Example sentences of "something [that] [verb] [adv] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It bore a marked resemblance to something that had already been eaten once before . |
| 2 | When biologists studying these birds added extra shade to some territories , the birds exhibited something that had not been seen in this species before ; trigamy , males with three mates . |
| 3 | I knew I did n't deserve his patience ; I had to think up some justification of my silliness , so I said , " They 'll all notice , " which was something that had n't been worrying me up to then . |
| 4 | The General Manager in Riyadh , in an excess of loyalty , had tried to protect Laing 's career by only insisting that every riyal be returned to the Ministry 's account , something that had now been done . |
| 5 | The adulation when it was all over was something that had hardly been seen before in England , even on momentous Ashes-winning occasions , and early in 1964 his efforts were rewarded with a knighthood , conferred by the Queen at Buckingham Palace . |
| 6 | Something that 's not been tried before . |
| 7 | No it 's funny unle I Mum says is it something that 's just been published this year you know , like if someone just published |
| 8 | It 's something quite beyond and more complicated than ‘ adolescence ’ , something that has n't been thought out yet , but should n't be dismissed as ‘ adolescent' ’ . ' |
| 9 | Something that has not been illustrated in Collectair in the past is the printed and illustrated match-slip ( or book-matches ) . |
| 10 | Horses communicate by sound , sight , smell , body language , touch , and also by extra-sensory perception — the learning of something that has not been transmitted by the other senses . |
| 11 | The hon. Gentleman rightly said that it is a waste of the doctor 's time for him to turn his attention to something that has already been decided by someone else and merely to rubberstamp it . |
| 12 | V42bis ca n't compress something that has already been compressed . |
| 13 | Estimate , instead , the sheer physical task that is being contemplated : to build a ‘ Stansted at Stanley ’ would be to do something that has never been done before in the whole of history . |
| 14 | THE benefits of car leasing are something that have traditionally been considered the preserve of the business sector . |