Example sentences of "be something [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in general terms they 're something of the order of twenty five and a half thousand swellings committed to development in the county , together with three and a half thousand erm in in in draft local plans . |
| 2 | Many observers noticed the force and weight of his presence ; it might be called dedication , or ambition , or it might have been something below the level of consciousness which propelled him forward . |
| 3 | There had always been something of the fairground barker about Mr Broadhurst and during this period he enhanced it . |
| 4 | ‘ I just felt that though we were 14 when we last met there must have been something of the child left in our features to make us recognize each other after half a century . ’ |
| 5 | Small as it was , the incident disturbed her , perhaps because there had been something about the man that had appealed to her . |
| 6 | She wished that Fernando had in fact made fiery , passionate and glorious love to her on that blanket , because at least her body would have been sated and that would have been something at the very least . |
| 7 | There must have been something in the Florida air in addition to vitamin C. One of the passes from Vinny Testaverde , the Tampa Bay quarterback , went through the hands of his intended receiver right in front of the goal-line , and into the hands of a team-mate , Mark Carrier , for a touchdown . |
| 8 | There 'd been something in the local papers about me and my work , and these girls , aged about eight to eleven years old , sent me a book of poems they 'd written , printed and sold to raise money . |
| 9 | There had been something in the Wingco 's demeanour that Benson did not like much , however , a quietness , an air of brooding . |
| 10 | The caveat that we 've put against the whole report is that there are something in the region of half a dozen major government initiated reviews into fire safety in this country . |
| 11 | At LDC level , an extrapolation of the figures provided by Edwards and Lloyd ( 1981 ) suggests that there are something in the order of 14,000 local-level formal meetings a year . |
| 12 | If you refuse to buy it from Brazil , tropical timber , their exports are something in the region of between 3 to 5 percent of their . |
| 13 | You carry a notebook , like a journalist in a film , and scribble down street conversation — much of it ‘ How are you Mrs Jones ? ’ inanities — in the hope that there will be something at the end of the day to turn into copy . |
| 14 | With fireworks , comedians , lectures , and classical and big band orchestras , there should be something at the Chichester Festivities for practically everyone . |
| 15 | Must be something at the top of that chimney . |
| 16 | We may then want to ask whether there might not be something about the cult that reduces the likelihood of its members killing themselves . |
| 17 | ‘ It must be something about the place , ’ she agreed meekly . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | He added : ‘ However , I think there must be something between the pair we do n't know about . |
| 20 | It must be something of the sentiment that inspired the war poets , enduring indescribable ugliness — the mutilation and destruction of people and places amongst the fragile flowers that nature silently but abundantly proffered in the stench , decay and squalor of the trenches . |
| 21 | The number of individual insects in the world seems beyond any computation , but someone has made the attempt and concluded that at any one time , there must be something of the order of one thousand million thousand million . |
| 22 | He detected a note of excitement in his uncle 's voice and thought that it would be something for the old man to look forward to , seeing his work in print . |
| 23 | Ash is produced when the coal is burnt and has proved to be something for the salvation for many plants and animals the ash is so fine that it has to be turned into a slurry and put into the to settle out these can be up to eight years during which time it becomes none the less but an artificial mud flat quickly colonized by weeds , pioneers crucial to the complex way of life in our natural world But for bird-watchers it is the bird that attracted to these artificial mud flats that are the most exciting development within the boundaries of these power station nature reserves . |
| 24 | Erm obviously other forms of power er the , the , the water barrage in the Severn erm Estuary and the wind power is , is something but obviously er the thing with this atomic power situation , it 's got to be something for the future . |
| 25 | ‘ There may well be something for the police in the Jefferson connection . |
| 26 | There are a variety of reasons for this , but one of them is that buying and selling shares is considered not only to be something for the rich but also to be very complex . |
| 27 | Can we in the alternative put our case if that is a fait accompli then there must be something for the local communities to be derived from this and therefore we went for protection under one O six agreement as Stewart quite rightly refers to and we also went for the dedication of large areas of the resultant heap for landscaping and for public open space . |
| 28 | And on , in the next paragraph there 'll be something on the Maoris , and on the next one something on the Australian Aborigines , and so on . |
| 29 | What form these certificates will take is not known , but maybe it could be something along the lines of : ‘ This is the spot where I flattened … ’ |
| 30 | As opposed to soft facts , soft facts can be something along the lines of what you want out of life er |