Example sentences of "[pron] is a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His is a 5 inch French link with rubber reins on the peg to the left of the door . ’ |
| 2 | His is a wilder , less contained or civilized view of Chopin 's nationalism than Artur Rubinstein 's in his rightly celebrated and most aristocratic 1966 RCA account ( 12/86 ) . |
| 3 | Elmer , David McKee 's patchwork elephant , also likes jokes and tricks but his is a subtler and more attractive humour . |
| 4 | An early masterpiece of his is a lovely cup-tondo ( fig. 98 ) with the boy These us in Amphitrite 's underwater palace , Athena assisting . |
| 5 | In that his is a daily paper , and that Fiji is quite close to the Date Line , probably he is technically correct . |
| 6 | His is a forlorn campaign , however , and he has little hope of success . |
| 7 | His is a Christian vision ( he converted to Catholicism in his teens ) , and his poetry is a continuous celebration of the world in all its multifariousness . |
| 8 | God is infinitely potential : his is a dynamic power , from which an infinite set of new and different values can always arise . |
| 9 | T his is a true waste of resources . |
| 10 | We begin to realize more deeply that knowing God and knowing ourselves is a single process . |
| 11 | ‘ Yours is a better likeness , ’ he said to the DI , a smile flickering on his lips . |
| 12 | For instance , if yours is a worldwide practice , and the person leaving has contacts with clients in many countries , it may be reasonable for the clause to extend throughout the world . |
| 13 | Yours is a low band , |
| 14 | Yeah but I mean yours is a big school now is n't it ? |
| 15 | Yeah , cos yours is a smaller one in n it ? |
| 16 | You may not believe it , but yours is a privileged generation , For your grandparents , sex was a taboo subject , enclosed by walls of " Thou shall nots ' and compounded by ignorance . |
| 17 | But whether yours is a local area network or a global one , your problem is the same . |
| 18 | This is an especially good way to work if yours is a basic machine without a ribber and you have decided to work the ribs by hand . |
| 19 | Taking the face off someone is a serious crime , I admit that . |
| 20 | Peter responds that the fact that someone is a single parent does n't mean they 're not a decent person . |
| 21 | But if the words ‘ mental health nurse ’ were changed to ‘ social worker ’ would the message — that to help someone is a positive and worthwhile career — be any different ? |
| 22 | If someone is a lonely cheat stuck up a tree — love them . |
| 23 | I knew 'e would like you , because you are a wonderful girl , and 'e is a wonderful man . |
| 24 | Speaking from behind a barred gate and protected by armed guards the unnamed brother said : ‘ We would n't be surprised that because of that book someone sought retribution , and has tried to take out all Ian 's seed , which is a Middle Eastern style of doing things . |
| 25 | Elean:Would you say that this ’ technical problem ’ , which is a technical problem for many writers is made worse because you are writing , not from the relatively safe ’ exile ’ of a liberal-democratic , capitalist European country ; but you are writing from inside the very belly of apartheid , where you do not have , at your disposal the support services and facilities , to help you to authentically reflect the true ’ spirit ’ of your people . |
| 26 | Now there 's a word I 'm going to use right now which is a technical term in a way and that is is er the technical term for the study of language and how we speak the word what we say and how we say it . |
| 27 | William Rees-Mogg has written , ‘ We need to have money which is a stable measure of value . |
| 28 | The death instincts provide what might be termed the ‘ negative energy ’ that is used in the compulsion to repeat unpleasant experiences , which is a masochistic use of primal , sadistic impulses which take the ego as object , rather than an external object . |
| 29 | The question was , as Hailey inimitably put it : ‘ Can we be sure of the continuance of that degree of acquiescence in our rule which is a necessary condition of administrative progress ? ’ , and the answer which he gave was a resoundingly qualified ‘ Yes ’ . |
| 30 | I seek to contrast that material ought with a formal ought which is a necessary element in the theory of law that I refer to as ‘ normative positivism ’ . |