Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [art] [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 | His is the only post-war body of symphonic and chamber music to achieve genuine popularity . |
| 11 | His is the only war grave in the churchyard adjoining the 11th century church at Colleville-sur-Mer . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | His is the central role . |
| 14 | His is the great name in Béarn , as the local king who became king of all France . |
| 15 | Lawson comes over as smug and arrogant , yet his is the best book yet to emerge from inside the Thatcher years . |
| 16 | As we decided earlier , Tagan will join us for his is the best woodcraft in the Dale ; and Luib has agreed to come . |
| 17 | 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 … ’ |
| 18 | His is the remarkable story of a young man with hardly any academic ability . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | His is the fourth UN mission which has failed to find a way out of the crisis . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | However , recent scientific examination by an international team of scientists suggests that his is an early copy of the original now lost . |
| 24 | It could well be asked if his is an Orthodox fiction . |
| 25 | His is an angry , radical critique of the changes taking place , arguing that market ideology has pervaded the Scottish universities to the extent that their work has lost its breadth , its pace , its ability to question and its identity . |
| 26 | His is an uncompromising view , but the breadth of his scholarship and the skilful mix of historical fact , conviction and style make this an absorbing book . |
| 27 | Well , I ca n't say as I blame her because if I were a woman , I would n't like your paws on me either … and that wife of yours is no ordinary woman either . |
| 28 | ‘ Yours is a better likeness , ’ he said to the DI , a smile flickering on his lips . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Yours is a low band , |