Example sentences of "something [that] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the blocks there were other large items embedded in the hump : a skeletal pylon , a diminishing spiral of linked , vitreous bubbles — and something that looked like the front end of an asteroid cruncher , a large sub-warp ship with front-opening doors big enough to engulf space rocks . |
| 2 | " Development is not something that happens to the poor . |
| 3 | A positive symptom is something that happens in the brain-damaged animal that does n't happen in the normal . |
| 4 | We have seen how the impersonalism of public life and changes in the structure and functions of the family have led to an emphasis on self-fulfilment as something that belongs in the private sphere . |
| 5 | The amount of press coverage that 's been generated this week by your conference has been enormously important to the local trade unions , it 's something that we can build on , it 's something that says to the local press to the local media trade unions have got something to say trade unions have got something to put forward and it 's that 's something that we will come back to erm afterwards , after you 've gone , we can use that , we can build on it . |
| 6 | But to the new professional researcher a Hellenic ideal was something that belonged to the modern world outside ; and while he might privately approve , his professional concern was with a self-contained world of antiquity . |
| 7 | Previously they had been assumed to be something that belonged to the Royal College of Art , the Slade School , the Royal Ballet School , and so on . |
| 8 | It 's difficult to describe in detail without spoiling the effect for future viewers , something that goes for the whole film . |
| 9 | ‘ A common public perception is that the Aquino government is doing something that goes against the time-honoured Filipino tradition and cultural values , ’ said Alvin Capino , a newspaper columnist . |
| 10 | It was actually something that happened before the Tory Party Conference but it did n't , it did n't actually help me recover |
| 11 | It was actually something that happened before the Tory Party Conference but it did n't , it did n't actually help me recover |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , but that 's just something that happened in the outside world . |
| 13 | But what we find in the resurrection of Jesus is not something that originates from the natural processes of life , but something that constitutes a unique event . |