Example sentences of "something [conj] be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is nothing more galling , if you care passionately about something or are feeling angry or upset , to be told to ‘ Be reasonable . ’ |
| 2 | So to find out how much you pay for , how much actual energy has been used up , you think it , again going back to the water , if we have a big tank full of water and we 're using it up , this time in terms of power , erm if we have something that 's using up water at the rate of say six gallons a minute and someone 's going to charge you for your water . |
| 3 | Erm Well not that I 've come across yet I 'd rather do something that 's getting the facts and then giving examples . |
| 4 | You learn to recognise them through experience ; it 's often an indefinable something that 's lacking . |
| 5 | Obviously , it 's something that 's gon na develop , and er , as times does on , more and more issues are gon na be referred to this committee . |
| 6 | You were going to look at ways of classifying the short stories you 've been looking at , when y , sort of , to look at similarities between short stories , like which ones deal with husband and wife relationships , which ones are about loneliness , I mean , use your paper , it 's it 's only there for scrap paper , you have n't got to produce something that 's gon na be pinned up on the wall . |
| 7 | If you 've got something that 's crying out in comparison about two labourers or two women or whatever . |
| 8 | HIV is something that 's going to affect young , goodlooking , strong , wealthy , bored , insecure young men . |
| 9 | And , and really erm , develop something new , something that 's going to be more equal , something that wo n't discriminate against men and something that er , that is n't associated with with some more ridiculous aspects of |
| 10 | Er The sergeant downstairs , if he sees any trouble or he finds something that 's going off or bumps into something , then he can radio back into base again . |
| 11 | ‘ And there 's really an advantage in having a layman on something that 's going to be a bit convoluted . |
| 12 | But if it 's something that 's going off fairly regular |
| 13 | Ah erm well , Chairman , I I think that this is something that 's going to cut , as far as Hambledon 's got concerns , is going to come up in the erm in the next debate , certainly , erm , the erm , the issue of erm whether policy should be expressed in terms of principle and criteria , or erm area and a district as being a dilemma erm to Hambledon , erm , it feels it 's erm erm not being able to support the policy as defined , because ultimately the Council would object to a new settlement in Hambledon . |
| 14 | Something that 's going to take your attention , because while you 're thinking about your hobby you ca n't be thinking about work . |
| 15 | The person was older than me and he 's a bit higher up the rank than me and it 's all about it probably comes with experience he 's to stand for yourself really but it 's when you 're our age and a bit younger you do n't want to be seen to be rocking the boat if there 's something that 's going on that you do n't agree with but you 're asked to do something that you do n't want to do valid reasons you have n't got the time or it 's not really up to you to do it |
| 16 | that this is , is not something that 's going to change . |
| 17 | Is that something that 's going to be more important in the future ? |
| 18 | Well there 's no question but which therapists and people of medical profession have come across cases of people who have indeed been scarred for their whole lives and and found it very difficult to maintain trust and relationships and and be able to achieve their potential as a result of the sorts of situations that they endured , and perhaps we 're more understanding about those sorts of areas of the human need to be able to express anxiety and to feel that to express fears is is not something that 's going to overwhelm people that are around us , so that adults who are in the care of children , be they teachers , or parents , or child care workers , can allow children to express their feelings so that they do n't need to hold on to them and thereby increase the fears that they have . |
| 19 | Now obviously er the , the government has to shift priorities , and that 's not something that 's going to change overnight , given the er , the attitude of central government towards these people at the moment , which is extremely negative . |
| 20 | Now Bobby , you 're coming to join us here in Oxford next week for the press launch for something that 's happening in April — tell us about that . |
| 21 | possibly something that 's coming along in the |
| 22 | I thought the whole local area is something that is undergoing change all the time . |
| 23 | Matsutakes and chanterelles need undisturbed forest , something that is becoming scarce in the much-logged north-west . |
| 24 | On the Apple Computer Company itself , Jobs said : ‘ There 's something going on here … something that is changing the world and this is the epicenter ’ ( Jobs , 1984 : 18 ) . |
| 25 | Karajan would give that fantasist all the freedom he needed because he knew that what appeals to an audience is something arising out of the immediate performance , out of something that is happening within the mind of the musician at that moment . |
| 26 | ‘ We have found something that is going to revolutionise the archaeological interpretations of Peru 's ancient civilisations . |
| 27 | Why ca n't you put it right immediately so as not to stop something that is going well ? |
| 28 | They want something that is going to be reliable . |
| 29 | The chances are they are not going to be changed again in a hurry and to saddle ourselves with something that is going to allow the development and perpetuation of something which most of us hero would call bad and unacceptable practice in care of the elderly with dementia , would be a totally retrograde step . |
| 30 | I mean , do you think that perhaps is , is more advanced than Plato , because Plato on this incredible myth of his of going on this journey where ordinary people 's view of the form was n't very good so they would come back in an inf perhaps in an inferior form , but I get the feeling that with we have the opportunity of seeing something that is going to improve us anyway , that we 've all got an equal chance of some kind of improvement . |