Example sentences of "[be] something [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though there had been something a little strange about Patrick that day . |
| 2 | Do you believe leadership qualities are something a person is born with or can they be learnt ? |
| 3 | All the doctors are achieving with their uncontrollable itch to boss , patronise and distribute public money is to establish an idiotic certainty in our morally confused age that condoms ought to be free because they are something the government wants us to use . |
| 4 | ‘ After that write-up , it had better be something a bit more decisive than tossing each other off in the bogs . ’ |
| 5 | To do something as cruel as this to a member of your own family can not be something a fair and just woman would do . |
| 6 | If he still appears a hero to some , that may be something the world can live with : for all his defiance , he will have thrown away everything Iraq gained from its eight-year war with Iran , and swallowed many mouthfuls of words about Kuwait remaining Iraq 's 19th province for ever and a day . |
| 7 | That seems to be something the viewers approve of . |
| 8 | I thought this sort of thing would be something the Green Party nationally should decide that whether in principle we ought to affiliate with . |
| 9 | Whether or not this second series will be something the crew can be proud of , will be up to the viewers to decide . |
| 10 | ‘ That may be something the British Athletic Federation management board will want to discuss , ’ said Ward . |
| 11 | ‘ We 're moving away from the concept of a spreadsheet being something an individual uses , in keeping with our philosophy of making people work together , rather than in isolation , ’ says Mr Ingram . |
| 12 | To be able to stand and say ‘ I have done my best , I can do no more ’ allows you to have self-respect , and that is something no one can take away ! |
| 13 | ‘ Hysteria is something no Englishman can cope with , ’ she says . |
| 14 | Child abuse is something no one would wish to endure , and using it as a sales/hype ploy is sick . |
| 15 | Before that , because change by definition is something no one has seen yet ( despite models that may exist elsewhere ) , it has to be taken at least partially on faith . |
| 16 | This is something no ordinary parent could even begin to enforce and no judicial parent stands in a better position than a natural parent . |
| 17 | At last , he said , ‘ That is something no one can be entirely sure of . |
| 18 | And how it led to a race riot and running battles in the street is something no one tries to explain . |
| 19 | In sentencing the three , Manhattan Superior Court Justice Thomas B. Galligan stated that they had turned the park into a " torture chamber " on the night in question , and that " the intensity of the violence that occurred … is something no rational mind can explain " . |
| 20 | However , it seems to me that there is something a little perverse in leaving me your notes on the making of the Big Glass when you must have known perfectly well that they contained material I would be certain to find offensive . |
| 21 | There is something a little distasteful about the head of the biggest international refugee organisation preferring to travel first class to solve the problems of the worlds dispossessed . |
| 22 | This is something a lot of people ignore . |
| 23 | But if , as William Empson ( no ally ) believed , Lewis was ‘ the best read man of his generation , one who read everything and remembered everything he read ’ , there is something a little disappointing in such a man rejoicing in the limitations of his sympathy . |
| 24 | He suggests that there is something a little unnerving about a young child assuring a piece of moulded plastic that a metal machine is a playmate . |
| 25 | This is something a bit out of the ordinary . |
| 26 | In the long term we 'd like to go on , and build a workshop , make our own recycle refurbish electrical goods , because , obviously , this is something a bit more in capital intensive , and it 's something we 're looking at it in the future . |
| 27 | And at once there is something a little awkward in the room , a little uneasy , a little personal . |
| 28 | What Eileen really enjoys is something a bit different . |
| 29 | For there really is something a little odd surrealist even in the idea of a folding-leaf Dining ( Bird ) Table , where the flaps are made to beat up and down like the wings of a bird . |
| 30 | Erm so it 's in terms of erm er , careful logical field work erm there 's not a great deal of information , but there 's , th , there have been early anatomical historical er investigations and there is something a literature erm dating from early in the nineteenth century which and it shows you the bloke who also resolves to , to , to make comparisons with what she found . |