Example sentences of "[pers pn] is a " in BNC.
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| 1 | His is a theology in which Adam is unredeemed , and life itself a plague . |
| 2 | His is a pint of bitter , mine 's a half . |
| 3 | His is a fury fanned by insensitive press coverage of homosexuality and the Aids epidemic ; the director best known for films like Caravaggio has leapt at the opportunity of reacting against ‘ licensed queer bashing ’ . |
| 4 | His is a forlorn campaign , however , and he has little hope of success . |
| 5 | God is infinitely potential : his is a dynamic power , from which an infinite set of new and different values can always arise . |
| 6 | His is a very rich use of paint seen both in his portraits and his religious paintings . |
| 7 | He would probably say that his is a case of the unexcitable in pursuit of the unexciting , but the sound , and at times beautiful hockey which he has inspired ( particularly in the second half of the season ) gives the lie to such modesty . |
| 8 | If any member of the council or any nominee of his is a member of a company or other body with which the contract is made or is proposed to be made , or is a partner , or is in the employment of a person with whom the contract is made , he has an indirect pecuniary interest which he should disclose . |
| 9 | T his is a true waste of resources . |
| 10 | His is a very different world to mine . ’ |
| 11 | Mr Llambias is not the only independent adviser on mergers — others include Norman Foulger Associates , RMA , Professional Practice Services , M&A Professional Services , SWAT Ltd , Jobtel Ltd , Michael Page Finance and Fraser Dawson , to name but a few — but on the merger scene his is a name to conjure with . |
| 12 | In that his is a daily paper , and that Fiji is quite close to the Date Line , probably he is technically correct . |
| 13 | His is a warmly engaging personality , a man of wit , charm and humility without a trace of the usual pop-essentials , pretension and arrogance . |
| 14 | His is a Christian vision ( he converted to Catholicism in his teens ) , and his poetry is a continuous celebration of the world in all its multifariousness . |
| 15 | HIS is a story of arts ( albeit ancient ) , books ( though not yet written ) , and sports ( of sorts ) . |
| 16 | His is a temperament well calculated to flatter and intrigue readers in the early teens and to draw them into vicarious adventure . |
| 17 | His is a wilder , less contained or civilized view of Chopin 's nationalism than Artur Rubinstein 's in his rightly celebrated and most aristocratic 1966 RCA account ( 12/86 ) . |
| 18 | Elmer , David McKee 's patchwork elephant , also likes jokes and tricks but his is a subtler and more attractive humour . |
| 19 | An early masterpiece of his is a lovely cup-tondo ( fig. 98 ) with the boy These us in Amphitrite 's underwater palace , Athena assisting . |
| 20 | That outward presence of his is a mask . |
| 21 | ’ His is a closely argued polemic and in it he cites The Machine Gunners as a classic instance of just such a book . |
| 22 | His is a 5 inch French link with rubber reins on the peg to the left of the door . ’ |
| 23 | Where a plaintiff contends that his is a case justifying a departure from the general approach that contention , and the facts relied upon to support it , should be pleaded . |
| 24 | His is a number of interviews with serial killers used in an hour long documentary Murder in Mind which examines new police methods of catching them . |
| 25 | His is a curiously dated world , a return to hard-edged figures . |
| 26 | His is a book that deserves to be updated , and deserves to be read . |
| 27 | After a brief opening spot by local musician Jim Malcolm , which suggested that his is a talent to watch , Guillory came on . |
| 28 | Does n't mean that father of his is a queen does it ? |
| 29 | Well his is a bit much in n it ? |
| 30 | For some reason , I wanted to keep it going , so I chipped in : ‘ This wedding of yours is a bit inconvenient for me , actually . |