Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [prep] [art] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sit her on a stranger 's knee and she may seem content , but compare her rigid posture with how relaxed she is on a parent 's knee . |
| 2 | She is on the Speaker 's panel of chairmen for Commons committees , so has experience of the chair . |
| 3 | This may be all good fun , but is it justified when it is at the composer 's expense , and does not pay any regard to the evident persistence of the mensural tradition so obvious in the composer 's manuscripts ? |
| 4 | Anyone who decides to intervene in a family 's problems , even though it is at the family 's request , has a professional duty to be able to demonstrate the effectiveness ( or otherwise ) of the methods used . |
| 5 | The commander view would say that the superannuation fund balance sheet should be consolidated : the authority is responsible for managing the fund , although it is on the employees ' behalf not the community 's . |
| 6 | It is to the school 's credit that such a successful attempt was made to keep life as normal as possible . |
| 7 | Those who during the week at Lake Nona took the opportunity to ask questions about the running of America 's LPGA circuit , are convinced that it is to the players ' advantage that they leave the running of the association to its staff while they themselves concentrate on their golf . |
| 8 | It is to the band 's eternal credit that the piece of plastic within the sleeve was worthy of the attention focused upon it . |
| 9 | It is to the plaintiff 's advantage , therefore , to avoid these subsections if at all possible . |
| 10 | The shareholders enjoy an additional layer of protection with regard to gratuitous payments , in that in order to show that a payment is authorised by the company 's memorandum it will usually be necessary to establish that it is reasonably incidental to the company 's business purposes , in essence , that it is for the company 's benefit , which is an objective question . |
| 11 | But why not kill a child if it is for the child 's good ? |
| 12 | But it is accepted by physicalists of all kinds that the meaning or semantic value of internal states must be analysed in terms of their causal relations to stimulus and response , just as it is for the behaviourist 's dispositions , and is not something they possess in their own right , or of themselves . |
| 13 | Even simple activities , such as the right way to hold and use a pair of scissors , may need to be shown to a pupil with very poor vision , not because it is beyond the child 's capacity , but because defective vision may make it difficult to see exactly how to manipulate utensils and objects without precise demonstration on how to do so . |
| 14 | With such constructive criticism , and the possibility of a separate prize for quasi-official organisations dependent on government grants , it is worth every charity 's while to enter next year 's awards . |
| 15 | Whatever it is about the cuckoo 's gape that acts like a drug on the host 's nervous system , it must have originated as a genetic mutation . |
| 16 | Adoption workers need to accommodate in their thinking and practice more than one concept simultaneously , that is , the achievement of ‘ open ’ adoption or adoption with contact where it is in a child 's interests but within a framework of legal security . |
| 17 | It is in the member 's interest that these materials are received at least 6 weeks before the programme begins . |
| 18 | It is in the UK 's national interest and in the interest of EC consumers , that there should be a ‘ level playing field ’ on which all alcoholic drinks compete on an equal basis . |
| 19 | The latter may simply reply that he does not feel it is in the public 's interest , or that the Police Authority does not strictly require it to effectively carry out its duties . |
| 20 | 4.1 The Publisher shall not be legally responsible for any loss or damage ( howsoever arising ) to the Work its illustrations and other related material while it is in the Publisher 's custody or in the course of production . |
| 21 | 4.1 The Publisher shall not be legally responsible for any loss or damage ( howsoever arising ) to the Work its illustrations and other related material while it is in the Publisher 's custody or in the course of production . |
| 22 | Now it is in the government 's white paper . |
| 23 | I would have thought that it is in the government 's interest to promote efficiency , it 's certainly in the government 's interest to maintain the public interest with regard er to fraud or other wrong doing er but it 's something that the government ought to look at and again it seems to me that it ought to be a matter that er could be looked at if there was a proper inquiry . |
| 24 | For instance , the planners should work out if it is in the organisation 's best interest to move into an existing building and whether such a building needs any refurbishment or , whether premises should be custom built . |
| 25 | private knowledge — which is not written anywhere ( i.e. it is in the expert 's brain ) and it consists mainly of the following : |
| 26 | When prosecution for pollution does take place , it is in the magistrates ' court , where it shares the stage with licensing applications and speeding motorists . |
| 27 | In a speech to the European Parliament on March 21 he declared : " It is in the West 's own interest to seek the integration of eastern and central Europe into the family of European democracy because otherwise it risks creating a zone of hopelessness , instability and chaos , which would threaten western Europe every bit as much as the Warsaw Pact tank divisions of old . " |
| 28 | Fortunately it is in the company 's interests so to do , because it is only by such means that the free , wholehearted collaboration of free men can be enlisted . |
| 29 | It is in the company 's interest to build up a relationship with Fund Managers in order that a position of trust and goodwill is created . |
| 30 | Ministers of Information know … that it is in the State 's own interests to give the greatest possible freedom to institutions that depend on it , provided of course that they are well-managed . |