Example sentences of "something in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One can also add that there is something in the present policies of the SDLP which suggest a need to maintain a somewhat fragile unity in respect of the national question . |
| 2 | In consequence it is becoming increasingly accepted that not only does the anthropologist have his own social history and subjective stance , but more importantly , that those accounts which ignore this seem to lose something in the telling . |
| 3 | But there was something in the air like hummingbirds poised over exotic blooms or velvet sheened butterflies . |
| 4 | Something in the air . |
| 5 | So there has to be something in the world answering to the general predicate , just as there is something answering to the name . |
| 6 | Because there exists no distinction between causing the experience by acting and the maintenance of the experience requiring action , and so no conception of acting in order to experience a something in the external world . |
| 7 | Perhaps they have lost something in the printing , but the reader will never know . |
| 8 | It is , nevertheless , interesting that Norris should say , in passing , of Nietzsche ; ‘ there are many competing versions of Nietzsche , none possessing any absolute claim to articulate the ‘ truth' ’ of his text , but all of them — and this is Derrida 's point — made possible by something in the logic , the syntax or the structural resources of his writing . ’ |
| 9 | In simple terms , sponsorship of the Universities ' Athletic Union rugby championship alone is not acceptable to the UAU 's hierarchy , who seek money for all student sporting activities and are looking for something in the region of £100,000 to spread around . |
| 10 | ‘ You 've got to do something in the close season when there 's no jumping , ’ Elsworth joked , making light of a triumph that clearly thrilled him enormously . |
| 11 | The prayer of Jesus from the heart of the suffering world is not something in the mind , it is his accepted bodily agony and it is by being given the grace to accept our material weakness and pain and finally our death in union with him that we too can pray . |
| 12 | There must have been something in the Florida air in addition to vitamin C. One of the passes from Vinny Testaverde , the Tampa Bay quarterback , went through the hands of his intended receiver right in front of the goal-line , and into the hands of a team-mate , Mark Carrier , for a touchdown . |
| 13 | Last year he took home something in the region of $60 million : this year he will have to find room under the bed for 65 . |
| 14 | In doing so I am rather like the doctor by the patient 's bedside , who knows ; although of course he does not tell the patient — that the outcome of the disease will depend upon something in the constitution of that patient which he can not control nor further influence and which he can not even ascertain , except by the event . |
| 15 | There is something in the British character which predisposes us to push to the limit , and beyond , the resources of self-deception to create the illusion that we can enjoy incompatible advantages simultaneously and secure a prize without paying the price for it . |
| 16 | Thus the Lacanian account of the impossibility of desire often cites the following passage from Freud 's ‘ On the Universal Tendency to Debasement in the Sphere of Love ’ : ‘ It is my belief that , however strange it may sound , we must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is unfavourable to the realization of complete satisfaction , ( vii . |
| 17 | If I ca n't read or understand something in the paper he discusses it with me — about what is happening in the country or the community or about what politics can mean . |
| 18 | Something in the loneliness and fear he had experienced during his ordeal told him that he did . |
| 19 | There 's a something in the stillness |
| 20 | He stood , door in hand , checked by something in the way his visitors , a man and a woman , were standing . |
| 21 | He jumped out of the van and pulled off a sack that was hiding something in the back of the truck . |
| 22 | He went down there only to make tea or hide something in the fridge . |
| 23 | Mrs Parvis was standing out on the front doorstep , pretending to watch out for something in the sky . |
| 24 | Jordi 's head was set beautifully on his broad shoulders , and there was something in the way he held his neck to support that head which was unmistakably intelligent and sexy . |
| 25 | Many of those who went and fought for the Republicans were not always clear about why they were there , except that they felt a revulsion against fascism and a general feeling that they had to do something in the face of the frustrations of the 1930s . |
| 26 | ‘ Make out we have n't seen him , ’ Otley said as he pretended to be searching for something in the grass . |
| 27 | Something in the way this was said clearly caught Miss Blagden 's attention . |
| 28 | Certainly he saw the Pinkie campaign not only as a military endeavour , but as something in the nature of a religious crusade ; Scotland would be snatched not just from alliance with France , but from the yoke of Rome . |
| 29 | When asked why he could not enter , the guard replied , ‘ Oh , you can by dropping something in the box ’ . |
| 30 | Hungary owes something in the order of twenty billion dollars in international debt . |