Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her religious sensibility is much nearer to that of the affective Franciscan devotion just as his is to the Dominican tradition of speculative thought . |
| 2 | ‘ Yours is at the end there , ’ said the Headmaster . |
| 3 | Here 's yours , yours is on the radiator Richard . |
| 4 | ‘ I suspect that some devious ploy of yours is in the offing . ’ |
| 5 | If it is n't dated , how can you tell if yours is from the golden period ? |
| 6 | My report has to be on Ken Hurren 's desk before theirs is on the Prime Minister 's screen . |
| 7 | So theirs is like the way I think . |
| 8 | Probably Poseidon was worshipped in three aspects , with roles in the heavens , on the earth and in the underworld , just as in the later Orphic literature the phases of the moon were viewed : ‘ When she is above the earth , she is Selene ; when within it , Artemis ; when below it , Persephone ’ ( Servius ad Verg . |
| 9 | She is off the ring road . |
| 10 | Executive Director of the Tour , Joe Flanagan , says : ‘ It is not a pleasant task to tell a girl that she is off the Tour for the next four weeks , or in a few cases , a whole year . |
| 11 | Banished to the uncool shelves marked ‘ fantasy ’ and ‘ horror ’ and even serialised in comic book form , she is beyond the pale of most critics . |
| 12 | So she is about the same age as her stepson . |
| 13 | She is saying that this good thing , this knowledge , can be used — to tell us , for example , that Amis is not a Tudor writer : but she is rather more moved to say at the same time that it ca n't or can hardly be used , devoted as she is to the thought of a separation between , in this case , Amis 's friendships and politics , his life — and his art . |
| 14 | The leader or high priest(ess) is chosen for the quality of psychic power exhibited , and how open he or she is to the life-force . |
| 15 | If she dislikes all outward signs of mourning , wanting people to wear their normal clothes and for the proceedings to be very quiet and simple , that should be for her to decide , but if she is of the old school , who prefer mourners to dress rather sombrely , you should try to persuade the rest of the family to do so whatever their personal opinions may be ; although care must be taken not to cause friction over this or anything else which may sour the family gathering . |
| 16 | ‘ She is of the old pure Wolfline , ’ said Fergus , meeting her eyes . |
| 17 | ‘ She is of the opinion that the loneliness of this place accounts for my condition . |
| 18 | Of course this is a self-destructive and lonely ‘ solution' ; Lucy herself admits that she has got caught up in a pattern of starving and bingeing which she is at the moment unable to see a way out of . |
| 19 | She is at the barricades , defending all sorts of unrespectable ideas . |
| 20 | Moody , sensitive and sometimes secretive she is at the same time a little girl needing to be cuddled and a teenager requiring her own space . |
| 21 | ‘ I ask then that you , my dear cousin , will be the lady Anne 's chaperon and friend whilst she is at the Tower — any letters from you or the lady Anne to myself , may be sent via the cardinal who has agreed to serve me , and with the utmost discretion , in this matter . |
| 22 | ‘ If it was necessary to come to a decision on this aspect , I would have to say that , in my judgment , to go from the grandmother 's house where she is at the moment and leaving the job she has in Birkenhead with the Social Services Department , to Canada with no work and no money and living on charity and food banks , would be an intolerable situation for the child . |
| 23 | Erm loo looking at that , erm if you were to die tomorrow , hopefully you wo n't but if you were , what sort of figure do you think your , your er wife would like , would require in order to continue to live how she is at the moment and be able to look after and feed and keep the children ? |
| 24 | This week she is at the Orthopaedic Hospital in Gobowen , near Oswestry , where she is undergoing an operation on her arm . |
| 25 | Alright , mother 's alright , she 's on top of the world she is at the moment , nothing of her , but , she seems to be struggling through it all . |
| 26 | No , actually there she is at the back of What is it called B G H , just five letters ? |
| 27 | She is with the police and a stress counsellor because of what she went through . ’ |
| 28 | At the time of going to print she is with the Liverpool Everyman Company . |
| 29 | This woman inhabits several time spans at once : she is no less at home with the whirling world of angels and demons than she is with the cordless phone and the digital clock . |
| 30 | Talk about being thrust into maturity : she 's still only a month off twenty-two and there she is with the barracks on her shoulders and my mother still dizzying about , and Gran … and Gran kicking eighty , acting skittishly . |