Example sentences of "be something that [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had to be something that would give the prospective punter some idea of the staggering depth and scope and thoroughness of Henry 's work . |
| 2 | This would be a Council of Ministers with majority voting being permissible on a ‘ limited field of discussion ’ , but this would still be something that would lack the reality of supranationalism . |
| 3 | A principle of inquiry can not be something that may keep us from recognizing a clear and settled conception . |
| 4 | This suggests that he thinks of the impression as being something that could have a name of its own . |
| 5 | Collecting all the raw material to create the final page or document is only the beginning of the desktop publishing process and is something that would have to have been done whatever system was being used . |
| 6 | Looked at from Scotland , it is sadly tied up with Thatcherism , which , we hope , is something that will pass , since it goes against a better , more basic feeling which is still there . |
| 7 | The amount of detail in a plan is something that will vary with circumstances and a student 's knowledge . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , ’ he said , ‘ this is something that will take a long time to develop . |
| 9 | The " otherness " of the past ( the contrast between life today and life in the past ) is something that will come into sharp focus . |
| 10 | Many mothers of sons never see them to talk to on their own from the day they marry , because their daughters-in-law always expect to be present on every conceivable occasion , and this is something that can build up a very understandable resentment . |
| 11 | It is something that can have an independent existence , that is , can be distinctly identified . |
| 12 | Learning how we measure time is something that could link effectively with cross-curricular work on telling the time , learning about the calendar and the seasons . |
| 13 | Could , could I just say that Homeward , I mean there the , the parking is obviously a problem , that that is something that could go by , but I mean , I went to , the last time I went to Homeward , and walked out , and it 's before we had all this rain , my shoes were under water . |
| 14 | ‘ The essence of the patent for you is surely that you believe the heat is there and if it can be scaled up , as you hope it can , that is something that could have manifest benefits to everybody . |
| 15 | Playing the exact same solos every night on tour is good too , because the notes are firmly ingrained in your head and that makes it harder for you to mess up in a major way , which is something that could happen if you were winging it every night . |
| 16 | Erm , so that 's an illusion , a delusion , in other words , an illusion is something that could happen , but the difference between an illusion and an error , is an error is just a cognitive mistake , an illusion is a cognitive mistake that is kept going by a wish . |
| 17 | So it 's caused by foetal position and there 's something that can make it worse , you know the mother erm inside erm the womb there 's a bag of fluid that the baby floats in |
| 18 | This is a minor thing , but in view of what erm Colin was saying about religion and nationality I think it 's something that will matter . |
| 19 | It 's something that will help me to go on . |
| 20 | One of the other the other things that we will erm be taking responsibility for is , is something called the Front Line Review which I want to come back too , because it 's something that will interest you as a group erm , but that 's basically again a Council learn initiative , where the Council 's want to look at over the next month all of the front line services we provide , the , the services that you come into contact with on a day to day erm level and look at , you know , are we providing a service as you want , are we providing them efficiently , how would you like to see them better provided . |
| 21 | That 's something that will need to be financed and it 's something which the Board will need to find the money to do . |
| 22 | Well there 's something that will have to be will be |
| 23 | ‘ It 's something that should have been done a long time ago . |
| 24 | Tampons are something that only women use , but it 's something that must become part of our voc vocabulary if we 're to save lives . |
| 25 | He had played the worst of tricks on her , making her lose all her self-respect , and it was something that would rankle in her heart for the rest of her life . |
| 26 | Lately , he had begun to think that evolution was something that would occur in the soul and , in time , the fripperies of science would be revealed to be dangerous toys . |
| 27 | I knew that Vecchi 's reason for shooting Mahoney was something that must have been worrying Mr. Bonanza . |
| 28 | And the fact that your wife is erm there was something that could 've possibly been done for your wife and that is something that maybe I would 've mentioned at the end , do you think this would of be any benefit to the wife only as maybe an ending statement or something |