Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [art] [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is the fairies ' midwife , and she comes |
| 2 | She is the sisters ' friend and mine , too , she has come to tea on my birthday . |
| 3 | But it is a lawyers ' word , and those not used to legal language might naturally think that it meant changing something or exchanging property for other property . |
| 4 | Now , it is a players ' market . |
| 5 | At the moment , because it is coming up to Christmas and I have already started going to dinners , it is a Principles ' jacket . |
| 6 | This time it is a parents ' guide to assessment at Key Stage 3 . |
| 7 | It is a dancers ' haven , surprisingly unplushy and ‘ laid back ’ but with a special atmosphere , friendly gassy , theatrical and kind . |
| 8 | Eden Hall was extensively rebuilt in 1935 or thereabouts , and much of the original fabric removed at that time , today it is a girls ' school . |
| 9 | It is a buyers ' market . |
| 10 | ‘ I think it is a men 's outing , ’ writes Mrs McAninly , whose maiden name was Hindmoor . |
| 11 | It is no chimpanzees ' tea party . |
| 12 | No male member of the Royal family had ever been directly involved with the hospital before , but she feels strongly that when children are in hospital it is the parents ' problem , not just the mother 's , and so the request was specifically for them both to be patrons . |
| 13 | It is the evaluators ' belief that the impressive rhetoric contained in this part of the proposal describes an ideal which the school could not realistically be expected to achieve , without an across-the-board change amounting to a curriculum revolution . |
| 14 | It is worth describing in some detail the evolution of the Inservice Panel , since it is the evaluators ' judgement that a number of lessons might be learnt from its somewhat chequered career . |
| 15 | It is the evaluators ' impression that the responsibility for producing agendas , convening and chairing meetings , and producing and circulating minutes has most often fallen to the Principal Adviser for Educational Resources and the ACL:E&SS but has remained throughout an area of uncertainty and indecision . |
| 16 | It is the evaluators ' conclusion that the creation of such a framework may well be imminent , but through the period of the evaluation itself the existing arrangements can not be said to have been adequate . |
| 17 | Clearly , there were points at which the link person or the DCSL could exercise considerable power over a school 's proposal , but it is the evaluators ' impression that this power was not abused . |
| 18 | It is the evaluators ' opinion that a greater flexibility in the number and size of grants would be desirable and that this might be achieved if the standard awards were replaced by a sliding scale with lower and upper limits . |
| 19 | Without denigrating the work of the Coordinating Team , it is the evaluators ' belief that decisions will be made on better grounds than they have been if something like this proposal becomes a reality . |
| 20 | It is the managers ' job to help staff plan their holiday entitlement appropriately to ensure that the workload is . |
| 21 | It believes that it is the shareholders ' responsibility to take action if a company qualifies its statement of compliance . |
| 22 | The other governing body for barristers is the Bar Council whose membership derives much less from the Inns ; it is the barristers ' elected representative body . |
| 23 | Occasionally official syllabuses contain very detailed advice for teachers and in one case ( Botswana ) , a separate , loose-leaf file has been prepared for each grade , but in many cases it is the teachers ' guide , or even the pupils ' text which provides the real plan from which the teacher works . |
| 24 | I have argued that it is the teachers ' task to mediate through everyday pedagogic activity : it is their exercise of pragmatism which should achieve the double objective of learning outcome and professional development . |
| 25 | Sometimes this may be unfortunate pupils who happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time ; but often it is the teachers ' families who begin to bear the brunt , and whose reserves of tolerance and goodwill may also , after a while , begin to dry up in turn . |
| 26 | The teaching of values is up to the school , she argues , as it is the teachers ' opinion that children respect . |
| 27 | In refugee camps , and where sanitation has been smashed by war ( as in Baghdad and Basra ) it is the aid-workers ' nightmare . |
| 28 | What is the best form of entertainment in New York these days ? 2,500 women think it is the Women 's Action Coalition . |
| 29 | But I think it 's a little bit rich if I may say so Joe to blame the women for this because the parliamentary Labour party did vote for this new rule and the fact that a number of women very able women put themselves forward , I do n't think it 's right to say it is the women 's fault . |
| 30 | Whether it is the academics ' interests in the livings that come in the wake of a research career ; or industry 's wish to produce new drugs or insecticides ; or the state 's desire to develop new military armaments or better traffic flows or even to reduce truancy in schools ; these are motivations quite unconnected with the education of students in higher education . |