Example sentences of "[pers pn] [is] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His is the only post-war body of symphonic and chamber music to achieve genuine popularity . |
| 2 | His is the only war grave in the churchyard adjoining the 11th century church at Colleville-sur-Mer . |
| 3 | Out of all the many hundreds of 16th- and 17th-century wills that I have studied , his is the only one to include a reference to its writer 's age : its intimation that on 15 November 1622 he was in his 80th year allows 1992 or 1993 to be marked as the 450th anniversary of his birth . |
| 4 | His is the central role . |
| 5 | His is the great name in Béarn , as the local king who became king of all France . |
| 6 | Lawson comes over as smug and arrogant , yet his is the best book yet to emerge from inside the Thatcher years . |
| 7 | As we decided earlier , Tagan will join us for his is the best woodcraft in the Dale ; and Luib has agreed to come . |
| 8 | He respects the oral tradition , and earns her respect in consequence : ‘ Not for Moorcock the painful , infrequent excretion of dry little novels like so many rabbit pellets ; his is the grand , messy flux itself … ’ |
| 9 | His is the remarkable story of a young man with hardly any academic ability . |
| 10 | Likewise , in He 's meeting his teacher , his would be translated by the appropriate case form of svojlsvoja provided the referent of his is the same as the referent of he ; otherwise the pronoun used is jego . |
| 11 | His is the fourth UN mission which has failed to find a way out of the crisis . |
| 12 | His is the magnificent portal with the two eagles — the crest of the Kolowrat family , the original owners of the palace — and the statues of Jupiter and Juno . |
| 13 | If the purchaser is to try to ensure that his is the last counter-offer , so that it will be accepted by the conduct of the seller , the device of sending back another acknowledgement does not work well in practice . |
| 14 | If yours is the first winning entry out of the hat then we 'll be in touch right away . |
| 15 | Total amount missing is close on fifteen grand and yours is the first to turn up . ’ |
| 16 | Yours is the twentieth of September in n it ? |
| 17 | Let me remind the cynics opposite that yours is the only Group on this Council which has voted against our proposals on disability . |
| 18 | Yours is the red one love ? |
| 19 | well and yours is the same look |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Yours is the yellow one . |
| 22 | I saw my first reed bunting 's nest in 1964 in the marsh between the lochs of Spiggie and Brow , and now in the space of twenty-five years they have successfully colonised the islands , and theirs is the only bunting song that today 's Shetland children will know … |
| 23 | It has always bred sturdy , original thinkers ; theirs is the only country to have declared bankruptcy , in the depths of the Great Depression . |
| 24 | ‘ Why do Americans always think theirs is the only country that 's part of the modern world ? ’ |
| 25 | Just be prepared for Connemara enthusiasts to tell you that theirs is the only breed worth bothering about , Welsh Cob experts too insist that nothing compares with a good Section D and Highland/Fell/Dales etc exhibitors feel exactly the same ! |
| 26 | The excluders , since theirs is the prevailing view in our educational and other institutions , want to keep convincing the world at large that their choice as to who belongs is the only possible one . |
| 27 | As a Celtic expert writes in the show 's catalogue , ‘ Theirs is the first , the oldest , the greatest and the most illuminating ornamental art that Europe has ever known . ’ |
| 28 | In passages written not without humour , though theirs is the blackest of black comedy , we read of the water of the Nile turned to blood , of plagues of frogs , gnats , flies , and locusts , of the domestic animals of the Egyptians dying of disease , of a terrible outbreak of boils , of death-dealing hailstorms , and an awesome and fearful darkness . |
| 29 | Theirs is the new form of poverty . |
| 30 | Theirs is the high romance of travel . |