Example sentences of "[prep] something [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , we want to argue in favour of thinking in terms of something other than a sentence as being the major psychological processing unit ; and , as we will see , a more appropriate processing unit is probably the clause . |
| 2 | It marks not the dying of something old but the birth of something new . |
| 3 | Inouye : I just wanted the record to be clear , because somehow I felt like something less than a patriot all day long . |
| 4 | And he was young enough to hope for something better than a pat on the head from the Leaderene . |
| 5 | After a while we realised that the girders were not a skeleton for something fancier but the thing itself . |
| 6 | For years , China has used a combination of strong arm diplomacy and shrill rhetoric to try to deny the Dalai Lama international recognition as a legitimate representative of Tibet 's aspirations as something other than a part of China . |
| 7 | The creation of a database in the school library can therefore be seen as something more than the provision of a catalogue of resources . |
| 8 | The introduction of a geographical dimension at this level could be taken up even by those who saw evolution as something more than the selection of random variation . |
| 9 | For approximately 90 per cent of the time we are thinking about something other than the activity at hand . |
| 10 | This is because in saying what something looks like to me I am not saying something about something other than the thing I am looking at , its look . |
| 11 | Therefore , if a reviewer starts going on about something other than the game s/he is obviously telling you that the game has not really got anything different in terms of game play to offer . |
| 12 | for three hours with a sur as the surgeon battled to save his life well I 'd have thought they could have plugged wounds with something other than a finger ! |
| 13 | However , as transcripts of spontaneous speech like the one above illustrate , the listener who is attempting to understand spoken language is often being confronted with something other than a string of sentences . |
| 14 | If I now consider an event of a moment ago , my idle contemplation of the cup on my table , and attempt to subtract from my present conception only a part of it-the subject within the event of a moment ago-and to hang on to the remainder , I am in fact left with something other than the content of the event . |
| 15 | Press each block firmly in place , and weight them with something heavy until the adhesive has set . |
| 16 | What makes some people happy for example , is that they are committed to a cause or to a person ; their happiness derives from something other than the pursuit of happiness . |
| 17 | With the first , the course is planned substantially though by no means exclusively in terms of an external occupation ; with the second , the rationale of the course is primarily internal , in terms of the demands of the discipline and implicit preparation for research ( and in some cases school-teaching ) ; with the third , the rationale derives from something other than an occupation or a discipline . |
| 18 | Smith 's early demise opened the door for the much-anticipated return of David Gower , who had flown down for the Wimbledon men 's final in something other than a Tiger Moth the day before . |
| 19 | Mothers were twice as likely to scold the older children and tell them to stop ; with younger children , however , they tended not to scold but to distract them and try to interest them in something other than the source of conflict . |
| 20 | Mrs Guest was born to polite society , but broke with convention as a wayward débutante , taking to the stage and sitting for Diego Rivera in something less than a presentation gown . |
| 21 | The army was an unsatisfactory occupation for a man who lacked the money to purchase promotion , for he was likely to be in the situation of the Master of Elphinstone , who complained in 1715 that ‘ I have served as Capt[ai-n] this nine years which I have the vanity to believe intitelis me to something better than a company of foot ’ . |
| 22 | We can perhaps only guess at what exactly lay behind such incidents , although these kinds of details begin to add up to something more than a fringe resentment of the police by a marginal ‘ criminal element ’ . |
| 23 | Whether the picture is seen as a staircase viewed from above or a staircase viewed from below seems to depend on something other than the image on the retina of the viewer . |
| 24 | In unmarked information structure , the information focus falls on something other than the theme . |
| 25 | Neurosis is socially isolating , and there is no social concern for others based on something other than the desire for a sexual object . |
| 26 | spiteful , verbose and stupid though rock hacks can be , they are at least sometimes driven by something other than the logic of the balance sheet . |