Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] [prep] a [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gains are treated as a person 's ‘ top slice ’ of income and are accordingly taxed at : 20 per cent ( the new lower rate ) , 25 per cent ( basic rate ) , 40 per cent ( higher rate ) or a mixture of two rates , i.e. in instances where a gain , or gains , pushes part of an individual 's income into a higher rate bracket . |
| 2 | Parents must comply with the stringent rules for vehicular access , which are explained in a Headmaster 's letter . |
| 3 | It is usual to buy electronic organs ‘ off the shelf ’ , but larger instruments are designed to a customer 's specification and to suit particular buildings . |
| 4 | Even if your painting activities are confined to a week 's holiday , preparing yourself by looking into a range of information can be invaluable . |
| 5 | A ‘ Likert ’ survey is made up of a series of statements which are related to a person 's attitude to a single object , in this case using computers in school . |
| 6 | Aspiring entrants to the profession need therefore to be aware of sociolinguistic variations that are related to a speaker 's sex , the role of gender in language and the possible social implications of both , particularly in classrooms . |
| 7 | If the CEMREL Research Project ( 1972 ) is any indication of what is expected it seems American teachers are looking for a child 's skill at ‘ showing ’ , and , in particular , ‘ showing ’ emotion . |
| 8 | Similarly , if we force them to outwardly behave like us , ignoring the fact that their inner mind still sees things quite differently , then we are living in a fool 's paradise . |
| 9 | Age related assumptions are made throughout a doctor 's career . |
| 10 | Reminiscence can produce a lot more responses , because you 're tapping into a person 's past which is theirs alone . |
| 11 | We 're talking about a man 's life here . |
| 12 | Advanced techniques are used in a bank 's systems which will not always be appropriate in other businesses . |
| 13 | Help Children 's Society : Volunteers are needed for a Children 's Society house to house collection in Catterick Village , near Richmond , in April . |
| 14 | Volunteers are needed for a Children 's Society house to house collection in Catterick Village , near Richmond , in April . |
| 15 | ‘ We are waiting for a pathologist 's report but it would be fair to say the investigation is nearing completion , ’ she said . |
| 16 | The company will therefore lose its quotation after the measures are approved at a shareholders ' meeting . |
| 17 | If the interim profits are verified by a bank 's internal audit department , then they will be included in tier 2 capital . |
| 18 | Er this was partly because some products multi er go through from plant to supermarket shelf with one company such as bananas , quite often , are produced on a company 's plantation . |
| 19 | Current powers do not allow for searches that are based on a policeman 's hunch that someone may be carrying an illicit article , or for blanket searches that are carried out in a particular area or among particular groups . |
| 20 | This is very much what this forum and the Plan of Action series is about : to look at some of the problems we are facing as a women 's movement and to evaluate our practice . |
| 21 | As new foods are introduced into a child 's diet , there may be temporary bouts of diarrhoea in response to them , although these do not necessarily develop as soon as the new food is eaten . |
| 22 | The case comes on the day senior magistrates met the Home Secretary to seek changes to the new Criminal Justice Act , under which penalties are linked to a person 's ability to pay . |
| 23 | Parents are protesting at a headmaster 's decision to send home an entire class because there 's no-one to teach them . |
| 24 | It is found that receipts are stamped with a firm 's name and merely initialled by a cashier or other employee . |
| 25 | And in Hereford and Worcester , facilities for abused children are run by a children 's charity and paid for by the authority . |
| 26 | Work in progress previously represented certain costs , such as sleeve design and mastering , which are incurred before a title 's first release . |
| 27 | From then one we are taken through a Druids ' Grove to consider swords , war trumpets , and the bronze shield cover discovered in the River Witham in Lincolnshire and dates from the second century BC . |
| 28 | ‘ We are talking about a man 's image , Nicholas . |
| 29 | But I am talking about a woman 's rights . |
| 30 | Six small rod-like capsules are inserted into a woman 's arm under local anaesthetic . |