Example sentences of "something about [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a shambles , which has resulted in local government being undermined and the role of the local community being seen as a threat rather than as a partner trying to rebuild broken economies , help the unemployed and do something about essential services . |
| 2 | Behind him he heard someone mumble something about pre-menstrual tension , and a wry chuckle escaped him . |
| 3 | something about blue machines with Tim . |
| 4 | I have set out some of the reasons why the new clauses should not become part of the Bill and now I shall say something about general intention . |
| 5 | Those journalists may know something about environmental issues , but if they understand transport issues , they were jolly well doing their best to conceal the fact . |
| 6 | All of these observations of correlations between ERPs and different kinds of behaviour , including phenomenological reports , may tell us something about mental representations and the cognitive processes generating them , but they can tell us nothing about whether these representations and processes are conscious or unconscious . |
| 7 | We can use the computer model to resolve the paradox , and learn something about real evolution in the process . |
| 8 | He knew something about other letters . |
| 9 | Again , does " If it were raining the balcony would be wet " mean something about other ways that the world would be different , over and above the balcony 's being wet , if there were the difference that it was raining ? |
| 10 | Right now , although the determinals in industrial specialization within countries , alright , now although you ca n't really define that , you might be able to say something about industrial specialization . |
| 11 | Does this tell us something about Irish pop stars ? |
| 12 | If the staff of a school are required to ‘ do something about equal opportunities ’ and have read that a single-sex environment improves girls ' performance in mathematics and science , there may well be the belief that once they have reorganised their classes in this way , they have done all that is necessary . |
| 13 | Erm , there 's something about additional insurability . |
| 14 | Ward 's voice was saying something about long distance aircraft , Gómez answering him more audibly , ‘ It 's not possible . |
| 15 | He was particularly skilled with animals and he knew something about veterinary work which came in very handy when any of the animals took ill , also during lambing and calving time . |
| 16 | Earlier this evening at the Tory twins were recommending to read the city council funding handbook , I would also like to recommend that they also learn something about Tory housing policy . |
| 17 | I just heard Fagg shouting , ‘ How dare you , sir ? ’ and the Commander wailing something about old times . |
| 18 | ‘ I think you 're forgetting something about old Locombe-Stapleford . ’ |
| 19 | There was something about old Eddy 's appearance which had been worrying Dyson subconsciously for some minutes , and he suddenly realized what it was . |
| 20 | If the hon. Gentleman is as clever about local government as he is trying to impress us , perhaps we could hear something about local government . |
| 21 | He had never favoured telepathy as a means of communication ; something about rolling words about on his tongue ( particularly ones with lots of rs in ) appealed too much to him . |
| 22 | Holding up the wall near the bar , Peter Materna , an engineer in Princeton 's fusion project , was wearing his badge — which also said something about white-water rafting . |
| 23 | He was somewhat taken aback when we identified ourselves as Customs , muttering something about clearing customs at Poole Quay later . |
| 24 | Mrs Thatcher 's identification of the ‘ inner cities ’ as the focus of her third term 's agenda was not therefore a new conversion to the need to do something about urban poverty , squalor , and alienation . |
| 25 | it 's following on from what Geoff was saying er and I think it 's perhaps worth mentioning something about coastal zone management and estuary management . |
| 26 | The student would need to read as widely as possible in different kinds of poetry , to learn something about literary history , genre , and convention , and to acquire the practical-critical skills of close reading . |
| 27 | In an age where employability is the keynote the idea of educating for leisure may seem an anathema ; however , even job application forms ask questions about leisure interests , presumably on the grounds that it tells employers something about potential employees . |
| 28 | This was a new series of lessons , rather grandly called Biology , in which he wandered happily around various special fascinations of his own and tried to tell the children something about natural selection and the origin of species . |
| 29 | Raffaella described her injuries in indignant Italian , ticking each one off on her fingers , but Julia could understand only something about cracked ribs and something about her eyes . |
| 30 | Sounds as if the guy is suffering from Hemingway Syndrome : ‘ computers may see their silicon lives flash before their eyes , so to speak , just before they die , ’ Prodigy Services Co suggests , reporting that physicist Stephen Thaler of McDonnell Douglas Corp has been playing with neural networks as a way to speed diamond crystal growth but while by day , he created and trained the neural nets , by night , he began annihilating them to see what would happen , randomly severing links , and when between 10% and 60% of the links were destroyed , the network regurgitated nonsense , but as it approached death , 90% of the connections severed , it generated distinct values that had been trained into it , and at times even output ‘ whimsical ’ states , where it would generate values that were neither trained nor ones that would appear in a healthy net , says Thaler , who thinks it may say something about near-death experiences for humans — ‘ It may not just be fancy biochemistry , ’ he suggests . |