Example sentences of "something [prep] the [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second I want to say a few words about the efforts that have been made in the last twelve months to increase the G M B's role in the building and civil engineering industries and third I want to say something about the present serious situation in the building industry pay talks . |
| 2 | I can tell the House something about the right hon. Gentleman : he opposed the deployment of the cruise missile , and of Trident — something that he now says he supports . |
| 3 | If the Minister is genuinely concerned about maritime safety , he must do something about the massive proposed cuts in the coastguard service . |
| 4 | If you know something about the deeper inner workings of computers then you can make use of this fact to guess what sort of things might cause a program some difficulties . |
| 5 | Visible now only in the panoramic view , the young woman appeared to be throwing something towards the few remaining Counsellors . |
| 6 | Or Natural Selection ? , but is introduced in the next short chapter where we take a brief diversion to present something of the vast integrated cycles by which life is maintained upon our planet . |
| 7 | We rarely played close to the building which , when not lit up , had something of the baleful haunted house about it . |
| 8 | Although hailed by the leaders of the Catholic revival as their patron , ‘ the good Earl John ’ ( as he was known by them ) retained something of the recusant Catholic families ' suspicion of ‘ enthusiasm ’ , religious fervour , and triumphalism . |
| 9 | Just before the men were shot — they 'd had two weeks inside so their beards had taken on something of the authentic rag-tag FAKINTIL glory , as opposed to the clean-shaven image they had presented in their neat malai-issue camos — one shouted out the name of Osvaldo . |
| 10 | Now that we have looked at Wharram Percy deserted village and seen something of the 30-year long excavations there , we should look at other studies and excavations on village sites which seem to suggest the same developments implied at Wharram Percy . |
| 11 | When he gives evidence , sitting for the most part on two cushions , he leans forwards attentively like a headmaster , and with something of the same terrifying effect . |
| 12 | The image , of course , centres around the fact that faith and doubt have something of the same curious relationship as health and sickness . |
| 13 | Something of the same emotional patterns are evinced by managers through the metaphors and myths of management which they carry in their minds . |
| 14 | Something of the same special place of ‘ retreat ’ for art , especially literature and painting , is to be found in Foucault . |
| 15 | Charles was about the same age as Richie and had something of the same military bearing . |
| 16 | And she walked out of the room with something of the same wary insistence on normality . |
| 17 | Something of the same territorial influence can be detected in other counties too ; in the East Midlands , the spheres of the Dukes of Rutland and Devonshire were rarely challenged . |
| 18 | It was a genuine attempt to explore the innate bases of behaviour and their social implications , even if something of the confused Darwinian metaphor remained . |
| 19 | NUMBER ones from around the world : Bruce Springsteen , who with that manly stubble and grubby string vest has always had something of the macho Mediterranean stud about him , is currently top of the pops in Spain and Italy with Human Touch . |
| 20 | All this though was some way from any quantitative expression of conservation of ‘ energy ’ — a term first used in something like the modern scientific sense by Thomas Young at the beginning of the century . |
| 21 | But I see there 's blood sausage , ’ he said , and sent them such a terrible leery grin , that Snodgrass , who had been cutting himself a slice from this , which he had innocently thought was something like the spicy Renascian liver-and-wine-roll , recoiled and snatched his hand back as if he had been burnt . |
| 22 | These exact boundaries date from local government reorganization in 1974 but something like the present administrative area has existed since the establishment of regional commissioners for the maintenance of supplies in the 1920s . |
| 23 | Something like the last few sentences must however have been at least a part of Tolkien 's intention . |
| 24 | ‘ Maybe people would think we were something like the British Labour Party , ’ he said hopefully . |
| 25 | Suddenly the wind made the plant move , and Mary saw something under the dark green leaves . |
| 26 | By multiplying five thousand one hundred and ten hours by three pounds fifty , a rate something under the full commercial rate . |
| 27 | Good runner ; needs one or Two repairs ; a few grey hairs but Nothing a respray could n't fix Would like a 1966 five-speed turbo In exchange : something in the sporty Twin-carb range . |
| 28 | Something in the syncopated rhythmic movement of their two stroking hands stopped him though . |
| 29 | There is something in the British political culture , and I call this a national characteristic once it gets deep into a culture , which has made British politics consistently less violent than others . |
| 30 | Tell me something in the last eight years that I 've said . |