Example sentences of "[pers pn] is the [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yours is the twentieth of September in n it ? |
| 2 | With the fire button depressed you can rotate your gun by moving the joystick right and left , giving 180° of blasting — make no mistake ; yours is the trickier of the two craft . |
| 3 | In passages written not without humour , though theirs is the blackest of black comedy , we read of the water of the Nile turned to blood , of plagues of frogs , gnats , flies , and locusts , of the domestic animals of the Egyptians dying of disease , of a terrible outbreak of boils , of death-dealing hailstorms , and an awesome and fearful darkness . |
| 4 | At nineteen she is the youngest of four children and has always been treated as the " little one " . |
| 5 | Her identity is widely known in the village , but her wishes are respected and her name will not be revealed here She is the last of a long line of illustrious cheesemakers and her regular clients can only hope that she will pass on her expertise to the next generation . |
| 6 | Nevertheless as an introduction it is the best of the bunch . |
| 7 | In all this was a very enjoyable day recording the programme and what pleased me even more was the producer Chris Eldon Lee 's comment in a letter that he wrote to tell me when it was to be broadcast ‘ We have kept the Bishop 's Castle Railway till last as it is the best of the bunch ’ . |
| 8 | Even if the best of the top n interpretations is taken , there is no guarantee that it is the best of all possible interpretations . |
| 9 | I have followed the fitter directive but I am not convinced it is the best for the vehicle — should n't engine oil be used for engines and gear oil for gearboxes ? |
| 10 | ‘ I have no rich things to give but I will take my black bread for they say it is the best in the whole world . ’ |
| 11 | There really is something to celebrate as the new hospital opens — its consultants say it is the best in the country — with a standard of care and treatment equalling that in private hospitals combined with the facilities to continue pioneering research into skin disease . |
| 12 | ‘ It is the greatest up after the lowest down — it is the biggest rollercoaster I have been on in my life . ’ |
| 13 | It is the 33rd in the series of Bartholomew walking guides . |
| 14 | Crime and Punishment takes its place in a perfectly obvious and open fashion among the international classics of naturalism ( or realism ) , and it is the first of his novels to do so : the earlier and great book The House of the Dead walks so close beside personal history as to rule itself out in this connection ; formally it is a freak , so I argued , a quasi-novel ; and as regards fact and fiction , since he is recounting not ‘ prophesying events ’ , Dostoevsky can not have found much in the Dead House to get excited about . |
| 15 | It is the first of a rapidly growing family of microscopes based on the idea of moving a needle over a surface to sense its shape . |
| 16 | It may well be that it is the first of these , his work in children 's theatre , for which he will be most remembered , for he revolutionised the whole conception of what forms theatre for children might take . |
| 17 | It is the first of this kind of thing that I have organised and I would like it to be a success . |
| 18 | it is the first of a series of free booklets being produced by Kall Kwik aimed at helping small to medium-sized businesses . |
| 19 | It is the first of its kind in the world . |
| 20 | This is the ship named after the hero of the Argentine Navy in the 19th century , and it is the first of four Meko type destroyers that Buenos Aires has purchased from the Hamburg shipyard ( who in turn have been supplied with Rolls-Royce engines ) . |
| 21 | It is the first of a series of similarly treated glass fibre products . |
| 22 | It is the first of its kind in the UK and in my view , putting the idea into practice was ‘ many years overdue ’ . |
| 23 | It is the first of a series of massive strongholds that will eventually guard the approaches to the Inner Lands . |
| 24 | It is the first of a promised family of RS/6000 RISC-based serial and parallel systems and part of the ‘ parallel revolution ’ that IBM believes is destined to transform both technical and commercial computing markets alike . |
| 25 | It is the first of its type from John Brown and it will give WGFP a high profile in the power generation industry , in line with the Company 's planned penetration of non-oil related markets . |
| 26 | It is the first of June tomorrow , yes . |
| 27 | ‘ It is the first in what we hope will be a long line of animation series from HTV . |
| 28 | Furthermore , it is more than likely that it is the elderly of working-class background who are inadequately housed , rather than the elderly in general . |
| 29 | It is the second of Mr Harvey 's voyages of self-discovery : in the first , ‘ A Journey in Ladakh ’ , written eight years ago , he began to embrace Buddhism under the influence of a monk in exile from Tibet . |
| 30 | It is the second of Billy Roche 's Wexford trilogy plays about small-town life in Wexford , southern Ireland . |