Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adv] [is] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must often seem a ‘ second best ’ situation , to be resisted as long as possible , although for some vulnerable people it comes as a relief and a right , after years of effort , to feel someone else is in charge . |
| 2 | This is clear in the case of the thought that someone else is in pain . |
| 3 | As Ludwig Wittgenstein puts it : ‘ In order to doubt whether someone else is in pain he needs , not pain , but the concept ‘ pain' . |
| 4 | Similarly , if someone were asked , ‘ But what do you mean by ‘ Someone else is in pain ’ ? ’ he might say , ‘ I mean just the same by ‘ pain ’ when I say someone else is in pain as I mean when I say ‘ I 'm in pain ’ . ’ |
| 5 | Similarly , if someone were asked , ‘ But what do you mean by ‘ Someone else is in pain ’ ? ’ he might say , ‘ I mean just the same by ‘ pain ’ when I say someone else is in pain as I mean when I say ‘ I 'm in pain ’ . ’ |
| 6 | It is useful to recall Wittgenstein in this connection : ‘ It is a help here to remember that it is a primitive reaction to tend , to treat , the part that hurts when someone else is in pain ; and not merely when oneself is ’ ( Z 540 ) . |
| 7 | Now that his policies , the economy and everything around is in disarray , and with the right hon. Lady making a comeback , who will be the first to put him out of his misery in Downing street — the people at the election or his right hon. Friend ? |
| 8 | But so wide are the left 's woes — in the past few years , they have affected socialist parties from Britain at one end of Europe to Greece at the other — that it is worth considering the possibility that something else is at work , too : the body of ideas that socialists used to represent has lost so much electoral support that socialist parties , at least in their old guise , are doomed . |
| 9 | Their problems suggest something else is at work . |
| 10 | Er , certainly I 'm sure Rachel shares her information , even if it 's only to say , you ca n't watch that because something else is on Channel Four at the same time . |
| 11 | But if you do find him , for God 's sake only mention my name when no one else is within earshot . |
| 12 | Everything else is without importance from the Creator 's point of view , and is only a play of permutations and combinations within a general program which is not a prophetic anticipation of the future but merely sets the limits of possibilities within which all power of decision has been left to chance . |
| 13 | Everything else is in order , just as it is . |
| 14 | I 'm off for cos I have got no work experience cos and she could n't get me work experience in June and now everybody else is in work experience I get the week off . |
| 15 | Nothing else is like nursing — it 's a job on its own . |
| 16 | One of the finest books I ever had to review was Janet and Allan Ahlbergs Funnybones , a brilliant tale of what a skeleton family gets up to at night when everyone else is in bed . |
| 17 | She does n't realize that everyone else is in bed asleep . |
| 18 | The only way we can do anything now is with help from somebody else . |