Example sentences of "[that] someone be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of them was the fact that housing associations ask for the keys is or ask for notification up to a month in advance of the fact that someone 's going to leave and that is not something which in terms of our stock , we find practical to do . |
| 2 | ‘ He wanted to tell me that someone 's died . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I feel like an old Marie biscuit that someone 's left under the sofa . ’ |
| 4 | Why do we say that someone is grinning like a Cheshire Cat ? |
| 5 | If we know that someone is injured , I as the doctor will go out too . |
| 6 | I suspect , ’ continued Dotty , unaware of Ella 's heightened blood pressure , ‘ that someone is stealing my eggs . |
| 7 | it often happens that someone is sent here who is unsuitable . |
| 8 | ‘ It helps to know that someone is looking after it , that someone cares . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ You may not know who , but you do know that someone is creating — unauthorized , shall we say — zombis , do n't you ? ’ |
| 11 | When you suspect that someone is flattering you in order to manipulate , or responding in an artificial manner , ask for specific detail . |
| 12 | If you think that someone is trying to kill you , then you can die … because you are so afraid . ’ |
| 13 | Also the decision to employ or not to employ is based ont he particular case : it is extremely rare that someone is given a job just because they went to a particular university . |
| 14 | These could all be due to a number of different factors but they may be signs that someone is drinking too much . |
| 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 | Everyone in the community believes that someone is shielding the two youths . |
| 17 | While working in public relations in America is highly respectable , in Britain somehow the idea that someone is paid to plead a special case or to be employed to persuade the public is thought " wrong " . |
| 18 | Once you have noticed that someone is feeling strongly about something find a way to acknowledge this as chairman . |
| 19 | ‘ You can not live your life in fear that someone is going to attack you . |
| 20 | Too often , friends and colleagues react to the information that someone is suffering from depression either by agreeing that they often feel a bit down themselves but manage to cope , or else by treating the person as if he or she were suffering from mental disease . |
| 21 | Erm but the idea that someone is putting it all down , all those private conversations , all those tensions , and it 's all being recorded , not to present the historic truth , but to present the truth as the person wants history to read it . |
| 22 | ‘ If he has not , ’ Alexei observed , ‘ then I have no doubt that someone is showing them to him even now . ’ |
| 23 | The ideal tactics should be a mixture of both , but only if a clear message can be communicated to the Hong Kong people that someone is standing up for them somewhere . |
| 24 | How does the market recognise that someone is trading on inside information ? |
| 25 | ‘ Are you telling me that someone is paying you to come here and write about voodoo ? |
| 26 | One does n't want them to sort of follow it blindly , of course , one wants them to discuss it carefully , very carefully , but it has to sort of fit into the ongoing life of the institution and not be a kind of little game that someone is playing on their own somewhere because they happen to be linked with the university or doing a degree or something . |
| 27 | Helen explained that someone was converting the disused Baptist chapel into a house . |
| 28 | Alida Thorne took her tea cup and felt better now that someone was taking charge , running the immediate affairs of the house . |
| 29 | I was talking to friends when I realized that someone was watching me . |
| 30 | When the light went out , Rain had the suspicion they were not alone on the stairs , that someone was watching them , perhaps they actually passed close to a figure pressed into the shadows . |