Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As yours is low mileage , the cam followers will be OK to use again . |
| 2 | This twin of yours is pure fiction , but I do think you know who Garry 's new love is . |
| 3 | Yours is one case I will always remember not for the large number of witnesses , but for the meeting of a man who right from the first impressed his lawyers with his innocence a conviction that grew and grew the more that one went into the case and met the many people who knew Andy Beattie so well . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ If that gelding of yours is any good , I 'll put my hand in my pocket for him for Dolly . |
| 5 | The superficial Limeños who think beyond Lima is Miami and Europe , who talk of the ‘ Indian stain departments ’ and do n't know a campesino is starving — theirs is another unreality . |
| 6 | Though they inhabit the same city as the great mass of the Cairene poor , theirs is another world entirely . |
| 7 | I have abdicated in the past without being aware of it ; she is self-appointed protector . |
| 8 | After all , she is chief make-up artist here . |
| 9 | At 42 , she is Chief Executive of the National Canine Defence League , and is married to property executive Roger Baldwin , with an 11-year-old son , Jamie . |
| 10 | She is chief executive of Sheil Land Associated Limited , executive chairman of Studio Editions Limited , chairman of Merlion Publishing Limited , and a director of other companies . |
| 11 | She is Labour past . |
| 12 | She is all style , all form , all impeccably dressed dandy and wit , with never a tear out of place . |
| 13 | But she is all wickedness ! |
| 14 | Eliot does so much , she is all game for it herself . |
| 15 | But to avoid loading a title with a chain of such covenants , it is perhaps better draftsmanship , when first imposing restrictions , to provide that the owner for the time being shall be responsible only for breaches committed whilst he or she is such owner . |
| 16 | In the official English-language biography of Nicolae Ceauşescu , published in 1983 , the subject was broached and settled in the following inimitable way : ’ ‘ I would like to ask you , ’ a journalist from abroad [ in fact Le Figaro ] asked the Romanian Head of State , — ‘ what is the role of Madame Elena Ceauşescu , who is not only your wife , but also a person with a political function : she is First Deputy prime Minister ? ' ’ |
| 17 | As a teenager she had been frail and very light , and although now she is two stone heavier , and healthier for it , she still believes that young women should be thin , even skeletally so . |
| 18 | Because my friend 's daughter whom I met er she is one year and a few days older than you two huh ? |
| 19 | ‘ She is sad lady , since … ’ |
| 20 | The lights are always there so that Mrs Thatcher , at whatever hour , may choose to be seen on TV sweeping through saying nothing , thus demonstrating that she is Prime Minister and going busily about the nation 's business . |
| 21 | SUPER slimmer Moira Garrington is to have her wedding pictures taken again — now she is FIVE STONE lighter . |
| 22 | She is another child , an ordinary human being over whose appearance Wordsworth has thrown a ‘ supernatural charm ’ ( see previous poem for the purpose of the Lyrical Ballads ) . |
| 23 | She is concerned publicity and gossip in the dale has spurred others to take their lives . |
| 24 | But she is minor character in a story that is about a future constitutional crisis between a wicked and unscrupulous politician and a dignified , noble but politically naive monarch . ’ |
| 25 | Also , she is busy educating herself about opera . |
| 26 | What possible sense can there be in a legal rule , for example , which has it that a woman is presumed fertile even though she is past menopause or has undergone a hysterectomy operation ? |
| 27 | And she is honorary secretary of the Association of Liberal Democrat Councillors , which also tackles live issues in the area . |
| 28 | Now he heads an organization of which she is honorary president . |
| 29 | Mr Blair-Gould said : ‘ The prosecution clearly suggest … that she is some kind of dreadful rebel on a crusade against censorship . ’ |
| 30 | Or , as the prosecuting counsel said ‘ It is not the law … that if a girl crosses the threshold of the barracks she is fair game ’ . |