Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] of a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its atmosphere has something of a European town square about it , albeit taken inside and miniaturised . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , The Logic of Fantasy has something of a two-world structure of its own . |
| 3 | The dissociation produced by this procedure constitutes something of a theoretical puzzle . |
| 4 | The eclipse , late on the 9th , represents something of a cosmic milestone , especially if you 're an early June birthday . |
| 5 | This decision represents something of a final throw . |
| 6 | This seems to be true in spite of the fact that Spinoza was very much of a generation which was concerned to dissociate itself from the Greek inheritance , and indeed he represents something of a fresh injection of Jewish moral feeling into the main Christian current of Western thought . |
| 7 | In many of these sonnets the poet accuses himself of a gross failure in judgement in having formed a relationship with this woman . |
| 8 | This seems something of a disappointing conclusion because some other work has proffered a reorganized approach , in particular either by focusing upon the environment theme or upon the urban environment , which has been covered by Urbanization and Environment ( Detwyler and Marcus , 1972 ) by Urban Geomorphology ( Coates , 1976c ) and by The Urban Environment ( Douglas , 1983 ) . |
| 9 | Of course , you can run the programs in a DOS window , but it seems something of a regressive step . |
| 10 | My heart tells me of a perfect flower in the centre of the garden and I move along the pathways , stopping to drink in some new and dazzling sight or scent that arrests me . |
| 11 | He tells me of a great battle his ancestors fought near Lake Victoria . |
| 12 | A FRIEND tells me of a post-electoral poster war which has broken out in his salubrious street in north Kensington , London , quite different in tone from the good-humoured gobbing on one another 's doorsteps which characterised neighbourly relations during the three weeks preceding the day that the revolution failed to dawn . |
| 13 | When the whole structure is still , as it were , in two parts we have a noun phrase such that there is no reason to suppose that it has the property of the adjective ; when the structure is united we find first , that the property of the adjective does apply to the noun phrase , and , second , that the verb tells us of a temporal change . |
| 14 | She reminds me of a small animal at bay . |
| 15 | Michael reminds me of a cardboard version of Prince ; his experiments with pastiche and his fusion of pop and soul make him an eclectic chap , but a dull one . |
| 16 | This latter award reminds me of a key feature of being the best and that is teamwork . |
| 17 | This talk of laughing all the way to the bank reminds me of a delightful line from Shakespeare : |
| 18 | ‘ Huh , with those blue eyes , the tan and the toothpaste smile , he reminds me of a game-show host . ’ |
| 19 | In a way the sound reminds me of a small-bodied Gibson from the '30s or '40s , but with more volume and a clearer bass end . |
| 20 | The lip reminds me of a sun-split tomato . |
| 21 | A dissident intellectual passing out leaflets at a factory gate reminds him of a nervous child offering a sugar lump to a large horse . |
| 22 | It is in this sense that Derrida argues that Husserl 's Origin of Geometry sets up ‘ the possibility of history as the possibility of language ’ whereby ‘ difference would be transcendental ’ : writing , in the general significance which Derrida gives it of a differential marking , must be the condition of any historicity . |
| 23 | STEPHEN BROADBENT from Gloucester reminds us of a useful way of getting the best of both worlds . |
| 24 | None of this excuses their behaviour , of course , but this is an unusually human account of an all-too-human encounter in the streets which reminds us of a certain constancy of human motive , and of conflicts built around the human meanings that are attached to the social realities of class , physical appearance and territory . |
| 25 | And although ratings have dropped since the show began airing regularly , Twin Peaks remains something of a national passion . |