Example sentences of "[indef pn] [is] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone 's trying to get into the toilet with dad |
| 2 | In a minute someone 's going to bang on the lid and tell me to come out . |
| 3 | ‘ In any case , if someone is determined to go in the sea , for whatever reason , they can just hop over the wall , which is only two or three feet high . |
| 4 | If someone is going to put off a lot of their own money in order to get into parliament , we can , then we can hardly trust them to look to the general interests once they 're there , they 'll want a return on their investment of some sorts . |
| 5 | My own guess is that there was no significant demand for free condoms ; nobody is going to go to the trouble of collecting free condoms who would not be prepared to buy them for himself . |
| 6 | And that will just lead to planning chaos because obviously somebody 's going to fall between the plans . |
| 7 | Examples of this may be : the agoraphobic person who never goes out because they believe they will collapse and die of a heart attack ; the lift phobic who believes they may become trapped in the lift and suffocate to death ; a person who avoids meeting others because , if a disagreement starts , they believe they will lose their temper and hit people ; and last , a person may obsessively check the locks on doors and windows , believing that somebody is bound to break into the house if they fail to make these checks . |
| 8 | But I thought to myself , one day somebody is going to say to the child , ‘ Come and whisper in my ear … . ’ ’ |
| 9 | In a fairly well ordered society , such as ours , one is justified to act on the assumption that , on the whole , our official organs , be they the police or any other governmental body , do their job properly . |
| 10 | It can not be said that the result was entirely logical , and one is tempted to agree with a famous last-century astronomer , Sir John Herschel , that the constellations seem to have been drawn up so as to cause as much inconvenience as possible , but the system has become so well established that it is unlikely to be altered now . |
| 11 | Or that one is to continue to believe in the biblical God despite all experiences to the contrary , that is to say believe that God is bound up with a religion and a community in which women are counted inferior ( in which case one is attempting to believe in an evil God ) ? |
| 12 | Recent years have made teachers familiar with this strategy , and with the costs that are associated with it , especially when one is trying to negotiate with a fairly implacable demander . |
| 13 | These are the practical considerations of the nature and limitations of wood as a material , on the one hand , and the visual effect one is trying to achieve on the other : the two are sometimes difficult to satisfy simultaneously . |
| 14 | Does Schüssler Fiorenza mean that one is inspired by these women , although the religion in which they were involved is sexist ( in which case one is inspired to act against the biblical God ) ? |
| 15 | In these circumstances one is predisposed to seek for a limitation which can fairly be read as implicit in the scheme of the legislation . |
| 16 | Nothing and no one is going to get in the way of that dream . |
| 17 | Much of it is n't recorded in great detail , so one is left to read between the lines about the activities that were involved . |
| 18 | Or that one is to continue to believe in the biblical God despite all experiences to the contrary , that is to say believe that God is bound up with a religion and a community in which women are counted inferior ( in which case one is attempting to believe in an evil God ) ? |
| 19 | I realize I 'm sitting tense , as if something 's going to happen in the next three minutes . |
| 20 | So long as an account 's written down somewhere , no one 's going to fuss about the details . |
| 21 | " No one 's allowed to ride with the driver . |
| 22 | And virtually all contracts of employment where anybody is required to drive during the course of their work should contain that clause from an employers point of view . |
| 23 | Everyone is expected to join in the chorus . |
| 24 | Otaka ensures that nothing is allowed to detract from the overview , yet he allows his orchestra sufficient freedom to shape phrases affectionately without every suffocating them . |
| 25 | But at least she knew her kids were going to grow up : I know nothing 's going to change for the better with her . |