Example sentences of "something [adj] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Graham can write something solid about the lousy deal research gets in this country , it can do nothing but good . |
| 2 | He 'd done something dishonest for the first time in his business life , and it sat uneasily on his conscience . |
| 3 | There was something odd about the whole procedure because there was no great urgency . |
| 4 | He thought he could detect something odd in the other man 's voice — a faint sing-song tone ; a little , obsessive rhythm , lilting and mad . |
| 5 | Beyond contentious politics lay something else , something non-political like the natural geography of a region . |
| 6 | ‘ Is something wrong with the local menu ? ’ |
| 7 | Cos , there was something wrong with the receiving part of the dish . |
| 8 | I wonder : is there something wrong with the electric seat motors or should they sound like they have sand in them ? |
| 9 | From the very first , I had sensed something wrong about the long-haired Mamba … for one thing a man should not be that beautiful . |
| 10 | Imagination from other viewpoints depends on my having already perceived something analogous from the then present and my own , and is undernourished if I was distracted at the time by consideration of the future or of others . |
| 11 | ‘ Something unpleasant about the whole affair do n't you think ? ’ |
| 12 | Since studies of the volatility-maturity relationship for other assets have found much more support for the Samuelson hypothesis ( even when the high and low prices are not used in measuring volatility ) , this suggests there is something different about the volatility-maturity relationship for index futures . |
| 13 | So unambiguously marked are these , that they draw attention away from other features of his — his odd stock of knowledge and his quiet eagerness to increase it — his unassuming inclination for the arts , and particularly music something different from the practical awareness that comes from being married to a singer — his compassion — his steadfastness . |
| 14 | When I took it over from Matt I realised that a wilderness was something different from the average person 's orderly life . |
| 15 | If you want something different from the standard offerings of garden centres , order fledgling plants in plugs of soil , and seedlings . |
| 16 | She had not felt it since her days of poverty , when she had faced the world alone ; it was something different from the polished ruthlessness that money had brought ; it was brighter-eyed , more truculent . |
| 17 | It is not something peculiar to the Royal Family — people have very humdrum existences and the Royals provide a bit of excitement . |
| 18 | You could write something similar to the following example anywhere in your program where you wished this calculation to be carried out . |
| 19 | I 'm really looking for something similar to the national parks article which appeared on page 19 of the last edition , written in an urgent , campaigning style . |
| 20 | The nationalist leader did something similar with the cultural detritus of the past to create a new national group . |
| 21 | The magnificence of crinoline and the billowing hoop-skirt were certainly exciting an interest of their own in the mid-1850s , as something symptomatic of the extravagant optimism of the period . |
| 22 | The hotel is ideal for mountain and country walking , situated some 5200 feet up and we recommend guests bring strong walking shoes and something warm for the cooler evenings . |
| 23 | This is of course something extra to the continuous backing of detail , of weather conditions , locality and so on , which is part of the texture of this kind of story ; it is delivered in a more deliberate and even laboured manner . |
| 24 | On the Continent mercantile law is still regarded as something separate from the ordinary law . |
| 25 | These efforts at information-gathering by fair means or foul were merely an intensification of something visible from the very beginnings of organised diplomacy . |
| 26 | Something akin to the contemporary pattern of hooliganism has long existed in Glasgow as a result of Irish Catholic immigration and militant working-class Scottish Protestantism . |
| 27 | This would bring us to something akin to the fundamental propositions of science . |
| 28 | These schemes , then , can be summarized under the following heads : we run residency and award schemes , we run grants to artists and craftsmen and photographers , we run an artists in school scheme , which involves placement of and artist for two weeks or so in a local secondary school , we offer payments to artists for exhibiting in certain galleries , something akin to the public lending right , we also provide assistance for the purchase and commissioning of contemporary work , and finally we run an artists ' register , which is a slide register of work of artists within the region , which is accessible to anyone who wants to come along and look at it , whether they are organizing an exhibition or thinking of commissioning a piece for their own living rooms , or perhaps a piece for their town hall or public library or whatever . |
| 29 | On the other hand they were allowed to criticize their teachers , something unthinkable before the Cultural Revolution . |
| 30 | There was something stimulating about the warmed air so heavy with the smells of living . |