Example sentences of "be [adv] something that [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it is not something that happens overnight . |
| 2 | And that 's still something that comes again and again when men and women , when you and I are confronted with the claims of Jesus what about this ? |
| 3 | ‘ We are making progress but that is n't something that happens overnight , it happens very slowly and almost imperceptibly . ’ |
| 4 | Playing the spy was not something that came naturally to her , but in this particular instance she sensed it was her duty . |
| 5 | I have never been one for spending a fortune on equipment , so a dream tank was not something that had ever really passed through my mind . |
| 6 | It was not something that had ever occurred to them as possible , likely , or even , desirable . |
| 7 | It seemed possible that childhood cancer was therefore something that happened naturally , was something that was part of the child 's genetic make-up , its chromosomes . |