Example sentences of "something [adj] about [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Previous page Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 31 | There was something sad about the exchange — and a finality that he , by no means , approved of or desired . |
| 32 | Like most of their contemporaries , Marx and Engels assumed that there was something inevitable about the concurrence of slavery and a particular type of economy or technology . |
| 33 | There was something corrupt about the extent to which the British in Northern Nigeria cared about the loyalty of their subjects , and the lengths to which they went to cultivate what could in the end only be an illusion of mutual respect . |
| 34 | But there was something tense about the girl , almost haunted . |
| 35 | There does seem to be something objective about the way mankind orders the world . |
| 36 | There was something unique about a hospital over the Christmas period , and most years he 'd made a point of working for as much of it as he could . |
| 37 | Never buy without close examination of the evidence , and treat with caution the auctioneer 's ‘ sold as a binding , not-subject to return ’ , since in any case there is probably something unsatisfactory about the book and the doubt may extend to the attribution . |
| 38 | ‘ Because there was something foul about the set-up at the Jenner Clinic , and they do n't want it made public . ’ |
| 39 | One direction which interests me is the development of what one might call cognitive archaeology , if that is not too grandiose a term : using the material evidence from the past to allow us to begin to say something useful about the way peoples thought , the way they used communication systems , the way they used symbols . |
| 40 | I hope also to say something useful about the structure of primate brains as well as the mechanisms of linguistic evolution , both issues that Searle sets to one side as irrelevant to the conceptual question he is pressing . |
| 41 | All the same , there is something irritating about the way Phil sits there taking everything so much for granted — his presence in the house , Howard 's discretion in the report , even the coffee . |
| 42 | There was something pejorative about the word , so that to some atonal music meant ‘ non-music ’ , or at least something ugly and unpleasant . |
| 43 | For a second I considered whether I might not be able to make a meal from the remains , but , not only was the edge off my appetite , there was something repulsive about the thought of eating carrion , however fresh it looked . |
| 44 | It was almost prophetic in its wisdom : ‘ There is really something morbid about the film as a whole — a fascination , almost a wallowing in death and suffering that represents one of the least appealing tendencies in the audience as well as the film-makers . |
| 45 | There is , we have to say , something unpredictable about the work of the Holy Spirit . |
| 46 | There was to her something romantic about the idea of sitting with him in the place where she had so often sat alone , eating a poached egg or macaroni cheese at a shaky little oak table . |
| 47 | right so I mean there 's , there 's obviously more need to be thought through on that and the video I have n't , oh I have done something more about the video |
| 48 | ‘ Enfield was right-there is something evil about the man . |
| 49 | " You know , there 's something queer about the warren this evening , although I ca n't tell exactly what it is . |
| 50 | There was something disturbing about the way he 'd just — well , just left — without saying anything . |
| 51 | But there was something disturbing about the letter . |
| 52 | The Carthusians , a reformed branch of the Benedictine order , were particularly enthusiastic about The Ladder and this tells us something important about the nature of Hilton 's achievement . |
| 53 | These empirical difficulties tell us something important about the nature of support structures between grandparent and grandchild . |
| 54 | ‘ He was telling me something indelicate about a horse , ’ said Lydia . |
| 55 | There is something insulting about the way in which a stranger can visit a place which is forbidden to people with infinitely more interest in such a journey . |
| 56 | Maybe Errol picked up on my mood because he said something offensive about a lady I regarded with deep affection . |
| 57 | There was something familiar about the way the man 's long hair fell at the nape of his neck , and his posture as he knelt in front of a small hoy who was stamping his foot and refusing to kick the ball . |
| 58 | There is something naïve about the city which is treasurable . |
| 59 | I hear it often enough at home , but there is something vital about the brogue within its native walls ; it makes me feel there is no ethnicity , no affectation , no accident about it . |
| 60 | She registered all this , opened the front door and knew also , immediately , that there was something alien about the house . |