Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [adv] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His is not a dour presence , still less a melancholic one . |
| 2 | His is not a bad life : I could take to it myself . ’ |
| 3 | His prize was three hundred pounds and the silver cup and let's hope his is not the last name to get engraved on the Tour of Cotswolds Trophy |
| 4 | His is not an isolated story — to this day many people report hearing or seeing a strange presence on the slopes of the mountain . |
| 5 | Furthermore , the fact that Haines must report to the Jockey Club Stewards and has no authority to act unilaterally has inevitably led to suggestions that his is merely a token appointment . |
| 6 | ‘ Yours is n't the only way for a Jew to live , in case you did n't know . |
| 7 | ‘ You did hit him in the stomach — and that briefcase of yours is quite a solid design , after all . |
| 8 | Yours is only a sleeping life . ’ |
| 9 | Theirs is not an unhappy lot — even though they must contend with the customary appellation of " chicken dropping " . |
| 10 | Theirs is sometimes a robust way with Mozart , but it remains pleasantly flexible both tonally and rhythmically , and in the first work of all ( K19 d ) they show the kind of skill that unfussily makes the natural-sounding best of the conventional material written by a boy of nine on his London visit . |
| 11 | On the one hand she is a strong and independent woman of power while on the other she is undeniably a patriarchal invention , a master of disguise designed t inspire fear of such female independence and power by associating it with demonic forces . |
| 12 | She is probably a price-conscious shopper ( nearly everyone claims to be these days ) , but in her shopping this may be reflected in a reliance on branded goods bought at Asda , or private label from the Co-op . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , here she is again a vociferous pain to the last in a gripping production by Charlotta Martinus for a new and enterprising group called Confederate Spirits in a pub-theatre in North London , the Duke of Cambridge . |
| 14 | She is exactly the same age as Mrs Smith and came to Britain from Jamaica in 1957 as a 20-year old with her father ( a skilled motor mechanic who came to work on the London buses ) , her mother and her three brothers . |
| 15 | She is also a great letter-writer , a hangover no doubt from years at boarding school , where she had to write to both parents every week . |
| 16 | But she is also a keen listener . |
| 17 | She is also a splendid contrast to the noble-minded and sanctimonious Mrs. Jervis . |
| 18 | She is also a lay member of the Stockport Family Health Authority . |
| 19 | She is also a prolific author with more than 70 books published . |
| 20 | Mrs Satterley is unfortunately disabled by illness but she is also an avid knitter with Brother chunky and Silver Reed fine gauge machines . |
| 21 | She is also an obvious favourite for the gold medal in the Commonwealth Games . |
| 22 | Less surprisingly , she is also the first Green . |
| 23 | Here , by contrast , it is Charlotte Brontë who is the implied subject of " encouraged " ; and she is also the grammatical subject of the sentence . |
| 24 | When I came home late after working overtime they 'd say , ‘ she is not a good woman we must not keep her in our house . ’ |
| 25 | She is not a communicant member because she does n't find herself worthy to come to the lord 's table . |
| 26 | She is not a natural leader and does not like to be in charge . |
| 27 | As her best friend , Carolyn Bartholomew observes of the woman she has known since they were schoolgirls : ‘ She is not a happy person but she once was and it is my dearest hope that one day she will find the happiness she truly deserves . ’ |
| 28 | She is not a bad woman — quite the contrary — but curiosity can be a destructive thing . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ She is not the real Lily . ’ |
| 30 | POOR Isabelle Duchesnay … she is not the first woman to discover that the man she married skater Chris Dean was more in love with his work than her . |