Example sentences of "that it [vb -s] something " in BNC.
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| 1 | Philosophers , and especially philosophers of art , who say that visual perception involves something two-dimensional usually go on to say that it involves something else , a judgement whereby we get from the two-dimensional to the three-dimensional , the world of solid objects at a distance from the perceiver . |
| 2 | It is so very much what it is that it becomes something else . |
| 3 | If I am unfortunate enough to experience the untimely death of several people I am attached to so that it forms something of a pattern , then I am likely to experience considerable difficulty with my bereavements : there has been none of the unconscious preparation for the death of someone close that goes on in our awareness of incidents that are likely to occur . |
| 4 | But it is charitable to assume that it has something to do with the kind of critic that Pound is . |
| 5 | But if we are to understand it , and , particularly , if we are to distinguish within it between cynical accommodation and genuine playfulness , we are going to have to go beyond the embarrassingly inappropriate assumption that it has something to do with ‘ Brechtian ’ distanciation or ‘ modernist ’ self-reflexiveness . |
| 6 | I feel certain , however , that it has something to do with predators ; the human kind included . |
| 7 | ‘ But I think the most likely is that it has something to do with a girl . ’ |
| 8 | One view is that it has something to do with the energy , drive and willingness to take risks associated ( in the ‘ up ’ phase , at least ) with traits underlying manic-depression . |
| 9 | A fish in distress swims erratically near the surface and readily suggests that it has something wrong with it . |
| 10 | Javad v Aquil [ 1991 ] All ER 243 confirms that the concept of a tenancy at will remains a reality and while the landlord may be concerned that the tenant should not become a periodic tenant until the grant of the lease , the tenant may wish to ensure that it has something more concrete than a tenancy at will . |
| 11 | So you can imagine that it wants something done . |
| 12 | It is to have failed to give the transcendence of God its proper cash value , to have weakened it so that it means something like ‘ outside the solar system ’ or ‘ above the galaxy ’ . |
| 13 | The derivation of the word ‘ fact ’ can indeed remind us that it means something constructed rather than just observed . |
| 14 | The lack of public confidence in the police and the declining status of the police profession was commented upon by a police constable : ‘ I want to leave the station wearing my uniform and feel proud , that it means something , honour and dignity . |
| 15 | The court has held that it means something more than " useful " , " reasonable " or " desirable . " |