Example sentences of "[pers pn] is a [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 | However , recent scientific examination by an international team of scientists suggests that his is an early copy of the original now lost . |
| 11 | It could well be asked if his is an Orthodox fiction . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Yours is a better likeness , ’ he said to the DI , a smile flickering on his lips . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Yours is a low band , |
| 17 | Yeah but I mean yours is a big school now is n't it ? |
| 18 | Yeah , cos yours is a smaller one in n it ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But whether yours is a local area network or a global one , your problem is the same . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Shared nannies are becoming more popular and other children can provide stimulation and company if yours is an only child . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I knew 'e would like you , because you are a wonderful girl , and 'e is a wonderful man . |
| 25 | Theirs is a nice little empire … |
| 26 | Theirs is a cynical creed ; a creed which spells destruction , division and disunity . |
| 27 | But they are all old men , and theirs is a dying profession . |
| 28 | Theirs is a rebellious motherhood , it 's not an uncritical retreat into traditional femininity . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |