Example sentences of "[indef pn] [is] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm that in fact one of the odd points here is that when a person is convicted , that information is public , but nevertheless as the years go by and indeed er this has been recognized in for instance the rehabilitation of offenders act , it becomes private information and if someone 's looking for a job the fact that he was convicted of an offence many years ago should not be er er relevant . |
| 2 | But if someone 's looking for an unusual night spot On Grace there was , after all , not so very much to be done . |
| 3 | Frozen with shock , momentarily , he recovered his scattered wits and shouted , ‘ Sam , stop ; someone 's jumped off the bridge . ’ |
| 4 | Someone 's talking to the other girls . |
| 5 | ‘ I feel like an old Marie biscuit that someone 's left under the sofa . ’ |
| 6 | Senior registrar appointment committees assume that accreditation is necessary before someone is appointed to a consultant post and that accreditation will be granted only after four years of higher training ( eight years for a doctor training half time under the PM(79)3 scheme ) . |
| 7 | Indeed , a full point score is likely to be awarded if someone is floored by a strong mid-section attack . |
| 8 | It is suggested that when someone is threatened with a weapon during a crime the victim may focus his or her attention on the weapon to a degree which may subsequently hinder identification of the assailant . |
| 9 | Why do we say that someone is grinning like a Cheshire Cat ? |
| 10 | If one of these machines is defective and someone is injured as a result , then the importer/distributor will be liable under the Act , apart from any remedies available against him under contract . |
| 11 | If someone is registered as an independent financial adviser , it is his or her duty to give independent advice and that adviser is regulated by the appropriate body to do that . |
| 12 | They take a trip in a ‘ means of communication ’ to the limits of language at the ultra-violet end of the verbal spectrum , and Someone is fuelled by the ‘ internal combustion ’ of words ( 22/218,51/247 ) . |
| 13 | If someone is sitting on the radiator it is because his trousers are wet from the rain , if someone is drifting across the classroom he is going to get some paper for written work , or if someone is leaving class he is going to empty the rubbish ‘ like he usually does ’ . |
| 14 | 1 You work in an estate agency and someone is looking for a property for £30,000 . |
| 15 | And if we can learn more about their sensitivity to ultrasonic sounds , we may finally grasp how they can ‘ know ’ that someone is approaching from a great distance . |
| 16 | I still believe that that someone is to come by the name of David and setting up of God 's kingdom but but |
| 17 | If someone is knocking on the door demanding some rent or the mortgage they are more likely to get paid than the borough council . ’ |
| 18 | Motives , at their simplest , are the underlying reasons why someone is behaving in a particular way . |
| 19 | On letters written on typewriters made from old toothbrushes and elastic bands , prisoners facing death tell their correspondents of daily life in the jail , of the regulations , of the procedure before an execution is carried out , of how their cell light shudder under the strain when someone is electrocuted in the chair . |
| 20 | But if someone is accused of a crime and then it is proved that the accuser is lying , the accuser is immediately killed . |
| 21 | It is his responsibility to decide whether the glider should be manned at the nose or tail , and whether someone is needed in the cockpit . |
| 22 | If someone is sitting on the radiator it is because his trousers are wet from the rain , if someone is drifting across the classroom he is going to get some paper for written work , or if someone is leaving class he is going to empty the rubbish ‘ like he usually does ’ . |
| 23 | It is always sad when someone is driven into a corner and becomes desperate . |
| 24 | All right let's see if we can get you a bugler nobody 's ringing at the moment but you want a bugler for a week on Sunday the fourteenth to blow reveille and the Last Post at eleven o'clock and twelve o'clock a week on Sunday at Calverton in Nottinghamshire . |
| 25 | And , although they do n't realise it , nobody is listening except the barman whose only interest is in closing up . |
| 26 | But nobody is paying for the increasingly large amount of work we do for the childbearing and professional public at large . |
| 27 | One is somebody 's walking through the door to pick up information |
| 28 | The only people they do n't want to upset are the people at the garage the fact that somebody is n't doing their job properly somebody 's sitting on a form somewhere |
| 29 | Erm I mean just going very , very briefly back to the question that you asked erm about this how would you stop what 's happen happening is by having , we would have thought a pensioner trustee , because even the question has been asked how did it get through the union trustees , and the answer that most of them are employed and they are looking over their shoulder because jobs are going , redundancies are being made , you 've got a pensioner employee er a pensioner trustee on there , and they 're not looking over their shoulder for their job , they are going to do the job of a trustee and watch the fund and they would then be able to go to the regulator if they saw something that was amiss , but if somebody is employed by the firm might be very worried about doing because they 're more bothered about keeping their job . |
| 30 | The principle is that the , the decision to discharge somebody is based on a clinical decision presses the button to start the process and but I mean that 's , that 's how it works . |