Example sentences of "[be] something wrong [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | " Mummy died , " his father said again , and there seemed to be something wrong with the way he said it . |
| 5 | 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 . " |
| 6 | There is something wrong with a law that allows that to happen . |
| 7 | There is something wrong with a system that analyses failure in such a drastic way . |
| 8 | Surely any fool should be able to see that there is something wrong with a child like that . |
| 9 | Also , there is often the suspicion that there is something wrong with a business that has to use factoring to raise money . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ There is something wrong with the way we make our decisions . |
| 11 | There is something wrong with the management of the prison service when the Prison Officers Association has 70 disputes in 41 prisons . |
| 12 | The fact that so many repossessions take place needlessly , proves that there is something wrong with the service borrowers are getting . |
| 13 | Field officers assume that even the most ignorant onlooker will deduce that fish die because there is something wrong with the water . |
| 14 | stop flashing yo it is something wrong with the ribbon or erm what was it , I said , he said clutch and ribbon , or just the ribbon ? |
| 15 | Maybe there is something wrong with the Glory ’ |
| 16 | If obedience to the Law takes precedence over human need then there is something wrong with the Law . |
| 17 | Slightly irritated he thinks that there is something wrong with the lock and goes down to reception for assistance . |
| 18 | If you use binoculars or a telescope and see a star as a large , shimmering globe , you may be sure that there is something wrong with the focus . |
| 19 | ‘ Thank you , ’ she said again , while the thought came to her , unbidden , horrifying and wicked , yet it would not go away : If the result of this amnio-whatever test is adverse , if there is something wrong with the foetus , then I could have an abortion with a clear conscience . |
| 20 | Is something wrong in the house ? |
| 21 | When polls are adverse there 's a tendency to say there 's something wrong at the top . |
| 22 | ‘ If I am told that the economy is much worse than the Government has said … there 's something wrong with the way things are run in this country . |
| 23 | She said , ‘ There 's something wrong with the wine . ’ |
| 24 | If the patient dies it 's a bad outcome and I know there 's something wrong with the process . |
| 25 | Well there 's something wrong with the washing machine I got the |
| 26 | It , it , perhaps there 's something wrong with the dumper . |
| 27 | Not for them the comprehensibility or even the logic spelt out by the Prime Minister shortly after his election as leader of the Conservative party when he rightly said that there was something wrong with a tax that resulted in 50 per cent . |
| 28 | There was something wrong with the ballcock , and if both taps were turned on to capacity at the same time there was an overflow outside . |
| 29 | If the second measurement did not tally exactly with the first , it meant that there was something wrong with the patient 's stomach . |
| 30 | The leading frog , however , was dimly aware that there was something wrong with the moon . |