Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] something [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , whatever your age , circumstances and financial resources , taking stock is something which must be done from time to time — it is the first step in making decisions . |
| 2 | Clearly , the American Express Card is something you should n't be without . |
| 3 | After all , your wedding ring is something you will wear for the rest of your life . |
| 4 | Although wind is something you ca n't see , we are all too aware of its effects on cold , blustery , winter days . |
| 5 | Although wind is something you ca n't see , we are all aware of its effects on cold , blustery winter days . |
| 6 | Revenue is something you can get an instant " feel " for , something which excites and stimulates , Getting the revenue figures on a Monday morning can be as exhilarating as attending a top-class athletics meeting . |
| 7 | As an Orc and Goblin player animosity is something you will have to learn to live with . |
| 8 | Her imagined crime was something she could not tell her beloved and admired brother , and without that there had been nobody at all . |
| 9 | Seeing him at the wedding was something she could bear . |
| 10 | I really do believe sexual possessiveness is something we should struggle against , no matter how difficult we find it . |
| 11 | Obviously people still belong to classes , but belief in the decisive universal agency of the dwindling proletariat is something which must be dismissed as an idealist fantasy . |
| 12 | He accepted that the introduction of a night sleeper was something which could n't be contemplated in their present accommodation because it would involve the carer sleeping in the same room as the plaintiff . |
| 13 | Manager Ron Atkinson , who criticised his players after their 3-0 defeat at Coventry on Saturday , said : ‘ Going into the New Year in level second place is something we 'll settle for . |
| 14 | True relaxation is something which can be learned by anyone — although , like anything worth having , it does take a little practice . |
| 15 | Marketing is something which should pervade the entire organisation . |
| 16 | Erm and then I think it was Andy actually who said that erm affiliation is something we could do with considering . |
| 17 | This purely pictorial device is something we should never have imagined possible in fifth-century sculpture if we did not have it before us . |
| 18 | I suspect that my parents simply took my word and my active behaviour as proofs of my essential health , and that my non-eating was something I would grow out of and could therefore be ignored . |
| 19 | This impression of " specialness " , of contingency , of the event 's occurrence being something which could not have been taken for granted , disappears in the sentence with -ing . |
| 20 | The simplicity of the process assumed for aggregate demand is something we shall return to later , since it has some bearing on the interpretation of Lucas 's results . |
| 21 | We are back with the problem which Eliot had considered in March 1914 when one of his seminar colleagues , Sen Gupta , had read a paper that Eliot had written dealing with the work of Lévy-Bruhl ‘ on primitive race-psychology ’ and the ‘ law of participation ’ , a paper in which it was stated that , ‘ Causality is something which can be explained away but not explained . |
| 22 | In his eyes their saving grace was something he could only define as ‘ that truly human feeling ’ . |
| 23 | There was a lot of stress , and a political career was something you would n't undergo unless you enjoyed it all . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't need your permission ! ’ squeaked Pinder , then decided that belligerence was something he could n't sustain . |
| 25 | Ten cases of ‘ bad luck ’ in a row is something I would n't accept from any driver in the world . |
| 26 | CANCER The past is something you ca n't just shake off . |
| 27 | And three dimensional space is something we can all understand — or make it four if you add time . |
| 28 | When you learn that love is something you must do without , that close attachments to other human beings is a sign of weakness and that expressions of emotion are deeply shameful , how will you ever manage the openness , honesty and compromise that a close relationship demands ? |
| 29 | For the benefit of those who would suggest that section 2(1) ( b ) shows that appropriation is something which can be done with the consent of the owner , I would paraphrase that provision by saying ‘ if he appropriates the property in the belief that he would have the other 's consent if the other knew what he had done and the circumstances in which he did it . ’ |
| 30 | This made me feel a quite genuine shame and remorse although — it was as if I was torn into two separate parts both rationally and emotionally — I knew that hurt bewilderment was something I should beware of : he was my enemy who would use any art to outwit me if I could . |