Example sentences of "something that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I realised in this day and age that people are looking for something that wee bit different , and we found with the long spell of bad weather we 've had over the summer months that people want to stay inside , ’ explained Mr Nelson . |
| 2 | I really want us all to move on as musicians , which is something that other bands do n't seem to be doing . |
| 3 | They feel that it is not appropriate for their naughty child to receive special treatment or they feel that they should not reward the child for doing something that other children do naturally . |
| 4 | What the HMI appear to be taking issue with here in a particularly strongly value-laden way is something that other writers have variously called ‘ formal ’ , ‘ traditional ’ , ‘ product ’ , ‘ production ’ , ‘ transmission ’ , ‘ class-enquiry ’ , ‘ recitation ’ and ‘ discipline-based ’ teaching . |
| 5 | Something that other people can see , something that other people like in us . |
| 6 | Something that other people can see , something that other people like in us . |
| 7 | Something that other people can be encouraged to live up to . |
| 8 | Is that something that other folk on Stronsay know or is just something you |
| 9 | It 's obviously something important , something that still hurts you — and , believe me , I can understand that . ’ |
| 10 | It 's a very complicated piece of code and there is a question whether it [ Microsoft ] can produce a mass market operating system out of something that complex — look at Unix . |
| 11 | Your body — even if it ca n't do Mr Kent 's maths tests or win the high jump — remains something that modern science can not copy . |
| 12 | Yet there is that worm in the apple , the niggling fear that something that good , ca n't be all that good . |
| 13 | As in the legal definition , the interactionist conception of crime also implicitly portrays it as something that ordinary people are likely to want to do . |
| 14 | Of course , this is something that private schools already do , but it is interesting that , even in the public sector , some ‘ magnet ’ schools , upset by their relatively poor performance in examination results , are asking if they ca n't exclude children who come to them on placing requests from deprived areas . |
| 15 | Not being heard or listened to is something that elderly people can find frightening . |
| 16 | If I ca n't do something that simple then I 'm not worthy to be called your partner ’ |
| 17 | Er , I I do apologise but erm I 've never known a fox yet drop a cattle , a stock , er something that big , when , when you said farmers and their cattle , their d mostly dairy farmers and all the rest of it I 've never seen a fox do that . |
| 18 | Wire fences are not something that wild elephants encounter every day , so this behaviour could hardly have been learned , still less inherited . |
| 19 | Something that concerned several mothers I talked to who were on their own , was what to tell their children about their real father when they are old enough to know . |
| 20 | That is something that special educators have , so far , lamentably failed to offer disabled children and their families . |
| 21 | At least if you buy an old guitar there 's bound to be something you just hate about it or something that just jumps out at you and says , ‘ You ca n't do this ! ’ |
| 22 | Because sometimes , if the employer goes along , people will think , oh yes , they 're only doing it to get their quota up , and they regard it as something that just helps us , and we can get nearer our quota , and it might be something that we could encourage the unions to help us with , because they could point out the positive benefits to people to be registered , despite the rotten name that they 're called . |
| 23 | is it something that just looks after itself or |
| 24 | Assimilation of place is only noticeable in this regressive assimilation of alveolar consonants ; it is not something that foreign learners need to learn to do . |
| 25 | One watch succeeded another through the day , though how the rabbits judged the passing of the time is something that civilized human beings have lost the power to feel . |
| 26 | Typically , his history takes the form of establishing a concept of something that chronological history would assume had no history , for example , madness , or sexuality . |
| 27 | Anxiety for example , is something that human beings will always experience , and to think that you can free them from anxiety in some future utopia , or go back to some ordered erm , ideal state in the past , where everyone was so secure , that they would never feel anxiety , is just a myth according to Freud . |
| 28 | I just wanted to check what the position of the old executive committee of the W R A D which been appointed , whether that was in fact erm , something that qualified for a full allowance . |