Example sentences of "it [verb] something [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has something of the African tomtom and voodoo dance . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It says something for the civilising effect of our upbringing that we can both sit here calmly sharing a meal together when we freely admit to the same deep-seated and violent antipathy . ’ |
| 3 | Such rationalization is , however , of great interest to the historian because it reveals something of the social processes involved in gaining respect for scientific work both inside and outside a scientific community . |
| 4 | Philosophically it inherited something from the Absolute Idealism of the Hegelians and other nineteenth-century opponents of materialism , thus refusing to think of ‘ reality ’ as distinct from ideas of reality . |
| 5 | Built from soft Headington stone , and blackened by the soot from college chimneys , it had something of the crumbly , grand appearance of a country house in Ireland . |