Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [pron] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She is our miracle baby , ‘ said Dawn as she cuddled three-week-old Anne at home in Norton , North Yorkshire , with husband John .
2 ‘ And from now on , ’ he says protectively , ‘ she is our lifetime commitment , whether she is under my roof or somebody else 's .
3 I 'm not the woman in the picture ; she is my sister Dana . ’
4 She is God 's creative energy as well as His power to destroy and at the same time she is His saving grace .
5 Perched on a stool next to her is her friend Barbara , a fat blond whose ample figure and dumpling smile fit the Slavic stereotype better .
6 Again , this is because rice is important to the speakers of those languages , as it is their staple food .
7 It is their value judgement that is largely being presented .
8 While Kahlo 's art helped her to deal with the vicissitudes of her life , for most audiences it is her life story which allows access to her art .
9 For the thriller , the solution to the narrative 's enigma is the unveiling of the criminal ; for the romance , it is what Germaine Greer described as the ‘ Almighty kiss ’ .
10 It is what John Triseliotis has referred to as ‘ a family for life , with its network of support systems not only for them but also for their future children ’ .
11 It is what Mr Kinnock is prepared to do as the price for power .
12 Bob is a lecturer at a local college , and so it is his wife Beryl who runs the hotel .
13 It is his principle ethic .
14 It is his cousin Ahmed coming .
15 It is his wedding day .
16 It is impossible for the voter to know in advance whether it is his ballot paper which is going to contribute to the result of the election in this way but if voters do not express enough preferences then there is a risk that at some stage in the count their vote will become non-transferable and therefore exercise no further influence upon the result .
17 IT IS HIS SILVER WEDDING ANNIVERSARY AND HAS TAKEN THE DAY OFF .
18 Is it is it Mr Feist ?
19 It is our capital city , after all , and it is quite exciting to see the sights and stay in those lovely hotels — I like travelling by train too .
20 It is our life support system and the life support system of the whole globe .
21 We simply can not re rely on the Health and Safety Executive or anybody else it is our G M B activists who will take the lead on health and safety .
22 The marketing strategy had been to push R/2 rather than the unreleased R/3 : ‘ It is our cash cow .
23 It is my sister Florence .
24 You go b , you can go back and say now , well it is my A type behaviour that 's causing this you see , and see if that gets you anywhere .
25 So , it is my config sys I 'm looking for is n't it , while I find an edit .
26 So if you are using these , I 've got one of these at home in my lounge and the only thing that I run from it is my television set and the video recorder .
27 It is your Work Experience .
28 It is your uncle Gaston you have to convince , mon cher , not me , ’ the Baronne said with a shrug .
29 Perhaps it is your childhood days that haunt your imagination and you would like to set a book some twenty , thirty or forty years back .
30 And , unless you are that raving genius we have met before , you would do well to analyse exactly what it is your detective novel is about before you embark on detailed plotting , let alone the actual writing .
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