Example sentences of "something [adj] [conj] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not long before we had to try our swords , as the billhooks had become , on something real and so a row of perfectly harmless Brussels Sprouts were decapitated . |
| 2 | In almost every other respect , certainly , the Celtic Church appears to have been something more than simply a repository for Nazarean thought — as Nestorian Christianity was , for example . |
| 3 | They had n't been short of opinions , either , and Dominic Wetherby was now becoming something more than just a name . |
| 4 | Of course , the countryside must continue to be a working landscape ; but if most people 's definition of a river as something more than just a drain is valid , then that broad definition must be consciously built into the brief of those who wield this mighty technology of the JCB , the Hymac , and the Swamp-dozer . |
| 5 | You were talking about something more than just a feeling . ’ |
| 6 | She takes her greyhound for walks , and the animal becomes , tactfully , briefly , for half a paragraph or so , something more than just a dog . |