Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] [conj] [is] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 That period is to all intents and purposes part of the sentence , and he ought to know everything that is said about him before it is fixed .
2 I 've no business to ask , but I do like to know everything that 's going on here , and what with the measles , I 've been so dreadfully out of touch . ’
3 We have , then , two different kinds of language as potential objects for study : one abstracted in order to teach a language or literacy , or to study how the rules of language work , and another which has been used to communicate something and is felt to be coherent ( and may , or may not , happen to correspond to a correct sentence or a series of correct sentences ) .
4 They want something that is going to be reliable .
5 you do n't know anybody that 's getting married do you ?
6 What point in having , I suppose it 's my fault , I should have read these erm , bits added to it more carefully earlier , but it does n't seem to have anything in their about anybody who is actually claiming a carer 's allowance from looking after somebody at the time , and whether we should have a phrase in there that it does n't include anybody that is collecting from the D S S S or anything else for a carer 's allowance anyway , because you do n't want to double pay anybody .
7 Replace anything that is showing signs of wear and always have a strong safety leash joining the rig to the board .
8 Oh I do n't know anything that 's going .
9 Erm Well not that I 've come across yet I 'd rather do something that 's getting the facts and then giving examples .
10 I do n't mean just the forgery , and that 's a hell of a job , trying to fake something that 's aged as badly as these — it 's the numbering .
11 Even Masonic anti-feminism surfaces in The Magic Flute : the Queen of the Night is condemned for over-ambition ; while her daughter 's trials are far greater than Tamino 's — at least he understands why he is obliged to undergo them , while Pamina is told nothing and is expected to bear her tribulations patiently and obediently until redeemed by the love of a good man .
12 In such circumstances the individual can not think entirely of himself , and certainly the therapist can no longer afford the luxury of ignoring everything that is going on outside the consulting room ; finally , in the specific circumstances of psychoanalytic theory , the individualistic fallacy can no longer go unchallenged .
13 Like him , I do not necessarily automatically accept everything that is stated in Scottish newspapers .
14 Have you got one that 's running out ?
15 If you 've got something that 's crying out in comparison about two labourers or two women or whatever .
16 Although this implies fixing something that 's broken , it is more to do with hand finishing a woven carpet .
17 Thus one couple living in a basement were ‘ respectable ’ , ‘ very superior and very particular about cleanliness ’ ; the wife spent most of her day on housework and mending clothes , while the husband ‘ does such things as chopping the wood and mends anything that is broken .
18 But I have a theory that if you have two musicians , both trained and able to play anything that is put before them , but only one of them has the ability to play by ear as well , then he or she will be able to project more life , beauty and expression than the other .
19 In our minds ‘ eating everything that is placed in front of us ’ is associated with ‘ well done , that 's a nice clean plate ’ .
20 So it just records everything that 's going on .
21 I mean , do you think that perhaps is , is more advanced than Plato , because Plato on this incredible myth of his of going on this journey where ordinary people 's view of the form was n't very good so they would come back in an inf perhaps in an inferior form , but I get the feeling that with we have the opportunity of seeing something that is going to improve us anyway , that we 've all got an equal chance of some kind of improvement .
22 She always tells me when she 's wet her pants , and understands everything that 's said to her , so why wo n't she cooperate on this ?
23 Speaking very broadly , such effort is simply the attempt to connect something that is given with something other than itself .
24 I know someone that 's gon na be hiding tomorrow night .
25 Indeed , if superbly well written , it may contain everything that is required .
26 I get everything that 's going and now god 's given them to me .
27 ‘ I 'm getting anything that 's going . ’
28 ‘ We have found something that is going to revolutionise the archaeological interpretations of Peru 's ancient civilisations .
29 Er The sergeant downstairs , if he sees any trouble or he finds something that 's going off or bumps into something , then he can radio back into base again .
30 Faced with those kind of possible reductions in service , if there is a penny one penny more than necessary spent on administration and bureaucracy wherever it is in the youth and community programme that is gon na be less money for front line vision and the Labour group can have to think very , very carefully about that and the issue is gon na be that if we 're spending too much money or if they 're coming back to supplementary estimates which wo n't be available er given the financial situation next year if we 're having two heads of centres or whatever when we could have one that is gon na mean less money for front line services to the people of Highfields and there 'll only be one group that will be responsible for that , if that does come about and I think that 's something that we all need to bear in mind because what we were told as members of that committee is that the youth and community budget is gon na be in for some very serious times in the future and it 's mainly the government 's fault because of the way they 've decided to re-organise the situation it 's going out of our hands into the control of an unelected body and like most members of this council I think we would oppose that but that 's the reality of the situation and I could not support any increase of funds er for any community centres if I knew it was simply gon na be spent on administration .
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