Example sentences of "be [indef pn] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Small as it was , the incident disturbed her , perhaps because there had been something about the man that had appealed to her . |
| 2 | We may then want to ask whether there might not be something about the cult that reduces the likelihood of its members killing themselves . |
| 3 | ‘ It must be something about the place , ’ she agreed meekly . |
| 4 | ‘ I suppose her autumn social life will be starting , ’ he said absently , ‘ and I suppose the note of my October magazine letter ought to be something about the autumn and winter social activities , ’ he went on , taking up his pen again . |
| 5 | In this section the object is to examine in some detail the important preliminary issue of why the debate should be one about the public interest in the first place , and why company law should not be seen instead as being solely concerned with the rights of the corporators , that is , the shareholders . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ THERE IS SOMETHING ABOUT THE ENFOLDING DARKNESS , THE INVISIBLE WINDRUSH AND RUMBLE OF SURF , THAT POWERFULLY CONCENTRATES THE MIND . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | As Theroux commented , ‘ There is something about the very fact of survival that produces a greater vitality . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Sometimes there is something about the ‘ image ’ of a remedy which just seems to fit the patient . |
| 13 | ‘ There is something about the artist and the model doing something together , a very youthful thing . |
| 14 | There is something about the sea that invites the exchange of confidences . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The unstated implication is that there is something about the aptitude of the potential recruits themselves which leads to their failure . |
| 20 | ‘ There is something about the entire layout of Olympia 2 that reminds me of Milton Keynes : all these signposts leading nowhere . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ There is something about the complexion also , ’ she said slowly . |
| 23 | But there is something about the way he is lying that makes my chest tighten with despair . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Here 's one about the changing room |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | There 's something about the Western Loire that makes you want to savour every moment . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | and it 's it 's something about the shame around depression that we do n't actually come forward for counselling and there 's certainly not enough free counselling services in Scotland . |
| 30 | ‘ There 's something about the place , so — so … ’ |