Example sentences of "something [conj] was [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the power of his imagination he was trying to do something that was physically impossible . |
| 2 | Something that was most definitely not thunder and lightning . |
| 3 | to put up in your room , let alone , something that was reasonably enough , enough that people may wan na pay money for . |
| 4 | Indeed , if all else had failed — if the supplies had seldom been delivered on time , if the contras had declined to fight , if the money had gone astray , if the planes had crashed — the cause was still something that was simply right , whatever sort of mess had resulted . |
| 5 | She resented having to run out to the telephone , in the middle of this useful busyness , wasting time over something that was just a routine . |
| 6 | That would be to postpone something that was already a considerable difficulty . |
| 7 | But it was just on the , on the margin er er o o of something that was already a large factor below the international limit , so it was er there were very large safety factors involved in that in fact . |
| 8 | It was something that was already planned before I got pregnant . |
| 9 | You 've got a pensioner employee er a pensioner trustee on there and they 're not looking over their shoulder for their job , they are going to do the job of a trustee and watch the funds , and they would then be able to go to the regulator if they saw something that was amiss . |
| 10 | Erm I mean just going very , very briefly back to the question that you asked erm about this how would you stop what 's happen happening is by having , we would have thought a pensioner trustee , because even the question has been asked how did it get through the union trustees , and the answer that most of them are employed and they are looking over their shoulder because jobs are going , redundancies are being made , you 've got a pensioner employee er a pensioner trustee on there , and they 're not looking over their shoulder for their job , they are going to do the job of a trustee and watch the fund and they would then be able to go to the regulator if they saw something that was amiss , but if somebody is employed by the firm might be very worried about doing because they 're more bothered about keeping their job . |
| 11 | Why was he so incapable of truth that he was n't able to deny something that was patently false ? |
| 12 | ‘ But they have n't got time to look for something that was probably a mouse , ’ said Masklin . |
| 13 | The film was a reaction against that , the delusion that nostalgia brings to something that was thoroughly horrible . ’ |
| 14 | Cases of the former kind will be informative , and constitute an important contribution to scientific knowledge , simply because they mark the discovery of something that was previously unheard of or considered unlikely . |
| 15 | Work such as that of Young et al ( 1988 ) has even shown us how something that was traditionally assumed to be as intangible and subjective as the nature of conscious awareness itself can be disrupted by physical damage to the brain and can be successfully studied by the observational techniques of cognitive psychology . |
| 16 | Try and resurrect something that was well and truly dead ! |
| 17 | Mm , not the something that 's sort of , funny that happened by mistake , something that was rather planned in that case |
| 18 | And when at last she fell asleep it was to find herself in the château , running endlessly through a labyrinth of rooms , searching for something that was always just beyond her reach . |
| 19 | Is he not conceding and making clear something that was always true : the 2.5 per cent . |
| 20 | It 's as if I 've wasted my life searching for something that was never lost in the first place . |
| 21 | A beautiful woman 's address being something that was never likely to slip his mind . |
| 22 | Severe degradation and melting of the reactor 's core was regarded as something that was virtually impossible given that the plant was designed to cope with something as extreme as a guillotine break in a main coolant pipe . |
| 23 | Now I do n't think many people realized that asking for the maintenance of standards , rather than perhaps the changing of standards , was asking for something that was almost diametrically opposed to asking for an educational system that was more geared towards preparing children for adult life and productive work . |
| 24 | The warmth and gentleness coaxed her surrender , subduing her inner turmoil and replacing it with something that was infinitely more disturbing . |
| 25 | Because it was something that was totally out of character . |
| 26 | ’ It was something that was totally without his knowledge . ’ |
| 27 | Serious collectors ( and there are only a handful in the world ) are looking for pre-sinking letters , postcards or photographs disembarked at the Titanic 's last port of call , Queenstown ; signals or accounts of the sinking ; or , best of all , something that was actually in the ill-fated vessel . |
| 28 | Erm , something that was actually also raised before and after working hours , erm , there was a fire evacuation , I think , in October about to quarter nine |
| 29 | They 're OK , we guess , which does n't say much for them until you realise that thousands of their guitar-laden brethren are desperately striving to funk up and freak out and end up sounding merely like a 15th rate version of something that was once quite good . |
| 30 | It was something that was more or less always on my mind . |