Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I is there a lot there ? |
| 2 | Furthermore , the fact that Haines must report to the Jockey Club Stewards and has no authority to act unilaterally has inevitably led to suggestions that his is merely a token appointment . |
| 3 | ‘ You did hit him in the stomach — and that briefcase of yours is quite a solid design , after all . |
| 4 | Yours is only a sleeping life . ’ |
| 5 | Theirs is sometimes a robust way with Mozart , but it remains pleasantly flexible both tonally and rhythmically , and in the first work of all ( K19 d ) they show the kind of skill that unfussily makes the natural-sounding best of the conventional material written by a boy of nine on his London visit . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Well not all the time , nobody 's right all the time , but she is a right she is right a lot of the time Jonathan because some of them children misbehave |
| 8 | She is probably a price-conscious shopper ( nearly everyone claims to be these days ) , but in her shopping this may be reflected in a reliance on branded goods bought at Asda , or private label from the Co-op . |
| 9 | I doubt that she is much like the real Gertrude Lawrence but she is decidedly a class act . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , here she is again a vociferous pain to the last in a gripping production by Charlotta Martinus for a new and enterprising group called Confederate Spirits in a pub-theatre in North London , the Duke of Cambridge . |
| 11 | ‘ Whatever happens in the Arc she is just a star and she is the one they 've all got to beat , ’ declares George . |
| 12 | She is also a great letter-writer , a hangover no doubt from years at boarding school , where she had to write to both parents every week . |
| 13 | She is also a lay member of the Stockport Family Health Authority . |
| 14 | Mother Hilary may well be the one to shed those tears , but she is also a realist who realises that for her daughter to achieve at the sport she loves , she needed to leave home . |
| 15 | And yet that is one of the youngster 's attractions , that as well as being a very good tennis prospect , she is also a girl who enjoys life and the things other than tennis that it has to offer . |
| 16 | She is also a lover of good food , so we have both made certain the GH diet not only works but tastes delicious too . |
| 17 | She is also a former m.d. of Granta . |
| 18 | But she is also a keen listener . |
| 19 | She is also a splendid contrast to the noble-minded and sanctimonious Mrs. Jervis . |
| 20 | But she is also a mother : she has a baby at her feet , and a further child , a three-year-old girl , whose hips we have decided to destroy . |
| 21 | ’ In the play there is the prostitute character who represents Suzannah in the sense that she modeled for Artemesia 's painting ; She is also a hint at Tassi 's own murky past — he was tried for attempting to murder his wife ( a prostitute'- proof of his duplicity since he would not have been able to marry Artemesia under any circumstance . |
| 22 | She is also a prolific author with more than 70 books published . |
| 23 | She is also a singer and musician , and her talent as a pianist has often come in useful to teachers with specialist classes . |
| 24 | SCHOOL bosses have barred tragic cancer victim Lucy Roberts from the school all her friends will attend — even though she is already a pupil in its nursery . |
| 25 | She is already a megastar in Japan , where she makes frequent visits for personal and TV appearances . |
| 26 | She is already a lacemaker of great promise , and this autumn embarks on a City and Guilds course in lacemaking . |
| 27 | She is principally a custodian of her collection . |
| 28 | ‘ She is simply a normal balanced youngster who knows her own mind and goes her own way ’ Bellamy writes . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | She is about a third the size of the air-conditioned monsters , with two-thirds fewer passengers , and she blends with the panorama of the Nile . |