Example sentences of "[pron] [is] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His is the only war grave in the churchyard adjoining the 11th century church at Colleville-sur-Mer . |
| 2 | His is the central role . |
| 3 | His is the great name in Béarn , as the local king who became king of all France . |
| 4 | As we decided earlier , Tagan will join us for his is the best woodcraft in the Dale ; and Luib has agreed to come . |
| 5 | Lawson comes over as smug and arrogant , yet his is the best book yet to emerge from inside the Thatcher years . |
| 6 | His is the remarkable story of a young man with hardly any academic ability . |
| 7 | His is the fourth UN mission which has failed to find a way out of the crisis . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Let me remind the cynics opposite that yours is the only Group on this Council which has voted against our proposals on disability . |
| 11 | well and yours is the same look |
| 12 | The original position seems to presuppose not just a neutral theory of the good , but a liberal , individualistic conception according to which the best that can be wished for someone is the unimpeded pursuit of his own path , provided it does not interfere with the rights of others . |
| 13 | The Office Fédéral de la Culture , which is the nearest equivalent in Switzerland to a Ministry of Culture or an Arts Council , has just presented a report to the Swiss government , calling for new legislation controlling the import and export of works of art , and encouraging the authorities to sign the 1970 UNESCO convention . |
| 14 | There is one ear on each side of the thorax , and each has a simple structure ; two nerves connect each ear with the thoracic ganglion ( which is the nearest mini-brain ) . |
| 15 | Whether this will in practice make a great difference may be doubted , since it seems unlikely that a court will come to the conclusion that a chief constable of police has come to a decision that he could not reasonably arrive at , which is the critical test for the exercise of the powers of judicial review . |
| 16 | The ring is virtually invisible around the central cornea which is the critical area for clear vision . |
| 17 | The ring is virtually invisible around the central cornea which is the critical area for clear vision . |
| 18 | The search for an appropriate response to the problems of conflicts abuse in financial conglomerates , central to which is the increased need to protect investors , must be set within this context . |
| 19 | This , and most of what follows , is regulated by the Representation of the People Acts , the most important by far of which is the 1983 Act , ( ‘ the 1983 Act ’ hereafter ) . |
| 20 | I 'm Michael Smedley , Chairman of the Impact which is the Imperial Tobacco Pension Fund . |
| 21 | They recognise what people actually achieve at work , rather than merely testing an ability to learn , which is the primary feature of a written or oral examination . |
| 22 | It is a matter of normal practice in the natural sciences for the human judgement involved in a measurement to be only indirectly related to the variable property which is the primary focus of interest . |
| 23 | It is this increased rate of destruction of red cells which is the primary cause of the anaemia which characterises this group of disorders . |
| 24 | It has been shown that the therapeutic hypochlorhydria which is the primary action of these drugs is associated with increased gastric bacterial growth , reduction of nitrate to nitrite , and increased concentration of carcinogenic N-nitroso compounds in the gastric juice . |
| 25 | There are one or two mild metaphors and parallelisms , but these tend to serve the purpose of irony ( see 8.4–5 ) , which is the overarching figure of speech in this passage . |
| 26 | and I second agenda and erm we ask for your attention to para three point four er which is the financial part of this budget really and it says that some contingencies in nursery schools should be increased , erm that it is actually allowed for in the later budget erm the tax payer budget will be . |
| 27 | Erm one of the things that er would be nice to end up with is a price on the books which is the higher price . |
| 28 | Working within this international world it is , of course , a great help if one speaks several languages , but my own experience has been that it is not the ability to speak another language , rare enough this essential tool of international business is amongst British people , but the experience of having lived and worked with people in another country which is the decisive factor . |
| 29 | He could then give some thought to the inequities of the council tax , so called , which is the nasty twin brother of the poll tax and which will leave debris — caused by the Prime Minister and the Conservative party — all over the country . |
| 30 | Built among the woods are some attractive private houses and a 19C hospital beneath which is the elegant mass of the Lobkovic Palace , now the German Embassy . |