Example sentences of "[pers pn] is the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His is the fourth UN mission which has failed to find a way out of the crisis . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Signora Madeline Vesey Neroni is the most exotic character in Trollope 's novel ; she is the second daughter of Dr. Vesey Stanhope , one of the diocesan clergymen in Barchester . |
| 4 | She is the first woman to hold this post . |
| 5 | Anna 's family are all dead and she now believes that she is the last person left in the world . |
| 6 | She is the last woman I saw . |
| 7 | TURN the page of the calendar , and before you is the first weekend of April . |
| 8 | ‘ It is the thirteenth chapter of Luke , the twenty-seventh verse . |
| 9 | It is the first sentence which is so hard to compose . |
| 10 | It is the first sign from the new Chancellor that he is ready to reverse the Tories ' commitment to lower taxes unless the Government tackles its £50bn overdraft . |
| 11 | It is the first sign from the new Chancellor that he is ready to reverse the Tories ' commitment to lower taxes unless the Government And he used the Chancellor 's traditional speech to the City of London to deliver his ultimatum to the Cabinet , which takes its first look at next year 's public spending tomorrow . |
| 12 | It is the first sign of incapability , while in Ballantyne you feel that the boys are really able to kill another time . |
| 13 | It is the first kind of approach that has so far yielded the most insight , but it is worth considering the possibility of the analysis of interaction by synthesis . |
| 14 | It is the first United States exhibition on Russian art from the Russian Orthodox Church 's golden age , when Moscow was the ‘ Third Rome ’ . |
| 15 | It is the first pull of the day so we all know what to expect . |
| 16 | example An essay pointing out that Shakespeare 's first sonnet ends with a comma in the first printed edition and arguing that this is because it is the first part of a larger poem including also the second sonnet . |
| 17 | It is the first year , Royal Liver Assurance has sponsored the championships , which start at Preston 's Guild Hall on November 13 . |
| 18 | The refund is counted as part of the gross receipts of the second country even though it is the first country that benefits . |
| 19 | It is the first country to enact such a ban . |
| 20 | ( 2.8 ) unc In any execution of an ALT construct , it is the first guard to become ready which is executed . |
| 21 | It is the first member of the company 's L-Series SuperSparc line using LSI Logic 's ASIC chipset and Texas Instruments Inc 's 36MHz chip on an EOS-designed PCB layout . |
| 22 | It is the first member of the company 's L-Series SuperSparc line using LSI Logic Corp 's ASIC chip set and Texas Instruments Inc 's 36MHz chip on an EOS-designed circuit board layout . |
| 23 | Cray Research Inc reports that Queen 's University of Belfast , Northern Ireland , has installed a Cray Y-MP EL entry level supercomputer system : it is the first Cray Research system anywhere in Ireland ; the machine , which lists for between $340,000 and $1.5m , will be used to run simulations in aerodynamics , quantum chemistry combustion modelling and physics and will also be linked to a more powerful Cray installed near Oxford , England . |
| 24 | It is the first event at the castle since it re-opened to the public last month after four years . |
| 25 | It is the first occasion that Basquiat 's art will have been studied by an American institution and it comes at a time when David Ross , who replaced Thomas Armstrong as the Whitney 's director in bitter circumstances nearly two years ago , is under considerable pressure to ignite a new and visionary exhibition programme at the museum ( see The Art Newspaper No.6 , March 1991 , p.5 ) . |
| 26 | For most of the population , it is the first day of the spring holiday . |
| 27 | This morning she gives priority to the fact that it is the first day of the winter term , and that she has a lecture to deliver and two tutorials to conduct . |
| 28 | No time like the present and anyway it is the first day of Lent . ’ |
| 29 | A novice is expected to show the degree of skill exhibited by a junior doctor , even if it is the first day on the job . |
| 30 | 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 |