Example sentences of "[indef pn] [is] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Someone 's triggered the alarm . |
| 2 | ‘ Sounds like someone 's playing the flute down there at night . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It 's very , it 's deceptive if you 're not working out what you 're doing and relating it back to the graph , and relating it back to physics , to an experiment you 're doing , someone 's checking the clock every second to see how much further it 's gone . |
| 5 | someone 's letting the rope down |
| 6 | Formulated in words suggested by this quotation , the question I want to find an answer to is : are there logical conditions of someone 's having the experience of seeing something as , say , blue ? |
| 7 | And someone 's switched the reels . |
| 8 | Be seen to is found quite often for instance in the sort of context alluded to by Bolinger in which one gets the impression that someone is establishing the facts : ( 67 ) Nobody had been seen to enter the house or leave it . |
| 9 | If someone is doubting the resurrection , it is irrelevant to assure him of Christ 's promise never to leave him — Christ never was with him if he has not risen . |
| 10 | This time of the year is the open season for demonstrations but we 're beginning to wonder if someone is co-ordinating the restlessness we 've got at the moment . |
| 11 | Everyone in the community believes that someone is shielding the two youths . |
| 12 | Outside I can hear a sound which is also achingly familiar to me : someone is trimming the grass outside with shears . |
| 13 | Someone is closing the double doors of the shrine , fastening the chain latch , and firelight flickers out dimly between the slats . |
| 14 | Nobody 's noticed the heater switches ! |
| 15 | ‘ Nobody 's said the team 's got to be official , like . |
| 16 | Well nobody 's buying the rounds . |
| 17 | Nobody 's telling the f—ing truth . |
| 18 | Does not the Minister realise that nobody is asking the Government to second-guess ? |
| 19 | , somebody 's holding the door shut , , would n't push open knock the end of the nose as usual , very startled dog . |
| 20 | So my suggestion and this is only a suggestion , the beards which in the past have been interpreted as a kind of erm epigrammatic signal , in other words a kind of erm sign on the face of the male as they 're deceived , my guess is that , th that beards may actually have evolved to protect the throat because erm the critical thing in , in killing somebody is to block the , the windpipe and that 's and in fact even , even lions do this , you saw in the film when a lion kills an antelope or something , he does n't go to all the trouble of making horrible gashes , he grabs the , the windpipe and holds on until the antelope or whatever it is is just er |
| 21 | Now you 'll be doing this before Christmas , and what it is is there , there are lots of different categories we can use but the standard one is dividing the population into six distinct categories . |
| 22 | Leaving aside the difficulty of not making a provision at the same time as one is undertaking the assessment , this approach has produced two serious difficulties . |
| 23 | One is to disconnect the CMOS-backing or other built-in batteries for about five minutes in order to check that it is not a previously cleared fault which is being ‘ remembered ’ . |
| 24 | It 's nice to think that one is eating the same grapes as Anne Boleyn and Nell Gwyn . ’ |
| 25 | In encouraging social workers to take this approach to understanding and assessing a vulnerable elderly person , one is recognising the significance of functional capacity and coping ability . |
| 26 | In being empathetic one is recognising the other person 's feelings , and one 's own answering response , but not being swamped by either . |
| 27 | For what object of thought is one referring to when one is asserting the existence of men ? |
| 28 | One is to repeat the perhaps obvious point concerning the relationships between these spheres of social life . |
| 29 | The new one is to name the scorers of the 11 tries by the All Blacks at Wellington on June 6 , 1992 ; Arran Pene , Frank Bunce and Matt Cooper scored two each and the others were Eroni Clarke , Ian Jones , John Timu , John Kirwan and Ant Strachan . |
| 30 | As is the case with most tournaments of this kind , there has to be a peg to hang it on , and this one is to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Jawaharlal Nehru . |