Example sentences of "be [pron] [adj] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is nothing oblique about the labia-like rock formations and pubic seaweed of this extraordinary painting , and with Colquhoun 's characteristic subversiveness ‘ Scylla ’ can be interpreted equally convincingly as a pair of phallic forms , arising from an aquatic leafy crotch . |
| 2 | Calm waters only belong to stagnant pools , and there is nothing stagnant about the new Conservative Britain . ’ |
| 3 | Gas hotplates on ordinary cookers have hardly changed in decades but there is nothing ordinary about the new Discovery . |
| 4 | There is nothing inevitable about the penal crisis which we have described in Chapter 1 . |
| 5 | Parents and teachers claim Rainbow deliberately plays down the risk of contracting Aids from homosexual relationships by suggesting there is nothing frightening about the gay lifestyle . |
| 6 | But there is nothing homely about the general effect . |
| 7 | There is nothing unusual about the feline ‘ mad dash ’ . |
| 8 | There is nothing special about the particular Mont Blanc that we know , nothing specified in advance , nothing equivalent to the plane taking off , or equivalent to the safe door swinging open and the money tumbling out . |
| 9 | There is something familiar about the single shoe in the road or the hoof print in the mud , yet Louise Short elevates these fragments by preserving them as plaster casts and ordering them in installations which trace the passage of people and animals . |
| 10 | Since studies of the volatility-maturity relationship for other assets have found much more support for the Samuelson hypothesis ( even when the high and low prices are not used in measuring volatility ) , this suggests there is something different about the volatility-maturity relationship for index futures . |
| 11 | Yes th , there 's something nice about the old tools is n't there ? |
| 12 | But is it true about the semantic structure where you can say it has n't got a verb phrase |
| 13 | Is he nervous about the critical reaction to his first work of fiction ? |
| 14 | Further , the study will also look at the use of performance indicators in the private sector of the economy in order to establish whether there is anything unique about the public sector or whether problems of evaluating performance are common to particular kinds of services . |
| 15 | No , there had n't been anything odd about the previous Saturday , either about her husband or about her own behaviour . |
| 16 | ‘ Excuse me , please , ’ she said politely , but there was nothing polite about the angry , scornful glitter in her grey eyes . |
| 17 | But there was nothing quaint about the masculine form that adorned it . |
| 18 | There was nothing distinctive about the black London taxi except that it swooped to pick Rain up when she had not hailed it . |
| 19 | Perhaps she had ; but there was nothing mad about the composed face I 'd been shown in the portrait and the photograph , only an infinity of patience . |
| 20 | I find the remark significant for the assumption which is made that there was nothing harmful about the previous view of the relation between men and women ; indeed the previous view may have accorded with the divine will and our present outlook not . |
| 21 | There was nothing elaborate about the small accommodation units , but , as Jean had said , they were cosy . |
| 22 | There was something stimulating about the warmed air so heavy with the smells of living . |
| 23 | There was something odd about the whole procedure because there was no great urgency . |
| 24 | There was something cabalistic about the bandy legs of a road sweeper , who stood with his back to me leaning on his outstretched broom as on a catamaran while he lit his pipe … . |
| 25 | There was something fishy about the whole set-up . |
| 26 | There was something familiar about the feminine umbrella with its orange roses and Spanish flamenco frill that was shaken firmly before the green headsquared figure bent to enter . |
| 27 | There was something familiar about the checked suit , lit up by the flashing blue light . |
| 28 | There was something nightmarish about the slow approach of the lorry . |
| 29 | There was something suicidal about the whole pretentious enterprise , which Dustin should have been talked down from before he leaped . |
| 30 | There was something reptilian about the old man 's grip . |