Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] is [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He or she is not nowadays very likely to feature in the book you may write , but the idea lies at the heart of detective fiction and still exercises a subtle influence . |
| 2 | The salesperson should open with a smile , a handshake and , in situations where he or she is not well known to the buyer , introduce himself and the company he represents . |
| 3 | Some of these families may never be able to accept the blackness of such a child , but , at the same time , they know that he or she is not really white . |
| 4 | However , he or she is not legally the owner of any shares and so does not receive dividends , and can not vote . |
| 5 | The employee should not need to show that the perception is incorrect nor that he or she is not actually disabled at all . |
| 6 | When a child goes to school he or she is not only confronted with the traditional school subjects , but also with codes and practices governing behaviour . |
| 7 | The trick here , and in the scores of near-novels that have followed in its wake , is to make the reader , or disciple , imagine that he or she is just as erudite into the bargain : no need to struggle through Dante or The Song of Roland when it is all there in one fat detective story . |
| 8 | The beloved is not separate , absent , but present , at the moment of the poet 's writing or speaking , as of the beloved 's hearing or reading the poem — as , indeed , of the reader 's reading , now and always : he or she is always there as we read . |
| 9 | Later comes a point of being unable to accept the loss , very often searching for the person who has gone and thinking that he or she is still there . |
| 10 | This is not to say that the child or young person is always right ; it is , perhaps , to say that he or she is seldom completely wrong . |
| 11 | It is perhaps possible to say that a particular child tends towards introversion and , further , that he or she is therefore more likely to engage with characters such as Tom in Philippa Pearce 's Tom 's midnight garden , Max in Pauline Clarke 's The twelve and the genii , or Tolly in Lucy Boston 's Green Knowe stories , than a more extrovert reader . |
| 12 | In as far as there is an average Japanese , he or she is very much a town dweller . |
| 13 | The reason for this , I later discovered , is that at yours there is likely to be a selection of friends and relations , one of whom in the course of discussion is bound to say , ‘ Come on , let's give him the best ! ’ and although he or she is very seldom the one who is paying for it , no one likes to appear mean at such a time — an attitude , I might add , of which the undertaker thoroughly approves ! |
| 14 | The fact that the public law applicant is usually challenging the exercise of a discretionary power does not mean that what is at stake for him or her is any less important than the sort of interests protected by private law . |
| 15 | 13 1775 & that Body is vastly improv 'd the longer it is kept & the little remains of fat shine a little more thro' & it is now very much the colour of Indian Copper , i.e. it is very near the colour of finished work 'd mahogany & is really a beautiful mass , the Legs are now perfectly dry and from the Beginning to the end there is nothing of putrefaction . |
| 16 | When she has been a carer in the family and she can no longer fulfil this role or it is no longer needed |
| 17 | God , who is the Father of Jesus Christ , is either there or he is not there . |
| 18 | Her 1.7m draft keel is a great boon for shoal draft cruising , and she is otherwise well equipped above and below deck , always well maintained , she is seriously for sale at a sensible price . |
| 19 | Then she has been infantilised and she is no longer autonomous . |
| 20 | Mrs Smith comes home from school four times during the day to make sure her mother is all right and she is also usually up three or four times in the night to attend to her mother . |
| 21 | I certainly can not stop you and she is not here to ask . ’ |
| 22 | In fact , when a pair of any large Cichlids are in a tank of their own care should be taken to ensure that the male does not vent his anger on his mate , if he wants to breed and she is not quite ready . |
| 23 | My girlfriend is very cool and she is n't easily impressed , but when she met Sean , he looked into her eyes and said ; ‘ nice to meet you ’ , and she kind of fainted without falling over ! |
| 24 | That has ten curators and this museum has one person and she is n't properly funded . |
| 25 | At length the little lad grabs her sleeve and becomes insistent , and she is only just in time with the sick bag . |
| 26 | Housewife Vanessa MacMahon , 38 , whose three-year-old daughter Katharine has leukaemia , said : ‘ You can phone Katharine 's doctor at any time with any problem and she is only too glad to help . |
| 27 | Because experience of a child death is casually associated with non-use of contraceptives , where infant mortality is high among first births , as in all but the Western Hemisphere region and in developed countries , the first experience of a child death tends to occur when the woman is young , and she is then less likely ever to use contraceptives . |
| 28 | She has the best groundstrokes in the women 's game and she is still only 17 . |
| 29 | This was her 9th to date and she is still only 15 . |
| 30 | He added : ‘ She is going to make it but there is a long way to go and she is still seriously ill . |