Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] is [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | He or she is usually a well-known public figure , who need not have any connection with the academic world ( such as a member of the Royal Family ) . |
| 3 | Anyone who supposes this case to be exceptional should try to reconcile the community of which he or she is genuinely a member with the constituency in which he or she now votes , and then remember that an STV constituency would be three , four , five or more times larger . |
| 4 | Does the successful transaction rely on a strong element of facility or product , or it is purely the human interaction giving service ? |
| 5 | Here , by contrast , it is Charlotte Brontë who is the implied subject of " encouraged " ; and she is also the grammatical subject of the sentence . |
| 6 | And she is still the power behind the trusts masking his web of deals , he suggested to the Commons Social Security Committee , which is carrying out a probe . |
| 7 | Her wide eyes and waif-like cheekbones have taken Europe by storm and she is currently the toast of New York since modelling in the Calvin Klein campaign . |
| 8 | Mandy Smith sacrificed the magic of her childhood to amuse an immature Bill Wyman , and she is now a very ill young woman . |
| 9 | For example , he has been married and is still on very good terms with his wife ; their divorce unlocked her true potential , and she is now a part-time feminist studies lecturer at SCU . |
| 10 | 1947 saw her launched from the Kelvin yard and she is now the last sea going paddle steamer in the world , faithfully paddling the old route down the Clyde and out to the islands of the west when there are enough tourists to cram her nostalgic upper decks and saloons . |
| 11 | Within months , her condition improved and she is now the proud mother of Alexandra . |
| 12 | He is not new to the museum world , as he is on the visiting committees of the Metropolitan and of the Freer Art gallery , and he is also a collector , of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art , and of Chinese archaic jades and bronzes . |
| 13 | Cases of the latter type , where the adjective is used only to aid identification and does not actually apply to the entity of the phrase , closely resemble the great bulk of noun + noun phrases in their structural value , examples such as : ( 11 ) army manoeuvres the piano factory a sea monster an angle bracket However , even among noun + noun phrases , certain specimens occur which are clearly analogous to the former type ; as in : ( 12 ) a doctor journalist ( or doctor-journalist ) Chancellor Kohl a bed-settee These would permit an affirmative answer to our diagnostic test , although normally it is necessary to allow a little leeway in the shape of an added determiner to allow for this requirement of English : ( 13 ) Maurice is a journalist and he is also a doctor 2.3 It would be useful to have names for the two types of adjectival use , and there are fortunately two terms available which fall in the right semantic area and which have not been pre-empted for any other widely accepted technical linguistic purpose . |
| 14 | He is responsible for the Group 's taxation , UK trust and pension services and he is also a well known author of books and articles on taxation . |
| 15 | That takes Shearer 's tally to 10 goals in 10 games and he is also the Premier League 's leading scorer . |
| 16 | His name is Jack Russell and he is also the best wicketkeeper in England . |
| 17 | He lives only for the moment , and he is already a changed man . |
| 18 | At the Stella Artois Grass Court Championships , he showed once again , that give him grass , a ‘ bat ’ , and he is surely the best striker of a ball in the world . |
| 19 | Because the ruler takes on such an exalted role , his power is unchallengeable and he is therefore a despot . |
| 20 | Jnandas a poet of medieval India expressed the joy and aspirations of the humble soul who knows that within him is the divine spark , and he is therefore the All for which the festival is planned . |
| 21 | My immediate boss , Ed Grainger , had n't even heard of Harley and he is actually the man who runs the golf division for Martinez . |
| 22 | As Ackroyd 's ventriloquised Wilde makes clear , Wilde was a great exaggerator and , like his friend Whitman , a great contradictor of himself ; and he is certainly a great source of dualistic formulations , in all their slippery bliss . |
| 23 | Offiah is fortunate to be blessed with great natural ability and he is certainly the most marketable asset in Rugby League . |
| 24 | David Emanuel ( above ) is best known for his role in creating Princess Diana 's fairy tale wedding dress , and he is still a high-society favourite for his Ascot suits and Royal haute couture . |
| 25 | More than half a century after that , Sir William Temple , one of the outstanding English diplomats of the seventeenth century , had to struggle repeatedly in the 1660s and early 1670s to obtain arrears of salary and repayment for the expenses he had incurred , and he is merely the best-known of many similar cases . |
| 26 | Ten years later , of course , he did come out after a rather agonizing process and he is now a gay activist himself in South London and the Labour Party . |
| 27 | ‘ Edward is the first royal star , ’ one newspaper wrote , ‘ and he is now the most famous man in the world . |
| 28 | He may agree , and he is often the one who decides what issues will be dealt with and when . |
| 29 | The value of professionality is that it focuses attention upon the activities of teachers in relation to pupils , each other and their organisations and it is thus a dynamic concept in opposition to the rather static ‘ characteristics ’ or ‘ descriptive ’ approach inherent in most studies of professionalism . |
| 30 | To achieve this necessarily takes time and it is thus the means and goals which we should examine today rather than the setting first of arbitrary ( financial ) parameters . |