Example sentences of "[prep] something [adj] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The design works best in performance , where she favours the creation of something akin to the surround-sound sometimes set up in cinemas . |
| 2 | He normally managed this by allowing himself a few seconds of pure indulgence in sensation and then thinking of something neutral for a while and , if this did n't work , something really horrible . |
| 3 | So many people enjoyed it that we are thinking of something similar for the Christmas holidays . |
| 4 | I bought a bottle of something special from a man who came to the door . |
| 5 | I suspect that most sensible designers would think in terms of something more like a skate . |
| 6 | One of the earliest collaborators was the conductor Leopold Stokowski , who happily agreed to experiments to divide the Philadelphia Orchestra into individually miked sections for increased clarity , presumably in search of something more like the clarity he perceived from the conductor 's rostrum ( 14 ) . |
| 7 | Immediately she was conscious of something different in the atmosphere , a feeling of expectation linked to a pervading harmony . |
| 8 | Doug Gowan , of the TUC Education Department , argues that the courses are intended to develop skills and techniques rather than transmit abstract and academic knowledge ; the TUC has tried to dissuade tutors from thinking in terms of ‘ subjects ’ or ‘ disciplines ’ , and instead to shift towards ‘ student-centred educational methods ’ which shift away from classroom styles towards something more like a trade union meeting or office discussion : |
| 9 | The Urvills ' own history , too , made her feel like something unimportant on the family tree , for all that Fergus talked of responsibility and duty and one 's debt to the next generation . |
| 10 | There used to be one woman one end and one woman the other , with something like something similar to the shape as a ladder . |
| 11 | His foot thumped against something soft in the darkness . |
| 12 | Consider the following : ( 1 ) The clothing comes in a fixed number of style and colours ( if you can stretch to calling sludge brown a colour ) , and surely even the most puritanical will lust for something new after a while . |
| 13 | In other words , contemporaries viewed bribery as a bargain in which a vote was exchanged for something tangible at a time of election , but quite apart from the general distaste for such transactions , there was insufficient patronage available to permit its lavish use , and there was certainly never enough money . |
| 14 | Perhaps she could stay just the one night , then look for something cheaper in the morning . |
| 15 | But he was always looking for something extra off the ice too , through dare-devil exploits like deep sea diving and motor racing . |
| 16 | He passed theatres sleepy with morning , and walked on to Singleton 's bookshop , noted for its excellent array of new books and old books , and for its service to customers looking for something special in the way of rare editions . |
| 17 | He was searching for something positive in the experience . |
| 18 | It only does error for something wrong with the machine . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , the writing remains as something separate from the experience and if teachers do not know how they can usefully respond to the writing as a text , then their part in helping children improve their writing is insignificant . |
| 20 | You 've got to talk about something intellectual for a change ! |
| 21 | Perhaps not the most beautiful bride in the world , but O.K. I would have been quite happy with something new from a shop , but no , I was to have a Proper Wedding Dress ( even if it was n't white ) and a Proper Wedding , with all the trimmings . |
| 22 | Ajayi smiled and shook her head ; she put her hand just to one side of the glittering projected line of squares and seemed to fumble with something invisible in the air . |
| 23 | There is a garage/café where souvenirs of a kind can be bought but only a very good marketing man could come up with something stunning from a spot where most of the time nothing is happening . |
| 24 | The engine generator has been housed at the rear of the Matthew Kirtley Museum and this part of the building has been turned into something similar to a vintage powerhouse . |
| 25 | One picks up a suggestion of this position calcifying into something more like the outlook of a crusty old gentleman in a club in a letter he wrote in June 1938 to Barfield . |
| 26 | In contrast to make , which focusses essentially on the notion of producing an effect , force explicitly evokes the means used to bring about the realization of this effect , namely force , and so refers to something prior to the effect 's coming into being . |
| 27 | Will he look at last Monday 's Adjournment debate and see that there is another side to the story , before we start , heaven knows , on sanctions that will hurt the 36 British companies in Libya , which are led , by for example , Brown and Root , and which could lead to something worse in the form of another strike ? |
| 28 | Try to lock your bike to something immovable like a railing or lampost , preferably in a well-lit area with people around . |
| 29 | By the time the echo reaches the bat again , the decay in its intensity is proportional , not to the distance of the fly from the bat , not even to the square of that distance , but to something more like the square of the square — the fourth power , of the distance . |
| 30 | He claims that rights arising from contract are never rights over a person , but only rights over something external to the person — for instance , that person 's body . |