Example sentences of "[pron] is [art] [noun pl] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is the fairies ' midwife , and she comes |
| 2 | She is the sisters ' friend and mine , too , she has come to tea on my birthday . |
| 3 | So , just who is the hairdressers ' choice ? |
| 4 | One is a plumbers ' merchant which specialises in plumbing goods . |
| 5 | — ( 1 ) Where , at the beginning of the transitional period , there is no students ' association established for the students of the college , the college council shall , as soon as is practicable after that date ( after consultation with such persons as appear to them to be representative of students of the college ) , make a scheme for the establishment of a students ' association for students of the college . |
| 6 | Here there is a visitors ' centre from which there are guided walks in the summer and plenty of books on sale to help identify species . |
| 7 | The Royal Oak pub is popular for families as there is a childrens ' room and large gardens outside , with tables and chairs in summer . |
| 8 | In each of the three houses of Parliament there is a Ministers ' Council , each chamber having separate responsibility for the affairs of the population group it represents ( including housing , social welfare , health , education ) , while joint parliamentary responsibility is taken for " general " or national affairs ( including foreign policy , defence , finance , law and order ) , each of these functions at national level being reflected in a portfolio in the Cabinet itself . |
| 9 | In each of the three houses of Parliament there is a Ministers ' Council , each chamber having separate responsibility for the affairs of the population group it represents ( including housing , social welfare , health and education ) , while joint parliamentary responsibility is taken for " general " or national affairs ( including foreign policy , defence , finance and law and order ) , each of these functions at national level being reflected in a portfolio in the Cabinet itself . |
| 10 | The official receiver or trustee can agree costs though if there is a creditors ' committee , they can require the trustee to ask for any costs payable out of the estate to be taxed . |
| 11 | But it is a lawyers ' word , and those not used to legal language might naturally think that it meant changing something or exchanging property for other property . |
| 12 | Now , it is a players ' market . |
| 13 | At the moment , because it is coming up to Christmas and I have already started going to dinners , it is a Principles ' jacket . |
| 14 | This time it is a parents ' guide to assessment at Key Stage 3 . |
| 15 | It is a dancers ' haven , surprisingly unplushy and ‘ laid back ’ but with a special atmosphere , friendly gassy , theatrical and kind . |
| 16 | Eden Hall was extensively rebuilt in 1935 or thereabouts , and much of the original fabric removed at that time , today it is a girls ' school . |
| 17 | It is a buyers ' market . |
| 18 | It is no chimpanzees ' tea party . |
| 19 | No male member of the Royal family had ever been directly involved with the hospital before , but she feels strongly that when children are in hospital it is the parents ' problem , not just the mother 's , and so the request was specifically for them both to be patrons . |
| 20 | It is worth describing in some detail the evolution of the Inservice Panel , since it is the evaluators ' judgement that a number of lessons might be learnt from its somewhat chequered career . |
| 21 | It is the evaluators ' conclusion that the creation of such a framework may well be imminent , but through the period of the evaluation itself the existing arrangements can not be said to have been adequate . |
| 22 | It is the evaluators ' belief that the impressive rhetoric contained in this part of the proposal describes an ideal which the school could not realistically be expected to achieve , without an across-the-board change amounting to a curriculum revolution . |
| 23 | Without denigrating the work of the Coordinating Team , it is the evaluators ' belief that decisions will be made on better grounds than they have been if something like this proposal becomes a reality . |
| 24 | It is the evaluators ' opinion that a greater flexibility in the number and size of grants would be desirable and that this might be achieved if the standard awards were replaced by a sliding scale with lower and upper limits . |
| 25 | It is the evaluators ' impression that the responsibility for producing agendas , convening and chairing meetings , and producing and circulating minutes has most often fallen to the Principal Adviser for Educational Resources and the ACL:E&SS but has remained throughout an area of uncertainty and indecision . |
| 26 | Clearly , there were points at which the link person or the DCSL could exercise considerable power over a school 's proposal , but it is the evaluators ' impression that this power was not abused . |
| 27 | It is the managers ' job to help staff plan their holiday entitlement appropriately to ensure that the workload is . |
| 28 | It believes that it is the shareholders ' responsibility to take action if a company qualifies its statement of compliance . |
| 29 | The teaching of values is up to the school , she argues , as it is the teachers ' opinion that children respect . |
| 30 | I have argued that it is the teachers ' task to mediate through everyday pedagogic activity : it is their exercise of pragmatism which should achieve the double objective of learning outcome and professional development . |