Example sentences of "something that [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most important differences are those to be found between individuals , rather than between groups or categories This seems to imply that the one thing Shetlanders have in common is that they Are All different from one another , and that their common identity as Shetlanders is something that emerges only when they contrast themselves to people from the south . |
| 2 | So anxiety would be , you see , would be something that points out what I 'm calling this realistic view of human nature . |
| 3 | Already they 've scaled up their fluid star-burst psychedelia into something that sounds more suited to outdoor festivals than stuffed solid mini-venues . |
| 4 | Stick that lot together along with the teeniest , faintest soupçon of banjo , and you 've got something that sounds almost like a miniature piano . |
| 5 | The rest of the market area would be paved in something less expensive , but still something that looked very nice , but it 's more manmade . |
| 6 | However secure your income today , however comfortable your family life , this could all be placed in jeopardy by something that happens in just a few seconds … a serious accident . |
| 7 | This is something that happens in both children and adults , and it may cause a continuation of the diarrhoea if milk is consumed after an infection . |
| 8 | ‘ We are making progress but that is n't something that happens overnight , it happens very slowly and almost imperceptibly . ’ |
| 9 | However , it is not something that happens overnight . |
| 10 | It 's something that happens almost subconsciously . ’ |
| 11 | This is something that happens naturally . |
| 12 | Mr Malik had been keen for it to ‘ bridge the gap between the musical traditions of East and West ’ , and the result was something that sounded suspiciously like the soundtrack from a commercial advertising Singapore Airlines . |
| 13 | ‘ You ca n't tell him you 're not a professional ! ’ she snapped , and , muttering something that sounded uncomfortably like ‘ wet behind the ears ’ , ‘ You 've got to pretend that you 're me — Cara Kingsdale ! ’ she insisted . |
| 14 | Then Agnes said something that sounded very silly even to herself . |
| 15 | The absence of evidence of a distinctive layout of fields before that time has led to the suggestion that Romano-British fields continued to be used in the Saxon period and that open fields may have been something that developed gradually through the Anglo-Saxon period as a whole ( Taylor and Fowler 1978 ) . |
| 16 | You take rather a long time sometimes to find something that fits in but you do in the end . ’ |
| 17 | They set off from the same place but , like pieces of something that had just exploded , they each took a different course across the lawn . |
| 18 | It bore a marked resemblance to something that had already been eaten once before . |
| 19 | The idea of touching people in the crowd or letting people in the crowd touch him was something that had not occurred to him , but to be beautiful and that remote — you 've got to get a crowd to touch him because that was what really got them wild . |
| 20 | The court astonished everybody by deciding that it could not rule on the legality or otherwise of something that had not happened yet . |
| 21 | Cave later discovered that the box of parts had not been opened at all ; another conversation premised on something that had not occurred , designed to raise both the bidding and the temperature , and a chimera . |
| 22 | On December 7th too , when the matter was raised at a meeting of the President and principals , the operation was presented by McFarlane as essentially prospective , something that had not happened yet ; but the purpose of the meeting was also to justify policy after the fact . |
| 23 | When biologists studying these birds added extra shade to some territories , the birds exhibited something that had not been seen in this species before ; trigamy , males with three mates . |
| 24 | This was something that had not occurred to him . |
| 25 | Henry confessed it was something that had n't crossed his mind before . |
| 26 | I knew I did n't deserve his patience ; I had to think up some justification of my silliness , so I said , " They 'll all notice , " which was something that had n't been worrying me up to then . |
| 27 | Something that had n't been there before . |
| 28 | There was something else now ; something that had n't been immediately apparent to Cardiff , but had been seen by the others straightaway and which was causing them to back away from the wall . |
| 29 | Who they were , and whether the party 's appeal should be confined to the quarter of a million or so who might be described as ‘ proletariat ’ was something that had yet to be defined . |
| 30 | Here , a chaos of carts , overthrown and jumbled together , lay topsy-turvy at the bottom of a steep unnatural hill ; there , confused treasures of iron soaked and rusted in something that had accidentally become a pond . |