Example sentences of "[pers pn] is the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Let me remind the cynics opposite that yours is the only Group on this Council which has voted against our proposals on disability . |
| 10 | well and yours is the same look |
| 11 | 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 ! |
| 12 | It has always bred sturdy , original thinkers ; theirs is the only country to have declared bankruptcy , in the depths of the Great Depression . |
| 13 | ‘ Why do Americans always think theirs is the only country that 's part of the modern world ? ’ |
| 14 | 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 … |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Theirs is the new form of poverty . |
| 17 | Theirs is the high romance of travel . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | She is the great chain of mothers and daughters , her life stretching from the dawn of time to an inconceivably distant future . |
| 20 | She is the heroic Goddess who destroys all evil powers embodied as demons and She is the Goddess of victory . |
| 21 | Yes , I agree with everything that Karen O'Neil has to say about Martina , she is the greatest woman tennis player ever . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | She is the all-powerful source of satisfaction and frustration , happiness and sadness , love and hate . |
| 24 | Dr Robert South emphasized this point when he declared shortly after the Restoration that the Anglican church ‘ glories in nothing more than that she is the truest friend to kings and to kingly government of any Church in the world ’ . |
| 25 | She is the funniest person you know , she is warm , generous and intelligent , her smile could melt ice . |
| 26 | He or she is the chief executive with overall responsibility for running the institution . |
| 27 | And she is the usual woman — |
| 28 | My top objective is to get on board because I believe she is the best person for the job . |
| 29 | Channon rates his winner highly and said : ‘ She is the best two-year-old I 've had by far . |
| 30 | For her own part , there was never any question of her not studying science and she is the best sort of role model because of her enthusiasm : ‘ Just finding out what makes things work . |