Example sentences of "something [adj] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Graham can write something solid about the lousy deal research gets in this country , it can do nothing but good . |
| 2 | There was something odd about the whole procedure because there was no great urgency . |
| 3 | From the very first , I had sensed something wrong about the long-haired Mamba … for one thing a man should not be that beautiful . |
| 4 | There was something suicidal about the whole pretentious enterprise , which Dustin should have been talked down from before he leaped . |
| 5 | ‘ Something unpleasant about the whole affair do n't you think ? ’ |
| 6 | Since studies of the volatility-maturity relationship for other assets have found much more support for the Samuelson hypothesis ( even when the high and low prices are not used in measuring volatility ) , this suggests there is something different about the volatility-maturity relationship for index futures . |
| 7 | There was something stimulating about the warmed air so heavy with the smells of living . |
| 8 | There was something reptilian about the old man 's grip . |
| 9 | It prompts the question whether there is not something inexorable about the mindless march of technology ; are we doomed to be everlastingly in retreat before the insidious advances of electronic information systems ? |
| 10 | But there was something disturbing about the sheer unreasoning rage behind them . |
| 11 | At the very least , therefore , mysticism must tell us something important about the human mind . |
| 12 | There is something familiar about the single shoe in the road or the hoof print in the mud , yet Louise Short elevates these fragments by preserving them as plaster casts and ordering them in installations which trace the passage of people and animals . |
| 13 | There was something familiar about the checked suit , lit up by the flashing blue light . |
| 14 | There was something familiar about the feminine umbrella with its orange roses and Spanish flamenco frill that was shaken firmly before the green headsquared figure bent to enter . |
| 15 | There was something fishy about the whole set-up . |
| 16 | There was something nightmarish about the slow approach of the lorry . |
| 17 | With this second novel , Amy Tan has again proved herself to be a first class writer , one who can write books which not only have enormous popular appeal , but also teach us something new about the human condition . |
| 18 | There was something cabalistic about the bandy legs of a road sweeper , who stood with his back to me leaning on his outstretched broom as on a catamaran while he lit his pipe … . |
| 19 | Yes th , there 's something nice about the old tools is n't there ? |