Example sentences of "[be] [indef pn] [adv] 's [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their speeches to the United Nations World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna delivered a double rebuff to China and other countries which say their circumstances are special and that their peoples ' rights are no-one else 's affair . |
| 2 | Most of the regulations are someone else 's problem : the architect 's or the builder 's ; the latter sometimes being both . |
| 3 | ‘ As for the barns at Winnipeg and the stabling at Calgary , ’ she added righteously , ‘ they are someone else 's responsibility . |
| 4 | Many people furthermore ( much to the irritation of utilitarians , it must be said ) will think it right and proper to give tea and cake to the healthy beggar at their own gate but think little of those starving overseas ; they are someone else 's business , it is argued . |
| 5 | This particular event only happens once every 400 years , and up until now it 's always been someone else 's turn . |
| 6 | If it had happened in a car accident and had been someone else 's fault , perhaps I would 've been bitter . |
| 7 | If it had been someone else 's funeral George would have been looking out for the nearest pub . |
| 8 | It all seemed to me one more way of getting people to stop thinking for themselves — a highly convenient and complacent way of life — for if you took the advice offered and made a mess of things , then it could always be someone else 's fault . |
| 9 | And that 's gon na be someone else 's paper then ? |
| 10 | He said : ‘ We would urge people to be aware and be alert with fireworks because your fun might be someone else 's tragedy . ’ |
| 11 | This will be someone else 's garden where we are standing . |
| 12 | If there are any lingering doubts as to which editor is hammering the keyboard this time those same students can reflect that the last editorial was signed ‘ Furuta and Stotts ’ — so it must be somebody else 's turn — and can then proceed with their detective work via a careful study of what follows , based on the orthography of certain non-occurring words ( e.g. ‘ centred ’ , ‘ orientated ’ and ‘ colourful ’ ) . |
| 13 | But the other part cried out against the mere idea of her being someone else 's wife . |
| 14 | They should not take the attitude that ‘ risk management is someone else 's business ’ ; rather , they should take the initiative . |
| 15 | I ca n't keep pretending it 's someone else 's fault . |
| 16 | It 's always horrid when it 's someone else 's birthday . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ That 's someone else 's blood . ’ |
| 18 | Being an actress is relatively easy in that it 's someone else 's words you speak . |
| 19 | We should n't just think we 're not going to be here in two years time , it 's somebody else 's problem , they 'll take over our debts . |
| 20 | That 's somebody else 's work , not ours . |
| 21 | God said right , now it 's somebody else 's chance . |
| 22 | Because everybody in that meeting was thinking about blaming other people they were actually trying to say it 's not my fault that thing come in , it 's not my fault that things are like this , it 's somebody else 's fault in a different organisation . |
| 23 | The essential point , then , is that one person 's ‘ common sense ’ is somebody else 's nonsense , and there are numerous examples of sociological and anthropological investigation questioning and exploding many common-sense notions about behaviour . |
| 24 | The film you see is somebody else 's choice , and it usually has George Segal in it . |
| 25 | My contract with the Somervillian Art Fund has taught me , inter alia , that my bliss is somebody else 's horror , and vice-versa . |
| 26 | The rest is somebody else 's business . |
| 27 | Erm I du n no this is somebody else 's paper so This is before I had a I worked it out as I I th I thought it 'd work out a three- four-five triangle . |
| 28 | She asked quickly , ‘ Well , if it 's anybody else 's business I got my cousin staying here , nothing wrong in that is there , Mr Fisher ? ’ |
| 29 | At home people rallied round automatically ; it was taken for granted that if someone was in trouble then it was everyone else 's business to help . |
| 30 | The words sounded fine but it was someone else 's story . |