Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [vb pp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is damned if she does and damned if she does n't . |
| 2 | Traditionally , her top class has spent a residential week at Paignton Zoo and she is determined that , given the restriction on charging for activities within school hours , the tradition will be maintained ad infinitum . |
| 3 | The chiefs renege on the deal and she is stabbed as she tries to entice Odoff herself . |
| 4 | ‘ I feel it 's my duty to remind her that she is adored and does an exceptional amount of good for an awful lot of people , ’ he says . |
| 5 | She is regarded as passive ( because the light does not have the intensity of the sun ) , and productive because it was believed that her shining , heavenly presence encouraged the growth of crops . |
| 6 | Julie is devastated to discover she is adopted and she sets out to find her natural parents . |
| 7 | She is loved and visited by many , and is rarely alone . |
| 8 | I really want to know she is loved and cared for . |
| 9 | India has a number of diseases all her own , but if there is any suggestion that a foreign filly has been on the loose in a British stud she is rejected as unclean . |
| 10 | The heiress travels to Florida for some yachting but her sloop is run down and sunk by one of her own commercial schooners ; she is saved but she has lost her memory ; she ends up working on the cutting-tables in her own factory and falls in love with a manager whose previous requests for better conditions she had been happy to ignore . |
| 11 | She is represented as accoutred with a shield and a trident , the traditional attributes of the Sea-god Neptune , to symbolize the fact that Britain 's strength depends on her sea-power as ‘ ruler of the waves ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ O ’ is enslaved by her lover Rene , yet she voluntarily submits ; she is represented as desiring subordination . |
| 13 | She is bloodied and starved , though still swift on her feet . |
| 14 | These assumptions will be detrimental to the black child if he or she is seen as being rescued from a life of misery . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Need it be a matter of wonder , when we see her capable of such restraint in general , that she should retire within herself and exercise that control we find her continually exerting over all her thoughts and actions the more energetically at a time when she is taught that a stray thought of desire would be impurity and its fruition pollution . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Furthermore , aggregated data from this source presented to the House of Commons Select Committee on Health show that in approximately two thirds of births registered solely by the mother she is classified as unoccupied . |
| 20 | As the subject of Harry Bates 's statue of 1890 she is transformed and re-made by Rose Garrard , as the generative point of her reworking of the myth of the first woman in the videos Tumbled Frame(1984) and Pandora the Bringer of Gifts ( 1982 ) . |
| 21 | Tantrums at this time are common when she is thwarted and she hits out at people and objects when they do not bend to her will . |
| 22 | Helping an elderly woman to adjust and to find a new identity is never easy , but it can nearly always be achieved if she is shown that she is still loved and needed , by her family and friends . |
| 23 | She creates a world where she is admired and rich . |
| 24 | She fancies her handsome American lodger like mad and , as he seems equally keen , she is devastated when another woman starts creeping into his room late at night . |
| 25 | When she is finished and suitably stunning , regally stunning , I am disappointed . |
| 26 | Today , Renee Henry is convinced that she is cured and that the Gerson therapy is responsible . |
| 27 | She is depicted as regal , beautiful , smart and successful . |
| 28 | What can be wrong , however , with fantasising , treating a woman as an object , if there is no connection between the fantasy and real life and if she is depicted as wanting to be treated this way ? |
| 29 | She is able to eat and drink normally on the day she is admitted but on the following day is allowed nothing at all by mouth for 4 hours prior to surgery . |
| 30 | When Novella — whose name so aptly means new — discloses herself , we find her looking into a mirror where she is refracted and multiplied , clustered and polymorphous , beheld and beholding in infinite variety . |