Example sentences of "something [conj] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is far better to like and admire something that is wrong , or to like and admire for the wrong reason , provided we do so sincerely , than to follow slavishly the dictates or ideas of some other person . |
| 2 | But about many of its manifestations there can be something ominous — something that is acutely understood and eloquently exposed in The Counterlife . |
| 3 | Do these experts really think that mothers are so inept that they would go on doing something that is so ineffective ? ’ |
| 4 | It would be a new tax , involve paying for something that is at present free and would hit hardest at low-income car-owners . |
| 5 | ‘ A print of the right kind is not simply something that is worth money . |
| 6 | But , he adds : ‘ There is an enormous advantage in building change on to something that is already known and respected . |
| 7 | This small branch — it has only 42 members — showed that something that is a little ‘ out of the ordinary ’ can prompt a very good public response to Wings Appeal . |
| 8 | When you have something that is absolutely right , something you are proud to present , send it in . ’ |
| 9 | Something that is probably quite ineffable : |
| 10 | The ability to return to education at later stages in one 's life is something that is very important and I hope will be encouraged . |
| 11 | Also , we have something that is very unique and that is a design group that provides a design service at arm 's length to each of the operating companies . |
| 12 | If you 're administering , you might as well administer something that is new and challenging rather than doing something I had been doing all my life . |
| 13 | Furthermore the way one sees things , and the values one holds , are not an individualist matter , but something that is shared with other people in a society . |
| 14 | He said it would be a mistake , ‘ a mistake in sentiment ; for it could only mean that we were embalming the corpse of something that is n't really dead and need n't die at all — an aesthetic mistake — because we do n't really want to have the taste of our schooldays established as a boundary for our whole lives ’ . |
| 15 | This is something that is necessary for world peace and stability . ’ |
| 16 | Women seem fearful of becoming too friendly with a single mother ; fearful that if they spend too much time with her , they might just get a taste for something that is denied them . |
| 17 | ‘ We have found something that is going to revolutionise the archaeological interpretations of Peru 's ancient civilisations . |
| 18 | And suddenly hearing something that is part of your body , out there , beyond your control , entering other people 's lives — it was too much for me , I just collapsed , crying , everyone had to hold me up … ‘ |
| 19 | Saying that Americans are obsessed with spectator sport is a bit like saying that life in Japan is bliss : something that is more true for men than for women . |
| 20 | Instead of exhorting virtue , the government might try to do something that is in its power , about inflation . |
| 21 | The taste is good enough to send half a million people a year squirrelling around in the woods of northern Michigan , in search of something that is often no more than a couple of inches high and is usually hidden under a thick pile of forest-floor debris . |
| 22 | ‘ Whatsoever then , he removes out of the state that nature hath provided , and left it in , he hath mixed his labour with , and joined to it something that is his own , and thereby makes it his property . ’ |
| 23 | When we see the sun , he says , the ‘ immediate object ’ of our perceiving mind is not the sun itself ‘ but something that is intimately joined to our soul , … an idea ’ . |
| 24 | You are about to set out on an interesting and formative experience , something that is likely to have a major impact on your life . |
| 25 | It is unacceptable to think of the person who is maybe dying wanting something that is not delivered . |
| 26 | The reason for this might be that it feels more possible to grieve the death of someone or something that is perhaps significant , but not so important as the death of the spouse . |
| 27 | But both are only extremes of something that is considered perfectly normal : that girls and young women should want to change themselves . |
| 28 | How something that is good for the company will be good for them . |
| 29 | Do n't try and set up something that is quite patently false . |
| 30 | Karajan would give that fantasist all the freedom he needed because he knew that what appeals to an audience is something arising out of the immediate performance , out of something that is happening within the mind of the musician at that moment . |