Example sentences of "something [adj] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No-one 's supposed to know what it means — most people think we 've done something odd with the word tartan . ’ |
| 2 | There is something wrong with a system that analyses failure in such a drastic way . |
| 3 | Surely any fool should be able to see that there is something wrong with a child like that . |
| 4 | Also , there is often the suspicion that there is something wrong with a business that has to use factoring to raise money . |
| 5 | There is obviously something wrong with a portrayal of children as totally lacking in reason until they leap out of bed on their tenth birthday announcing that they are now able to act on principle . |
| 6 | Not for them the comprehensibility or even the logic spelt out by the Prime Minister shortly after his election as leader of the Conservative party when he rightly said that there was something wrong with a tax that resulted in 50 per cent . |
| 7 | There is something wrong with a law that allows that to happen . |
| 8 | Inevitably there is always something wrong with a property and the vendor will not wish to let the purchaser use a minor problem as an excuse for not completing the transaction . |
| 9 | ‘ THERE has to be something wrong with a tax system in which a police sergeant falls into the same tax bracket as a multi-millionaire ’ — Tory MP Keith Hampson . |
| 10 | ‘ Something wrong with the coffee ? ’ |
| 11 | Even ignoring the fact that they were meant as definitions of natures or essences , Gassendi finds something wrong with the idea of finding universal propositions for the premisses of a scientific syllogism . |
| 12 | There was something wrong with the ballcock , and if both taps were turned on to capacity at the same time there was an overflow outside . |
| 13 | ‘ If I am told that the economy is much worse than the Government has said … there 's something wrong with the way things are run in this country . |
| 14 | When he came to think of it , was there something wrong with the three of them ? |
| 15 | ‘ Is there something wrong with the plane , Brown Owl ? ’ asked Nicola , the Sprite Sixer . |
| 16 | If it is not discovered , however , it is highly likely that there is something wrong with the assumptions ; the data can certainly dampen over-enthusiastic imagination . |
| 17 | There must be something wrong with the Trebor technique because countless — or about a dozen — readers have sent in stories of their own triumphs with peppermints , sugar lumps , sticky tape and photographic film . |
| 18 | As a driving instructor I encountered many people who thought that there was something wrong with the car because the wheel would not move easily . |
| 19 | I wonder : is there something wrong with the electric seat motors or should they sound like they have sand in them ? |
| 20 | Maybe there is something wrong with the Glory ’ |
| 21 | I 'm absolutely fine , Father , I was trying to ring Mother but there was something wrong with the number . |
| 22 | ‘ Thank you , ’ she said again , while the thought came to her , unbidden , horrifying and wicked , yet it would not go away : If the result of this amnio-whatever test is adverse , if there is something wrong with the foetus , then I could have an abortion with a clear conscience . |
| 23 | If obedience to the Law takes precedence over human need then there is something wrong with the Law . |
| 24 | The leading frog , however , was dimly aware that there was something wrong with the moon . |
| 25 | ‘ You think there may have been something wrong with the Maxwell girl ? |
| 26 | He tried to phone you last night , the number you gave him , but there was something wrong with the line- ’ |
| 27 | Something wrong with the glass — like a mirror in an amusement hall which contorted the viewer — made it impossible to guess his real appearance . |
| 28 | One of the features by which positivism was characterised earlier was its inclusion of the idea of ‘ pathology ’ : not only was crime seen as obviously wrong , but there was also something wrong with the people who did it — for example , in their biology or personality . |
| 29 | If you use binoculars or a telescope and see a star as a large , shimmering globe , you may be sure that there is something wrong with the focus . |
| 30 | If the patient dies it 's a bad outcome and I know there 's something wrong with the process . |