Example sentences of "[adv] [ex0] [modal v] [be] something " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , windmills could be placed offshore , then perhaps there might be something attractive to seeing these structures out at sea at some distance — they could even be beyond the horizon — but they thought that they are whirling round usefully providing our energy I think could make them acceptable , and there is no doubt that the worldwide research and success in windmill research at the moment would suggest that wind power is within sight , but the economic investment and the problems of siting certainly mean that it will be only introduced gradually . |
| 2 | So there might be something in the argument that , that it 's not just a , a question of what you 've learned from the north , but there may be a recognition that the economy in the south is different , or at least they might be arguing , those who are arguing that the economy in the south is different and that , that reform might not be necessary , it might not even be appropriate in the south . |
| 3 | So there should be something in there . |
| 4 | So there will be something in the day to suit all ages — morning or afternoon or both — and we hope there will be a good turn out of Somervillians , families and friends for all or part of May 11th . |
| 5 | I think this idea that these magazines are read only by the young is totally wrong , er , elderly women go to the libraries and the Mills and Boon 's section is one of their favourite places , its got more stock there than any of the more serious fiction , so there must be something in it that is satisfying their need for romance perhaps . |
| 6 | It 's trying to slide down the wall , so there must be something pulling it up the wall , frictional force |
| 7 | So there must be something in it . ’ |
| 8 | So there must be something wrong . |
| 9 | So there 'd be something rather odd about people voting out of moral motivation for a utilitarian because they would be voting their estimate of where the general happiness lies , rather than putting their input into the sum from which someone else can calculate where the general happiness lies . |
| 10 | Then she heard the click of the door and she turned , acknowledged the sudden lurch in the pit of her stomach , a half-hope that somehow there would be something he could say that would make things all right . |
| 11 | And also there can be something especially beautiful about a pregnant body that many men and women appreciate . |
| 12 | Clearly there must be something in the water at Westminster which inevitably drives all our politicians into the realms of fantasy ! |
| 13 | So I hope really there should be something in those two , and I 'll try the Citizen and The Star tomorrow . |
| 14 | and I erm , my brother did n't and we said well there must be something wrong . |
| 15 | Well there must be something in it because I feel so relaxed these days I ca n't get |
| 16 | Well there must be something on . |
| 17 | Ah well there must be something wrong then Albert . |
| 18 | ‘ Surely , ’ said Anwar to me , ‘ surely there must be something between this donkey 's legs ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ If all of us parents pull together surely there must be something we can do to save our children suffering for so long . ’ |
| 20 | If the grains , soy beans and fishmeal , which are used in the feeding of food animals in the developed world , were consumed directly by human beings then there would be something like a ninefold gain in the nutritional spin-off . |
| 21 | The tenants , on the other hand , had long since realised that if they could n't boil a kettle or breathe and do all the things normal families do without causing condensation dampness , then there must be something wrong with the houses , not with the people who live in them . |
| 22 | Can we in the alternative put our case if that is a fait accompli then there must be something for the local communities to be derived from this and therefore we went for protection under one O six agreement as Stewart quite rightly refers to and we also went for the dedication of large areas of the resultant heap for landscaping and for public open space . |
| 23 | Therefore , he concluded , God must exist , for otherwise there would be something greater than God ( namely whatever he had defined God to be plus the additional ‘ greater-making ’ quality of existence ) . |
| 24 | He was n't expecting much to have come in during his absence but if nothing else there should be something from the foreign residents department at the Questura . |
| 25 | Truly there must be something strange about the seaside , when the mere sight of seeing an ankle had made his heart beat the faster . |