Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] something [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 According to Schleiermacher , each positive religion contains something of the true nature of religion , and the ‘ primordial form ’ , the ‘ essence ’ , or ‘ transcendental unity ’ of religion , is comprehended not by deducing it from the common elements of particular religions as a kind of abstraction , but in and through the language and traditions of particular religions .
2 The general appearance of the cars owed something to the American inter-urban , almost the only example of this type in Britain .
3 Frege argued that in asserting an existential proposition one is in effect saying something about the relevant concept , namely that certain things fall under it , or , conversely , that nothing falls under it , i.e. that the concept is empty , as the case may be .
4 This provided the opportunity for the members of the committee to see something of the rural development problems and programmes in Lewis and Harris , and discuss them with some of those working on them .
5 Perhaps it is too much to hope that this concert finally dragged the Petersfield Musical Festival into the 20th century , but with a promised appearance by the acclaimed National Youth Jazz Orchestra next year , as well as The Dream of Gerontius , it remains only for the committee to do something about the slow start to the week for the festival to regain some of its former splendour .
6 Stone is utterly convincing in his argument that the 1857 Divorce Act had nothing to do with perceived changes in the economic conditions of the labouring poor during early industrialization and everything to do with lawyers ' determination to do something about the chaotic state of the law .
7 Designed with the shell of the old smiddy and adjoining cottages , the inn retains something of the original atmosphere .
8 He will liaise with the medical rehabilitation teams and with the ERCs to know something of the overall picture of the person 's employment problem .
9 There were several discernible influences at work here — one was undoubtedly her father 's piping , which suggested decorations to the melodic line at North-east songs not always accustomed to such , and the other was acquaintance with young English revival singers who had incorporated into their singing styles something of the sean nos tradition of the West of Ireland .
10 He did not , as he said on 9 December 1958 , when as owner of Be Careful he spoke at the Gimcrack dinner , object to bookmakers paying something towards the racing industry 's expenses .
11 Suddenly the wind made the plant move , and Mary saw something under the dark green leaves .
12 I can then approach the overseas groups knowing something of the overall picture .
13 Yet despite the vibrant colours Modigliani captured something of the wistful yearning of his nature .
14 It is inside in the sense of geography , its supposedly stable working-class past implying the moral obligation of society to do something about the fundamental causes of the problems .
15 An attempt has been made by the present writer to convey something of the lawless nature and the rough , tough frontierland conditions of post-Speranskii Siberia in his later chapter comparing Siberia to the American ‘ Wild West ’ and analysing the relationship between exile , vagrancy and crime in the region .
16 Because the disaster revealed something about the basic nature of the Soviet system , at a moment when it had at last become possible to do something about that system , the political consequences may prove the most profound of all .
17 To say more precisely whether these cuts produced something like the optimal solution to the level of investment ( though with the inconvenience of power cuts at the peak ) , is problematic in an economy which ( even in the 1950s ) was subject to considerable disequilibrium in prices and inherited production patterns .
18 Erm in the eighteen fifties , in the years immediately preceding the American civil war , the er then American president er was placed under great pressure to do something about the increasing tensions and increasing conflicts between north and south but er he declined to do so .
19 Or Natural Selection ? , but is introduced in the next short chapter where we take a brief diversion to present something of the vast integrated cycles by which life is maintained upon our planet .
20 This does n't just mean doing a sedentary job but refers rather to the type of person ( who could well be a housewife , doing a basically non-sedentary type of job ) who calls the children to bring something from the next room rather than getting up herself , or who goes to great lengths to avoid journeys up and down stairs , or who will drive round for five minutes to find a parking spot near the exit of the car park rather than walk for two minutes …
21 It enables the scientist to say something about the internal experiences of others without the tedium of having to ask the subjects themselves .
22 This convention retained something of the laconic style of drafting of its Latin American predecessors , and like them applied in principle to both the service of documents and the taking of evidence .
23 The work is of a very high standard , with several children who have recently joined the school writing something for the first time .
24 Anyway erm I think we totally support the thrust of what you 're asking about and I was asked to make a special appeal to County Council to see whether they could assist with this recently established Rural Options Land Bank , the purpose of which is rather extraordinary , but I mean it is defined landowners who have a philanthropic bent to provide the land to do something about the very problem you 've raised .
25 It would also be a good idea to read something by the French dramatist , Molière , their great contemporary , who satirises the hypocrisies of cultivated society ; I recommend Tartuffe about a religious imposter and La Malade Imaginaire , a satire on the medical profession .
26 Stephanie had hopes that the familial Christmas dinner might in some way restore something of the frail threadwork of decency and courteous behaviour broken by the earlier violence of her father and brother .
27 The image , of course , centres around the fact that faith and doubt have something of the same curious relationship as health and sickness .
28 If the adventurers stop to negotiate , Juliane explains that she and Maximilian have come to the Castle to find something in the Great Tower .
29 But that , that is a Y equals something X to the tenth , so it 's it 's not going to have a gradient that requires Y equals something to the tenth .
30 The almost mystical power of race and nation on the political stage conveys something about the changing nature of class relations , the growth of state authoritarianism , the eclipse of industrial production , the need to maintain popular support for militarism and exterminism and the end of the nation-state as a political form .
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