Example sentences of "is something [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They might have said that harm is not " actual " unless it is something beyond the trivial , for which a charge of common assault is adequate ; but they have not imposed even this degree of control . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ THERE IS SOMETHING ABOUT THE ENFOLDING DARKNESS , THE INVISIBLE WINDRUSH AND RUMBLE OF SURF , THAT POWERFULLY CONCENTRATES THE MIND . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | As Theroux commented , ‘ There is something about the very fact of survival that produces a greater vitality . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Sometimes there is something about the ‘ image ’ of a remedy which just seems to fit the patient . |
| 9 | ‘ There is something about the artist and the model doing something together , a very youthful thing . |
| 10 | There is something about the sea that invites the exchange of confidences . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The unstated implication is that there is something about the aptitude of the potential recruits themselves which leads to their failure . |
| 16 | ‘ There is something about the entire layout of Olympia 2 that reminds me of Milton Keynes : all these signposts leading nowhere . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ There is something about the complexion also , ’ she said slowly . |
| 19 | But there is something about the way he is lying that makes my chest tighten with despair . |
| 20 | There the post is something on the erratic side , which explains the delay . |
| 21 | I still have nightmares and if there is something on the television about rape it brings it all back to me . |
| 22 | And this is nice to know that there is sometimes if you put your head down and work hard at something there is something at the end of the rainbow . |
| 23 | And this paragraph 's is something to the effect that your , here is the erm tt the estimate of our work and we 're seeking authority . |
| 24 | Yet the difficulties which some governments have experienced in recent years in delivering political promises that the size of the bureaucracy would be reduced suggest that there is something to the foundation upon which economic models of bureaucracy have been built . |
| 25 | If there IS something to the story , it begs 2 questions : — |
| 26 | There is something of the artichoke in their irregularity , something of the pork sausage in their shape and colour . |
| 27 | I do n't think he should really be telling me all this , but he is demob happy and there is something of the anonymity of the confessional in this dimly lit train compartment , lurching slowly over the snowy plateau of the Kola Peninsula . |
| 28 | What we do learn , however , from the article and the use of it by Hildyard and Olson is something of the ideological nature of recent claims for the consequences of literacy . |
| 29 | ‘ There is something of the bird in Morthen … perhaps she will fly across . |
| 30 | If erm , for example , I were to produce a beam of pye mesons , which I can do by taking very high energy protons and making them collide with ordinary hydrogen , then the pyon will come out and it will not live for very long , and I think the lifetime of a pyon is something of the order of ten to the minus eight of a second , which means that pyons only live for about one hundred millionth of a second , and these things then decay into othe particles and these other particles are called muons and they decay into not only do they produce muons , but they produce things called neutrinos and the muons themselves do not live for very long — a muon lives for about two microseconds , which is two millionths of a second — and it decays also into an electron and another neutral particle called a neutrionor , and these neutrinors just are there , they exist very but they are the end products of these decay processes . |