Example sentences of "is [prep] [art] [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever it is about the cuckoo 's gape that acts like a drug on the host 's nervous system , it must have originated as a genetic mutation . |
| 2 | With such constructive criticism , and the possibility of a separate prize for quasi-official organisations dependent on government grants , it is worth every charity 's while to enter next year 's awards . |
| 3 | Doctors and other experts also recognise how important a balanced diet is for a child 's normal development . |
| 4 | One of her designs is for a lady 's version of the Norfolk jacket , which has been worn by Prince Charles on Sandringham shoots . |
| 5 | If the tenant 's reimbursement is for the landlord 's grant of a new right , ie one which was not in the original lease , arguably the landlord makes a standard-rated supply of services , unless the right is an exempt ( or possibly zero-rated ) interest in land . |
| 6 | There are times when these ideas will occur naturally and when it will be appropriate , and this is for the child 's teacher to decide . |
| 7 | But why not kill a child if it is for the child 's good ? |
| 8 | The shareholders enjoy an additional layer of protection with regard to gratuitous payments , in that in order to show that a payment is authorised by the company 's memorandum it will usually be necessary to establish that it is reasonably incidental to the company 's business purposes , in essence , that it is for the company 's benefit , which is an objective question . |
| 9 | The main requirement is for the exchange 's affairs to be conducted in an orderly manner , in order to afford proper protection to its investors . |
| 10 | Note that this is for the user 's purpose only , since LIFESPAN does not make any checks on the connections between the two modules . |
| 11 | Therefore , the great bulk of the money to which that answer refers is for the King 's Cross and channel tunnel rail link projects . |
| 12 | What I want , returning to my analogy , is for the surgeon 's view to be given a place in the scheme of research alongside the epidemiologist 's . |
| 13 | This is for the son 's bedroom ? |
| 14 | The most common situation is for the exporter 's bank to send the bill of exchange to its overseas branch or correspondent bank in the importer 's country . |
| 15 | All that is needed is for the philosopher 's stone of artistic intention to be applied to them . |
| 16 | The left-hand column is for the pharmacist 's notes relating to pricing . |
| 17 | But it is accepted by physicalists of all kinds that the meaning or semantic value of internal states must be analysed in terms of their causal relations to stimulus and response , just as it is for the behaviourist 's dispositions , and is not something they possess in their own right , or of themselves . |
| 18 | Others have emphasized that the relationship of mother 's age at birth of child to its survival through infancy and early childhood is through the mother 's physical health and maturity , particularly in the tendency of these to cause low birth weight , birth defects and congenital malformations . |
| 19 | In general , the only way by which you can become acquainted with the correspondence student is through the student 's attempts at solutions and possibly by questions on specific difficulties . |
| 20 | This would not only reduce its political significance but it would allow for yearly increases ( though broadcasters have been quick to point out that the general rate of inflation is below the industry 's rate and so an increase would still leave a shortfall which can only be made up by savings ) . |
| 21 | That all work here is of a craftsman 's standard ( and not that of an apprentice ) is indisputable . |
| 22 | I stare at his reflection , because I dare not look at him , and for an instant his face disappears , and the image is of a death 's head grinning at me , a white skull : bones with no flesh , black sockets with no eyes . |
| 23 | Much of the shambles is of the Government 's own making , because of their singular inability and unwillingness to enforce the law of the land or to show any real leadership in promoting reform . |
| 24 | The portrait over the marble and jade chimney piece is of the Queen 's mother , the Duchess of Teck , painted by F. O. Salisbury , and the only other picture in the room is a portrait of Mary Queen of Scots by Gerald Kelly . |
| 25 | Both dining room and staff are pleasant ; while-you-wait breakfast is of the curate 's egg sort : cremated bacon , terrific fried bread , sunny eggs , single splendid sausage , bloody awful black pudding . |
| 26 | There are slow tempos , though an overall timing of 55 minutes is not unduly extravagant , but the predominant impression is of the symphony 's dramatic conflicts and of Sinopoli 's remarkable ear for the subtlest details of instrumental colour : Elgar 's scoring has rarely sounded more translucent and fine-spun . |
| 27 | This is despite the exhibition 's substantial sponsorship : The Daily Telegraph , Pearson plc and Reed International have underwritten the £2 million costs . |
| 28 | ‘ Why do women always think another woman is behind a man 's decision to remain free ? ’ |
| 29 | The quiteron works in a similar way , although the energy gaps involved are about a thousand time smaller than for semiconductors — several milli-electronvolts ( take out the word electron to arrive at the corresponding driving voltages ) , This difference is behind the quiteron 's big advantage : it dissipates far less power than the conventional device . |
| 30 | Convention has it that the source of parallel rays of light is behind the observer 's left shoulder at 45° to the x , y and z axes . |