Example sentences of "[pers pn] is the [adj -est] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we decided earlier , Tagan will join us for his is the best woodcraft in the Dale ; and Luib has agreed to come . |
| 2 | Lawson comes over as smug and arrogant , yet his is the best book yet to emerge from inside the Thatcher years . |
| 3 | Yes , I agree with everything that Karen O'Neil has to say about Martina , she is the greatest woman tennis player ever . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | She is the funniest person you know , she is warm , generous and intelligent , her smile could melt ice . |
| 6 | My top objective is to get on board because I believe she is the best person for the job . |
| 7 | Channon rates his winner highly and said : ‘ She is the best two-year-old I 've had by far . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ I know that you want to marry Rose , ’ Mrs Maylie told her son , ‘ and she is the nicest person I know . |
| 10 | I would say that she is the strongest woman er heroine that we 've read . |
| 11 | Guns and Killing magazine currently rate her as the sixth most dangerous solo outlaw in the Americas , and she is the highest-ranked woman on the list , coming in at thirty-seven places above the Antarctic esperado Ice Kold Katie . |
| 12 | I 'm also sick to death of patronising DJ shits like Simon Bates saying that Sinead is ill and that when she is being nice , she is the loveliest person in the world . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't know which of you is the greatest joker , ’ Madeleine laughed . |
| 14 | It is the best choice for tourers and cross-country enthusiasts because of the kicking heel-raise which can be accentuated to help with climbing on skins and increase elan when gliding across flat sections . |
| 15 | The CNAA , in the words of one commentator in 1971 , was far from perfect , ‘ but it is the best procedure for devising innovative courses we have found so far ’ . |
| 16 | It is the best day of my life . |
| 17 | It is the best way to serve the people we want to stand up for . |
| 18 | TO JOG — Jogging is popular and many claim it is the best way to exercise . |
| 19 | This bottom-up approach may well be a very fruitful way of trying to understand what language is and how it works , but that does not mean that it is the best way to teach a language , or that it is the way we use a language when we do know it . |
| 20 | We agree that it is the best way to help those countries to establish sound democracies and a sound economy . |
| 21 | I believe that that is what parents want and that it is the best way to ensure that children are taught the essentials . |
| 22 | ‘ Durham County Council and Labour know that it is the best way for children to start their educational life . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Durham County Council and Labour know that it is the best way for children to start their educational life , ’ he said . |
| 24 | ‘ We hope that people in Shetland will realise it is the best way of doing it , ’ he said . |
| 25 | The tops of ling heather ( Calluna vulgaris ) , produce yet another shade of yellow dye when boiled in water , and in fact that entire plant is wonderfully versatile : it was commonly used for thatching houses , and even today the few Highland thatchers that remain will swear it is the best thatch in Gaeldom ; it provided beds to sleep on , with the ‘ tops up and roots down ’ arrangement of the mattress assuring a pleasantly aromatic and sound sleep ; it was used in part of the process of tanning leather ; and the fresh , young tops of the heather were ( and at times still are ) brewed into a kind of ale . |
| 26 | The council argues that Hazelbank was the original site of the old town hall destroyed by an IRA bomb 20 years ago , and it is the best location in the borough . |
| 27 | It is the best infant in the school . ’ |
| 28 | This elimination of a whole class of nuclear missiles must be our goal because it is the best answer . |
| 29 | The Our Father is the prayer which Christ himself taught us and it is the best means by which we can communicate with God . |
| 30 | c ‘ Even if it is the best tree-house I 've ever seen . ’ |