Example sentences of "[pers pn] [is] the [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yours is the twentieth of September in n it ? |
| 2 | With the fire button depressed you can rotate your gun by moving the joystick right and left , giving 180° of blasting — make no mistake ; yours is the trickier of the two craft . |
| 3 | In passages written not without humour , though theirs is the blackest of black comedy , we read of the water of the Nile turned to blood , of plagues of frogs , gnats , flies , and locusts , of the domestic animals of the Egyptians dying of disease , of a terrible outbreak of boils , of death-dealing hailstorms , and an awesome and fearful darkness . |
| 4 | She 's the best at language , but she never used to write anything did she ? |
| 5 | If the Hunterston guide can also prove she 's the best in Britain , she 'll get a brand new Vauxhall Astra . |
| 6 | She 's the eldest of the family . |
| 7 | ‘ In fact she 's the worst of the lot , and she 'll be your form-mistress . |
| 8 | She 's the latest of a series of elderly people singled out as easy targets for robbery . |
| 9 | She 's the noisiest of all . |
| 10 | At an average 10st 12lb , she 's the plumpest of the lot . |
| 11 | And she 's the last of the family . |
| 12 | At nineteen she is the youngest of four children and has always been treated as the " little one " . |
| 13 | Her identity is widely known in the village , but her wishes are respected and her name will not be revealed here She is the last of a long line of illustrious cheesemakers and her regular clients can only hope that she will pass on her expertise to the next generation . |
| 14 | I 'm fairly sure it 's the first on the list … |
| 15 | ‘ You 'll all have to do the same as me and put down the date and see , but if yer want ter know it 's the first of May . ’ |
| 16 | It 's the first of those pages I would direct you |
| 17 | When it is the first day , put your hands down while we 're ex while I 'm explaining this , when you say when it 's the first day of any month whether it 's the first of February or the first of April or the first of December , instead of say you say this word you say for the first of the month |
| 18 | It 's the first of what the prison hopes will be many steps forward . |
| 19 | It may be the last farewell from Gloucester , but it 's the first of many new adventures . |
| 20 | Jackie said to me last week she said , well it 's the first of December . |
| 21 | Right , well it 's the first of the big snooker tournaments starting tonight ; are you a snooker fan ? |
| 22 | Good so first one because it 's the first in the sentence that 's an |
| 23 | " It 's the Russian for " pen " , you know . " |
| 24 | It 's the six of diamonds . |
| 25 | I got the dates wrong , it 's the thirtieth of may that 's two months after the end , so the amendment I 'm moving |
| 26 | If I could lead you from that paragraph on page three fifty over to page three six four page three six four , one two three , four paragraphs from the top it 's ab it 's the second of two paragraphs that begins the Board affirms the church 's th that Christ teaches that marriage is special and divorce is not the way he would wish for his people and then this sentence no-one would wish to condens condemn someone to stay in a marriage which is beyond redeeming . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's the second of July , ’ she said in horror ; ‘ the show is only ten days away . ’ |
| 28 | It 's the ultimate in designer resorts , one enormous pleasure garden dedicated to give as much as possible to as many as possible in as small an area as possible . |
| 29 | It 's the largest of the twelve islands in the Dodecanese , it 's the major eastern outpost of Greece , it 's stunningly beautiful and one of the most idyllic places in the Med . |
| 30 | Mm , it 's the thirteenth of . |