Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [is] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Handy argues that an efficient organisational design for the future is the " shamrock " organisation : one leaf of the shamrock contains the " core " professional staff , those with the crucial knowledge on which the organisation depends , from whom much is expected and to whom much is given . |
| 2 | Handy argues that an efficient organisational design for the future is the " shamrock " organisation : one leaf of the shamrock contains the " core " professional staff , those with the crucial knowledge on which the organisation depends , from whom much is expected and to whom much is given . |
| 3 | If the universe was created with bricks and mortar and free-will , then someone somewhere is bound to drop a free-falling brick on someone else 's toe . |
| 4 | Until September 23rd the Sun passing through you opposite sign of Virgo is almost certain to create disagreements in matrimonial or partnership affairs , and someone somewhere is bound to spotlight your failures or indiscretions . |
| 5 | He said , ‘ George Dionisovich , something 's happening , someone somewhere is putting the brakes on this and , evidently , nothing is going to come of it . |
| 6 | ( Someone somewhere is doing it . ) |
| 7 | Even the fact that someone inside is writing fieldnotes will produce unease , as I have experienced ; and their collation can almost certainly be tantamount to something akin to espionage ; for as Sean Conlin ( 1980 ) observed : ‘ often our work can seem ‘ political ’ rather than scientific ’ . |
| 8 | I can hear a muffled distant television , Jancey is still chatting next door , and someone outside is calling goodnight . |
| 9 | The o the only shopping I like is shopping for music , but even then I ca n't decide and , it 's horrible . |
| 10 | there is an abiding dream in American literature that an unpatterned , unconditioned life is possible … there is also an abiding American dread that someone else is patterning your life , that there are all sorts of invisible plots afoot to rob you of your autonomy of thought and action . |
| 11 | ‘ Someone else is taking a hand in this game . ’ |
| 12 | The imagining of what someone else is writing is the mechanism by which the novel switches from one first-person narrator to another . |
| 13 | If someone else is annoying us either deliberately or unconsciously , then we have to talk to them to explain the effect they are having on us . |
| 14 | If you examine the way people are behaving you may discover that someone else is acting as unofficial leader . |
| 15 | Sometimes there are the most startling surprises when we come to realise how someone else is looking at a situation which , to us , could only be perceived in one way . |
| 16 | ‘ Either John and Angela have escaped , ’ Chris said , ‘ or someone else is using their car and pretending to be them . ’ |
| 17 | If someone else is living in your home , for example someone who has been caring for you , this may also mean the value is not taken into account . |
| 18 | He sits whispering to his neighbours while someone else is speaking in the debate . |
| 19 | You start a new line when someone else is speaking . |
| 20 | You just meaning that someone else is gon na sort them out , so you wo n't need to change the procedure unless you want to cover in that procedure this alternative route . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's a good thing someone else is going to care for it . ’ |
| 22 | There 's a close-up of a guitar when someone 's playing the piano , and a close-up of the back of someone 's head when someone else is f—ing flying over the other side of the stage . |
| 23 | In addition , the existing nurses , who were given undertakings when the trust was set up that their posts would be protected , are now being told that all their jobs are up for re-examination and that anyone seeking extra education will soon be told that someone else is waiting to take her position — |
| 24 | Just when you are alerted to one con trick , it seems someone else is waiting around the corner with another devious way of getting you to part with your money . |
| 25 | Even though this debt is n't repayable if the band are n't successful , it is always an uncomfortable feeling to know someone else is pulling the strings . |
| 26 | Someone else is playing the same game — following him with a series of cars . |
| 27 | Most people use what someone else is saying only as a springboard for what they are going to say . |
| 28 | You might have to allow yourself more than this if you are away from home and someone else is preparing food for you . |
| 29 | A separate toilet is ideal because , if you do have people to stay , it is less of a problem if one wants to go to the toilet while someone else is having a bath . |
| 30 | ‘ Someone else is starring in her bedtime story . ’ |