Example sentences of "[pron] is the " in BNC.

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1 I accept that there is a good case for including magistrates er trailing clouds of glory as it were from Tudor times when the Justice of the Peace was local government and then historically through their membership standing joint committees , but I still find it hard to accept , and here with great regret I do differ both from the Noble Lord , Lord and the Noble Viscount , Lord , I is the part of the central government er to make at least five appointments for each authority somewhere between two hundred or three hundred appointments direct ?
2 His is the only post-war body of symphonic and chamber music to achieve genuine popularity .
3 His is the only war grave in the churchyard adjoining the 11th century church at Colleville-sur-Mer .
4 John Samuel at Park City , Utah , on the opening races of the new season Cannons put smile on Willi 's Face ‘ T HIS is the place , ’ said Brigham Young as his wandering , persecuted tribe of Mormons set eyes on the Great Salt Lake and the Wasatch mountains .
5 His is the remarkable story of a young man with hardly any academic ability .
6 His is the sort of pedigree which has produced figures who have risen to the top of public life for generations .
7 He respects the oral tradition , and earns her respect in consequence : ‘ Not for Moorcock the painful , infrequent excretion of dry little novels like so many rabbit pellets ; his is the grand , messy flux itself … ’
8 His is the fourth UN mission which has failed to find a way out of the crisis .
9 His is the monolith of granite , in memory of the victims of World War I and the tenth anniversary of the Republic in 1928 .
10 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 .
11 I his is the sort of individual who is eventually invited to become a board master and the system engenders a wonderful sense of anticipation , as you progress up the board towards the prime positions ; when you are going to have your special day , on your favourite loch .
12 The hedonist has a privileged place in ethics ; his is the case which stands if every other falls .
13 Lawson comes over as smug and arrogant , yet his is the best book yet to emerge from inside the Thatcher years .
14 Ross is probably right that his is the more common sense view , but it may still strike us as extremely odd that it could ever be one 's duty not to do what which would certainly have the best results .
15 His is the central role .
16 His is the art of picture composition , and , such , his efforts are as invaluable to a production as that of his two other creative peers .
17 His is the great name in Béarn , as the local king who became king of all France .
18 He runs the Government , oversees the Civil Service , the Armed Forces , the Security Services and , ultimately , his is the hand on the nuclear trigger .
19 Likewise , in He 's meeting his teacher , his would be translated by the appropriate case form of svojlsvoja provided the referent of his is the same as the referent of he ; otherwise the pronoun used is jego .
20 His is the priority over everything , and in him all things hold together . ’
21 As we decided earlier , Tagan will join us for his is the best woodcraft in the Dale ; and Luib has agreed to come .
22 Out of all the many hundreds of 16th- and 17th-century wills that I have studied , his is the only one to include a reference to its writer 's age : its intimation that on 15 November 1622 he was in his 80th year allows 1992 or 1993 to be marked as the 450th anniversary of his birth .
23 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 .
24 His is the name that will sell The Miser , the Moliere comedy in which he 's travelling the country .
25 We 've got their Mum gave us a French dictionary , but my is the in French now they ca n't get The number of English words there are in there it 's
26 Whether it 's fish in Southern India or tripe in Northern England , the need to place ourselves is the same .
27 If yours is the kind of garden that is attractive to hedgehogs — lots of cover , plenty of natural food and close to other good habitats — then you could well find your offer of a house taken up this winter .
28 Yours is the clear-sighted , undeceived vision of the ancients , who knew life for what it is and men for what they are , and did not flinch from that knowledge .
29 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 .
30 If yours is the first winning entry out of the hat then we 'll be in touch right away .
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