinion deference ’ , whereby one or more judges defers to the opinion of another because he or she is acknowledged to be an expert or to have seniority , is not unknown . |
11 | It is important that the viewer is physically incorporated in the work , that he or she is implicated . ’ |
12 | Adoption can be seen as the logical answer to infertility , but as Brebner et al ( 1985 ) point out , if medical investigations/treatment for infertility fail and are performed without adequate psychological support , the subsequent depression and disappointment can cause couples to jump at adoption without recognising those aspects of parenthood which are peculiar to adoptive parenthood , which include : having to be assessed and monitored ; absence of pregnancy and birth ; becoming attached to a child born to someone else ; having to tell the child he or she is adopted . |
13 | Issues relating to adoption can arise early in placement or after the order and the social worker has stopped visiting , and often centre around how to tell the child he or she is adopted . |
14 | Similarly , a child who creates dangerous mayhem in the kitchen can not do so if he or she is taught and learns never to enter the kitchen . |
15 | It is the task of the Chief Commissioner to decide which decisions are to be reported and he or she is assisted by the Commissioners starring decisions they consider worthy of reporting . |
16 | That is , he or she is viewed as a passive and helpless victim of ruling class , media and state propaganda . |
17 | Failure to do this will obviously leave the child unprepared to understand and deal with the first time he or she is called ‘ nigger ’ , or some other racial slur . |
18 | There is also a strong sense of' learning' , in which the student identifies with the truth claim he or she is faced with , and can offer it ( for example , back to the consultant physician ) as something with which he or she had personal experience ( having had an opportunity to examine some patients ) . |
19 | 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 . |
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 | when he or she is asked to refrain from a particular activity ; |
22 | If he or she is apprised in advance of your particular aims and objectives , and work the pupils have already done on the topic , and so on , the session can often be very carefully tailored to get maximum value from the visit . |
23 | He or she is remembered in prayer and asked to in turn pray for the person 's desired object . |
24 | Wherever you are grabbed , you can not be stopped using at least some of these weapons , and every time one hits home , the attacker 's pain will increase until he or she is forced to loosen the grip . |
25 | Yet what they seem satisfied with is that they initiate contact with the lawyer , and not the other way round , as and when they think he or she is needed . |
26 | Get a quote from the vet for night visits in case he or she is needed at foaling . |
27 | As a ‘ no meaning ’ theist , he or she is protected from the sort of self-criticism that must come when believer and unbeliever are challenging one another on common ground . |
28 | Unlike most criminal cases involving adults , the charge hinges on the child 's understanding of what he or she is alleged to have done . |
29 | Can you put your hand on your heart and say that you have made it plain what he or she is allowed to do ( hopefully not unnecessarily restrictive ) and what he or she should not do ? |
30 | Only if an intervention is effective not only in eliminating this factor , but also in transforming the person 's lifestyle such that he or she is removed from this conveyor belt of risk , can the effects of the intervention be expected to be apparent ten or twenty years later . |