Example sentences of "[prep] something [conj] is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But both are only extremes of something that is considered perfectly normal : that girls and young women should want to change themselves . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The child asks for something and is told she can not have it . |
| 8 | 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 . |