Example sentences of "something [conj] [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let's move on to the er to the third question there , just any quick points that anybody wants to make erm not necessarily things you talked about , something that occurs to you know perhaps . |
| 2 | Most people , if they can play something that sounds like something that they 've heard on a record , are in danger of falling into the trap of saying , ‘ A-ha ! |
| 3 | The real treat of the evening , however , is their version of Bowie 's ‘ She Shook Me Cold ’ where poppy nostalgia is transformed into something that sounds like the soundtrack for a Kenneth Anger movie . |
| 4 | When they hear something that sounds like prey , they move their heads until the frequency is the same in both ears , then keep their heads exactly in position and fly straight towards the sound . |
| 5 | In some schools you will be asked to participate with other students in basic class work over a weekend ( as happens at the Bristol Old Vic drama school ) and in some you may find yourself being judged partly by senior students of the school who will be sitting with the faculty panel ( which is something that happens at Drama Centre ) . |
| 6 | He stares at the streets near him and hopes the grief he sees there is something that happens to other people . |
| 7 | The following remark of Dennis Altman 's , even if not strictly correct historically , rightly implies how the negation of desire and the negation of difference are in practice often inseparable : ‘ the original purpose of the categorization of homosexuals as people apart was to project the homosexuality in everyone onto a defined minority as a way of externalizing forbidden desires and reassuring the majority that homosexuality is something that happens to other people ’ ( Homosexualization , 72 ) . |
| 8 | We can be in danger of saying or feeling that bereavement is something that happens to everyone else , and that ‘ those people ’ need support , but we are perfectly able to manage on our own . |
| 9 | And something that happens to us at least five days in every month — that affects , amongst other things , our sexual feelings , and our body size and shape — why should that be unimportant ? |
| 10 | Growing old is something that happens to all of us . |
| 11 | It seems that young heterosexuals still think the disease is something that happens to others . |
| 12 | And when he talks about a means of grace , he means something that happens to you that can bring you to faith . |
| 13 | It 's just something that happens to me , I do n't know why . |
| 14 | ‘ There 's something that happens to me when I come back home , ’ he says . |
| 15 | " Development is not something that happens to the poor . |
| 16 | CRIME is no longer something that happens to other people . |
| 17 | It must be something that happens to men once they 've served on the Western Front . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ It 's just something that happens between two people . |
| 19 | Much useful research can originate from the idea that just turns up , the hunch or the observation of something that happens in the street which triggers off a line of thought . |
| 20 | A positive symptom is something that happens in the brain-damaged animal that does n't happen in the normal . |
| 21 | It 's just something that happens in my brain . ’ |
| 22 | Ports , especially great ports , are never quite where they seem to be — a corner , a quay , the light filtering past funnels and masts on either side , there is always something that belongs to other places and other times . |
| 23 | That works quite well with confused clients as well because they can see something that belongs to them or looks familiar to them . ’ |
| 24 | Generally , in looking at style in a text , one is not interested in choices in isolation , but rather at a pattern of choices : something that belongs to the text as a whole . |
| 25 | I mean that each image tries to express something that belongs to millions of people . ’ |
| 26 | We have seen how the impersonalism of public life and changes in the structure and functions of the family have led to an emphasis on self-fulfilment as something that belongs in the private sphere . |
| 27 | 3 Something that belongs in a set is called an … of the set . |
| 28 | We have described the policies that we advocate as the ’ ethics of community ’ — as something that calls on what is best and most generous in the human spirit . |
| 29 | The amount of press coverage that 's been generated this week by your conference has been enormously important to the local trade unions , it 's something that we can build on , it 's something that says to the local press to the local media trade unions have got something to say trade unions have got something to put forward and it 's that 's something that we will come back to erm afterwards , after you 've gone , we can use that , we can build on it . |
| 30 | Perhaps identify trainees but it might be something that thinks about when we 're actually designing training yeah ? |