Example sentences of "[pron] is the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | His is the remarkable story of a young man with hardly any academic ability . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Let me remind the cynics opposite that yours is the only Group on this Council which has voted against our proposals on disability . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The ring is virtually invisible around the central cornea which is the critical area for clear vision . |
| 10 | The ring is virtually invisible around the central cornea which is the critical area for clear vision . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I 'm Michael Smedley , Chairman of the Impact which is the Imperial Tobacco Pension Fund . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It is this increased rate of destruction of red cells which is the primary cause of the anaemia which characterises this group of disorders . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | resistance to temptation , which is the braking mechanism against misbehaviour , even when unobserved ; |
| 23 | For the discourse analyst , it provides another way of accounting for sequences of utterances , though one apparently limited to discourse which is the mutual construction of more than one person . |
| 24 | That thought should get them deeper into the Castle , which is the general idea … |
| 25 | However since that time , there has been no recognition granted by USDAW , the main reason for which is the General Secretary , who allegedly had said that because his organization is not a profit making organization , there is no reason to have a trade union there . |
| 26 | One question , therefore , is whether the age should be reduced to 16 , which is the general age of consent for sexual activity . |
| 27 | On the other hand , I note that sales include material which is the legitimate concern of the book-collector , such as official proclamations , periodicals , almanacks , children 's exercise books and writing sheets , albums , Acts of Parliament and broadsides . |
| 28 | The effort involved in the activity of penance may become less rigorous as the self achieves a habit of self-control born out of self-knowledge , although , clearly , the kind of self-awareness which is the necessary ingredient for penance must constantly be maintained . |
| 29 | The superego is a relatively modern acquisition and is the psychological agency which is the inner counterpart of what in the outer world we would call ‘ culture ’ or ‘ civilization ’ . |
| 30 | The filopodia pull the sheet right across the cavity until it makes contact with the other side where it meets and fuses with another but much smaller invagination which is the future mouth . |