Example sentences of "something [adj] about [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is something strange about a subject in which its research workers are willing to dabble at the application of the jargon of thermodynamics but unwilling to apply even the most rudimentary aspects of mechanics to these problems . |
| 2 | The general feeling in the town was that there was something strange about the Judge 's House . |
| 3 | Truly there must be something strange about the seaside , when the mere sight of seeing an ankle had made his heart beat the faster . |
| 4 | After a while he said slowly , ‘ I see that you too have noticed something strange about the picture . |
| 5 | There was something strange about the preacher 's shades . |
| 6 | There was something cruel about the smile flickering around his mouth . |
| 7 | Choreography cost money , and no-one out front really gave a toss anyway ; but all the same it rankled. because it seemed to say something unignorable about the station he 'd reached in life . |
| 8 | ‘ Or what , Liessa ? ’ said the old man ( in this dim light there was something odd about the way he was slumped in the stone chair ) . |
| 9 | There was something odd about the way the plane was rolling ; one wheel was broken . |
| 10 | I knew there was something odd about the way you kissed me , and — ’ |
| 11 | Evidently there is something odd about the expression imperator noster divus Marcus , for noster is generally used of the current emperor , and divus of course only of a deceased one . |
| 12 | So there seems to be something odd about the cat . |
| 13 | But there was something odd about the family |
| 14 | I had always found something odd about the secrecy that the Reichmann brothers wished to preserve . |
| 15 | ‘ He 's a most engaging fellow — essentially human ’ , Reid reported as though there was something odd about an archbishop being human . |
| 16 | In any case there is something absurd about the notion that language or words can be attacked independently of their users . |
| 17 | There was something endearing about the way McCray adapted English slang into his American accent . |
| 18 | There was something exciting about the ruggedness of the coastline which offered such a sharp contrast to the many flowers and exotic plant life of the island . |
| 19 | But is n't there something wrong about the practice , common among building societies now , to offer them lower rates of interest in order to attract them as customers ? |
| 20 | 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 . " |
| 21 | There was also something compulsive about the extremism of his rhetoric in the RPF era . |
| 22 | But research implies something fresh about the material we obtain . |
| 23 | The old man does tell the visitor the story of the woman of Porto Pim ( and his own ) , but there remains something menacing about the silence of the listener-narrator , as though he were taking something away with no intention of giving anything in return . |
| 24 | The reason is that there is nothing to put in — so please , if you have some news , or know something interesting about a member ( that can be published without attracting litigation ) let the editor know . |
| 25 | This , I would argue , though not all would agree , may tell us something interesting about the way the brain compartmentalizes different aspects of visual processing and it may tell us that subjects are more conservative about admitting to seeing a very degraded image than about trying to move their eyes to it , but it sheds little light on the actual experiences the patients are having when we show them a light . |
| 26 | So Libet 's experiments tell us something interesting about the information processing going on in the subject 's brain but they tell us nothing about the temporal relationship between physical events — either inside or outside the brain — and conscious experiences . |
| 27 | Possessed by that hunger , it had still sensed that there was something different about the female . |
| 28 | However , on the first day that I got to know her I had a feeling that there was something peculiar about the woman . |
| 29 | But I could see there was something monk-like about the space there . |
| 30 | The public want the House to do something serious about the problem . |