Example sentences of "something [adv] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After 10 years at top level , it 's a pity that Ben still has n't understood that you can never be the best climber sin the world , because there is always someone who will do something better in a given area of the sport . |
| 2 | The question eludes a convincing answer ; yet the intuition persists that behind its lyric grace , its elegant melancholia , " Diffugere nives " conceals something close to a political statement of disillusion and regret . |
| 3 | To achieve something close to a perfect finish , a little forethought and measurement are essential before the first length of wallcovering is cut to length . |
| 4 | He had challenged almost everything she had said and what was meant as an informative introduction to a public relations exercise had developed into something close to a public brawl . |
| 5 | I think you need to go and do something else for a little while I said cos if you keep looking over thinking you ca n't do it , have a break and go back to it afterwards you just get really despondent |
| 6 | Is it allegorical ( i.e. each character or event in the passage stands for something else in a parallel story ) ? |
| 7 | While Winston Churchill ( in his 1940–5 wartime government ) and Margaret Thatcher ( 1979–90 ) were very dominant figures in the cabinets they presided over , prime ministers like Clement Attlee ( 1945–51 ) and John Major ( 1990 to date ) seem to have run their cabinets on something closer to a collective-decision basis . |
| 8 | In the late Thirties , in that period which he described as more " moral " , he had affirmed the need for something very like a Christian revolution which might alter the structure . |
| 9 | X is defined as something very like a human eye , sufficiently similar that the human eye could plausibly have arisen by a single alteration in X. If you have a mental picture of X and you find it implausible that the human eye could have arisen directly from it , this simply means that you have chosen the wrong K. Make your mental picture of X progressively more like a human eye , until you find an K that you do find plausible as an immediate predecessor to the human eye . |
| 10 | This may in fact may have been the prime interest of most of those gathered at Enham , who seem to have been attending something very like a French peace meeting . |
| 11 | Come to think of it , I remember reading something recently about a new exhibition of his , going on tour . |