Example sentences of "be [prep] [art] [noun sg] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aunt Lilian and Aunt Kit walked into the nearest shop whenever their clothes became too shabby and bought the first thing that fitted them ; if they debated , it would only be about a garment 's staying power . |
| 2 | The Executive 's Lesbian and Gay Working Party made a number of points , primary of which was that a candidate 's family — if indeed they had one — was irrelevant to an election campaign which ought to be about the candidate 's political platform . |
| 3 | The comment happens to be about the writer 's home station , but much of it might equally apply to numerous others . |
| 4 | It may not be for a person 's death or betrayal that we are grieving . |
| 5 | It would then be for the wife 's solicitors to draft the relevant conveyance/ transfer and declaration of trust ( as appropriate ) and submit these to the husband 's solicitors . |
| 6 | Neither father nor mother can deprive themselves of their rights , except in the case of a separation agreement between husband and wife ; and even such an agreement will not be enforced by the court if the court considers it not to be for the child 's benefit . |
| 7 | Today , America 's Thanksgiving Day , it is certainly the place to be for the world 's best technical and all-round skiers . |
| 8 | These conditions may not only be for the vendor 's own benefit , but for his ’ successors in title ’ . |
| 9 | LADY DAVERS:Where can the difference be between a beggar 's son married to a lady or a beggar 's daughter made a gentleman 's wife ? |
| 10 | What proof can there be of a man 's feelings ? |
| 11 | Sebastian 's ‘ holiday ’ had been meant to be of a fortnight 's duration only . |
| 12 | While it is true that the longer the period of time over which the child 's language is sampled , the more representative that sample will be of the child 's underlying linguistic knowledge , in practical terms the length of any recording will be constrained by the time available for transcription and coding . |
| 13 | It is not the intention in this paper to examine critically the rhetoric and ideology which may be behind the government 's inclusion of these principles within its legislation . |
| 14 | She paused again , struggling for words to convey the innocence and intimacy of that friendship , words that had to be like a spider 's web , strong yet delicate , if she was to communicate to Mark 's coarse masculine intelligence some inkling of what that friendship had meant to her and Hilda . |
| 15 | The issue of shares to residents or non-residents ( overseas investors ) might be against the government 's policy on the ownership of national natural resources . |
| 16 | An arbitrary and unwarranted termination of their engagement would be against the organization 's own interests . |
| 17 | At the end of Owen 's testimony , Senator Inouye said he had received the impression that to be against the President 's policy in Central America was to be ‘ less than patriotic ’ . |
| 18 | Old Shallot , who would be under a woman 's skirts , given half a chance , sat tongue-tied before this chit of a young girl . |
| 19 | We have established that for pitch differences to be linguistically significant , it is a necessary condition that they should be under the speaker 's control . |
| 20 | The precedent suggests a reference to persons under the Tenant 's control in order to exclude mere callers , but where the clause refers to servants of the tenant ( which some precedents do despite the archaic nature of the expression ) it may be as well to qualify this with the words in the course of employment in case it is claimed that a servant will , by the nature of the expression , always be under the tenant 's control . |
| 21 | The historic route may be under the accountant 's scrutiny shortly : the recession in the building industry has led to a falling demand for cement and traffic is down to two or three trains per week . |
| 22 | Sometimes , this may be delegated to the conveyancer acting , but this delegation must clearly be with the client 's authority . |
| 23 | Your learned friend very fairly set the sort of orders one would expect in the case of this sort , erm , can I only add one thing which erm there is still a , failing erm his right there should have been an adjournment this morning that the question of a structured settlement could be investigated , all these people who have indeed , it must be from the plaintiff 's point of view as well , desirable that those investigations be erm carried out , with the greatest , greatest speed possible , obviously it takes time to er instruct the and so on and erm , it seemed er to me that it would be appropriate to include some of the I happen to discuss with my friend , erm providing for the matter to be brought back not later than a certain time |
| 24 | It was proposed to build a railway ‘ Halt ’ specifically for the Depot along the South Gate railway bridge , allowing workers from outlying districts to be within a minute 's walk of the Depot Gate . |
| 25 | But I 've specified that the address must be within a half-hour 's cycle ride from college and must not cost more than £x per week inclusive of heating and lighting . |
| 26 | It is constantly compared with the ancient rock paintings in the Lascaux caves , which happen to be within the breed 's native region . |
| 27 | Death duties , National Defence Contribution , perhaps other taxes or duties , would all be within the Revenue 's mind in deliberately choosing the wide word " taxation " , in order to make sure that their concession on transfers for other purposes should not be used to deprive the Revenue of other taxes than Income Tax or Sur-tax . |
| 28 | Professor Williams defends the man 's right to utter such threats and considers that he should not be within the section 's scope : |
| 29 | The loop will now be round the person 's body and all you have to do is to pull it down and ask the volunteer to step out of it . |
| 30 | However , environments are usually so variable that even if the conditions are good where the animal is now , they probably will not be in a month 's time ; it may then be better to be a hundred miles south . |