Example sentences of "[pers pn] [is] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | His is a 5 inch French link with rubber reins on the peg to the left of the door . ’ |
2 | An early masterpiece of his is a lovely cup-tondo ( fig. 98 ) with the boy These us in Amphitrite 's underwater palace , Athena assisting . |
3 | In that his is a daily paper , and that Fiji is quite close to the Date Line , probably he is technically correct . |
4 | His is a forlorn campaign , however , and he has little hope of success . |
5 | His is a Christian vision ( he converted to Catholicism in his teens ) , and his poetry is a continuous celebration of the world in all its multifariousness . |
6 | God is infinitely potential : his is a dynamic power , from which an infinite set of new and different values can always arise . |
7 | T his is a true waste of resources . |
8 | ‘ Yours is a better likeness , ’ he said to the DI , a smile flickering on his lips . |
9 | For instance , if yours is a worldwide practice , and the person leaving has contacts with clients in many countries , it may be reasonable for the clause to extend throughout the world . |
10 | Yours is a low band , |
11 | Yeah but I mean yours is a big school now is n't it ? |
12 | You may not believe it , but yours is a privileged generation , For your grandparents , sex was a taboo subject , enclosed by walls of " Thou shall nots ' and compounded by ignorance . |
13 | But whether yours is a local area network or a global one , your problem is the same . |
14 | This is an especially good way to work if yours is a basic machine without a ribber and you have decided to work the ribs by hand . |
15 | 'E 's a terrible racking cough . ’ |
16 | Now Sidney , 'er 'usband , 'e 's a decent bloke , but 'e 's no oil paintin' . ’ |
17 | 'E 's a good pair o' lungs , ’ she smiled , ‘ but 'e 's not very big . ’ |
18 | ‘ 'E 's a good sort , is Alf , ’ said Dolly , nodding gravely . |
19 | ‘ Since 'e 's bin in wiv that crowd from the Tunnel , though , 'e 's a changed boy . |
20 | The midwife laid the little scrap in Tamar 's arms and said , ‘ 'E 's a lovely lad , Lady Lassiter. 'E 's not big , but 'e 's all the world ti grow in . ’ |
21 | 'E 's a fine specimen and good stock-getter and he 's unrelated ti these two . ’ |
22 | I knew 'e would like you , because you are a wonderful girl , and 'e is a wonderful man . |
23 | Theirs is a cynical creed ; a creed which spells destruction , division and disunity . |
24 | But they are all old men , and theirs is a dying profession . |
25 | Theirs is a rebellious motherhood , it 's not an uncritical retreat into traditional femininity . |
26 | Theirs is a distinctive type of cut-price retailing that emerged in Germany after the second world war and is subtly different from its American cousin . |
27 | One commercial problem which had faced Lipton was that although theirs is a worldwide trading name , outside America the brand is marketed by rival companies . |
28 | The vocalist of thrashers Old on ‘ Mazuraan ’ sounds like a garotted moggie , but theirs is a fine handle on melody nonetheless . |
29 | Theirs is a symbiotic association ’ . |
30 | Theirs is a brief Mayfly existence . |