Example sentences of "something [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It marks not the dying of something old but the birth of something new . |
| 2 | Lind incorporates feeling into his theory by suggesting a direct link between the degree of focal activity required to make something intelligible and the intensity of the corresponding muscular and visceral sensations . |
| 3 | The army was an unsatisfactory occupation for a man who lacked the money to purchase promotion , for he was likely to be in the situation of the Master of Elphinstone , who complained in 1715 that ‘ I have served as Capt[ai-n] this nine years which I have the vanity to believe intitelis me to something better than a company of foot ’ . |
| 4 | And he was young enough to hope for something better than a pat on the head from the Leaderene . |
| 5 | I should like to be something more than a drill-master for competent philologists — the generation of present-day teachers , the care of the growing younger generation , this is what I have in mind . " |
| 6 | The community was something more than a collection of species working together for mutual advantage — it obeyed laws that could only be understood at a level transcending that of the individual organisms . |
| 7 | The great features of that map , which make it something more than a picture to be imperfectly copied by laborious childish pens , are the great promontories of Caernarvon , of Pembroke , of Gower and of Cornwall , jutting out into the western sea , like the features of a grim large face , such a face as is carved on a ship 's prow … . |
| 8 | 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' . |
| 9 | Any basic change in the executive branch of British government will need something more than the type of structural reform of the civil service proposed by the Fulton Committee . |
| 10 | The creation of a database in the school library can therefore be seen as something more than the provision of a catalogue of resources . |
| 11 | The introduction of a geographical dimension at this level could be taken up even by those who saw evolution as something more than the selection of random variation . |
| 12 | An occupier is in such a case liable only where the injury is due to some wilful act involving something more than the absence of reasonable care . |
| 13 | Surely this was something more than the heat of twelve geese cooking on a summer 's night ? |
| 14 | Beryl needed firm handling but losing father and brother inside four days must mean something more than the prospect of a secure income . |
| 15 | I consider that we have a very important national duty to perform in this respect ; this city is something more than the mother of arts and eloquence ; she is the mother of nations ; we are peopling two continents , the Western and the Southern Continent , and we are organising , christianising and civilising large portions of two ancient continents , Africa and Asia ; and it is not right that when the inhabitants of those countries come to the metropolis , they should see nothing worthy of its ancient renown . |
| 16 | The Hancock Half Hours seemed to be finally at an end and both Ken and his public were ready for something in which ‘ Stop messing about ’ would mean something more than an admonition to an actor to concentrate on his script . |
| 17 | By context I mean something wider than the co-text of any utterance : In ( 1 ) the implication is that the situation of utterance , which is extralinguistic , determines the potential meaning . |
| 18 | For years , China has used a combination of strong arm diplomacy and shrill rhetoric to try to deny the Dalai Lama international recognition as a legitimate representative of Tibet 's aspirations as something other than a part of China . |
| 19 | However , as transcripts of spontaneous speech like the one above illustrate , the listener who is attempting to understand spoken language is often being confronted with something other than a string of sentences . |
| 20 | It never struck me that every time I cut my finger and the cut heals , something other than a piece of Elastoplast has rushed to the rescue . |
| 21 | Because BS knows all the facts about the brain state , and the experience just is the brain state , then what the experience is like must be something other than a fact about the experience . |
| 22 | Now , it was logically possible that the cue used by the recruits following a dancer was something other than the angle of the dance — and for a while von Frisch was sharply criticised for precisely this reason . |
| 23 | For approximately 90 per cent of the time we are thinking about something other than the activity at hand . |
| 24 | If I now consider an event of a moment ago , my idle contemplation of the cup on my table , and attempt to subtract from my present conception only a part of it-the subject within the event of a moment ago-and to hang on to the remainder , I am in fact left with something other than the content of the event . |
| 25 | What makes some people happy for example , is that they are committed to a cause or to a person ; their happiness derives from something other than the pursuit of happiness . |
| 26 | Policies with a growth motivation , for example , expansion by take-over , will normally on their face give no clue that their purpose is something other than the maximisation of profits . |
| 27 | spiteful , verbose and stupid though rock hacks can be , they are at least sometimes driven by something other than the logic of the balance sheet . |
| 28 | Mothers were twice as likely to scold the older children and tell them to stop ; with younger children , however , they tended not to scold but to distract them and try to interest them in something other than the source of conflict . |
| 29 | Neurosis is socially isolating , and there is no social concern for others based on something other than the desire for a sexual object . |
| 30 | This saw the common Interest as something other than the sum of , or compromise between , a diversity of group interests . |