Example sentences of "[be] [indef pn] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I 'd checked the pin positions in the morning I 'd decided that it was going to be someone already under par who would be in a position to win next day as opposed to someone coming through the field , because I just could n't see anybody scoring well . |
| 2 | There has to be something already in existence — a theory , a practice , an artefact — for criticism to have any purchase . |
| 3 | ‘ But the authorities make it quite clear … that before the constable is in a position to choose between a specimen of blood or a specimen of urine on the defendant 's claim that one or other specimens should be substituted for the specimen of breath , the defendant must be made aware not merely that he can have the breath specimen substituted by some other specimen in general terms , but that the alternative specimen can be one either of blood or of urine , although in the last resort , subject to the proviso to subsection ( 4 ) as to medical practitioners , the choice is that of the police officer . |
| 4 | There wo n't be anybody else in bed with her ? ’ |
| 5 | The reason the trade union movement should support the Maastricht Treaty is it 's the only Treaty that is on offer , there 's nothing else on offer but it 's a reasonable Treaty , it has differences in the U K and the reasons it has differences in the U K is the one Mr Major came back last December tell us what a wonderful opportunity it was for Britain , what a wonderful success it was for Britain that he 'd opted out of the Social Chapter . |
| 6 | THERE 'S nothing quite like powder snow . |
| 7 | If there is no-one close to home to talk to , or if you want to talk to an independent person about your worries , you could telephone ChildLine or Barnardo 's . |
| 8 | It might be that there really is nothing else of importance , or it might be that I just do n't want to make the whole of me available . |
| 9 | There is nothing else of interest in here . |
| 10 | A mop and pail are propped against the wall , but there is nothing else of interest or value here . |
| 11 | There is nothing here of interest to the binocular observer . |
| 12 | Yeah to , yeah she 's okay , Janice , but there is somebody specifically in charge of each of the areas within the primary schools , they keep changing because they keep leaving but I mean obviously the there is it is going on . |
| 13 | I mean there is one here of course . |
| 14 | The connection between the Jews and modernity — conceived as economic and cultural modernization — is one long of concern to sociologists , and dates at least back to the work of Werner Sombart . |
| 15 | Oh there 's one right in front of us , look , blind as a bloody bat Gill . |
| 16 | cos there 's one here without bacon you done 'em ? |
| 17 | There 's something here about bed . |
| 18 | There 's something else about use of space as well . |
| 19 | Questions to determine whether he had taken any steps to prevent him driving may be necessary , such as ‘ Where are the ignition keys ? ’ or ‘ Is anybody else in charge of this vehicle ? ’ |
| 20 | I said , ‘ If there is naught else in Paradise for me but this delight which I have in my own nature , no other blessing will I want and not even the houris and sugarcane of Paradise will divert me from it . ' ’ |
| 21 | arrangements are anything else on page er three . |
| 22 | There was no-one else in sight . |
| 23 | ‘ We got to the stage where we thought that there was nothing else in life , ’ shudders Paul . |
| 24 | Rain asked when he discovered there was someone else on board . |
| 25 | Then I went to the carers ' meeting [ at the day centre ] and there was somebody there from CAB and they said ‘ You should have been getting it ages ago ’ . |
| 26 | But Friends of the Earth had n't quite finished yet ; there was something else about golf they did n't like — the cars . |