Example sentences of "something that has " in BNC.

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1 I feel they are rooted in something that has to do with culture , with a sense of history , a sense of past , a sense of tradition .
2 She said : ‘ This is not something that has happened before .
3 The job involved visiting mining camps , quarries and oilfields all over the world selling explosives and it gave Haslam his first taste of the excitement of travel , something that has remained with him all his life .
4 ‘ We do n't think of this as a sport ; it 's just something that has to be done . ’
5 How many times have you bought something that has let you down ( and not complained ) or worn a garment for just one season simply because it was the latest gimmick ?
6 Clearly , behind the appeals for calm has been the fear that the army is now threatened by disintegration , something that has become evident in increasingly frank discussions .
7 I refer to opera-going : something that has become not merely trendy but deep-rootedly popular .
8 It 's something quite beyond and more complicated than ‘ adolescence ’ , something that has n't been thought out yet , but should n't be dismissed as ‘ adolescent' ’ . '
9 Such disdain for something that has become almost universal in the first-class game clearly helps in his psychological battle with the bowlers ; disdain is , in fact , an important part of his armoury , combining with his might and skill to cement his authority .
10 ‘ When I die , put me near something that has loved the light , and had the sky above it always . ' ’
11 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 .
12 Horses communicate by sound , sight , smell , body language , touch , and also by extra-sensory perception — the learning of something that has not been transmitted by the other senses .
13 He much prefers to drive something that has been on the market for two or three years , reasoning that most of the initial problems should have been ironed out .
14 Give a detailed oral account of an event , or something that has been learned in the classroom , or explain with reasons why a particular course of action has been taken .
15 We can even discuss ways of deliberately cultivating and nurturing pure , disinterested altruism — something that has no place in nature , something that has never existed before in the whole history of the world .
16 We can even discuss ways of deliberately cultivating and nurturing pure , disinterested altruism — something that has no place in nature , something that has never existed before in the whole history of the world .
17 RE need no longer be undertaken with the intention of smartening up , or making relevant , something that has become jaded through over-familiarity .
18 Elephants : if you actually shoot elephants in a controlled way you may in fact preserve the species , and that is something that has been done , though it is less important if everybody avoids using ivory and it is not worth killing the elephants at all .
19 Estimate , instead , the sheer physical task that is being contemplated : to build a ‘ Stansted at Stanley ’ would be to do something that has never been done before in the whole of history .
20 That is something that has to be established .
21 For example ‘ Something that has become old-fashioned ’ .
22 What makes this year so outstanding is that your ruling planet , Pluto , makes a 90-degree angle to Saturn — something that has n't happened for 20 years .
23 It looks , though , as if it will be another step towards the end of something that has had its day .
24 ‘ It would fill up Wembley , sell it out — a major heavyweight fight between two Britons , something that has never really happened before . ’
25 It is something that has deeply influenced all social life .
26 The haiku poets aimed to condense many meanings into each phrase , so that the poem should speak of something that has both a particular and a general significance .
27 This might be something that has a legitimate place in the original complex equation — it might be peace education , anti-racism or teachers ' rights — but which is inflated to fill the whole screen .
28 Something that has not been illustrated in Collectair in the past is the printed and illustrated match-slip ( or book-matches ) .
29 Planting of standards and standard weepers is basically the same as far as soil preparation is concerned — the essential difference being that the plants have to be staked , and staking is something that has to be done properly .
30 V42bis ca n't compress something that has already been compressed .
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