Example sentences of "[indef pn] is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If someone is determined to prevent an agreement or can not agree then there wo n't be one . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ In any case , if someone is determined to go in the sea , for whatever reason , they can just hop over the wall , which is only two or three feet high . |
| 3 | The justification is that while someone is receiving acute care they have the prospect of returning to an independent life in the community , with consequent retention of personal housing . |
| 4 | The entire fabric and balance of power within the group may be shattered if someone is transferred or promoted . |
| 5 | Another example of this is when someone is asked to identify a body if , for example , there has been an accident in a public place . |
| 6 | When someone is asked a question , it is likely that before answering he will direct his gaze away from the questioner 's eyes ( Argyle and Cook , 1976 ) particularly if the question requires some thought . |
| 7 | If someone is asked a question and replies yes or no it will be understood that the question is now answered and that there is nothing more to be said . |
| 8 | The promoters tell us that it 's not like a book in which someone is telling you something . |
| 9 | For example , if you 're an ardent feminist and someone is telling sexist jokes , you wo n't find them funny . |
| 10 | Office : a relatively permanent position within the social structure to which someone is appointed or qualified , for example , electrician , nurse , pilot |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | Indeed , a full point score is likely to be awarded if someone is floored by a strong mid-section attack . |
| 13 | I suspect , ’ continued Dotty , unaware of Ella 's heightened blood pressure , ‘ that someone is stealing my eggs . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | That 's to say someone is leaving and we are going to take that post out and put it into the food section , and on b , I would say to Matthew that before committing us to a budget of two and a half thousand against a background of ten percent cuts , I would suggest that the health educational help-line and their day-long courses for E H Os might be made good use of in the forth-coming year . |
| 17 | If someone is given too much change in a supermarket , for instance , they might keep the money claiming that they need it much more than the supermarket does and , anyway , nobody would find out . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | If someone is doubting the resurrection , it is irrelevant to assure him of Christ 's promise never to leave him — Christ never was with him if he has not risen . |
| 20 | Thus autonomy is lost or renounced either if someone is coerced into thinking/acting against their will , or if a person is treated perhaps willingly — as a means to the satisfaction of someone else 's desires or ends . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Enter by the porter 's lodge ; if no one is there go to the door in the first courtyard on the left and someone is bound to come to your aid . |
| 23 | Someone is bound to come this way eventually . ’ |
| 24 | Someone is bound to make you aware that happiness is as free an option as sorrow . |
| 25 | So long as you know how far it is to the line , and so long as someone is calling out the time to the start , you just need to judge your speed correctly . |
| 26 | So if someone is mugged , raped , or injured , it is because he or she believed it would happen . |
| 27 | Why do we say that someone is grinning like a Cheshire Cat ? |
| 28 | There are both psychological and medical signs when someone is nearing death . |
| 29 | If we know that someone is injured , I as the doctor will go out too . |
| 30 | Over the past few days , police officers have asked me why a community has to wait until someone is injured or killed before an offender is sent to prison for a lengthy period . |