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 | 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 | 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 ! |
| 8 | It has always bred sturdy , original thinkers ; theirs is the only country to have declared bankruptcy , in the depths of the Great Depression . |
| 9 | ‘ Why do Americans always think theirs is the only country that 's part of the modern world ? ’ |
| 10 | 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 … |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Theirs is the new form of poverty . |
| 13 | Theirs is the high romance of travel . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | She s the only creature I 've seen … |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | " It looks like Momma 's upstaged you — she 's the real belle of the ball after all , not you . |
| 18 | She 's the real thing . ’ |
| 19 | This is Mary , she 's twenty four years old , she 's the indoor sales partnership with me , for Oxfordshire , Bucks and Berkshire , at Bracknell . |
| 20 | ‘ Apart from an occasional tendency to treat me like the ayah she had in India as a child , she 's the perfect landlady . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ After all , she 's the perfect secretary , is n't she ? |
| 22 | He 's DEVOTED to her — he 's more interested in boys and she 's the perfect alibi |
| 23 | And Iris , she 's the managin' director . |
| 24 | ‘ She 's the young woman at the bus stop , the check-out girl at the supermarket , the clerk at the building society . |
| 25 | That was strange cos she 's the only daughter is n't she ? |
| 26 | She 's the only person I 've seen die really horribly . |
| 27 | It really annoys me , and every now and again I sit him down and say now look you , oh Henry , and he adores , the actual , personally my father adores my mother and the sun has always shone out , she 's the only person in the world for him |
| 28 | We have girls in the offices and women in the offices obviously , but she 's the only tradesperson if you like , on the floor . |
| 29 | ‘ If you ask me , she 's the only woman in the world for him . ’ |
| 30 | He remembered the woman he lived with saying ‘ she 's the only woman in the world for him . ’ |