Example sentences of "[conj] something that [vb mod] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A thirty five millimetre or something that 'll be quite erm yeah , I think the er cloud and sky is nice and the foreground is nice . |
| 2 | It had come to the stage in 2020 when anyone who regarded Time as other than something that could be measured precisely by chronometer was shunned as an eccentric . |
| 3 | Planning Ward v Secretary of State for the Environment ; CA ( Woolf , Nicholls , Staughton LJJ ) ; 25 Sept 1989 A private garden was capable of being an ‘ open space ’ and something that should be taken into account when deciding whether a development proposed to be carried out in a conservation area would preserve or enhance the area within s 277 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1971 , as substituted , and of Circular No 8 of 1987 issued by the Secretary of State . |
| 4 | Specifically , the recent merging of the purchase grant into the general grant is dangerous , and something that should be resisted . |
| 5 | see if something that could be useful , or it could not , you never know . |
| 6 | Crime is a big issue not just an issue of sentencing or the courts , but something that must be looked at away from politcs . |
| 7 | This seems to indicate that , despite his reference to sex as a fine and noble thing , he still regards it with a certain amount of misgiving , and as something that should be kept under strict control . |
| 8 | Most governments in Africa today , whether civilian or military , democratic or dictatorial , look upon the media in general as something that should be instrumental in promoting national goals . |
| 9 | Professional views of mental illness , especially when manifested in the public realm , continue to be based on nineteenth century ideas about madness as something that should be brought under control and removed from the public gaze . |
| 10 | Applying AI problem-solving techniques in this way is in itself a notable advance but , as the editors indicate , the research has also addressed fundamental questions on the nature of knowledge , both in terms of formal representational systems and as an essentially social phenomenon — knowledge as something that must be shared and transferred among men and machines . |
| 11 | We have probably often been guilty of viewing censorship as something that must be imposed from time to time . |
| 12 | Otherness is not so much something to be frightened of , a threat to the stability of the self , as something that can be added to or incorporated into the already existing . |
| 13 | You see despair as something that can be rooted out by machines — some sort of a steam-shovel , perhaps . |
| 14 | Similarly , though there are inevitably problems and exceptions , we continue to treat the tone-unit as something that can be described , defined and recognised . |