Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] is [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He or she is best placed to give you legal advice , and to liaise with the other professional agencies involved . |
| 2 | The chief academic and administrative officer of a Scottish university , he or she is usually styled ‘ principal and vice chancellor ’ , the latter title used when standing in for the chancellor on ceremonial occasions . |
| 3 | Yet he or she is usually limited by lack of resources , lack of accommodation , lack of contact outside the institution and downright sexual repressiveness within from any sexual expression whatever . |
| 4 | In most universities , he or she is often called the vice-chancellor — the title " chancellor " being reserved for another notable figure who fills that largely ceremonial and dignified office . |
| 5 | Tamed instincts may protect the individual from vulnerability to external aggression or from emotional abandonment by one to whom he or she is fully committed in an act of love ; but in the process they also render life experiences flat and stand in the way of necessary instinctual release . |
| 6 | When he or she is perhaps overwhelmed by events , offers of practical help may be exactly what the person could do with , rather than being asked to confront difficult emotional reactions . |
| 7 | ‘ Honda 's fitment of airbags , ahead of its competitors , meets the greatest remaining problem with current seatbelts — that of the driver 's face striking the steering wheel even when he or she is correctly restrained ’ |
| 8 | Where a registered foreign lawyer who would , apart from this rule , be required to pay an annual contribution or special levy , claims , and the Council agrees , that he or she is so covered in respect of dishonesty or failure to account , whether by a compensation fund other than the Solicitors ' Compensation Fund , or by an indemnity fund other than the Solicitors ' Indemnity Fund , or by compulsory insurance , that there is a substantial reduction in the risk to the Solicitors ' Compensation Fund in respect of his or her practice in comparison with the risk presented by a solicitor practising in a like manner , the Council may reduce that annual contribution or special levy to such amount as the Council thinks fit or to zero . |
| 9 | Such a figure is based to some extent on notional accounting — an expert 's time per hour is , for example , assessed at a much higher rate than he or she is actually paid — but it indicates the profit margins which both houses need to maintain . |
| 10 | If the idea originator wishes to proceed , he or she is then asked to prepare a brief , one or two page description , sometimes referred to as an idea memorandum ( IM ) . |
| 11 | If the aim of judicial review is seen as being only the protection of individuals ( whether people or organizations ) , this would suggest and justify standing rules which require the applicant to show that he , she or it is specially affected by what has been done or decided . |
| 12 | Or it is merely called ‘ public policy ’ . |
| 13 | Small wonder our society is so schizophrenic — because the minute the clerk walks out of the store , she or he is immediately bombarded with messages which are in total contradiction to those they receive as employees . |
| 14 | And she is wholly believed because of that . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The soloist is brilliant , and she is superbly accompanied by Sandor Vegh , who gets vitally responsive playing from the orchestra , with no feeling of hurry or strain . |
| 17 | The poor book entry for 1783 helpfully gives us her age as 48 , and she is variously described as living at ‘ Coniger ’ , ‘ Cowards Batch ’ and ‘ Nail Street ’ — all within the Trinity area . |
| 18 | And she is still recognised by people in the street thanks to her TV appearances all those years ago . |
| 19 | And she is so liked . |
| 20 | His shoulders are broad and he is strongly built . |
| 21 | At every stoppage in the senior game the referee is applauded or jeered depending on which arm he raises to award the put-in , and he is rarely considered correct by everyone . |
| 22 | Cokes have long moved in Royal circles , and he is well placed to advise the new Earl Spencer on estate affairs and any more delicate matters . |
| 23 | His field work has been in the Cycladic and Orkney Islands , and he is best known to the public through appearances on BBC TV 's ‘ Chronicle ’ programme , and for his book Before civilisation ( 1973 ) , which transformed prehistoric chronology by applying the results of Carbon 14 dating . |
| 24 | Gerstner is a colleague of Akers on the board of The New York Times Co , and he is also said to know former IBM chief executive Thomas Watson Jr , who lives in the same Greenwich , Connecticut suburb as Gerstner . |
| 25 | Gerstner is a colleague of Akers on the board of The New York Times Co , and he is also said to know former IBM chief executive Thomas Watson Jr , who lives in the same Greenwich , Connecticut suburb as Gerstner . |
| 26 | ‘ If you turn an Italian trecento panel upside-down you have an abstract ’ , and he is also fascinated by the constant struggle between fine art and illustration in many modern paintings . |
| 27 | Three bits of documentary evidence exist : his signature is found confirming one of the of Haci Ivaz Pasa , dated 22 Dhu " l-Hijja 827/15 November 1424 ; according to Husameddin , his signature likewise appears at the top of a dated late Rabi " I 828/mid-February 1425 ; and he is also reported to have registered the of the Ulu Cami in Bursa ( built by Bayezid I ) , dated late Shawwal 828/mid-September 1425 . |
| 28 | And again coming forward in numbers and they look at on the edge of the area and he is duly fouled by and it 's a free kick in a dangerous position . |
| 29 | … after the War the Army Graves Service were unable to locate his grave and he is therefore commemorated by name on the Thiepval Memorial , France , on which the names of the casualties from the Cameronians appear on Pier 4 , Panel D … |
| 30 | But as we have just seen , Strawson gives us reason to think that it can not be explicable in just this sense , and he is therefore mistaken in concluding that a holist theory would involve us in responding objectively to all actions . |