Example sentences of "be something " in BNC.
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| 1 | A teacher 's list for analysing pictures may be something like that of the American educationalist Thomas Munro : first impressions of the picture as a whole , line , light and dark , colour , mass , space , unity of design . |
| 2 | In the longer term , it may be something aesthetic will be seen in what was intended as pure politics . |
| 3 | But about many of its manifestations there can be something ominous — something that is acutely understood and eloquently exposed in The Counterlife . |
| 4 | The daily schedule can be something like this : |
| 5 | Sense that if I could let Goldberg see it there must be something there to see . |
| 6 | Told him there would also be something specifically for him when it was done . |
| 7 | There may be something he 's missed . |
| 8 | There could , I have to admit , be something dramatically wrong with me . |
| 9 | Not good enough to fret the days away ; let her use them , enjoy , let there be something rich about her to love and desire . |
| 10 | ‘ Only you need to be something more lean and long-legged , my dear . ’ |
| 11 | But if ideas are to fit the world there must be something which answers to that generality . |
| 12 | So there has to be something in the world answering to the general predicate , just as there is something answering to the name . |
| 13 | Because BS knows all the facts about the brain state , and the experience just is the brain state , then what the experience is like must be something other than a fact about the experience . |
| 14 | There is no way that the content of my thought can both be something that the subject really thinks , apprehends or is conscious of , and yet fall outside the scope of an analysis of the act of thinking . |
| 15 | If we find cognisance flourishing where there is a set of actions as restricted as those of Christy Nolan 's , then how can reality be something that we posit as the limits of action : in this case a poor actor should have a correspondingly poor grasp of the real . |
| 16 | In some respects the long-awaited authority for new West Coast locomotives proved to be something of a disappointment . |
| 17 | If you were to draw up the specification for the ideal material for electronic engineering , I guess it would be something combining the properties of the perfect conductor , the perfect insulator and the ideal semiconductor . |
| 18 | On the contrary he was taken to be something of a maverick and flutterer of dovecotes . |
| 19 | Doctor and The Crippens were also scheduled to appear , as were Sore Throat , and the guest list seemed likely to be something of a hardcore Who 's Who ? — or at any rate , a hardcore Who 's That ? |
| 20 | What struck Michael was , the enquiry was humble — as though religion might be something worth knowing about . |
| 21 | The crucial point is that having a great sound is one thing , but being a good subject for an article may be something else entirely . |
| 22 | Though primitive man may be something of a mystic , the distant voices and fading star in Eliot 's poem show no ‘ prelogical mentality ’ from a golden age of childlike innocence . |
| 23 | In foreign affairs Mrs Thatcher has proved to be something of a ‘ little Englander ’ . |
| 24 | Sophie moreover actually had a job , had an income , which was beginning to be something of a pressing issue , inflation and the changing climate began to bite into their indifferent superiority to the outside world and they had given no thought as to how to fight that . |
| 25 | In the wake of the Rallye 's poor showing on the world rally circuit , the Limited 's success will be something of a boost to VW 's Motorsport division . |
| 26 | That would be something funny to say to his best man when he came . |
| 27 | Both men were silent for a moment then , clutching at a straw , Herr Nordern said , ‘ It must be something to do with you . |
| 28 | That will be something . ’ |
| 29 | He appears to be something of a Lingfield specialist , having won twice on the all-weather flat track . |
| 30 | Mr Antonio Matarrese , head of the Italian Olympic Committee , suggested that having the match in Sardinia might be something of a blessing . |