Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [art] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the fire button depressed you can rotate your gun by moving the joystick right and left , giving 180° of blasting — make no mistake ; yours is the trickier of the two craft . |
| 2 | This is true of the world of science and technology where the spirit of secularism has triumphed , and it is no different in the area of faith . |
| 3 | Nevertheless as an introduction it is the best of the bunch . |
| 4 | In all this was a very enjoyable day recording the programme and what pleased me even more was the producer Chris Eldon Lee 's comment in a letter that he wrote to tell me when it was to be broadcast ‘ We have kept the Bishop 's Castle Railway till last as it is the best of the bunch ’ . |
| 5 | I have followed the fitter directive but I am not convinced it is the best for the vehicle — should n't engine oil be used for engines and gear oil for gearboxes ? |
| 6 | ‘ I have no rich things to give but I will take my black bread for they say it is the best in the whole world . ’ |
| 7 | There really is something to celebrate as the new hospital opens — its consultants say it is the best in the country — with a standard of care and treatment equalling that in private hospitals combined with the facilities to continue pioneering research into skin disease . |
| 8 | It is the 33rd in the series of Bartholomew walking guides . |
| 9 | It may be noted that socio-economic conditions of parents ( as assessed by the father 's or the breadwinner 's occupation ) also play a role in the incidence of low birth weight ; it is the highest among the offspring of non-agricultural manual workers , lower among those whose father works in agriculture and lowest in the non-manual workers ' stratum . |
| 10 | It is the poorest of the three countries and suffers from inadequate social services , political repression and an economy heavily dependent on the export of one crop — bananas — controlled mainly by foreign companies . |
| 11 | Sir David goes further in dismissing the scheme , saying that Granada is in no position to talk , having , as he says , a particular problem because , ‘ in many ways it is the weakest of the regions in its regional news coverage . ’ |
| 12 | At three months it is the weakest of the womb , that is li that is for everyone , if anybody 's got a weak inside well they 's lose it , they 's be liable to lose it more than anybody else with out taking anything . |
| 13 | It is the last of the merostomes the group of fossil horseshoe crabs that were varied and numerous in the coal swamps of the Carboniferous and have a history that extends back to the Cambrian . |
| 14 | It is the same with the notion that you can bring everybody up to the average . |
| 15 | It is the same with the various damselflies in their clay and gravel streams , the watermill with its grey willows and grey wagtails , and the crowfoot crowning the ford and the curve in ridge and furrow . |
| 16 | It is the same with the body . |
| 17 | It is the same with the two worlds in conflict in The Country of the Blind , that wonderful story of an opposition without resolution , and with Mars and Earth in The War of the Worlds . |
| 18 | The grandest and perhaps latest of them , the lower fragment from Delos , the first truly impressive piece of Greek sculpture , shows a beginning in knee and thigh and genitals ( and from the side in the powerful buttocks ) ; but it is not only weathering that makes , in the upper fragment , the relation of shoulders , breast and arms so wholly inorganic — it is the same in the little bronze fig. 13 . |
| 19 | The central problem of the DHSS is that it is the biggest of the big spenders among government departments . |
| 20 | It is the fourth in the series and I have to say it 's fourth unsatisfactory er . |
| 21 | It is a superbly-run event staged upon a sumptuous golf course , and although it is the youngest of the four major championships , it has built itself a tradition founded on the legendary career of Bobby Jones . |
| 22 | It is important because it is the easiest for the employees to rationalise . |
| 23 | It is the latest of the power . |
| 24 | ‘ Now we are saying it is the worst since the 1930s . ’ |
| 25 | As a jailbird he knows he is no different to the cons he has to live with night and day — reputations mean nothing here . |
| 26 | He is the first of the so-called Marcos cronies to have stood up to the Presidential Commission on Good Government , and as a result is seen as a man of action . |
| 27 | We saw him in action in South Africa for the World XV in 1989 and the guys who faced him said he is the best in the business . ’ |
| 28 | With his amazing current shut-out record , Schmeichel has confirmed boss Alex Ferguson 's opinion that he is the best in the game . |
| 29 | The class teacher and the head were also worried ; they felt that , ‘ after four terms at school , he is the slowest in the class ’ . |
| 30 | At the age of 75 , he is the last of the four leaders of the original military junta , the last to talk still of the high crusade against communism . |