Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] something of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no small irony in this , as applications to purchase foreign technology in the first place will only be approved if the relevant Soviet machine building ministry can not produce something of the appropriate standard and quantity in the time required . |
| 2 | An impressive university department might be staffed with the established academics who have lately confessed , in print , to basic doubts about the validity and purpose of English literary studies ; and it is hard today to think of any branch of formal literary study that does not reflect something of the same malaise . |
| 3 | At first the freemen of both town and country had an organization and a type of property which still retained something of the communal as well as something of the private , but in the town a radical transformation was taking place . |
| 4 | NUMBER ones from around the world : Bruce Springsteen , who with that manly stubble and grubby string vest has always had something of the macho Mediterranean stud about him , is currently top of the pops in Spain and Italy with Human Touch . |
| 5 | As we now know something of the appalling story of his hounding by cultural officialdom , the raucous irony of the middle works and the bitter blackness of the last become entirely comprehensible . |
| 6 | But the reader now knows something of the general setting of Libyan politics ; of the people involved and their problems , and it is possible to approach the topic of ideas and principles in the aftermath of the revolution . |
| 7 | But he had certainly seen something of the Greek civilization , with its philosophic schools , theatres and gymnasia . |