Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] [indef pn] is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looks like everything is falling into place … |
| 2 | He thinks that something is known , but they 're not telling . |
| 3 | it often happens that someone is sent here who is unsuitable . |
| 4 | One then says that one is doing a ‘ numerical experiment ’ . |
| 5 | As soon as one says that one is going to study organizational life indeed , any aspect of human life — one runs up against the problem of what lens to use to view the scene . |
| 6 | A rumour circulates and someone is shuffled off to some distant department . |
| 7 | When she staggers out of bed , at some ridiculous pre-dawn hour , I have to make her trip over an unaccountably uncluttered expanse of floor before she sees that something is missing : the usual mess . |
| 8 | I think , yeah I think , that , that he 's structured and like the , like plays like King Lear , where there 's this sort of unspoken erm good guy at the top that sees that anything is punished that 's bad , and people get their just desserts . |
| 9 | Otaka ensures that nothing is allowed to detract from the overview , yet he allows his orchestra sufficient freedom to shape phrases affectionately without every suffocating them . |
| 10 | The use of words also helps to bring across the message of the poem with words such as ‘ futility ’ and ‘ fatuous ’ giving the distinct impression that Wilfred Owen has almost given up everything that he once believed in because he feels that everyone is going to kill each other anyway . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If one realizes that one is dealing with myths and symbols , then one might as well create myths and symbols which are true to what one would symbolize . |
| 13 | When four people are caught the chain divides into two pairs and the game continues until everyone is captured . |
| 14 | Everyone in the community believes that someone is shielding the two youths . |
| 15 | Both writers explore an early relationship , the conflict and misunderstanding within it and the terrible sense of loss which arises when one is deprived , in one sense or another , of one 's mother . |