Example sentences of "[noun sg] 's [noun sg] [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Library Association 's position is therefore based entirely on the rule of law : whatever is published and has not been banned by law is permissible within a library . |
| 2 | The horse must always be driven forward and down onto the contact and the danger of running reins is that the horse 's head is merely pulled in . |
| 3 | The horse 's temperament is extremely important to us , because as its basis of personality it will interact with our personality and determine how successful our horse-partnership will be . |
| 4 | So the anxious horse 's body is continually prepared for physical danger , and so for flight — which is a rather inappropriate reaction for ordinary everyday care and riding of the horse . |
| 5 | first , the definition of infanticide is limited to the killing of the child most recently born , which means that when a mother in a disturbed state kills both her last-born child and another slightly older child , the one killing is infanticide and the other may be murder , whereas the defendant 's culpability is surely the same in both cases . |
| 6 | In my view , the Revenue 's contention is much less tenable with regard to the payment of dividends by a group 's existing subsidiaries , even though the Revenue argues that an abnormal dividend is itself a ‘ transaction in securities ’ , applying the dicta in Greenberg v CIR ( 1971 ) 47 TC 240 . |
| 7 | The result is that the club 's fleet is soon to be in the order of 30 canoes . |
| 8 | Planning department 's role is then to ensure that plans are prepared , to help the chief executive to review the proposed plans , and to consolidate and present a total corporate-wide plan . |
| 9 | It will be wrong however , to conclude that the department 's role is entirely directed inwards towards N C V O effectiveness , vital though that is . |
| 10 | Her Majesty 's Government is also involved , for it is planning to set up the BritTrak Consortium which would reduce the rail network to a single , high profit track , ‘ running from the City to a decent little pub in Chobham ’ . |
| 11 | If recognition by Her Majesty 's Government is no longer the criterion of the locus standi of a foreign ‘ government ’ in the English courts and the possession of a legal persona in English law , what criteria is the court to apply ? |
| 12 | I have before me an official communication in which the advice of Your Majesty 's Government is formally tendered , to the effect that in view of the grave danger to which , in their opinion , this country is being exposed , your association with Mrs Simpson should be terminated forthwith . |
| 13 | To a certain extent the lead adviser 's role is simply an extended and more detailed deal management role . |
| 14 | The Opposition 's position is even more incredible than she sets out . |
| 15 | Yet the opposition 's message is exactly the reverse . ’ |
| 16 | He believes that the radical opposition 's shrillness is merely an effort ‘ to ring bells to attract attention . ’ |
| 17 | An estate agent 's dream is sometimes a purchaser 's nightmare . |
| 18 | Now it wants my red spoon but the Monster 's passion is as boundless as it is evil . |
| 19 | The casual unauthorised assumption of the word Royal into the College 's title is generally thought to have occurred in about 1828 . |
| 20 | He stamped his authority on the college to such an extent that this period in the College 's history is now labelled ‘ the Darwin era ’ . |
| 21 | Stripped of these elements , the gameplay 's shallowness is all too apparent . |
| 22 | The critic 's standing is thereby reduced , and the description or evaluation of the prize works is less than likely to be uninfluenced by their new position . |
| 23 | So without any authorial guarantee concerning meaning , the critic 's job is no longer to retrieve the meaning of a text , but rather , in the full knowledge that the meanings of the text are plural , to produce an interpretation which realizes just one of the possibilities contained in the text . |
| 24 | Labour 's majority is still precarious in a sprawling constituency with more than 80,000 voters , some 30,000 of whom live in Middlesbrough including Ashok Kumar and Michael Bates . |
| 25 | Labour 's system is far too complex . |
| 26 | The third argument for Labour 's cautiousness is only slightly more convincing . |
| 27 | But Labour 's prospectus is simply not designed to haul us out of any recession . |
| 28 | This means accepting that the Westminster majority — the Tories — will set the agenda for the next four to five years ; and that Labour 's role is simply to legitimise the Tory programme by playing our part as Her Majesty 's official and loyal opposition . |
| 29 | But for ordinary voters , their President 's character is easily as important as his programme . |
| 30 | The third is that a president 's decision is widely publicized . |