Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [vb pp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The entire fabric and balance of power within the group may be shattered if someone is transferred or promoted . |
| 2 | Office : a relatively permanent position within the social structure to which someone is appointed or qualified , for example , electrician , nurse , pilot |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It is reasonable and sensible that , if the police are trying to implement a rational policy whereby , first , someone is cautioned and then prosecuted , that information should be available . |
| 5 | When your skin becomes damaged by sunburn it loses heat and moisture more easily and when it is extensive then sunstroke follows when someone is dehydrated and lacking salt . |
| 6 | It 's only a matter of time before someone is killed or badly injured . ’ |
| 7 | In other words , they actually arrange a medical assessment before someone is admitted and they then try to continue the kind of care that that has initiated . |
| 8 | Whenever I turn to try and get out of the cage , someone is offended or upset , says I 'm defying them or humiliating them . |
| 9 | ‘ I think 'e 's owed that , ’ said Sprott , ‘ I think 'e 's owed a generous tribute . ’ |
| 10 | It is news management by ministers which is suspected and it is very difficult to prove . ’ |
| 11 | Upper : the upper part of the boot which encases the foot and which is sewn or glued to the sole unit . |
| 12 | The point Herrnstein 's ‘ anti-hereditarians ’ are trying to make deals , not with the obvious genetic roots of an individual 's intelligence , but , first , the exact meaning of this thing we call ‘ intelligence ’ and , secondly , the impossibility of separating and then quantifying the amount of intelligence which is inherited and the amount which is subject to change . |
| 13 | One is that regulation seeks to control economic life , yet it is this which is recognized as responsible for the material well-being of the community . |
| 14 | In relation to the exercise of a profession such as medicine , the fact that a person has acted in accordance with practice which is recognized as proper by a responsible body of persons skilled in that profession means that there has been no negligence . |
| 15 | The morpheme which is glossed as " father " may have extended meanings when it is used in other contexts , but its real meaning is " father " in its ordinary English sense of " male parent " . |
| 16 | Curriculum is learning which is planned and provided for a purpose . |
| 17 | For example , Kerr ( 1968 , p. 16 ) defines the school curriculum as ‘ all the learning which is planned and guided by the school , whether it is carried on in groups or individually , inside or outside the school ’ . |
| 18 | What is easier to handle is information — and management information which is planned and delivered in predetermined packages should be particularly straightforward . |
| 19 | In N 2 , is raised in energy and becomes less bonding through mixing with of the same symmetry , which is filled and lies below it : is lowered in energy and becomes less anti-bonding by mixing with the empty which lies above it [ see Fig. 6.16(b) ] . |
| 20 | Reports in the press or on radio or television must not reveal the name or address of the child , his school or any other information which is intended or likely to identify him ( s97(2) ) . |
| 21 | A principle is enunciated which is intended and designed to regulate a certain real situation X. Another principle regulates another real situation , Y. When a novel situation Z arises for which no principle has apparently been specifically designed , the law is determined by examining the extent to which Z is closer to X or to Y. If it is more analogous to X , then the legal principle regulating X will ordinarily be invoked . |
| 22 | I am prepared to answer at once : ‘ Why Christ , of course , and our love for him which is fed and watered by the prayers of his people in his Church . ’ |
| 23 | Support refers to anything which is said or done to help the offender solve or mitigate their personal or social problems : surveillance to anything which is said or done to induce the offender to conform to socially acceptable standards of behaviour . |
| 24 | Support refers to anything which is said or done to help the offender solve or mitigate their personal or social problems : surveillance to anything which is said or done to induce the offender to conform to socially acceptable standards of behaviour . |
| 25 | But as Erskine May points out , it does not follow that everything which is said and done within the confines of the chamber during a debate or other business forms part of a proceeding in Parliament . |
| 26 | So we find , for example , that men are like grass renewed in the morning but withered by the time of evening ( I 's 90.5 ) ; their days are like grass which is gone when the wind ( as here ) passes over it ( 103.15–16 ) ; the " son of man who is made like grass " is parallel to " man who dies " ( Isa 51.12 ) . |
| 27 | something which is regulated and i is part of a major organization , a bank , or an insurance company , you 're pretty well okay . |
| 28 | Our results indicate that information which is neglected and unavailable to higher levels of visual processing can nevertheless be processed by earlier stages in the visual system concerned with segmentation . |
| 29 | But it is the theory of democracy as the right of the majority to rule which is seen as central , rather than democracy as the preservation of minority rights . |
| 30 | But in most EC capitals yesterday there was barely disguised embarrassment at the timing of the American military action , which is seen as diverting attention from the repression by the Ceaucescu regime in Romania . |