Example sentences of "is [vb pp] [prep] a [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An unconditioned reflex is one which appears without previous experience ; for example , if food is placed in a dog 's mouth , it salivates . |
| 2 | The managing director of one of the biggest of such organisations attached to this place is registered as a Member 's secretary or research assistant . |
| 3 | ‘ The land is poisoned for a day 's march in every direction . ’ |
| 4 | This applies whether an application for an emergency protection order is heard in a magistrates ' court , county court or High Court . |
| 5 | If there is , the case goes to the Crown Court ( sitting with a jury and in many different places ) , where it is heard by a Queen 's Bench or Circuit judge or by a Recorder ( in certain circumstances joined by two to four Justices of the Peace ) . |
| 6 | She understands the world through trivial fictions , and is trapped within a child 's view of history and society . |
| 7 | If there is insufficient funds available to meet one instalment , the individual 's name is included on a violator 's blacklist at the Federation of Bankers ' Associations . |
| 8 | For instance , if an amount is included in a person 's income by virtue of TA 1988 , s421 ( assessment in respect of loan from close company ) in respect of any loan or advance , there is to be a corresponding reduction in the amount which can be included and taxable under TA 1988 , s677 ( TA 1988 , s677(3) ) . |
| 9 | It would ensure that correspondence is included in an individual 's electronic in-tray quickly and issues dealt with promptly . |
| 10 | Controversial clash with the RSC begins over Wesker 's play , The Journalists , which is cancelled after an actors ' rebellion . |
| 11 | Watch the Iraqi strongman slump to the ground as he is felled by a sniper 's bullet . |
| 12 | Then it is time for Frank to give a sample of his act , which is built around a ventriloquist 's dummy called Marvin the Monkey . |
| 13 | Every decision is made of a person 's free will , and is voluntary , unless it is effected by compulsion . |
| 14 | They object to a little cotton apron on the mice which is made from a baby 's dress — it was suitable for a baby but not for a stuffed mouse to wear ! ’ |
| 15 | It is indeed very much akin to the famous Greek speciality , except that true taramasalata is made from a cod 's roe much more salty , more pungent , and less smoked than our own . |
| 16 | An example from the late-18th century is shaped like a fox 's head but with a swan 's or duck 's head as the handle . |
| 17 | The iron knocker is shaped like a lion 's head . |
| 18 | Such ‘ anti-social ’ behaviour is related to a horse 's great need for sensory and mental stimulation . |
| 19 | There are also bound to be variations with age , which in terms of family relationships is reflected in a person 's position in the structure of generations ( for a discussion of age and generation , see Finch , 1986a ) . |
| 20 | This chamber is equipped as a scribe 's workroom , and is inhabited by the Ghost of old Stanislav Goethe , a half-Kislevite ( on his mother 's side ) , half-Ostlander scholar . |
| 21 | On Saturdays , hungry customers queue along the pavement beneath Manze 's green awning that is sandwiched between a dry-cleaner 's and a men 's clothing store . |
| 22 | Agism , like other forms of discrimination at work , is rooted in a society 's culture . |
| 23 | The amount of information that is needed for a company 's marketing information system will depend on the extent of its current involvement or potential interest in an overseas market . |
| 24 | Another way into the interior is offered by a stalker 's path from Annat at the head of Loch Torridon ( closed in the later months of the year ) : this leads to the tarns at the foot of Maol Cheandearg with a branch turning off to An Ruadh-stac . |
| 25 | This is exemplified by a children 's toy called the tippe-top . |
| 26 | The display of shells and butterflies from Wales and the rest of the world is complimented by a children 's Quiz |
| 27 | Even then progress is slowed to a snail 's pace , and the capacity for logical judgement is also impaired . |
| 28 | The Namutamba Rural Education Project started in 1967 , is based on a teachers ' college and involves fifteen primary schools near the town of Mityana , some fifty miles from Kampala . |
| 29 | Demand for network management is driven by a customer 's need to control the escalating cost and complexity of networked systems , he says , while the market for disaster recovery is growing as a result of both legislation and successful promotion of the service by vendors . |
| 30 | But research in America has suggested very strongly that it 's actually a special sex fluid , similar to a secretion which is ejaculated from a man 's prostate gland , but produced by a sensitive structure near the famous G-spot . |