Example sentences of "be [prep] [art] [noun] ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aunt Lilian and Aunt Kit walked into the nearest shop whenever their clothes became too shabby and bought the first thing that fitted them ; if they debated , it would only be about a garment 's staying power . |
| 2 | The comment happens to be about the writer 's home station , but much of it might equally apply to numerous others . |
| 3 | It may not be for a person 's death or betrayal that we are grieving . |
| 4 | Neither father nor mother can deprive themselves of their rights , except in the case of a separation agreement between husband and wife ; and even such an agreement will not be enforced by the court if the court considers it not to be for the child 's benefit . |
| 5 | LADY DAVERS:Where can the difference be between a beggar 's son married to a lady or a beggar 's daughter made a gentleman 's wife ? |
| 6 | Sebastian 's ‘ holiday ’ had been meant to be of a fortnight 's duration only . |
| 7 | ‘ The Family in happier times , ’ Cowley observed , picking up a wedding photograph which he knew to be of the Hatches ' daughter and Jack Stone . |
| 8 | It is not the intention in this paper to examine critically the rhetoric and ideology which may be behind the government 's inclusion of these principles within its legislation . |
| 9 | She paused again , struggling for words to convey the innocence and intimacy of that friendship , words that had to be like a spider 's web , strong yet delicate , if she was to communicate to Mark 's coarse masculine intelligence some inkling of what that friendship had meant to her and Hilda . |
| 10 | The issue of shares to residents or non-residents ( overseas investors ) might be against the government 's policy on the ownership of national natural resources . |
| 11 | At the end of Owen 's testimony , Senator Inouye said he had received the impression that to be against the President 's policy in Central America was to be ‘ less than patriotic ’ . |
| 12 | We have established that for pitch differences to be linguistically significant , it is a necessary condition that they should be under the speaker 's control . |
| 13 | The precedent suggests a reference to persons under the Tenant 's control in order to exclude mere callers , but where the clause refers to servants of the tenant ( which some precedents do despite the archaic nature of the expression ) it may be as well to qualify this with the words in the course of employment in case it is claimed that a servant will , by the nature of the expression , always be under the tenant 's control . |
| 14 | The historic route may be under the accountant 's scrutiny shortly : the recession in the building industry has led to a falling demand for cement and traffic is down to two or three trains per week . |
| 15 | Incompatible therefore though a Co-operative sector would be with the Webbs ' version of the fully Socialist economy , the incompatibility has not so far become obtrusive in the United Kingdom because Labour Governments , which incidentally have had the support of the Co-operative Party as the political arm of the Co-operative Consumer Movement , have carried western Socialist Empiricism to the point of settling for the mixed economy ; and any central planning has been indicative — and , some would say , ineffectual — rather than mandatory . |
| 16 | Sometimes , this may be delegated to the conveyancer acting , but this delegation must clearly be with the client 's authority . |
| 17 | Your learned friend very fairly set the sort of orders one would expect in the case of this sort , erm , can I only add one thing which erm there is still a , failing erm his right there should have been an adjournment this morning that the question of a structured settlement could be investigated , all these people who have indeed , it must be from the plaintiff 's point of view as well , desirable that those investigations be erm carried out , with the greatest , greatest speed possible , obviously it takes time to er instruct the and so on and erm , it seemed er to me that it would be appropriate to include some of the I happen to discuss with my friend , erm providing for the matter to be brought back not later than a certain time |
| 18 | It was proposed to build a railway ‘ Halt ’ specifically for the Depot along the South Gate railway bridge , allowing workers from outlying districts to be within a minute 's walk of the Depot Gate . |
| 19 | But I 've specified that the address must be within a half-hour 's cycle ride from college and must not cost more than £x per week inclusive of heating and lighting . |
| 20 | Death duties , National Defence Contribution , perhaps other taxes or duties , would all be within the Revenue 's mind in deliberately choosing the wide word " taxation " , in order to make sure that their concession on transfers for other purposes should not be used to deprive the Revenue of other taxes than Income Tax or Sur-tax . |
| 21 | Professor Williams defends the man 's right to utter such threats and considers that he should not be within the section 's scope : |
| 22 | The loop will now be round the person 's body and all you have to do is to pull it down and ask the volunteer to step out of it . |
| 23 | However , environments are usually so variable that even if the conditions are good where the animal is now , they probably will not be in a month 's time ; it may then be better to be a hundred miles south . |
| 24 | This would be in the artist 's name , with the manager as the sole signatory . |
| 25 | The costs must be sunk , otherwise the threat would not be credible and , faced with entry , it would be in the incumbent 's interest to reverse the decision . |
| 26 | Servette qualified for the UEFA Cup by finishing fourth in the Swiss League but last November it looked like they would be in the Champions ' Cup . |
| 27 | On the one hand , if the landlord has redevelopment plans or if a higher rent could be achieved on a reletting of a greater part of the building , it will be in the landlord 's interest to ensure that all tenancies are expressed to expire on the same date . |
| 28 | It will , therefore , be in the landlord 's interest as well as the tenant 's to ensure that the option is protected by registration in the appropriate register . |
| 29 | Your foal will be in the mare 's company for many months . |
| 30 | Boll would be in the Directors ' dining room , Basil would have gone to see his cronies in A area , Wayne would have gone out with those as young and limited as himself to the Hind 's Head in the village , Carol would be in the canteen wittering with the other Clerical Assistants and her husband . |