Example sentences of "be [prep] the [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The comment happens to be about the writer 's home station , but much of it might equally apply to numerous others . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The other has to be for the BBC 's Pro-Celebrity Golf at Turnberry about five years ago . |
| 6 | Today , America 's Thanksgiving Day , it is certainly the place to be for the world 's best technical and all-round skiers . |
| 7 | These conditions may not only be for the vendor 's own benefit , but for his ’ successors in title ’ . |
| 8 | Some will be to provoke interest and curiosity , others will be to reinforce learning , still others will be for extension work and most importantly some areas will be for the pupils ' own work which will serve as a major focus of attention . |
| 9 | ‘ The Family in happier times , ’ Cowley observed , picking up a wedding photograph which he knew to be of the Hatches ' daughter and Jack Stone . |
| 10 | The method of reporting findings will be of the students ' own choice . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | An arbitrary and unwarranted termination of their engagement would be against the organization 's own interests . |
| 15 | He then went on to consider whether the further proceedings would be against the children 's interests under four heads : ( 1 ) the disturbing effects on the children of further investigation ; ( 2 ) the fact that , under section 91(1) , if in respect of any child a residence order were made in favour of the foster mother , the existing care order to the local authority would be discharged ; ( 3 ) the shared parental responsibility between the foster mother and the mother which would result from section 12(2) conferring parental responsibility upon the foster mother if a residence order were to be made in her favour ; ( 4 ) the time that would be likely to elapse before any substantive order could be made . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Erm I support I V F treatment and I sympathize with the people that ca n't have children erm but my concern would be with the childrens ' right . |
| 21 | Incompatible therefore though a Co-operative sector would be with the Webbs ' version of the fully Socialist economy , the incompatibility has not so far become obtrusive in the United Kingdom because Labour Governments , which incidentally have had the support of the Co-operative Party as the political arm of the Co-operative Consumer Movement , have carried western Socialist Empiricism to the point of settling for the mixed economy ; and any central planning has been indicative — and , some would say , ineffectual — rather than mandatory . |
| 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 is constantly compared with the ancient rock paintings in the Lascaux caves , which happen to be within the breed 's native region . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Professor Williams defends the man 's right to utter such threats and considers that he should not be within the section 's scope : |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Because we felt that the application for mining , the timing would be picked by the companies , there would be immense pressure on the people to change their position because at that stage it would be out in the open that there was money there and that it would be in the government 's hands and we felt we would lose that so what we had to do was get it stopped before it got to that stage ’ . |
| 29 | Limitation of family size will not happen unless it can be done without trespassing on conscience and unless practicable means are available ; and unless it is perceived to be in the families ' interests to do so ( Coale 1973 ) . |
| 30 | This would be in the artist 's name , with the manager as the sole signatory . |