Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [indef pn] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tetanus immunity should be checked for anyone with a cut or deep scratch . |
| 2 | Beccaria 's attempt to avoid considerations of responsibility and desert must be regarded as something of a failure . |
| 3 | The siege of Saint-Sauveur can be regarded as something of a landmark in the development of the practical use of artillery . |
| 4 | He attributes his success in holding Basildon to the front page of Thursday 's Sun — ‘ If Kinnock wins today will the last person to leave Britain please turn out the lights ’ — and in being treated as something of a hero within sections of the Conservative Party . |
| 5 | ‘ I can see that my presence must have come as something of a shock , ’ he said . |
| 6 | It would have been suspiciously obvious parked near nothing but a gap in the fence , so he had left it by the nearest flats . |
| 7 | For some reason it felt as though she was being sucked into something by a card-sharp . |
| 8 | From this point , a single-track lane with many gates may be followed upriver to rejoin the road a mile short of Dent : a journey not recommended to anyone in a hurry . |
| 9 | Hippopotamuses are not regarded as an endangered species , and in some areas of Tanzania and elsewhere in east and southern Africa , are seen as something of a nuisance . |
| 10 | The UK government has announced plans to encourage cycling , in what is seen as something of a shift of policy away from its market-oriented attitude to transport . |
| 11 | The evening turned into something of a karaoke classic with MARTIN GORE at the piano and DAVE GAHAN turning in simply delightful renditions of such classics as ‘ Drive In Saturday ’ , ‘ I Will Survive ’ and a host of Elvis covers . |
| 12 | Rovers suffered from something of a fadeout and we even had a number of home fans who felt inclined to boo . |
| 13 | Carry on Sergeant may have been made on something of a shoestring ( or maybe it should have been an army bootstring ) with Ken making no more than £800 for his work , but efforts were made to get it all remarkably accurate . |
| 14 | We were perhaps selected by someone with a sense of humour who thought that we might be the right couple to bring in a Queen 's Speech which increases the penalties for mutiny in prisons . |
| 15 | Then the mill acted as something of a milling centre , grinding corn and animal feed for surrounding parishes that lacked milling capabilities or , like Eastington , whose mills had long been turned over to the woollen trade . |
| 16 | The major bus undertakings and the UndergrounD railways ( including the Metropolitan ) were also taken over on that day , and the minor bus operators were drawn in one at a time later , but the main line railway companies ( including their suburban services ) were excluded . |
| 17 | This suggests that with to the infinitive 's event is conceived as something which is known and attributed to someone as a result of experience . |
| 18 | She brought as a present a portrait of Mother Mary as she appeared to the children at Fatima , executed by someone of sentimental disposition , and a statue of the Virgin Mary , the mould fashioned by someone of a melancholy and austere frame of mind . |
| 19 | He and his wife were about to undertake a trip to America and Australia , which in the event developed into something of a busman 's holiday as he was persuaded , perhaps not against his will , to address numerous meetings of trade unionists on the West Coast of the United States and elsewhere . |
| 20 | About how much more land does a family in the rurban fringe use compared with one near a city centre ? |
| 21 | These eagles would not know what a zoo was , or believe that he had escaped from one in a place where no eagles lived naturally . |
| 22 | However , formative years spent trying to knock the ball past all the boys at Blairmore and Strone had contributed to something of a sway . |
| 23 | Scotland could be placed in something of a dilemma if both were ruled out , but Paterson remained confident both will recover . |
| 24 | Bamert , of course , is known as something of a champion of 20th century music in any case , arguing that if we choose to play only the great works of an increasingly distant past , then we ‘ turn the concert hall into a museum , and ignore the fact that music is a living tradition ’ . |
| 25 | Beds must be made , equipment sorted and ordered , and patients dealt with one at a time . |
| 26 | They should be dealt with one at a time using the subsequent text pages . |
| 27 | The service is excellent and very personal too — morning and afternoon tea are brought to one on a tray . |
| 28 | In 2.3 an instruction is described which establishes the position of the most-significant bit set to one in a word . |
| 29 | The routine should not be attempted by anyone with a heart condition or high blood pressure . |
| 30 | The move from the international and political to the insular and personal was interrupted by something of a lull in the seventeenth century . |