Example sentences of "[conj] something that [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was wondering whether you had an aspirin or something that would help ? |
| 2 | Fifteen hundred pound if he was prepared to put a deposit down or something that would have been fifteen hundred quid . |
| 3 | A thirty five millimetre or something that 'll be quite erm yeah , I think the er cloud and sky is nice and the foreground is nice . |
| 4 | He was shouting at someone or something that could not be seen . |
| 5 | The treaty gave no indication of what a common agricultural policy would be other than something that would increase agricultural productivity , ensure a fair standard . |
| 6 | Second , while two thirds of respondents espoused an open systems policy , in reality few are adopting it — again , open systems is regarded as a technology to keep the computing professionals amused rather than something that will show real business benefits . |
| 7 | A crash or a motoring conviction was viewed as unlucky , rather than something that should have been avoided . |
| 8 | It had come to the stage in 2020 when anyone who regarded Time as other than something that could be measured precisely by chronometer was shunned as an eccentric . |
| 9 | And gradually , the King 's hand relaxed , and his bearing , and lastly his face , across which flickered indistinct and curious emotions : of relief and annoyance , of affection and something that might have been shame . |
| 10 | It played a very , very important part in David 's career , because it was for that film that he wrote ‘ Space Oddity'/ Most of the stuff on the film came from the Deram label but I thought we ought to have a very special piece of material — some new material — and something that would show how very fine and inventive a writer David was . |
| 11 | Or perhaps one might just narrow it a bit further than that and say well let's see how history is going in the first two years , or the O level history course , or something like that , and we would discuss well given that all these different people are involved in history or have a stake in it in some way , or are interested in it , and given that you 're only going to have a very limited amount of time to do anything in , how can you do something that would be genuinely useful to the school in looking at the history teaching and something that would have the support of the people involved so that it was n't threatening anybody but they felt there was something being genuinely helpful . |
| 12 | I has taken me a while to figure out that ‘ we ai n't got Windows , we got DOS ’ so I would appreciate any advice in your columns on the basics — what sorts of programs are suitable for a simple soul like me who needs to knock out the odd poster , magazine or newsletter and something that will look more professional , from time to time . |
| 13 | I hope that the Opposition will get their act together on the Bill and recognise that it represents enormous investment in Wales and something that will put Cardiff and Wales generally on the world map in a very big way . |
| 14 | Planning Ward v Secretary of State for the Environment ; CA ( Woolf , Nicholls , Staughton LJJ ) ; 25 Sept 1989 A private garden was capable of being an ‘ open space ’ and something that should be taken into account when deciding whether a development proposed to be carried out in a conservation area would preserve or enhance the area within s 277 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1971 , as substituted , and of Circular No 8 of 1987 issued by the Secretary of State . |
| 15 | Specifically , the recent merging of the purchase grant into the general grant is dangerous , and something that should be resisted . |
| 16 | see if something that could be useful , or it could not , you never know . |
| 17 | It 's one of the principal forces at the core of the universe , perhaps not the main force , but something that can give us immediate enlightenment if we … ’ |
| 18 | Crime is a big issue not just an issue of sentencing or the courts , but something that must be looked at away from politcs . |
| 19 | and so sometimes the , the calls do seem unreasonable but you should n't get cross , and when you go and see them sometimes you realize why they 're anxious because something that might seem quite trivial to you they might know somebody who had similar symptoms and it actually turned out to be meningitis or something so you 're then able to put their minds at rest . |
| 20 | Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates said in a televised interview with CNBC-TV that he knows of no effort by the US Federal Trade Commission to force a restructuring of Microsoft , despite its ongoing probe : ‘ I certainly have n't heard any suggestion that they 're even considering something that would change the structure of our company , ’ Gates said ; he also warned on the Business Insiders programme that Microsoft Corp will not be as profitable in the long-term as it has in recent years — ‘ The kind of profit margin we 've had in the past will be very unlikely for us to achieve in the future ; we 've said after tax margins probably wo n't stay over 20% in the mid to long-term , and they could go quite a bit lower than that in the short-term , ’ the company 's chief executive declared . |
| 21 | He envisaged a Soviet return to the position of leading exporter of grain as something that would make ‘ Messrs Imperialists ’ sit up and take notice . |
| 22 | While some British officials were interested in the Schuman Plan , the Labour Party rejected it as something that would limit its ability to strive for democratic Socialism in Britain ‘ and to apply the economic controls necessary to achieve it ’ . |
| 23 | This seems to indicate that , despite his reference to sex as a fine and noble thing , he still regards it with a certain amount of misgiving , and as something that should be kept under strict control . |
| 24 | Most governments in Africa today , whether civilian or military , democratic or dictatorial , look upon the media in general as something that should be instrumental in promoting national goals . |
| 25 | Professional views of mental illness , especially when manifested in the public realm , continue to be based on nineteenth century ideas about madness as something that should be brought under control and removed from the public gaze . |
| 26 | Applying AI problem-solving techniques in this way is in itself a notable advance but , as the editors indicate , the research has also addressed fundamental questions on the nature of knowledge , both in terms of formal representational systems and as an essentially social phenomenon — knowledge as something that must be shared and transferred among men and machines . |
| 27 | We have probably often been guilty of viewing censorship as something that must be imposed from time to time . |
| 28 | Mr Reed maintains that , even if such a late take-up did not happen often , ‘ it was common currency among merchant bankers as something that could happen ’ . |
| 29 | Otherness is not so much something to be frightened of , a threat to the stability of the self , as something that can be added to or incorporated into the already existing . |
| 30 | You see despair as something that can be rooted out by machines — some sort of a steam-shovel , perhaps . |