Example sentences of "something [conj] [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think I ought really to say that it 's not something that 's particularly associated with opting out , it 's something we were already doing anyway as an aid to better management . |
| 2 | As give them something that 's not gon na be erm of use , or something that they do n't see |
| 3 | It 'll take fag burns and , you want something that 's not gon na that 's like , that 's got li like that crystaley stuff |
| 4 | Any anyway , I appeared there , this was interesting because , being a friend , I did n't swear on the Bible , it 's something that 's not brought up in these notes , you do n't think it 's quite an important thing , really , so the Clerk of the Court , with his bible , would you , you know , repeat this . |
| 5 | Well I , this this is something that 's always staggered me because he worked seven days a week , down the mine feeding horses you see , had to be fed , and watered seven days a week . |
| 6 | You know really weighted down with something that 's really bothering you . |
| 7 | Not something that 's ever troubled me . |
| 8 | Anyway Charlton is usually slow to change something that is n't broken ( rightly so ) . |
| 9 | You always feel foolish , running away from something that is n't chasing you . |
| 10 | ‘ The recommendations say the requirements of the disabled should be monitored , but how can you monitor something that is n't happening ? ’ |
| 11 | Right , however , variability is something that is n't taken into account , right , in our normal models of profit , profit maximizing behaviour . |
| 12 | If there 's something that is n't working , there 's a well known adage with computers , do n't fix it . |
| 13 | But about many of its manifestations there can be something ominous — something that is acutely understood and eloquently exposed in The Counterlife . |
| 14 | The attitudinal use of intonation is something that is best acquired through talking with and listening to English speakers , and this course aims simply to train learners to be more aware of and sensitive to the way English speakers use intonation . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | Money has to be something that is widely accepted in settlement of debts . |
| 17 | But , he adds : ‘ There is an enormous advantage in building change on to something that is already known and respected . |
| 18 | The E.coli rrnB and rrnD P 1 promoters for rRNAs appear to be adapted to high productivity by having a rapid promoter clearance , something that is probably related to the characteristic instability of their open complexes ( 10 ) . |
| 19 | In the same way when choosing a frame , it is better to use a wooden or plain gold frame rather than a pastel colour or something that is heavily decorated . |
| 20 | The person giving it may not realise the full legal consequences of it as regards the release of a co-debtor ; but that is not , in my opinion , a sufficient ground for reading into the document something that is not expressed in it ; and unless you find in it something qualifying the general words , it appears to me that the legal consequences of the general words of discharge must follow , notwithstanding that those consequences may go beyond what the person giving the document would have intended if they had been pointed out to him at the time , and he had had an opportunity of addressing his mind to them . |
| 21 | Quantum mechanics therefore allows a particle to escape from inside a black hole , something that is not allowed in classical mechanics . |
| 22 | It is unacceptable to think of the person who is maybe dying wanting something that is not delivered . |
| 23 | Moreover , since they are allowed to divide their investment income between the two of them — something that is not permitted with earned income — they could each stay below Labour 's new 50 per cent band , which starts at £40,000 . |
| 24 | But doing the whole thing — removing daytime clothes , putting on special sleeping garments , emptying the bladder , cleaning the teeth and finally getting into the purpose-built sleeping furniture — is something that is only done in the bedrooms specially built for the purpose . |
| 25 | Is Chemical Dependency a real disease and should Doctors waste valuable time on something that is usually considered to be self induced ? |
| 26 | The medical and scientific director , Dr Peter Davey , said : ‘ Doctors have always had to make value judgments in their diagnoses and that is something that is never going to change . |
| 27 | This is a traditional and most unfortunate highland practice but nevertheless it is something that is currently accepted by the church and I would hope that the convenor in drawing up , or the panel in drawing up the leaflet , would take account of this . |
| 28 | of the , the national average and it 's not because erm they 're paying high wages to get the , the most able people , it 's because there are mechanisms , institutional mechanisms that keep wages high , there 's no market in the jobs for , th these are generalizations but I think they are fairly , fairly true erm becau there is no market for er for the jobs , for civil service jobs that appointments are made and it is much more important who you know than , than what , what you know and the old boy network , as it 's called , in this country is fairly important in the English Civil Service but a similar sort of network tends to be far more important in developing countries , something that is euphemistically called patronage erm but we might call the old boy network or er er jobs for the boys whatever , but erm |
| 29 | We still feel someone in the the local community knows something and is n't coming forward . |