Example sentences of "something [adj] [prep] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This learned advertisement suggests that , just like in the Bertillon system , when you get a lot of small pieces of evidence grouped together , it can add up to be something prodigious in the way of proof . |
| 2 | This has aroused the criticism of ‘ nationalist patriots ’ , who see something shameful in the admittance of Coca-Cola to the Hermitage . |
| 3 | These are not recognised by the elder as a social error ( something possible at the level of practical consciousness ) nor as having hazardous consequences ( which perhaps requires verbal consciousness ) . |
| 4 | My fingers hurt something awful by the end of day … ’ |
| 5 | Then Laura appeared , and there was something odd in the manner of her appearance . |
| 6 | I admit that there is something absurd in the notion of machines built around the simple rigour of Boolean logic having to cope with words whose spelling in some cases derives from Dr Sam Johnson 's incorrect etymology . |
| 7 | There was something exciting about the ruggedness of the coastline which offered such a sharp contrast to the many flowers and exotic plant life of the island . |
| 8 | There is obviously something wrong with a portrayal of children as totally lacking in reason until they leap out of bed on their tenth birthday announcing that they are now able to act on principle . |
| 9 | Even ignoring the fact that they were meant as definitions of natures or essences , Gassendi finds something wrong with the idea of finding universal propositions for the premisses of a scientific syllogism . |
| 10 | There is something wrong with the management of the prison service when the Prison Officers Association has 70 disputes in 41 prisons . |
| 11 | There was also something compulsive about the extremism of his rhetoric in the RPF era . |
| 12 | The old man does tell the visitor the story of the woman of Porto Pim ( and his own ) , but there remains something menacing about the silence of the listener-narrator , as though he were taking something away with no intention of giving anything in return . |
| 13 | What was impressive was that each group had something different in the way of experience to contribute , whether about uranium mining or leukaemia clusters or the advantages of energy saving . |
| 14 | They were evidently hearing something different from the rest of us now , for we would watch them slow-dance to the fastest beat , and then , on the next record , see them execute perfect and elaborate improvised arabesques , all fast footwork and impassioned arms , in the gaps of a slow blues . |
| 15 | Then it gives me great pleasure now to erm I always knew that John al , has had something different from the rest of us you know he has that kind of air does n't he , that that status in the pulpit which you know , ? |
| 16 | I have in mind something similar under the heading of ‘ stimulation ’ . |
| 17 | The development of science and education has done something similar in the development of mankind , and is more successful than religions in providing real gains in the external world , because its image of the external world is more accurate than those which are based on religious notions . |
| 18 | This means , basically , that if an act is n't working their balls off , there 's something rotten in the state of Denmark . |
| 19 | Many things are told to the reader throughout the novel through conversation or through reading something such as the reading of the tombstone which tells us of the death of Pip 's parents . |
| 20 | His oeuvre has become a sort of national institution that is regarded with affection by a large number of people , something akin to the singing of ‘ Land of Hope and Glory ’ on the Last Night of the Proms . |
| 21 | ‘ Would you say that the production of a novel is something akin to the process of childbirth ? ’ |
| 22 | Something thrilling with the return of our ever popular THRILLER SEASON . |
| 23 | ‘ I saw something white in a clump of leaves . |
| 24 | There was no doubt there was something unusual in the attitude of the little animal . |
| 25 | Like most of their contemporaries , Marx and Engels assumed that there was something inevitable about the concurrence of slavery and a particular type of economy or technology . |
| 26 | In other words , contemporaries viewed bribery as a bargain in which a vote was exchanged for something tangible at a time of election , but quite apart from the general distaste for such transactions , there was insufficient patronage available to permit its lavish use , and there was certainly never enough money . |
| 27 | I hope also to say something useful about the structure of primate brains as well as the mechanisms of linguistic evolution , both issues that Searle sets to one side as irrelevant to the conceptual question he is pressing . |
| 28 | For a second I considered whether I might not be able to make a meal from the remains , but , not only was the edge off my appetite , there was something repulsive about the thought of eating carrion , however fresh it looked . |
| 29 | The traditions of their monarchy demanded something grander , or if not that something extraordinary like the saintliness of Louis IX . |
| 30 | There is , we have to say , something unpredictable about the work of the Holy Spirit . |