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 | 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 . |
| 3 | You know really weighted down with something that 's really bothering you . |
| 4 | Not something that 's ever troubled me . |
| 5 | But about many of its manifestations there can be something ominous — something that is acutely understood and eloquently exposed in The Counterlife . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | Money has to be something that is widely accepted in settlement of debts . |
| 9 | But , he adds : ‘ There is an enormous advantage in building change on to something that is already known and respected . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Is Chemical Dependency a real disease and should Doctors waste valuable time on something that is usually considered to be self induced ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 |