Example sentences of "[prep] something [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Frank Cooper argues that , despite intelligence reports of something amiss in the South Atlantic , it would have been inappropriate to have stopped these shipments . |
| 2 | And any ‘ green shoots of recovery ’ may well be choked by the tares of something close to a world slump . |
| 3 | The picture that emerges , at least as a possibility , is of something close to the idea of a constitutional monarch , a king whose power was substantially restricted by the overwhelming spiritual , political and economic power of the priesthood . |
| 4 | But along with this goes the idea that to talk of ‘ the mind ’ is to talk of something actually in the head , or at any rate capable of making contact with the rest of the body via the brain . |
| 5 | As it swung against the wall , there was a thud of something hard in the pocket . |
| 6 | And if you do n't like any of those look for something else on the shelf , but try to move about as little as possible , please . ’ |
| 7 | Or would you rather have the security of knowing that , whenever in the years to come your employer may decide , for whatever reason , that you should go , you will be cushioned by a generous notice period which allows you to look for something else without the fear that very shortly the money will be running out ? |
| 8 | Then came the pull on the string and you had to think about something else besides the water and the sky and the sun . |
| 9 | if you I think it happens when you 're worrying about something else in the word and you 're concentrating on something else thinking , Ooh what 's he want here is it going to be an E I or an I E or what . |
| 10 | * Analysing the structure of a text is useful only if you can make something of it , such as linking it with something else about the text in a correlation or causal relation ( see p. 53 ) . |
| 11 | I mean some people adopt the approach of trying to d do it all in about two hours just before the deadline so they do n't have time to feel self critical erm I think perhaps if you can , you know , rather than , rather than trying to do it all at once I mean the business of , of going through successive drafts of things and gradually getting them better and better , I mean the first drafts of things that I write are , are usually just scribbles on the back of a piece of paper that 's , with something else on the front |
| 12 | Preston 's playing is so vivacious , his enthusiasm for the music so stimulating and his obvious enjoyment in playing this marvellous instrument ( which the DG engineers have recorded with something well into the demonstration category ) so infectious that I doubt even the most dyed-in-the-wool hater of organ music could fail to be won over to the cause . |
| 13 | Through no fault of their own , through deformity or genetic accident , they found themselves marginalized by Indian society , turned into something half-way between a talisman and an object of ridicule . |
| 14 | Mr Hardiman 's large pink face convulsed for a moment into something very like a smile . |
| 15 | It was late afternoon , the micro hones had been taken away , the hall was only half lit ; Karajan sat with the orchestra in something closer to a seance or seminar than a rehearsal . |
| 16 | If one read the linguistic signs as pointing to something vaguely beyond the poem , to ‘ Something evermore about to be ’ ( Prelude 1805 , vi , 542 ) , then the poetry could be used to support innumerable creeds . |
| 17 | Today many live on something close to the Church 's minimum stipend of £12,200 a year and their accommodation is more likely to be in the council semi mould . |
| 18 | Because the people around one are all the best at something else in the universe . |