Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [art] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ All Ah 'm askin' from ye is the man 's present whereabouts . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ She is a cottager 's daughter . |
| 3 | She is the fairies ' midwife , and she comes |
| 4 | She is the sisters ' friend and mine , too , she has come to tea on my birthday . |
| 5 | What has surprised and pleased him is the public 's response . |
| 6 | Pictured with him is the group 's chairman , Tony Edwards one of 22 mainly unemployed people who are building their own homes during the project . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The final determination of the ley theory 's status is obviously desirable ; if it is a mare 's nest in Britain , unlike in South America , then it ought to be despatched as quickly as possible . |
| 9 | Now , it is a players ' market . |
| 10 | At the moment , because it is coming up to Christmas and I have already started going to dinners , it is a Principles ' jacket . |
| 11 | This time it is a parents ' guide to assessment at Key Stage 3 . |
| 12 | But , as Mr Nearn points out , it is a driver 's car , and motoring journalists have heaped it with praise for many years , one even going so far as to say that your smile ‘ will need surgically removing ’ after driving one . |
| 13 | Mr Geoff Dossetter , the Federation 's spokesman said : ‘ It is a buyer 's market out there and there is no reason why women should not be good at selling cars . ’ |
| 14 | Nearly always some compromise can be reached with the vendor , depending on whether it is a buyer 's or a seller 's market , but at least you will have the satisfaction of knowing that you 've been through everything with a fine tooth comb , that you 've done the best you possibly can and know what you are letting yourself in for ! |
| 15 | It is a dancers ' haven , surprisingly unplushy and ‘ laid back ’ but with a special atmosphere , friendly gassy , theatrical and kind . |
| 16 | It is a person 's or animal 's contribution to the effect . |
| 17 | It is not a simple case that we can run along , sell a few houses , get the capital receipts and suddenly we can go off and have a wonderful programme and replace the assets which we have sold and when we 're talking about assets in this case I think there 's one crucial difference between us and you and that is we recognise that that is n't just an asset it is a person 's home a person 's home , that 's so important an a I 'm , just to talk about it as if it is is something else , y'know , just some petrified lump of cattle , petrified lump of stock money that was doing no good whatsoever , is a nonsense and I think most of us would agree that it is a complete and utter nonsense . |
| 18 | It is a psephologist 's handbook , a guide to swings and roundabouts and a heckler 's compendium . |
| 19 | Animals may also be born with some such rules : for example , a herring gull chick is born with the hypothesis that a thin projection with a spot on it is a parent 's beak ( see p. 77 ) . |
| 20 | Although it is a parent 's or guardian 's statutory responsibility to ensure children 's regular attendance at school , schools generally see it as their responsibility to monitor attendance , to seek explanation from parents for pupils ' non-attendance and to ensure that once pupils come to school they attend their classes . |
| 21 | An East African Asian Hindu women told me about a man 's responsibilities ( her husband was carrying them out very successfully , she said ) ‘ I think it is a man 's fault if his wife is backward . |
| 22 | It is a man 's responsibility to educate himself but also to educate his wife and children . ’ |
| 23 | The emotions have been likened to a musical instrument and it is a man 's task to play upon its uttermost strings . |
| 24 | It is a man 's shoe of Western manufacture , recently polished and not cheap . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | They know it is a champion 's car , a masterpiece of mechanics , electronics and space-age technology . |
| 27 | It is a buyers ' market . |
| 28 | Everything about it is a player 's guitar . |
| 29 | It is a woman 's writing , but whose ? |
| 30 | My dearest , I tell myself — what you will certainly say — that it is a landowner 's inalienable right to do what he wishes with his own land I know all this — yet it does not stifle the cries of terrified children and the weeping of their parents . |