Example sentences of "[prep] something that is " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said it would be a mistake , ‘ a mistake in sentiment ; for it could only mean that we were embalming the corpse of something that is n't really dead and need n't die at all — an aesthetic mistake — because we do n't really want to have the taste of our schooldays established as a boundary for our whole lives ’ . |
| 2 | The taste is good enough to send half a million people a year squirrelling around in the woods of northern Michigan , in search of something that is often no more than a couple of inches high and is usually hidden under a thick pile of forest-floor debris . |
| 3 | But both are only extremes of something that is considered perfectly normal : that girls and young women should want to change themselves . |
| 4 | Karajan would give that fantasist all the freedom he needed because he knew that what appeals to an audience is something arising out of the immediate performance , out of something that is happening within the mind of the musician at that moment . |
| 5 | We shall not endeavour to trace the origin of Mind out of something that is not mind . |
| 6 | And , in whichever case , are these questions and answers ( to the whistler or the mate ) or are they confirmations of something that is always the same thing ( the bird 's own presence , his belonging to this species , this sex , this territory ) ? |
| 7 | Italy is moving rapidly in that direction , in pursuit of something that is ‘ enjoyable ’ at the same time as being ‘ not escapist ’ , that magic formula which Eco believes to have been the discovery of the American postmodernists ( with Barth as their prophet ) and to which in his own best-seller he aspired ( Eco 1985 : 65 — 72 ) . |
| 8 | Whenever I think of something that is needed , I write it on the list , and whenever I buy something , I cross it off the list . |
| 9 | The very act of sharing this experience with men and women of every background and colour of skin , heightens that sense of being part of something that is truly a part of history . |
| 10 | For parents , this world-view may not be ‘ philosophical ’ in the sense of something that is calculated , worked out and argued , though it can be and often is . |
| 11 | As used in the 14th century by the English poet of Sir Gawayn and the Green Knight ( a man who knew the world of courts and chapels well ) , clanness is the quality of something that is pure ( like a pearl ) or of fine and precise workmanship ( like an elaborate goblet ) . |
| 12 | that it came to make the amazing sounds , okay , and then after that , er , this is another thing it leads to is there 's going to be a break down in your sound machine , okay , there 's gon na be a break down in your , in your entire robotic machine , movement in our machine , and that break down could be due to some of the workers going off and getting some of them erm you know , one , er part of the machine breaking down on the whole , sound changes , the movement changes and we 're going to watch how this robotic machine changes as it breaks down , it could be sound shut down it could be it could be anything you choose , but I want it anyway , leave it to you so all you do is choose a profession , think of something that is , comes to life to you , in movement and in sound , okay , so let's get into groups of , see how many they are , one , two , three , four , five , six , seven , eight , nine , eighteen , nineteen , twenty , okay let's get into groups of four then , okay is that right , one , two , three , four , one , oh five , four , five , just get your group into a work in , I thank you if you do n't get |
| 13 | The social services department should be able to fit even ordinary radiators with some sort of guard , so that if you should fall against them and be unable to move , you are not pinned against something that is uncomfortably or dangerously hot . |
| 14 | I 'm hitting my head repeatedly against something that is n't there and I suppose that that could be a definition of insanity . |
| 15 | It would be a new tax , involve paying for something that is at present free and would hit hardest at low-income car-owners . |
| 16 | Women seem fearful of becoming too friendly with a single mother ; fearful that if they spend too much time with her , they might just get a taste for something that is denied them . |
| 17 | A significant indicator of poverty in any society is the number of people who can be seen poking in rubbish bins looking for something that is still usable , since surviving off society 's rubbish epitomises ultimate poverty . |
| 18 | Many people trivialize their desire for God , and settle for something that is inferior . |
| 19 | Sometimes members of a family look for something that is convenient to them or that will solve their own feelings of guilt , rather than giving weight to the elderly person 's own strong preferences . |
| 20 | How can you be blamed for something that is n't your conscious fault ? |
| 21 | You feel you 're begging for something that is n't there . |
| 22 | A claim is a demand for something that is due . |
| 23 | If er there was a crisis and there was a need for a rush order er one would be talking of weeks for something that is predesigned to start coming off the production line . |
| 24 | You know , maybe I 'm not giving that much away , erm , it 's constant reinforcement for something that is important to me . |
| 25 | Now that kind of language which is what this chap is is using here would seem to me to be setting the the erm frame in a way which really would protect erm a locality from er this policy being a stalking-horse for something that is ordinary . |
| 26 | One , one of the most common question of the last weeks are we yes last weeks Sunday visiting that I was involved with in my ward was from people who were perturbed , not about means testing because that is not the word that it was about , but about something that is on the same kind of sphere and that was about whether erm East Gates which decided to be their own managers would also be able to their own tenants and keep the ones that were less suitable away from the ones that knew that they were suitable . |
| 27 | One major consideration with this type of communication is that when we disagree with something that is being communicated , we do not abruptly pull away or jump . |
| 28 | The chances are they are not going to be changed again in a hurry and to saddle ourselves with something that is going to allow the development and perpetuation of something which most of us hero would call bad and unacceptable practice in care of the elderly with dementia , would be a totally retrograde step . |
| 29 | If women want to spend their lives with something that is slim , sanitary and sensitive , perhaps they should consider setting up home with a thermometer dipped in Dettol . |
| 30 | I think when you 're dealing with something that is transmitted sexually you have to be very very clear about how it 's transmitted , I think you , you ca n't be vague about these sexual terms , you have , for , for medical reasons there 's nothing else ; you have to be exactly er clear about what you mean , by , by the activities you 're describing . |