Example sentences of "be something that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Um , as we know from studies of re story telling , as we know from studies of memories for story structure and recall , memories for everyday events mm there 's er a substantial way in which memories are scripted , which memories um seem to fit a schemer , which memories ah are n't stored as a literal description of something but they 're something that we re-construct as we tell them . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | as has been mentioned , which has been something that often has been composed by women and transmitted by women , and there 's recently been an anthology published of Scottish womens poetry , I think that 's a tradition and is perhaps related to second point , the fact that the material 's only just becoming available to us . |
| 4 | Because it was the women themselves who were organizing it because they felt part of it they did n't see it as some sort of other people that were more politically motivated that than them giving them something to keep them out on strike , which by its very nature could could have been something that the people would have accepted for a while and then not accepted . |
| 5 | It should have been something that the Royal Shakespeare did and not Tennents trying to turn it into a West End night out . ’ |
| 6 | I seemed to recall that in the past when we 'd met we 'd got on reasonably well , so I assumed that it must have been something that Jennifer had told you that had turned you against me , or , failing that , that you were just embarrassed at having to work with your sister 's ex-fiancé . ’ |
| 7 | Er had it been something that you 'd long sought after you know , like like in the mines where it had been an issue for some years ? |
| 8 | about school er further education on , on the magazine and I felt that perhaps , bearing in mind what he 'd said earlier about I have n't had any contact with you for thirteen years , that might have been something that you could 've you know reinforced a bit well we 've now got financial advisers , the other thing or one of the other things we 're doing is , is this contact magazine which we 're sending out to policy holders and it , you know , it helps to bridge the gap as it were . |
| 9 | er Apollo Leisure had decided that they would like to have arts and science under the same roof , er the arts has been something that 's considered an acceptable cultural pastime , and people will go out at weekends , take the family and will do something that , they would look at an exhibition , er or they would go to the theatre , whereas in science , there is n't really anything that you can do as a social or cultural pastime . |
| 10 | Has that been something that 's been on the government 's mind , the backhanded benefit of higher prices ? |
| 11 | The fear and the incipient hatred are something that we impenitent elitists must learn to live with , not anything we can deny . |
| 12 | The failures in the Savings and Loans industry are something that is of global significance in terms of public interest . |
| 13 | Council elections are something that we need to look at in other areas . |
| 14 | But there are a number of crime novels that make use of the immediate past to excellent effect ( Gladys Mitchell 's Late , Late in the Evening is one ) , and if the root causes of today 's events are something that set your imagination bubbling then perhaps this is the sort of book you would be best to write . |
| 15 | And they are something that they could probably do something about . |
| 16 | THE benefits of car leasing are something that have traditionally been considered the preserve of the business sector . |
| 17 | This year might represent a compromise with regard to the those two opposition positions which again I would suggest are something that perhaps owes more to than it does to actual political affiliation . |
| 18 | Condoms are something that everyone uses every day . |
| 19 | Tampons are something that only women use , but it 's something that must become part of our voc vocabulary if we 're to save lives . |
| 20 | There is no way that the content of my thought can both be something that the subject really thinks , apprehends or is conscious of , and yet fall outside the scope of an analysis of the act of thinking . |
| 21 | If we find cognisance flourishing where there is a set of actions as restricted as those of Christy Nolan 's , then how can reality be something that we posit as the limits of action : in this case a poor actor should have a correspondingly poor grasp of the real . |
| 22 | This does not take much time and it will be something that you will continue after this preparation phase is over . |
| 23 | Performance has to be exciting enough to make the boat attractive , but it has to be something that lighter and less experienced crews starting off in the class can handle . |
| 24 | Proofs and Three Parables by George Steiner Faber , £5.99 READING Proofs and Three Parables , George Steiner 's latest collection of short stories ( he prefers to call them ‘ allegories of argument ’ ) , it is not difficult to see why dialectical method should be something that is more common to modern philosophy than to fiction . |
| 25 | Let me hasten to say that in many schools , particularly in the West Riding , fine education took place , but far from it helping to increase drama in schools , it had the reverse effect for two reasons : ( 1 ) it appeared once more to be something that could only be handled by a specialist — this time a P.E . |
| 26 | If you see something in what he 's after , it must be something that you provide yourself . |
| 27 | It will not be something that ought to be part of our very definition . |
| 28 | It had to be something that would give the prospective punter some idea of the staggering depth and scope and thoroughness of Henry 's work . |
| 29 | It needs to be something that is talked about in the same way that racism and sexism are talked about . |
| 30 | Money has to be something that is widely accepted in settlement of debts . |