Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , like a cat , every muscle in that perfectly honed body of his is permanently coiled in perfect readiness to spring . |
| 2 | Surely an Association such as yours is basically run by the officers , it is a certain amount of window dressing having local councillors , if you like , sitting on your executive . |
| 3 | It costs around £40 for a replacement bin and police say tenants should take steps to make sure theirs is easily identified . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She also assumes that once a woman marries and has children she is financially provided for . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And she is wholly believed because of that . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Under the guise of complimenting Elizabeth 's mercy , Spenser is implying she is easily manipulated by others . |
| 14 | Tall Loretta is supposed to pursue masculine endings of a linguistic kind as a London University academic but she is easily diverted to Bridget 's base at St Mark 's , Cambridge , and to discussions of one kind and another in Paris . |
| 15 | She found those who had fled from Re 's anger in the desert and killed very many of them , thus gaining the name of Sekhmet , the lioness goddess of war , with whom she is here identified . |
| 16 | It is a method of making the press charge my wife before she is even found guilty by the press . |
| 17 | She is softly spoken , naturally courteous woman , but with a quiet confidence that suggests she would brook no interference . |
| 18 | ‘ She is just determined to survive , ’ said mother Gillian , 34 , of Hereford . |
| 19 | She is just mislaid . ’ |
| 20 | She is also determined to prevent osteoporosis , having seen a friend confined to a wheelchair with the disease until she started HRT . |
| 21 | Not only do her efforts to assert her freedom from male domination lead her into the hands of another man , but she is also punished for her resistance by having her words deemed valueless , just as today ‘ pseudo-escaperoutes will so lightly turn sado-escape , and … women 's very freedom will so easily be used against them by even moderately clever men ’ ( 12 ) . |
| 22 | I find her difficult to handle and my soundings are that she is deeply unpopular in Fleet St. She is also said to be extremely bitter about the way she has been treated and evidently stands to make millions from various lawsuits . |
| 23 | In both features she is also seen to embody a wider set of assumptions about Mexico itself ; exotic , passionate , yet constantly struggling against pain and deceit . |
| 24 | She is also remembered because she was painted by Velázquez , although this is not unrelated to the family tree . |
| 25 | Demeter 's symbol is the ear of corn and she is also linked to the bee in Classical literature , due to her industrious nature and nourishing function . |
| 26 | She is also known for being frugal and will often only serve visiting supporters after running a used teabag three or four times through a mangle . |
| 27 | She is also rumoured to have turned her attention to acting , and is reportedly starring as Joan of Arc in a new film about the dangers involved when you get tied to a wooden stake with lots of sticks around it which is then deliberately set on fire by your political opponents . |
| 28 | She is also quoted at length by Tracey and Morrison ( 1979 ) . |
| 29 | She is also alleged to have stolen goods to the value of £330 . |
| 30 | However she was part of the team effort for which she is also congratulated ] . |