Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For another , his is one of the largest sheep farms in the area and one of the few where the ewes are lambed outdoors . |
| 2 | Wallenstein 's patronage of the arts extended to gardens , and his is one of the most important Baroque gardens in Prague . |
| 3 | His is one of many stories told in this absorbing book . |
| 4 | Please check to see if yours is correct for 80–81 , stating clearly all that is required and also delete those no longer running . |
| 5 | ‘ A young woman with a nasty , vicious nature like yours is capable of wishing all sorts of evil things . ’ |
| 6 | But if the cat can see nothing and feel nothing and yet it still reacts to the loud noise you make , then yours is one of the fortunate , hearing white cats . |
| 7 | There can be very few machines that do not have a spreadsheet program and if yours is one of them then you are probably missing out on one of the most valuable tools available . |
| 8 | She is plump with ingrowing elbows . |
| 9 | If she is already ripe with eggs , then a few hours will suffice — if not , feed her well on live food for a few days until she is plump in the belly region . |
| 10 | ‘ There is something animal about her , she is alive in my hands . ’ |
| 11 | The heroine of the forties is likely to look like Rita Hayworth ; by the sixties she is close to Audrey Hepburn ; and in the seventies , Julie Christie . |
| 12 | She is intent upon the picture she is painting , a luminous , finely-detailed portrait of a myoglobin molecule . |
| 13 | Every person , whether at the most junior or the most senior level , has someone to whom he or she is accountable for doing the job properly . |
| 14 | He or she is accountable to the education committee , on which elected councillors form the majority ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 15 | On top of all her other commitments , she is involved in a major aid project to supply African health services with surplus American medical equipment . |
| 16 | A manager has been nominated to keep Renshaw informed on personnel issues and developments about the line of work she is involved in . |
| 17 | Today she is involved in both the film and photographic industries , as well as exploring the world , combining images into her own reality for advertising and design agencies and art collectors alike . |
| 18 | She is involved in clinical nursing , yet is detached from the ward team . |
| 19 | Firstly , as has already been suggested , she feels that the true campaign she is involved in gives a voice to Britain 's silent moral majority . |
| 20 | She is involved in the production of videos to help families reflect on the impact of television on family life , and how to manage TV rather than be managed by it . |
| 21 | A woman must not be made financially dependent because she is involved in child care , nor must this work be regarded as socially unimportant . |
| 22 | Because such structures are ‘ conventional , and hence culturally variable ’ ( van Dijk and Kintsch 1983:16 ) the language learner , in order to be able to operate effectively as a participant in discourse , needs to be able both to identify what type of discourse he or she is involved in , and to predict how it will typically be structured . |
| 23 | If we deal with the situation of the wife 's car first , from the information provided there is nothing to indicate that she is involved in the business in any way so her car expenses could be said to be personal . |
| 24 | She is complete in herself . |
| 25 | In this extract the social worker focuses on the first aspect of the triad and explores with the client whether she is consistent in their guilt reaction . |
| 26 | She is upset by the anger in my voice , I can tell by the way she rattles my cup . |
| 27 | Asked to explain herself , she says she does n't know why she is upset by this . |
| 28 | She is delighted with the new building . |
| 29 | Their teacher , Sue Hewgill , of the Dance-in Studio at Polam Hall School , said she is delighted with all the girls ' results . |
| 30 | But whatever she is guilty of … she can never sink to your level . |