Example sentences of "that something [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When an apostrophe comes just before an s at the end of a word , it shows that something belongs to that word . |
| 2 | When she was pronounced to be the image of my father , I suspected that something belonging to my father must have got inside my mother to the place where the baby was being carried . |
| 3 | Whilst women 's role as mothers was of paramount importance to society — particularly after the exile when maternity , for various pragmatic reasons , became the means of transmitting and establishing in biological terms , as it were , religious and ethnic identity — it would seem logical , given our culture — nature opposition and the fact that culture seeks to control and impose upon whatever has been construed as natural , that something had to be done in cultural terms about the natural function of childbirth . |
| 4 | A public consensus began to form , especially in rural areas , that something had to be done to force the Westminster government to act against the killing and crime . |
| 5 | It was in 1972 , when I was twenty-five , that I decided that something had to be done . |
| 6 | There had not been time yet to find out exactly how brilliant the child was , but Miss Honey had learned enough to realise that something had to be done about it as soon as possible . |
| 7 | John Feaver , LTA Director of Events and Tournaments , said , ‘ Our experiences last year convinced us that something had to be done and we hope that this system will really help the enthusiastic spectator . ’ |
| 8 | On the one hand , business leaders agreed that something had to be done to the health-care system because the cost of covering their workers was eroding their profits . |
| 9 | Most people acknowledged that something had to be done , but Congress continued to drag its heels . |
| 10 | At the end of the war the Buckinghams decided that something had to be done ; not Mrs Buckingham , who was still repining , but Harriet 's vast web of paternal relations . |
| 11 | They said that something had to be done to put right the mess which the Government had made of the Self-Governing Schools etc . |
| 12 | He told police many people hated working in the hangar and the thought had just come into his head that something had to be done . |
| 13 | ‘ The club realised that something had to be done . |
| 14 | And that something according to three simultaneous reports in Proceedings of US National Academy of Sciences ( vol 79 , p 7824 , 7837 and 7842 ) , may be a chromosomal rearrangement . |
| 15 | Consultations with other doctors in Britain suggested that something like this format may well have been fairly common in the past with the very poorest patients , while modern studies of casualty departments revealed that something approximating to it was still used with the most stigmatised of patients . |
| 16 | In the case of words which combine a fairly definite descriptive meaning with a valuational meaning it is rather a puzzle to say what correct linguistic usage bids one do , if one recognizes that something answers to the descriptive meaning , but does not have the attitude towards it which the word expresses in virtue of its ‘ value charge ’ , as one might put it . |
| 17 | Mamma d'Agostino made sure that something came from Rico every month , and Sean and Michael looked after most things anyway . |
| 18 | The first sign to Creggan that something to do with Minch might be happening came at last nearly four weeks later when the Men opened up her cage again . |
| 19 | If " Jones is a man " is true , then , of course , it necessarily follows that something falls under the concept man , i.e. " For some x , x is a man " is true also . |
| 20 | The fact that something happens to be legal as a matter of tradition going far back into history does not mean that it is not a vice in society . |
| 21 | Arthur Andersen , for example , says that the risk that a long-standing association with a client may impair objectivity is perceived , rather than actual , but concedes that something needs to be done ‘ so that others do not perceive that objectivity can be compromised ’ . |
| 22 | The DSS seems to recognise that something needs to be done about this . |
| 23 | It is an active faith : a belief that something needs to be done and can be done by this man Jesus . |
| 24 | There is a huge audience for television programmes like that ; people know that something needs to be done , either for themselves or for someone else . |
| 25 | Jackson quotes Freud 's view that something has to be added to what is novel and unfamiliar to make it uncanny ; this something is ‘ nothing new or alien , but something which is familiar and old — established in the mind and become alienated from it through the process of repression ’ ( p. 66 ) . |
| 26 | A further difficulty is that repeated mismatching between feelings and behaviour can build up stresses in the system to the extent that something has to ‘ blow ’ . |
| 27 | WE hear that there was a big attendance at the first meeting of the new Basingstoke branch of the League Against Cruel Sports , when the League 's information officer , Kevin Flack , told them : ‘ I believe that most people are opposed to hunting but it has been recent antics of the Quorn Hunt and publicity from the MacNamara Bill that has convinced them that something has to be done to put an end to their activities . ’ |
| 28 | Few would deny that something has to be done to alleviate the problems there , caused by up to 9,000 vehicles per day negotiating a narrow , winding road . |
| 29 | However , the title development is useful because it highlights the fact that something has to be done with evaluations : something to improve the process next time around . |
| 30 | What is involved in saying that something exists in its own right , while something else does not ? |