Example sentences of "be something [adj] about the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 Yes th , there 's something nice about the old tools is n't there ?
4 There was something stimulating about the warmed air so heavy with the smells of living .
5 There was something odd about the whole procedure because there was no great urgency .
6 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 … .
7 There was something fishy about the whole set-up .
8 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 .
9 There was something familiar about the checked suit , lit up by the flashing blue light .
10 There was something nightmarish about the slow approach of the lorry .
11 There was something suicidal about the whole pretentious enterprise , which Dustin should have been talked down from before he leaped .
12 There was something reptilian about the old man 's grip .
13 But there was something disturbing about the sheer unreasoning rage behind them .
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