Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] something of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suppose a man knows nothing of trusts and trustees , but has heard something of the separate use , leaves property — say £1,000 — to his married daughter ‘ for her separate use ’ . |
| 2 | We might have expected to see something of the great movies , Gold Rush , Modern Times , Limelight … |
| 3 | It is not simply that the former communist societies in Eastern Europe were characterized , to a greater or lesser extent , by relative economic backwardness and political authoritarianism , and consequently had little appeal as models for the future development of any advanced industrial society , but that the democratic socialism of social democratic and labour parties in the capitalist world , despite its real achievements in improving the conditions of life of the working class , has come to be more critically judged as tending to promote an excessive centralization of decision making , growth of bureaucracy and regulation of the lives of individuals , and has lost something of the persuasive character it once had as a movement aiming to create a new civilization . |
| 4 | However , a pilot study has shown that if the available data is collected and sorted by computer , enough survives to enable something of the overall pattern to emerge , especially through comparison with the much more plentiful English data . |
| 5 | To which I might say that , rationalist or not , I had spent too many years in my capacity as church architect investigating the fossils of a dead faith not to have imbibed something of the old superstitions . |
| 6 | They were more articulate , had seen something of the wider world , retained a thirst for knowledge , and were sceptical towards the Church . |
| 7 | So far we have been concerned with trying to understand something of the general reaction people have to various forms of loss , concentrating on the reactions people will discover in themselves when they or someone close to them is dying or has died . |
| 8 | We have seen something of the various situations in which non-fatal physical harm might occur . |
| 9 | In our annual reports in Dumbarton Oaks Papers we have shown something of the extraordinary nature of the church and its decoration and shed much new light on the period immediately before Justinian . |