Example sentences of "something [conj] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is nothing more galling , if you care passionately about something or are feeling angry or upset , to be told to ‘ Be reasonable . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ The long and short of it is , ’ he wrote to his mother , ‘ I must make something or be miserable . ’ |
| 3 | Was the speaker trying to tell me something or was I in the first stages of paranoia ? |
| 4 | We have seen already how rhymes in this text can create telling juxtapositions : here we have the linkage of wis and pris , " wise " and " price " , i.e. wisdom means knowing the price of something or being able to buy it , or alternatively onwis and pris , i.e. the unwise can be bought . |
| 5 | If you prefer , use any other liqueur or spirit such as brandy , Cointreau or , for something that 's refreshingly different , why not try adding Pimms or sparkling white or rosé wine ? |
| 6 | ‘ When I see something that 's right , it hits me . |
| 7 | For £200 , I expect to be able to buy something that 's good-looking and well-designed . |
| 8 | You learn to recognise them through experience ; it 's often an indefinable something that 's lacking . |
| 9 | And that 's what I call a real bargain : something that 's an improvement and saves you money . |
| 10 | Show me something that 's not possible . |
| 11 | It 's a strange but true fact : the majority of guitarists who order custom electrics from a specialised builder actually ask for something that 's pretty conventional . |
| 12 | The way I think of the band is kind of like puzzle pieces ; to me the secret of an effective arrangement is not for everyone to push towards the same kind of sound , but for everyone to play something that 's contrasting but interlocking , so that when you listen to the song , all the pieces fall into place around each other . |
| 13 | John : ‘ Looking at the display racks , there are a lot of basses around even in this price category , and I have n't got a clue about what 's what , but I do want to try something that 's Korean-made , just out of personal interest . ’ |
| 14 | You 're trying for something that 's funky , something that sounds good , and you just grab whatever comes to hand . |
| 15 | At one stage , he is told , ‘ The main thing is that you have innate ability , talent , genius , something that 's born inside you ; it has nothing to do with studying . |
| 16 | No , it 's not something that 's done in the sewers ! |
| 17 | It 's something that 's important for the press . |
| 18 | This is the Lyricist Lounge , where twice a month aspiring rappers run new rhymes past each other in something that 's closer to an old school jam than to videogenic 1992 hip hop . |
| 19 | And shyness is something that 's linked to self-assurance , already mentioned in Chapter Four . |
| 20 | And quite seriously , Miss Rona Stevens answered sotto voce in between her serving , ‘ Oh , it 's in their eyes : kind of a troubled , searching look , like … well , like something that 's escaped from a cage . ’ |
| 21 | You need to have an emotion in it , and something that 's a bit dark is more likely to be remembered . |
| 22 | It 's the reason why England have done so well in recent years , and , of course , it 's something that 's very close to my heart ’ . |
| 23 | He identified these enablers as the capturing of the necessary information , the conversion of it into something that 's useful ( ie the big advances in language translation systems recently ) , protecting information with better security , and information sharing through video conferencing and shared space . |
| 24 | when we erm , er when we were doing those projects we erm , we had a comments book and more , more people were in favour of them and saw them as an improvement to the town and so it needs something that 's really interesting actually , it 's er , erm the work 's department have said , as a result of those graffiti projects they can shift two officer 's from the graffiti team to the highway 's team , so it 's actually cut down on the work of actually clearing up unwanted graffiti , so it 's had a positive effect , so we , we 've got these two people work with the other people and we 've got Dorothy who 's working with , with black people and ethnic minorities in the town and erm for people who were here when this presentation was last given , er Robin who used to be in the local The Policy Team of the Local Government Unit is now actually a Community Development Officer , one of the decision 's , Robin use to do video work for the Authority erm , and we decided we asset whether the the need for that kind of , k ind of work to continue , and we thought on balance not erm and he now is running the music rehearsal space over at Latton Bush , that again is a project for young people , to enable , it 's a place where band 's can practice and that 's the problem in Harlow erm and er that 's really exciting project because it 's bringing in a lot of income for the Council as as well as providing the service that people want and , and it , I mean it is important at this time that we are doing limited projects where we are bringing in income , cos at , you know we estimate that erm we can get that erm rehearsal space properly resource , that project could be self financing , so your providing a service but your also getting paid , your getting paid for as well , so erm that is who we are now and were er , where were located , we have an open door policy as people will know . |
| 25 | Because you 're all United fans you become part of something that 's big . |
| 26 | HIV is something that 's going to affect young , goodlooking , strong , wealthy , bored , insecure young men . |
| 27 | Even people who do n't care about clothes look better in something that 's cut properly . |
| 28 | ‘ You ca n't raze something that 's already underground . ’ |
| 29 | But presumably that balance is n't something that 's encouraged either by the discipline of the job , or by a culture that assumes that men do n't have to take on responsibility for those things because women do . |
| 30 | and I think it 's perhaps important to start with that we go with something that 's a little bit open-ended that we can review in a years time er , perhaps a little bit later and say well look we have shown that we can do it valuably er the proof is in the pudding , it now beholds everybody to do it this way . |