Example sentences of "[ex0] be [pron] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then there 's one about the erm a protestant pastor blamed the seventeen year old death , that fellow that , that young man in the video shop that was erm shot down the father blamed the British government . |
| 2 | There 's something about the soap opera form that really does encourage discussion because it spells out and gives you lots of time to consider these moral or personal dilemmas . |
| 3 | There 's something about the Western Loire that makes you want to savour every moment . |
| 4 | There 's something about the way they 're built and their atmosphere that prevents places like Staithes and Whitby slipping overboard from picturesque to grotesque . |
| 5 | ‘ There 's something about the place , so — so … ’ |
| 6 | Nobody 's saying anything , not to my face anyway , but there 's something about the way they move , and the way conversations change tack when I walk into rooms . |
| 7 | THERE 'S something about the accordion that tugs at the heart strings . |
| 8 | There 's something about the sixteenth in your house . |
| 9 | So what I think , that 's another thing about this , I have erm , there 's something about the plainness of design that I like if it 's erm the things that have been done that are erm like Adobe typefaces or Bertol typefaces , that are really beautifully , you know , sandpapered and finished to me are boring and when you get into , if you take a look at the schedule that A T F produce typefaces in it 's not unlike it , I mean the modern equivalent is the Font Bureau do 'em and try to sell 'em . |
| 10 | So we started by asking our friends , who in turn asked others , until we were eventually inundated with testimonies from witnesses around the world who provided popular proof that there is something about the cinema that encourages , right there in the picture house , thoughts , feelings and behaviour in its patrons by turns enigmatic , terrifying , erotic , sad , hilarious and poetic , often triggered by uncanny interplay between screen image and real-time events in the auditorium and in the world beyond the muffled doors . |
| 11 | ‘ THERE IS SOMETHING ABOUT THE ENFOLDING DARKNESS , THE INVISIBLE WINDRUSH AND RUMBLE OF SURF , THAT POWERFULLY CONCENTRATES THE MIND . ’ |
| 12 | If the purpose is to write , each at our separate window , there is something about the enfolding darkness , the invisible windrush and rumble of surf , that powerfully concentrates the mind . |
| 13 | It may be that the weathered materials from which it is built are particularly attractive and there is something about the building that is pleasing to the eye — soft red brick or golden stone , patterned brickwork or decorative ironwork . |
| 14 | As Theroux commented , ‘ There is something about the very fact of survival that produces a greater vitality . ’ |
| 15 | There is something about the man that is familiar ; his art and the apparent ease of getting his work printed seem somehow facile and presumptive . |
| 16 | Sometimes there is something about the ‘ image ’ of a remedy which just seems to fit the patient . |
| 17 | ‘ There is something about the artist and the model doing something together , a very youthful thing . |
| 18 | There is something about the sea that invites the exchange of confidences . |
| 19 | Positively , the theory asserts that there is something about the sensation which correlates with the stimulation being at a certain point , and which can thus , in time , become a sign to us of the stimulation being at that point . |
| 20 | The constant visibility of cult members committing suicide is likely to lead us to think that there is something about the cult that causes people to take their own lives . |
| 21 | One is that something about the dream itself ( its illogicality perhaps ) makes it difficult to remember , and the other that there is something about the physiological state in which we find ourselves when first woken up that makes remembering difficult . |
| 22 | It seems likely that there is something about the state we are in while asleep that prevents memories from being stored in the normal way . |
| 23 | The unstated implication is that there is something about the aptitude of the potential recruits themselves which leads to their failure . |
| 24 | ‘ There is something about the entire layout of Olympia 2 that reminds me of Milton Keynes : all these signposts leading nowhere . ’ |
| 25 | If a supplier decides to increase his market share by attracting higher usage by occasional users , he must first attempt to find out whether they buy competitors ' goods or not , or where there is something about the present marketing mix which dissuades them from buying more frequently . |
| 26 | ‘ There is something about the complexion also , ’ she said slowly . |
| 27 | But there is something about the way he is lying that makes my chest tighten with despair . |
| 28 | The most primitive physicalist response to this argument is to deny the claim that there is anything about the mind that BS does not know . |
| 29 | To take this road is to resort to what I earlier described as the ‘ most primitive physicalist response ’ to the problem , which involves denying that there is anything about the nature of experience that BS does not know . |
| 30 | There was nothing about the arrest of Theo Sykes but that might be because the news had broken too late . |