Example sentences of "be something [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , there must have been something of that sort . |
| 2 | ‘ You do n't put an empty box in a safe ; there must have been something in it when it was put there and the lavender sachet makes me think it must have been something of sentimental value . ’ |
| 3 | Had n't there been something in that book about Graham Young ? |
| 4 | ‘ But there must have been something before that … ? ’ |
| 5 | I had been something like eighteen years in the ordained ministry before I preached my first sermon on Mary . |
| 6 | Even then it has been calculated , taking systems as a whole , that the maximum rate of sedimentation would have been something like one foot in a thousand years . |
| 7 | ‘ It could possible have been something like that . |
| 8 | ‘ I knew it must have been something like that . ’ |
| 9 | It must have been something like that ; Charles was beginning to understand the way Paul Lexington worked . |
| 10 | Well they were doing it at eleven o'clock last night , it must of been something like that because I heard every word |
| 11 | Erm and we would point out that er since the nineteen sixties there have been something like two hundred new stations opened erm on the rail network , the vast majority of these have been on Regional Railways . |
| 12 | Apart from the risk of invasion , English trade was also in danger ; the interception of the Smyrna convoy in 1693 was said to have cost English merchants £2m. ( which would have been something like 3 per cent of the gross national product ) . |
| 13 | If the Duke had been caught speeding today … his fine would probably have been something like seven hundred pounds . |
| 14 | Selwyn Hopkins ' garden was a sight to behold ‘ The Garden of Eden must have been something like this , ’ Billy remarked in awe . |
| 15 | The first part of Kemp 's day had probably been something like this : |
| 16 | it should 've been something like this . |
| 17 | They would have been something like these : |
| 18 | There 's been something like twenty per cent cut over the last few years and erm some faculty members have taken early retirement and left , so a lot of subjects have lost some of their most able people . |
| 19 | Agency structures are something of great interest to agencies , but of less concern , generally , to their clients . |
| 20 | In the United States , A.J. Foyt and Al Unser are something of national heroes as a result of their exploits in the world of Chevvys and Thunderbirds . |
| 21 | There are something like 2,000 pieces of delegated legislation brought into force every year in the United Kingdom and a recent article in Statute Law Review drew attention to some of the difficulties which are likely to arise in discovering what local instruments are in force and what they say . |
| 22 | My Lord the pleadings bundle runs to almost a hundred pages erm , this is due principally to the fact that there are something like four sets of particulars to statement of claim which have been served over the years er where the plaintiffs have set out their claim in er in detail . |
| 23 | The amount my ordinary bank charges forgetting any sort of bank loan , nothing like that at all , interest , nothing like that , just bank charges for standing orders to the finance company er are something like sixteen seventeen hundred pound a year . |
| 24 | then if we 're charging him out at roughly two point one , which I think we are something like that with our discount |
| 25 | Careful scrutiny reveals that the cross-sections of such scarps are something like that shown in Figure 7.7 ( b ) , which in turn can represent the situation shown in Figure 7.7 ( c ) in which one piece of surface is thrust over another at a low angle . |
| 26 | We see the U K certainly coming out of recession and we are something like twelve percent up on same time last year in the U K. Having said that , the E C is well over twenty percent down on same time last year . |
| 27 | We 've found that own brands are from thirty five pence up to the top quality brands are something like eighty five pence and we feel we 've hit the market in the middle there . |
| 28 | There are something like 50,000 individual genes providing the genetic blueprint for each individual , and our task is really to find out where each one is on human chromosomes and to isolate them and to characterise them . |
| 29 | And equally I am concerned about the mushrooming of groups — there are something like 25 , 26 , 27 — all attempting to do various things within West Belfast . |
| 30 | Because I mean if we add all these together gents , I mean I pi I homed in on the number , on , on the people , because if you look at our budgets , staff costs are something like ninety percent of our budget |