Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [indef pn] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tetanus immunity should be checked for anyone with a cut or deep scratch . |
| 2 | Beccaria 's attempt to avoid considerations of responsibility and desert must be regarded as something of a failure . |
| 3 | The siege of Saint-Sauveur can be regarded as something of a landmark in the development of the practical use of artillery . |
| 4 | He attributes his success in holding Basildon to the front page of Thursday 's Sun — ‘ If Kinnock wins today will the last person to leave Britain please turn out the lights ’ — and in being treated as something of a hero within sections of the Conservative Party . |
| 5 | A fortnight ago , the Norwich Union East Champions lost to Redbridge and Ilford , who Chelmsford have beaten this season , but form would count for nothing in a derby game , he insisted . |
| 6 | ‘ I can see that my presence must have come as something of a shock , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Tape Unit 14 is liable to come as something of a surprise to students who have not had the experience of examining colloquial English speech before . |
| 8 | So while interpreters working from spoken English to sign language are called upon to work for nothing as a service to these normal , intelligent ‘ disabled ’ people , those in the foreign spoken language interpretive role , where language users are equal , may rise to occupy one of the highest status roles in diplomacy , and correspondingly command high financial rewards . |
| 9 | It would have been suspiciously obvious parked near nothing but a gap in the fence , so he had left it by the nearest flats . |
| 10 | For some reason it felt as though she was being sucked into something by a card-sharp . |
| 11 | Indeed , one of the key features of the Nottinghamshire initiative was that it occurred in somewhat of a policy vacuum . |
| 12 | Furthermore , the duty to uphold and support just institutions is , in some respects , wider than the duty which devolves on one as a result of the fact that someone has legitimate authority over one , in three different ways . |
| 13 | From this point , a single-track lane with many gates may be followed upriver to rejoin the road a mile short of Dent : a journey not recommended to anyone in a hurry . |
| 14 | There are also occasions when it is fitting for everything in a service to be either purist and ‘ traditional ’ or ‘ modern ’ . |
| 15 | Jackie he was he was looking he was for something and he was looking for something in a hurry and I could n't find out I like T-shirts in one pile sweat shirts in another pullovers in another jeans in another but they were all sort of |
| 16 | There was nothing more boring than flogging around , looking for something like a bike without lights . |
| 17 | ECOLOGICAL Development , an organisation set up to promote environmentally-friendly housing , are looking for anyone with a desire to build their own home in a ‘ Green Village ’ . |
| 18 | I do n't think Fred 'd be looking for anything as a return . |
| 19 | " She looking for someone for a job ? " |
| 20 | ‘ We are looking for someone on a consultancy basis to advise on above and below-the-line campaigns , but there may be several arms to that , ’ McDevitt adds . |
| 21 | No one can be quite I happy in an ill-planned house any more than in ill-fitting clothes , and although the ‘ cut' ’ and ‘ ‘ style , ’ are much , they count for nothing in a garment which pinches and annoys the wearer in a hundred ways … |
| 22 | Hippopotamuses are not regarded as an endangered species , and in some areas of Tanzania and elsewhere in east and southern Africa , are seen as something of a nuisance . |
| 23 | The UK government has announced plans to encourage cycling , in what is seen as something of a shift of policy away from its market-oriented attitude to transport . |
| 24 | Her ‘ young ’ girls and sometimes ‘ young ’ men are aged between 65 and 99 and they look forward very much to her weekly class which she describes as something of a frolic ! |
| 25 | Some of their views came as something of a surprise . |
| 26 | In School A in particular , this relationship seems to have been grasped and its implications at least explored , whereas in School F the interest in study skills which the project seems to have generated came as something of a surprise , even to the head . |
| 27 | Jim and his wife Jan have been married for 18 years and the baby came as something of a surprise . |
| 28 | For 249 Squadron the first introduction to real action on Malta came as something of a shock . |
| 29 | At the time it came as something of a shock . |
| 30 | Even though I thought I was becoming immune to surprises from this species , what happened came as something of a shock . |