Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [be] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main attraction of the Tenesor is its lovely pool area , often the scene of a pool party , with its king-size swimming pool and sun loungers on the surrounding sun terrace . |
| 2 | The housewife is her own supervisor , the judge of her own performance , and ultimately the source of her own job definition . |
| 3 | The alligator was his favourite present . |
| 4 | Refuse to accept the fact that the gambolling lamb in the field is their future Sunday lunch . |
| 5 | Ministers can experience difficulty when they find themselves in a situation where refusing the baptism is their only option and parents can take grave offence . |
| 6 | The Fiction was his last attempt at personal writing in 1914 before he decided , by whatever hidden processes , that the best solution to his apparent obsession with introspection and self-analysis was to cross over into the world of poetry , with its quite different but equally stringent laws and regulations . |
| 7 | The asking price before the recession was anything bewteen £150m and £200m . |
| 8 | The spectrum is our white tears and albino fear of light |
| 9 | The skin is its own sense-organ . |
| 10 | Rather a text of the play is my principal experience of it , in the case of the scholarly Arden edition complete with a daunting textual apparatus which can be examined at leisure . |
| 11 | Distinctive features of the course are its professional emphasis , the considerable element of computing laboratory work and the year spent in industry . |
| 12 | ‘ The mind is its own place , and in its self |
| 13 | The other principle which determines the character of the drawing is its deliberate adaptation to fit in with the character of the surrounding ornament . |
| 14 | the juniper is her holy bush |
| 15 | The president was his own uncle , Horace Cohen OBE. |
| 16 | And when the perpetrator was my own nephew , it could n't have hit any harder . |
| 17 | ‘ The offer of the car is our last hope . ’ |
| 18 | The result is her five-month-old daughter . |
| 19 | The analogy is his Chinese room , in which two Chinese-speaking people pass Chinese symbols backwards and forwards , in appropriate ways , watched by a non-Chinese speaking Westerner . |
| 20 | Billingsley asked with a mocking punctiliousness that was intended to humiliate me , but the humiliation was my own fault for having challenged the policeman 's lie . |
| 21 | There at the bottom of the tray was my little friend . |
| 22 | The girl is his longtime mistress . |
| 23 | ‘ In any case the way to get the girl is our safest way back . ’ |
| 24 | Juliet felt quite pleased about this ; the girl was her own age , twenty , and , although she 'd seen her only a few times , she felt drawn to her cheerful , intelligent personality . |
| 25 | We know that you have commanded a submarine and the Lieutenant-Commander was your first lieutenant . |
| 26 | The authority of the law was his guiding principle . |
| 27 | The basic objection to any continuation of the campaign was its organized nature , based on the " creation of machinery with staffs and offices throughout the country " .40 It was made clear that no campaign of any sort was to be allowed and , on their refusal to accept this decision , the four members were expelled . |
| 28 | Brown knew that the universe was his own imagination , and that he just had to send thoughts and entire galaxies and peoples would no longer exist . |
| 29 | The boy 's his legal heir . |
| 30 | For most of the reign of Louis VI the chancellor was his favourite Étienne de Garlande , whose brothers held other high offices of state . |