Example sentences of "something that was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something that was not form , but was only matter , could not become general in this way and could not answer to the generality of the concepts with which we think . |
| 2 | Work such as that of Young et al ( 1988 ) has even shown us how something that was traditionally assumed to be as intangible and subjective as the nature of conscious awareness itself can be disrupted by physical damage to the brain and can be successfully studied by the observational techniques of cognitive psychology . |
| 3 | She remembered indistinctly the sense of her body being gradually taken over and pumped full of something that was not Phoebe . |
| 4 | Madeleine seemed to like him as he was , so why should he worry about something that was n't important any more ? |
| 5 | David had come up with something that was extremely unoriginal . |
| 6 | And when I had it customized , I could boast I was wearing something that was made-to-measure — twice . |
| 7 | Indeed , if all else had failed — if the supplies had seldom been delivered on time , if the contras had declined to fight , if the money had gone astray , if the planes had crashed — the cause was still something that was simply right , whatever sort of mess had resulted . |
| 8 | Rose stared ahead , her eyes on something that was not in the room . |
| 9 | ‘ I tried to produce something that was very beautiful , very generous and very warm ; that showed the family life I have with my wife , ’ says Koons , a little hurt . |
| 10 | Serious collectors ( and there are only a handful in the world ) are looking for pre-sinking letters , postcards or photographs disembarked at the Titanic 's last port of call , Queenstown ; signals or accounts of the sinking ; or , best of all , something that was actually in the ill-fated vessel . |
| 11 | They felt profoundly insecure in the face of something that was so personal and intimate . |
| 12 | Sex between Henry and Elinor had come to a halt some four or five years ago and , from what Henry could remember about it , it was something that was better discontinued . |
| 13 | That would be to postpone something that was already a considerable difficulty . |
| 14 | Faced with the impossible task of finding something that was cheap , simple and fair , the Group opted , to their credit , for a system that would be as fair as possible in all the circumstances , letting the other criteria take care of themselves . |
| 15 | Severe degradation and melting of the reactor 's core was regarded as something that was virtually impossible given that the plant was designed to cope with something as extreme as a guillotine break in a main coolant pipe . |
| 16 | The reduction comes about because something that was ‘ good ’ — had been removed from the store , and the total value is therefore less . |
| 17 | As a child in wartime London I must have unconsciously sought a hobby that had nothing of death in it — something that was all beauty . |
| 18 | It seemed possible that childhood cancer was therefore something that happened naturally , was something that was part of the child 's genetic make-up , its chromosomes . |
| 19 | I realised that I needed something that was a bit more active and fairly creative , preferably something that included both sexes . |
| 20 | Why , he kept asking himself , did a woman , trained in the art of healing , who had been a naval medical officer and not somebody 's wife , suddenly volunteer for something that was inevitably going to be highly dangerous — and almost certainly involve her in killing — at close quarters ? |
| 21 | There was a burst of laughter and the woman shrieked something that was lost in the hubbub . |
| 22 | He tended to regard the conversion of his son Harilal to Islam as something that was prompted by monetary considerations , and in the case of such converts , he maintains that they should be readmitted to Hinduism without hesitation if they so desired and truly repented of their erroneous actions . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , touring with Fleetwood Mac seemed like something that was not going to be much of a pleasure for me . |
| 24 | But as soon as we hit with something that was n't what we were about , we always tried to get the band back to what we thought it should be — three guitars and drums played loud by four New York bums . |
| 25 | ‘ I wanted something that was going to be failsafe , something that would n't , after two years of touring , collapse on me . |
| 26 | The only worrying aspect of the match was the overwhelming superiority which Queensland enjoyed at the line-out , something that was to be a recurring problem in the later stages of the tour in the big matches . |
| 27 | Attaching himself to Sien was like fastening himself to something that was eternal , that never changed , for all its mad fits and perversity . |
| 28 | But dancing made her remember a cold Candlemas Eve , and every sentimentally crooned love song reminded her of something that was best not remembered , and she was n't ready , yet , to stick out her chin and smile . |
| 29 | ‘ Thankfully I 've forgotten it all now and I have to look at it as something that was flattering to me at the time . |
| 30 | ‘ But they have n't got time to look for something that was probably a mouse , ’ said Masklin . |