Example sentences of "[noun] that something [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we are moving into an age , I think it must be recognised , where some of the traditional jobs for girls , for example , secretaries , shops , things of this sort , are actually being decreased because of the technological revolution , so bearing in mind that something like seventy per cent of women are actually in employment , it 's very important that a girl , at the age of thirteen or fourteen , does not decide to cut herself off from the possibility of employment in these technological , engineering fields . |
| 2 | It still remains the case that something between 50 and 60 per cent of all regions in the Community lie within 15 per cent of the Community average per capita GDP . |
| 3 | ‘ But I never had any inkling that something like this would happen . ’ |
| 4 | It beggars belief that something like this could happen . ’ |
| 5 | I 'd been given a hint that something like this could be on the cards when I was first approached . ’ |
| 6 | Although I 'm starting to cope with the idea that the rape was n't my fault , I ca n't get rid of the feeling that something about my appearance singled me out . |
| 7 | Your reader should be left only with the feeling that something about life has been made clear . |
| 8 | Be best cut out with a sharp knife that something like a Stanley knife |
| 9 | Although these had seen their origin in the reign of Henry IV , it was to be in his son 's brief reign that something of a revolution ( whose effects , however , were not to last ) took place . |
| 10 | There can be no doubt that something of this sort took place at this time in Montreal , and that it forms one of the subconscious inputs in the growing boy 's development , along with the high family traditions and the significance of his names . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But it does n't seem to be an acceptable idea that something like burglary or a street crime can cause quite severe emotional disturbance . ’ |
| 13 | Everything pointed to the fact that something at an extremely high altitude looked favourably on Branson 's endeavours . |