Example sentences of "something [prep] the quality " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can you tell us something about the quality of water locally ? |
| 2 | He did n't answer at first and there was something about the quality of his silence that caused a flicker of fear to touch her heart . |
| 3 | It had something of the quality of a full-time job — a rather unpleasant one . |
| 4 | Much of the church 's teaching is based on a concept that implies the need to live ‘ holy ’ lives in this world , without expecting reward or recognition for it but anticipating that the afterlife will reflect something of the quality of this earthly life . |
| 5 | I do not think this experience is confined to women , but it symbolizes something of the quality of the Great Mother , and it shows how we have the ability to conceive and carry to birth on a level other than the physical . |
| 6 | This ‘ moment ’ is itself a point in our own time and history , but insofar as it is also the encounter with eternity , it is the ‘ eternal moment ’ , and shares something of the quality of the intersection of time and eternity in Jesus himself . |
| 7 | Montaine and I were not similar in any obvious way , but Jean-Claude may well have detected in me something of the quality he relied on in his sister . |
| 8 | But they do call us towards speech , so that at least in the urgency and the felt inadequacy of our attempt to speak , erm to speak those words and lines , we can act out something of the quality and kind of our response , our shadowy awareness of what these incomparable and shrieking voices meant to the Eliot who was fighting for his own voice . |
| 9 | Something in the quality of Frere 's devotion had touched him . |
| 10 | There was something in the quality of his quiet , confiding tone that made her feel there was an intimacy between them . |
| 11 | Something in the quality and the texture of the fabric — the colour , too , brought out the porcelain of her complexion . |