Example sentences of "[be] something [adj] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So there seems to be something odd about the cat . |
| 2 | Truly there must be something strange about the seaside , when the mere sight of seeing an ankle had made his heart beat the faster . |
| 3 | This learned advertisement suggests that , just like in the Bertillon system , when you get a lot of small pieces of evidence grouped together , it can add up to be something prodigious in the way of proof . |
| 4 | Techno Tracies and crop-headed sheep on drugs were tainting the atmosphere at raves , and there was beginning to be something familiar in the frenzy of old favourites such as Kaos and Ark . |
| 5 | A crime novel need not ask that question " Who done it ? " and yet , because its writer has kept in mind the primary duty of entertaining , it will still be something different from the novel that has a crime in it . |
| 6 | Computer equipment may be designed in such a way that it is aesthetically pleasing as well as functional , there may be something novel about the design which falls short of the scope of patents . |
| 7 | ‘ THERE has to be something wrong with a tax system in which a police sergeant falls into the same tax bracket as a multi-millionaire ’ — Tory MP Keith Hampson . |
| 8 | " Mummy died , " his father said again , and there seemed to be something wrong with the way he said it . |
| 9 | Dahl states : " While the empirical approach takes the attitude that if a program does not work in practice there must be something wrong about the theory , the rationalist will retort that what is true in theory must also be true in practice — that it is the practice , not the theory , that is wrong . " |
| 10 | There seemed to be something urgent in the sound . |
| 11 | There does seem to be something objective about the way mankind orders the world . |
| 12 | ‘ There has come to be something shocking in the discovery that a seeming castle is only a cowshed . |
| 13 | There seemed to be something inevitable in the way her glance homed in at once to the familiar figure standing with his back to her reading one of the notices . |