Example sentences of "[indef pn] is [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I know that if someone is sent up to Leeds to interview them , the band will meet them off the train at the right time . |
| 2 | A rumour circulates and someone is shuffled off to some distant department . |
| 3 | Right , any time you read a story , whether it be religious or science fiction , or whatever , in which somebody is taken out of one body and put into another body erm and the story goes , and then was turned into a pig , or whatever , erm , presumably that author has it in mind that you can still identify , that same guy , first in one body and then in the body of a pig . |
| 4 | For there will never be any new thing other than that which has been before , but everything is repeated down to the minutest detail . |
| 5 | Thus if light can not escape , neither can anything else ; everything is dragged back by the gravitational field . |
| 6 | ‘ It is helpful to imagine that everything is made up of very small particles called atoms ’ comes , not from some yellowing dog-eared textbook but from the new National Curriculum . |
| 7 | Sequences of actions are shown in numbered steps , and everything is split down into the smallest possible steps . |
| 8 | Everything is held in like this with St John . |
| 9 | Everything is lined up underneath the tab stop . |
| 10 | Its slave units can answer back ; they allow a shop of office manager to check at one look that everything is switched on before leaving at night . |
| 11 | Not everything is set down in the rules , but it is the practice to provide those papers . |
| 12 | Everything is spelt out to them , it is like getting it on a silver platter , so they can go off into another world for half and hour and get lost in this pretend world , ’ said Kylie . |
| 13 | The pilot 's bum is little more than a foot off the ground and one is towered over by a Cessna 172 ! |
| 14 | I will race out to buy the video , because I think it may be more digestible chopped into bite-size pieces and perused in terminally sleazy surroundings when one is tanked up on Sol and takeaway Chinese . |
| 15 | One is built up around a double crochet ring , giving six two-chain loops and into these loops are worked about six or seven trebles each . |
| 16 | One is bound up with the fact that we do indeed suppose that there is some set of types of circumstances , each type related in the same way to startings-to-work of the wipers . |
| 17 | Not , he wrote ( and Goldberg went on typing ) , that here in London one is cut off from such supplies in the normal course of events , but that work can not begin until one knows one will not have to bother with such things , for a while at least . |
| 18 | One is summed up by Boyce 's statement ‘ I have a problem with my success ’ . |
| 19 | Or else , because one is lifted up in the air , to be unsettled and therefore restless , anxious , tense and doubtful . |
| 20 | From being despised , feeling inferior , wanting to be invisible , one is lifted up in full view on a cross of one 's own devising . |
| 21 | Marin was put onto immediate lockdown — which is where no one is allowed out of his cell and all privileges are removed . |
| 22 | Yet for the first half at least , one is carried along by McBride 's sheer charm and inventiveness , qualities shared by fellow Live regular Dave Whitaker and Su Elliott , who perform more than 20 characters between them . |
| 23 | Each pea has two factors controlling height , but only one is passed on to its offspring . |
| 24 | ( c ) The charge If the conveyance or transfer does not fall within the provisions of s83 , one is thrown back on the previous stamp duty position : ( i ) conveyance or transfer on sale This incurs a charge to ad valorem stamp duty at 1 per cent unless the conveyance can be certified at £60,000 or less ( see below ) ( Finance Act 1984 , s109 and Finance Act 1993 ) ; or ( ii ) conveyance or transfer " of any other kind " In such a case fixed stamp duty of 50p is payable unless the instrument can be certified as being one within The Stamp Duty ( Exempt Instruments ) Regulations 1987 ( SI No 516 ) . |
| 25 | There are no sanctions against marrying those that one is brought up with ( as such ) ; the sanction is against marriages which would constitute close in-breeding . |
| 26 | One is brought back to the fundamental conclusion that throughout the Primary years it is the children 's activity that is the key to full development . |
| 27 | Mr Beveridge told my colleague Bryan Rostron : ‘ I think from time to time one is brought in for overseas work in parts of the world where the old English system of justice still applies . |
| 28 | WELL , not everyone is turned on by talking dirty . |
| 29 | Paul is a good guy , but everyone is brought up as a liberal and everybody therefore thinks that we do n't have to do anything active about it . |
| 30 | With older children it could be that each child makes his/her own list on a piece of paper ; with younger children maybe we do it as a class , and the teacher writes everything on the blackboard ; or perhaps nothing is written down by individuals , with each giving what they will need to the teacher who 's a " quartermaster " . |