Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [indef pn] is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THERE IS a paranoiac frisson , and more than a little insight , to be had from the thought that we humans are not really in control of our own fates , and that someone or something is using us . |
| 2 | Even if we can convince ourselves that nobody is getting hurt , even if we are sure we are not cheating , we have a suspicion that it is inappropriate . ’ |
| 3 | It seems to me that everything is balanced on a knife-edge . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Are you telling me that someone is paying you to come here and write about voodoo ? |
| 5 | ‘ Atkinson is best running at them and nobody is doing it better . ’ |
| 6 | On that day , everyone and anyone is invited to visit the campus to see what we do here . |
| 7 | When one uses some expression , such as ‘ I 'm going to the bank ’ , there are usually not two things , one that one is saying and one that one is thinking . |
| 8 | If you go on meeting this man in this fashion , it 's a hundred to one that somebody is going to find out . |
| 9 | Everything and everyone is drained of value except as means to my own dwindling and at last exclusively pre-human ends , and I myself am equally a means in the eyes of everyone else , as I am forced to recognize whenever an automaton interacting with me reaches for its own pocket computer . |
| 10 | It is interesting to make the obvious observation that , while the first and last named are fanatical behaviourists , believing that everything is subject to unlimited moulding and rearrangement through a process of reward and punishment , the three in the middle are fanatical instinctivists , insisting that virtually everything and anything is inherited , a gift ( or a grief ) of the genes and not subject to the environment . |
| 11 | There will be no pressure on him because everyone is picking Benn to win . ’ |
| 12 | Here again , if any particular type of equipment is absolutely essential in the bathroom , and finance is a problem , the social services department of the local authority may be able to help , and it is worth approaching them before anything is purchased or installed . |
| 13 | Equally , one needs to have walked these roads oneself if one is to locate ‘ the inn low by the river 's edge ’ . |
| 14 | The world does n't owe you anything and nobody is going to tap you on the shoulder and hand you an opportunity . |
| 15 | Environmental Issues is your magazine , and anything and everything is considered for inclusion , so do ring , write , fax or grab me at a conference ( well not literally ! ) with your information . |