Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 | Just be prepared for Connemara enthusiasts to tell you that theirs is the only breed worth bothering about , Welsh Cob experts too insist that nothing compares with a good Section D and Highland/Fell/Dales etc exhibitors feel exactly the same ! |
| 13 | It has always bred sturdy , original thinkers ; theirs is the only country to have declared bankruptcy , in the depths of the Great Depression . |
| 14 | ‘ Why do Americans always think theirs is the only country that 's part of the modern world ? ’ |
| 15 | I saw my first reed bunting 's nest in 1964 in the marsh between the lochs of Spiggie and Brow , and now in the space of twenty-five years they have successfully colonised the islands , and theirs is the only bunting song that today 's Shetland children will know … |
| 16 | The excluders , since theirs is the prevailing view in our educational and other institutions , want to keep convincing the world at large that their choice as to who belongs is the only possible one . |
| 17 | Theirs is the new form of poverty . |
| 18 | Theirs is the high romance of travel . |
| 19 | Pluralists do not deny such a possibility , even probability ; they simply say that theirs is the pragmatic solution to the difficult methodological problems involved in the analysis of power and interests ( discussed in chapters 3 and 4 respectively ) . |
| 20 | She s the only creature I 've seen … |
| 21 | ‘ If the Prince of Wales does not succeed she 's the one person people would feel would be acceptable . |
| 22 | I 've always excused myself-I 've said , I 'm kind and tolerant with everyone else , she 's the one person I ca n't be like that with , and there has to be an exception to the general rule . |
| 23 | and one of those is sixteen year old Rachel Bradridge from Gloucester … she 's the all england junior champion and is reckoned good enough to be a future olmpyic skier |
| 24 | She said , ‘ She 's the first person I 've ever known die , in my life . ’ |
| 25 | Now she 's the first patient being treated at the hospital 's new dermatology building . |
| 26 | Well , in that she 's the first woman Prime Minister , she 's the longest serving Prime Minister of erm in this century . |
| 27 | Some people at school said look how Mother Francis never gives out to Eve , she 's the real pet ; others said the nuns had to keep her for charity and did n't like her as much as they liked the other girls whose families all contributed something to the upkeep of St Mary 's . |
| 28 | " It looks like Momma 's upstaged you — she 's the real belle of the ball after all , not you . |
| 29 | She 's the real thing . ’ |
| 30 | This is Mary , she 's twenty four years old , she 's the indoor sales partnership with me , for Oxfordshire , Bucks and Berkshire , at Bracknell . |