Example sentences of "be [adv] something [that] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Statements of what people intended to get out of the policy-making process are generally something that has to be established on the basis of careful examination of the evidence rather than on the basis of assumptions about interests . |
| 2 | The pain is not something that scares me . |
| 3 | " Development is not something that happens to the poor . |
| 4 | However , it is not something that happens overnight . |
| 5 | She said : ‘ This is not something that has happened before . |
| 6 | Will my right hon. Friend confirm that this is not something that has arisen in the past few days , but has been carefully negotiated by the Government over many weeks ? |
| 7 | But achieving the BS5750 is not something that has to be done alone . |
| 8 | I 'm a layman to you and you 're a layman to me in many senses , and therefore erm the , the , the fact that our students are in effect very often laymen is not something that detracts from their motivation to study , in many instances it 's something that gives it stimulus and underlines it . |
| 9 | Again , they need a proper descriptive and classificatory system , but this is not something that comes within the scope of this course , nor in my opinion should they be regarded as components of intonation . |
| 10 | Religion is not an individualistic affair ; it is not something that concerns a man in isolation from his fellow men ; it is not simply a matter for the individual soul seeking release , or mok a , from the endless cycle of birth , death and rebirth , or sa sāra . |
| 11 | This urge is not something that appears when we are at school or later — it operates from birth , if not before . |
| 12 | But what we find in the resurrection of Jesus is not something that originates from the natural processes of life , but something that constitutes a unique event . |
| 13 | Sometimes I try to think about the concepts behind the immersion and about being spiritually cleansed , and sometimes mikva is just something that has to be done on time , and the spiritual significance is almost forgotten in the ritual of the act . |
| 14 | When an idiom is just something that has the form of , has a certain apparent grammatical form but actually occurs just as a single unit of a fixed meaning , so it has no genuine semantic structure from which you can determine its meaning , for example kick the bucket means die and you do n't get that in the meaning of kick the bucket . |
| 15 | There 's just something that does n't seem right about it . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It 's just something that happens between two people . |
| 17 | It 's just something that happens in my brain . ’ |
| 18 | It 's just something that happens to me , I do n't know why . |
| 19 | ‘ We do n't think of this as a sport ; it 's just something that has to be done . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Yes , but that 's just something that happened in the outside world . |
| 21 | No it is n't erm and erm even those who in , in my experience who did get through there was just an occasional er time when they did n't pass that part of it , they , they , they , they could n't quite manage that , the height side frightened them and er they failed , erm so there 's quite a lot of demands on them and I 'm sure that a lot of women could do it and a lot of women if they had the chance would do it or would , if they were willing to do it , but it 's not something that grabs most women , I do n't think it does , I think it 's the physical side that puts them off , and that is what is the problem with the Fire Service , it is a physical job . |
| 22 | So I think you can be assured that it 's not something that 's been put to one side , it 's something that we 're trying to build in to all the work we do , in whatever ways appropriate , but er , I accept that the the implications for your comment , that we 've got to be continually , er watching ourselves , to make sure that we do that . |
| 23 | Now , I 've made a distinction between those , in other words a group maybe a methile group now , methile group is not a functional group it 's not something that dictates the properties of a compound , necessarily . |
| 24 | It 's not something that makes me anxious at all . |
| 25 | Ports , especially great ports , are never quite where they seem to be — a corner , a quay , the light filtering past funnels and masts on either side , there is always something that belongs to other places and other times . |
| 26 | Winter , spring , summer and autumn — there 's always something that needs doing out there . |
| 27 | And that 's still something that comes again and again when men and women , when you and I are confronted with the claims of Jesus what about this ? |
| 28 | ‘ We are making progress but that is n't something that happens overnight , it happens very slowly and almost imperceptibly . ’ |
| 29 | Longman had a very , very er , very good increase in profits and the Addison Wesley loss , which is bigger in the first half than usual er , is n't something that bothers me particularly , I 'm really quite relaxed about full year performance , but just to make sure they 're er , attacking erm , expenses , travel , administration , that kind but nothing in the erm , book investment programme . |
| 30 | They simply continued to secure him , coldly and efficiently , as if this was just something that had to be done and as if there was no particular feeling in doing it . |