Example sentences of "[be] [verb] to [be] something [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But you said that morality must be seen to be something superficial . ’ |
| 2 | The quality I 'm referring to was something common enough here in Latin America , but very rare in the land of booze and animal fats , where the women seem to have taken to heart mad Hamlet 's advice to let their honesty admit no discourse to their beauty . |
| 3 | The thing to do , Bob , is to face up to the fact right from the beginning that it 's going to be something Victorian or Edwardian , and that it 's going to be in some slightly less fashionable postal district . ’ |
| 4 | And that helped , because then you have no preconceived ideas , so if you do come up with something , it 's going to be something unusual . ’ |
| 5 | it 's going to be something special happening at lunchtime is it ? |
| 6 | Anyway we 're going to go for trap two , Smoky Amber here , now she 's a bitch that is really , I think 's going to be something special over a longer trip , erm you know a longer distance , but she is only a March eighty nine so she 's not two yet . |
| 7 | Well it 's bound to be something weird I suppose . |
| 8 | This is meant to be something special . ’ |
| 9 | The vibrant ‘ Zoo Station ’ kicked everything off and right from the word go it was going to be something special . |
| 10 | Only later did Oliver Michaels come back with the sobering news that the hotel was strangely full of policemen , that there was no breakfast to be had save for coffee and muffins , without a trek to the Albion Hotel , and moreover there was thought to be something odd about Sir Thomas 's death which no one would specify . |
| 11 | She just knew , she knew with absolute certainty , that in this vast , noisy , busy city , something would happen to her , and it was bound to be something good . |
| 12 | Techno Tracies and crop-headed sheep on drugs were tainting the atmosphere at raves , and there was beginning to be something familiar in the frenzy of old favourites such as Kaos and Ark . |