Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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31 Yeah but I mean yours is a big school now is n't it ?
32 Yeah , cos yours is a smaller one in n it ?
33 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 .
34 But whether yours is a local area network or a global one , your problem is the same .
35 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 .
36 Shared nannies are becoming more popular and other children can provide stimulation and company if yours is an only child .
37 Yep and and he does n't seem to be able to concentrate and I said , but Neil you can drive , when you go out with me you drive beautifully yes but yours is an automatic car , I said , it 's not that I said you 've got road sense you know what you 're doing , I said your good .
38 If yours is the first winning entry out of the hat then we 'll be in touch right away .
39 Total amount missing is close on fifteen grand and yours is the first to turn up . ’
40 Yours is the twentieth of September in n it ?
41 Let me remind the cynics opposite that yours is the only Group on this Council which has voted against our proposals on disability .
42 Yours is the red one love ?
43 well and yours is the same look
44 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 .
45 Yours is the yellow one .
46 I knew 'e would like you , because you are a wonderful girl , and 'e is a wonderful man .
47 Theirs is a nice little empire …
48 Theirs is a cynical creed ; a creed which spells destruction , division and disunity .
49 But they are all old men , and theirs is a dying profession .
50 Theirs is a rebellious motherhood , it 's not an uncritical retreat into traditional femininity .
51 Theirs is a distinctive type of cut-price retailing that emerged in Germany after the second world war and is subtly different from its American cousin .
52 One commercial problem which had faced Lipton was that although theirs is a worldwide trading name , outside America the brand is marketed by rival companies .
53 The vocalist of thrashers Old on ‘ Mazuraan ’ sounds like a garotted moggie , but theirs is a fine handle on melody nonetheless .
54 Theirs is a symbiotic association ’ .
55 Theirs is a brief Mayfly existence .
56 Robert 's is gone up over five pounds , theirs is a different kind of a house you see a parlour type
57 Theirs is a sado-masochistic vision of the universe to rival Samuel Beckett 's or Schoolly D's .
58 Their life is hard physically but easy mentally for theirs is an easy communion with their flocks and their kinsmen .
59 Theirs is an extraordinary story .
60 Theirs is an uncontrived anger and aggression straight outta south London : they dedicate one song to the memory of race murder victim Ronan Adams , and their cover of ‘ Guns Of Brixton ’ goes south to the tenants on their estate who are still fighting the Poll Tax .
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