Example sentences of "[is] something a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm so it 's in terms of erm er , careful logical field work erm there 's not a great deal of information , but there 's , th , there have been early anatomical historical er investigations and there is something a literature erm dating from early in the nineteenth century which and it shows you the bloke who also resolves to , to , to make comparisons with what she found . |
| 2 | This is something a bit out of the ordinary . |
| 3 | In the long term we 'd like to go on , and build a workshop , make our own recycle refurbish electrical goods , because , obviously , this is something a bit more in capital intensive , and it 's something we 're looking at it in the future . |
| 4 | What Eileen really enjoys is something a bit different . |
| 5 | This is something a lot of people ignore . |
| 6 | Middle-class notions of respectability enable policemen and women ‘ to tell just by looking at someone whether there 's something a bit suspicious about them ’ and ‘ to be able to recognize a decent member of the public ’ ( FN 20/6/87 , p. 20 ) . |
| 7 | I 'm interested you talk about ‘ stamping of feet ’ , because this fantasy of offing Mrs Thatcher , as though this would somehow solve everything , as if the ‘ evil ’ in this country were n't a lot more structural and entrenched — well , there 's something a bit childish and petulant about it . |
| 8 | ‘ There 's something a bit seedy about this side of the canteen , I 'm afraid , ’ she began , lighting a cigarette . |
| 9 | It 's something a girl dreams she 'll one day do with the man she loves . |
| 10 | I know it 's something a Samaritan would consider unprofessional , but I enjoyed getting verbal queerbashers to hang up on me because they could n't handle what I was telling them . |
| 11 | Okay , that 's something a soldier has to accept , in an abstract sort of way . |
| 12 | That 's something a Unix operating system has never achieved , observed Microsoft 's NT director , Dwayne Walker . |
| 13 | It 's something a manager should n't do . |