Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words his is not the sort of playing which grabs you by the scruff of the neck , but rather disarmingly makes the whole process of playing this hugely demanding music appear the most natural thing in the world . |
| 2 | His prize was three hundred pounds and the silver cup and let's hope his is not the last name to get engraved on the Tour of Cotswolds Trophy |
| 3 | CalMac 's managing director , Colin Paterson , points out that his is possibly the only nationalised industry whose grant has gone down in real terms . |
| 4 | His is almost the only unsilenced opposition voice . |
| 5 | Mr Gamage declined the offer , and given his proximity to the matter , his is perhaps the most adequately balanced appraisal of ‘ Those Pistol Cases ’ that can be reached . |
| 6 | The Commissioner stressed right from the start that she is not an Ombudsman-it is not the task of her office to offer a conciliation or advisory service to help resolve disputes between a union and its members . |
| 7 | ‘ Yours is n't the only way for a Jew to live , in case you did n't know . |
| 8 | ‘ She is singularly the most inspired individual of our time . ’ |
| 9 | She is probably the least grasping person I 've ever met , and ever since she 's had pocket money she 's given it to cancer research . |
| 10 | Although her date of birth and parentage are disputed , she is probably the Mary Collier baptized in Lodsworth , Sussex , October 1688 , the daughter of William Collier . |
| 11 | The work of photographer Catherine Yass , was to be found in , of all places , a gallery , and , ironically , of the artist reviewed her , she is probably the most experienced in exhibiting in and accommodating the ‘ public place ’ . |
| 12 | She is exactly the same age as Mrs Smith and came to Britain from Jamaica in 1957 as a 20-year old with her father ( a skilled motor mechanic who came to work on the London buses ) , her mother and her three brothers . |
| 13 | She is just the sort of girl to stimulate the artistic temperament . |
| 14 | Marina is the original and ultimate traitor to her people , but as mother of the first mestizo she is also the mother of modern Mexico . |
| 15 | She is also the applique decoration ace as those who have seen her ‘ Disney ’ Rokkaku would agree . |
| 16 | But she is also the symbol for a return of life into that darkness . |
| 17 | But Beth is n't just the owner of a skill , she is also the owner of a passion . |
| 18 | Besides being able to dispense jewels and to purchase properties for her off-spring ( Gatcombe Park for the Princess Royal , and the new Sunningdale home of the Yorks ) , she is also the fount of honour . |
| 19 | Here , by contrast , it is Charlotte Brontë who is the implied subject of " encouraged " ; and she is also the grammatical subject of the sentence . |
| 20 | She is also the mother of two teenagers and a Conservative councillor for Cambridge . |
| 21 | Less surprisingly , she is also the first Green . |
| 22 | It emphasises that she is not the awful old termagant she has so far seemed to be . |
| 23 | Other members of her family are also asked the same questions , and if there is the slightest discrepancy it can be used as proof that she is not the person she claims to be . |
| 24 | A niece of the former Labour minister Douglas Jay and first cousin of Peter Jay , the former British ambassador in Washington who is now the BBC 's economics editor , her ratings went up in certain quarters when she once said of Mrs Thatcher : ‘ She is not the sort of person one would invite to dinner . ’ |
| 25 | Fluent , intelligent and professional , she is not the reason for its ratings failure . |
| 26 | ‘ She is not the sort to lie about something like this and I ca n't think of a reason why she would , ’ said Christopher Grenside , 85 . |
| 27 | With the first instance , we touch on the mysteries of death ; we should be careful not to make too much of the Great Mother as a goddess of birth and death ; she is not the originator of these but rather the one who shapes the coming and guides the going of each life . |
| 28 | The eldest daughter , even if she is not the eldest child , is much more likely to be asked by her mother to help in the care of younger children than is an eldest son . |
| 29 | He does not see her face : it seems that she is not the Juanita he has kept in his mind : yet he is haunted by an inexplicable likeness and is perturbed by the young American 's cool reception of his warning . |
| 30 | ‘ She is not the real Lily . ’ |