Example sentences of "[subord] something [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Marquis of Queensberry may be judged , in this context , to have made an involuntary and uncharacteristic joke in accusing Wilde of ‘ posing as a somdomite ’ : a phrase that smells of the multiple self , and of the uncertainty of interpretation — and indeed spelling ( Ackroyd , as it happens , interprets him as something other than a sodomite ) . |
| 2 | as something other than a Poetry book . |
| 3 | How I long to see the black kid depicted as something other than the tam-donning , dope-smoking , unemployed gang member , structuring his life around reggae music , blues parties , and thieving , and phrasing his life 's ambitions in terms of one day to the next with little or no positive orientation to the world and an outlook flavoured by prejudice and ignorance . |
| 4 | This saw the common Interest as something other than the sum of , or compromise between , a diversity of group interests . |
| 5 | The combination seems to point to some underlying form of ‘ essential history ’ of which each individual provides his variant but which can only be hinted at , not revealed , because when the voices join across time they never quite marry , though their coming together is an attempt to generate something which like a collective emotion is necessarily felt as something more than the experience of the individual , as something dominant and external' . |