Example sentences of "that something " in BNC.
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| 1 | — imagine that something drives one on , a clear vision , that one knows what one is doing . |
| 2 | Yet that something not so much a thing as an eye . |
| 3 | I was given a couple of interviews straight off which , though unsuccessful , were useful practice and I felt confident that something would soon turn up . |
| 4 | She noticed that something was up and she came over to see me . |
| 5 | Cameron and Menzies looked at each other , searching for signs of belief that something could still be made of the occasion . |
| 6 | There can be no doubt that something of this sort took place at this time in Montreal , and that it forms one of the subconscious inputs in the growing boy 's development , along with the high family traditions and the significance of his names . |
| 7 | I think that it would be true to say that , nowadays , most materialists want to avoid theories that are as nakedly behaviouristic as this , and want to accommodate the common-sense intuition that something inner and introspectible is missing in the blind or deaf , for example , in addition to their lost capacity to respond . |
| 8 | So it was back to the hooks in the faith that something must turn up . |
| 9 | I see the whole chapter as a subtle but misconceived footnote to Crime and Punishment ; in these pages , instead of brushing past Raskolnikov and Svidrigailov in his return upon the underground man , Dostoevsky has allowed himself to be obstructed by them , and the result is a Stavrogin who compounds Raskolnikov 's bracing himself to enter the police station ‘ as a man ’ and confess with Svidrigailov 's reaching out in all directions , including the far extremes of moral and physical debauchery , in the hope that something , it does n't matter what , will make him unbored . |
| 10 | Yet vestigial gestures towards value persist , usually at the end of an exposition , where the critic in a final flourish claims , or at least hopes , that something valuable has emerged from the analysis ; a revelation of the quality of the author 's imagination ; or of the inevitable tendency of all texts to be about their own processes of composition , or to come apart in the reader 's hand ; or of the aesthetic fascination of the patterns of imagery that have been revealed ; or , at the very least , and least interestingly , that something ‘ interesting ’ will have been said . |
| 11 | Yet vestigial gestures towards value persist , usually at the end of an exposition , where the critic in a final flourish claims , or at least hopes , that something valuable has emerged from the analysis ; a revelation of the quality of the author 's imagination ; or of the inevitable tendency of all texts to be about their own processes of composition , or to come apart in the reader 's hand ; or of the aesthetic fascination of the patterns of imagery that have been revealed ; or , at the very least , and least interestingly , that something ‘ interesting ’ will have been said . |
| 12 | But it does n't seem to be an acceptable idea that something like burglary or a street crime can cause quite severe emotional disturbance . ’ |
| 13 | The obvious temptation is to dismiss yesterday 's events as an old fashioned share ramp , but there is a niggling feeling that something more substantial is going on behind the scenes . |
| 14 | This was the year of the first wave of reforms in Hungary , when thinking communists were beginning to realise that something had gone awfully wrong . |
| 15 | Just inside the front porch , a handwritten book is prefaced with the words ‘ This book has been compiled that something , more than their mere names , may be known of the Lavenham men who gave their lives for their country in the Great War . ’ |
| 16 | Then there is changing definitions or the method of collection of statistics in such a way that something misleading is produced . |
| 17 | When pressed , he almost conceded that something of the original philosophy of the 1992 programme may have been lost . |
| 18 | Everyone agrees that something will have to be seen to be done before the next annual general meeting in February . |
| 19 | The newspaper 's local correspondent admitted that ‘ it is hard to believe what happened , but there 's no doubt that something did ’ . |
| 20 | What matters is that something should be done to give us jobs and money to live on . |
| 21 | The ‘ purpose at hand ’ , to distinguish between criminals and decent people , requires also that policemen and women be able to sense that something unusual and abnormal is occurring . |
| 22 | I feel my heart pounding as I think of her , and I can not push from my mind a strong feeling that something has happened to her . |
| 23 | This small branch — it has only 42 members — showed that something that is a little ‘ out of the ordinary ’ can prompt a very good public response to Wings Appeal . |
| 24 | Garbett had a retreat for ordinands and smuggled Ramsey into the house lest one of the young men guess that something was up . |
| 25 | This seems to me to illustrate what I would call the ‘ Breakthrough Phenomenon ’ : the sudden discovery that something which has been assumed to be out of the question is not out of the question at all . |
| 26 | But we hoped that something could be found . |
| 27 | It 's at moments like this that something magical happens . |
| 28 | Immediately we realise that something is very wrong . |
| 29 | Thus the Lacanian account of the impossibility of desire often cites the following passage from Freud 's ‘ On the Universal Tendency to Debasement in the Sphere of Love ’ : ‘ It is my belief that , however strange it may sound , we must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is unfavourable to the realization of complete satisfaction , ( vii . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |