Example sentences of "be something [adj] in [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 There seemed to be something urgent in the sound .
4 ‘ There has come to be something shocking in the discovery that a seeming castle is only a cowshed .
5 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 .
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