Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The following remark of Dennis Altman 's , even if not strictly correct historically , rightly implies how the negation of desire and the negation of difference are in practice often inseparable : ‘ the original purpose of the categorization of homosexuals as people apart was to project the homosexuality in everyone onto a defined minority as a way of externalizing forbidden desires and reassuring the majority that homosexuality is something that happens to other people ’ ( Homosexualization , 72 ) . |
| 32 | CRIME is no longer something that happens to other people . |
| 33 | He was pointing at Robert and yelling something that sounded like Arabic but turned out to be very emotional English . |
| 34 | Giving what we 're being asked to do we do need to have something that focus on general skills and abilities , we 've got ta decide what they are . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | She poked again — dug right down to the bottom and up through the shambles came something that signalled with painful clarity . |
| 37 | With a sexual history spanning more than twenty years and including fifty or sixty different partners , he regarded VD as something that happened to other people , and was somewhat surprised to develop a mild urethral discharge five weeks after first sleeping with his new girl-friend , Angela , who was younger than him and relatively sexually inexperienced . |
| 38 | For her , war was something that happened in other people 's lives , and even the most recent conflicts had failed to win her to the view that war could be , upon occasions , both right and just . |
| 39 | I 'm Emma with her silly little clever-clever theories of love and marriage , and love is something that comes in different clothes , with a different way and different face , and perhaps it takes a long time for you to accept it , to be able to call it love . |
| 40 | He served not only on the Royal Commission for the reform of Oxford , but also on the one that looked into scientific education , and drafted most of its final report . |
| 41 | Bungay is a , is an historic and a delightful town and one that qualifies on environmental ground alone for a bypass , I refer to paper T one , erm which is er , paper of the ninth of January nineteen ninety two , and if you refer to little B , seven , five bypasses for towns and villages where there is serious and environmental intrusion by through traffic . |
| 42 | It 's certainly the word fire is the one that goes with ablaze , is ablaze a good word ? |
| 43 | Sometimes make a contrast — follow a lively travelling movement , perhaps one that goes at random with a smooth sweep of movement performed in unison . |
| 44 | The answer in Geoffrey Cowdrill 's case was the same one that occurs to numerous middle-aged executives who find themselves with a bit of capital and a lack of inspiration : he invested in a franchise . |
| 45 | This process is not only one that occurs in everyday life , but has also to be carried out by scientists in the laboratory , or by coroners in coroners ' courts ( Atkinson 1978 ) . |
| 46 | One that lives in tight-knit family groups with a well worked out hierarchy and a complex communication system ? |
| 47 | ‘ That 's the name of the worm I was telling you about , ’ said Preston , ‘ the one that lives in canine excreta . |
| 48 | In the long run a more efficient and effective — not to say democratic — decision may be one that draws upon different points of view and has considered several possibilities . |
| 49 | We have our own chart of accounts , but in France , for example , we need a second one that complies with French fiscal law . |
| 50 | I advise owners of small dogs who have to leave their pets in kennels to find one that specialises in little dogs . |
| 51 | In Major League Baseball it is one that comes with Hollywood-sized pay . |
| 52 | He is probably a murderer himself ; the lightmindedness of his retrospective half-confirmations and half-denials is oddly disgusting ; and for him killing people is no more doing something than sleeping with little girls or setting off for the North Pole . |
| 53 | This ruling mirrored the previous one but applied to occupational pension schemes as opposed to the then state retirement ages . |
| 54 | Erm and then it 's talking about standard variety that it 's usually the standard variety that 's accepted as the proper one when compared to other like smaller varieties erm dialects and stuff . |
| 55 | Such a society might soon become an appalling one when judged against civilised standards . |
| 56 | For a moment he entertained the hope that he might be allowed to call her ‘ Mam ’ , the way he used to , or even ‘ Mummy ’ , as she always called herself when speaking to other people . |
| 57 | There was a warmth and a charm about him that made for easy relations with most people , even the press , and they helped him build up the confidence that was needed all round . |
| 58 | Even more importantly though , the feeling of freedom that travelling gave Zeng had such a profound effect on him that returning to normal life with his work unit seemed practically unthinkable . |
| 59 | The second and third points were taken up by him and expressed in different ways in his pronouncements on political and economic issues . |
| 60 | The contrast between the two men of near-identical appearance is shown in a less formal , more novelistic manner in the character of the King , depicted in The Prisoner of Zenda as a weak , pleasure-loving young man trying to equip himself for his destiny and in Rupert of Hentzau as a man ill in body , weaned by matters of state , gradually coming to resent his obligations to the man whose courage and energy have twice saved his position for him and burdened by jealous suspicions of his wife 's fidelity . |