Example sentences of "be something [adj] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The BR spokesman said : It could have been something simple like a gate left open or something sinister like vandalism . ’ |
| 2 | Experts have exploded the old wives ' myth that , if he decided to play away , there must have been something wrong with the relationship in the first place . |
| 3 | There had obviously been something wrong with the Cashman ménage for some time — why else would Cindy Hill have lied about her whereabouts , telling her husband she had been in Wales when she had really been in a London nightclub ? |
| 4 | So there seems to be something odd about the cat . |
| 5 | Truly there must be something strange about the seaside , when the mere sight of seeing an ankle had made his heart beat the faster . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | " Mummy died , " his father said again , and there seemed to be something wrong with the way he said it . |
| 12 | 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 . " |
| 13 | There seemed to be something urgent in the sound . |
| 14 | There does seem to be something objective about the way mankind orders the world . |
| 15 | ‘ There has come to be something shocking in the discovery that a seeming castle is only a cowshed . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I do not mean that there is not a valid distinction to be drawn between sense and sentence ; only that it is a mistake to think of the sense of an utterance as though it were something existing alongside the utterance but in the ethereal medium of the mind . |
| 18 | The latter were a bonus ( for me , too ) as he can spot an aeroplane before it is visible to me , and these were something new in the sky . |
| 19 | Military bureaucracy is something new for an organisation that can beat all-comers at the civilian variety . |
| 20 | It is something akin to a child 's musing choice to disobey a parent , ‘ Shall I or sha n't I ? ’ |
| 21 | It is something akin to a miracle that Ojomoh is still in England , never mind the national squad . |
| 22 | ‘ Would you say that the production of a novel is something akin to the process of childbirth ? ’ |
| 23 | There is something strange about a subject in which its research workers are willing to dabble at the application of the jargon of thermodynamics but unwilling to apply even the most rudimentary aspects of mechanics to these problems . |
| 24 | Avize and Oger have great distinction , but there is something spectacular about the Chardonnay perfume from grapes grown in Cramant and le Mesnil-sur-Oger — it is a pure essence of the Chardonnay aroma , and apparently restricted to these two villages . |
| 25 | There is something insulting about the way in which a stranger can visit a place which is forbidden to people with infinitely more interest in such a journey . |
| 26 | Evidently there is something odd about the expression imperator noster divus Marcus , for noster is generally used of the current emperor , and divus of course only of a deceased one . |
| 27 | All the same , there is something irritating about the way Phil sits there taking everything so much for granted — his presence in the house , Howard 's discretion in the report , even the coffee . |
| 28 | At around 4.30pm , Chris arrives home and after playing with the children lends a hand with the evening meal , which is something straightforward like a casserole or a pasta dish . |
| 29 | There is something cruel in the game , that responded to the cruelty in my own nature . |
| 30 | In any case there is something absurd about the notion that language or words can be attacked independently of their users . |