Example sentences of "[adv] something [adj] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 There is obviously something wrong with a portrayal of children as totally lacking in reason until they leap out of bed on their tenth birthday announcing that they are now able to act on principle .
2 So , for example , ‘ All attributes which we ascribe to God are to be taken as denoting , not something special in God , but only something special in the manner in which the feeling of absolute dependence is to be related to him ’ .
3 And what I 'm giving is just something nice in the spirit of Christmas but it has n't broken my bank or my back .
4 Mm and what I 'm giving is just something nice in the spirit of Christmas , but it has n't broken my bank or my back
5 There 's been times , erm , other things , usually something unconnected with the music . ’
6 Preferably something profitable for the company . ’
7 Inevitably there is always something wrong with a property and the vendor will not wish to let the purchaser use a minor problem as an excuse for not completing the transaction .
8 There was also something compulsive about the extremism of his rhetoric in the RPF era .
9 Never buy without close examination of the evidence , and treat with caution the auctioneer 's ‘ sold as a binding , not-subject to return ’ , since in any case there is probably something unsatisfactory about the book and the doubt may extend to the attribution .
10 No , it was probably something odd like a bird 's head brooch found near the body , or the design on a rare coin in the victim 's pocket .
11 The conclusion I drew from the chart is that , if it demonstrated that St Johann im Pongau has a better system of queue prevention than Meribel has , there is clearly something wrong with the demonstration .
12 There is clearly something special about the apparatus of government when it comes to talking about the power which it has over our daily lives through its ability to take decisions which shape and lead society in a certain direction .
13 It was almost prophetic in its wisdom : ‘ There is really something morbid about the film as a whole — a fascination , almost a wallowing in death and suffering that represents one of the least appealing tendencies in the audience as well as the film-makers .
14 There was supposedly something wrong with the camera .
15 There was indeed something bizarre about the idea that protection was the way to unite the Conservative Party .
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