Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] something [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This decision represents something of a final throw . |
| 2 | This coexistence of change and resistance owes something to the limits set by nature . |
| 3 | This resort has something for everyone . |
| 4 | A kitchen needs something like 10 to 15 changes of air an hour when it is in use , which means , for example , that for a 3m × 2.5m kitchen an extractor fan with a capacity of around 250cu m/hr is needed . |
| 5 | Rotten little cow has something on me and she 's come to gloat . |
| 6 | The Natural Break experience has something for everyone — including the wildlife . |
| 7 | Planning a school curriculum has something in common with planning a journey . |
| 8 | So including them here on a stock instrument represents something of a treat for the would-be vintage guitar purchaser who has been otherwise stopped in his tracks by the silly money habitually demanded for early '60s Strats . |
| 9 | The auction has something for everyone . |
| 10 | Every song on the album contains something of my own experience over the last year but the words are applicable to everyone . ’ |
| 11 | Such a role entails the belief that Labour has something of value to say to everyone : the party 's future natural constituency is the whole community without class or political boundaries . |
| 12 | The rest of Pincher 's Oxford ring looks something like this . |
| 13 | According to Schleiermacher , each positive religion contains something of the true nature of religion , and the ‘ primordial form ’ , the ‘ essence ’ , or ‘ transcendental unity ’ of religion , is comprehended not by deducing it from the common elements of particular religions as a kind of abstraction , but in and through the language and traditions of particular religions . |
| 14 | ‘ I was thinking that an obviously romantic setting has something to be said for it . |
| 15 | ‘ If the agent says something about a house it must be verified . |
| 16 | In a nationwide poll conducted in the second week after the massacre , the question was asked : ‘ Some people believe that this tragedy says something about the problem of male violence towards women . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , the term means something to all of us . |
| 18 | There are many people around who call a spade a spade , but who do so in such a rude , offensive way , that this kind of plain-speaking becomes something to be avoided . |
| 19 | A third possibility , and perhaps the most likely explanation , is that the cat 's litter tray leaves something to be desired . |
| 20 | The yanks are castigated for their heartless reaction to the deaths of civilians in Baghdad ( ‘ the manner of the American military 's response betrays something about its values , ’ opined Britain 's Independent on Sunday ) and mocked for the fear of terrorism that has kept them away from Europe — thus cruelly hurting Europe 's tourist business . |
| 21 | but the ending goes something like this . |
| 22 | The plot goes something like this : Bowser ( an evil character ) has captured Mario and has got his evil Koopas ( looking just a bit like the Teenage Mutant Nija Turtles ) to steal parts of famous monuments from around the world . |
| 23 | were almost erm okay just like that , I mean there were one or two very good ones , I think there was one that was just about like that with the odd word and when an editor receives something like you , you know , it 's usually going to be something he wants to change very slightly , erm that , those were the best ones , there were in general however you have n't yet got used to the idea of editing . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , The Logic of Fantasy has something of a two-world structure of its own . |
| 25 | Thus , when the Law deems something to be O.K. , chances are it stops being much fun . |
| 26 | Thoroughly wet wood has something like a third of the strength and stiffness of completely dry wood . |
| 27 | With a character and ambience all of its own , The Gallery has something for everyone — from food to fashion , art to artefacts , music to mime ! |
| 28 | It is admittedly relatively easy for a monist to show ( as Lodge does ) that even the best translation of a prose work loses something of the original . |
| 29 | You can include text , so that the prompt says something like What next , Fred ? |
| 30 | Given the assertiveness and self-advertisement of modernization in Italian life across all forms of culture , from literature to political and social theory , during the 1960s and early 1970s , this return assumes something of the force of a revenge or , at any rate , a restitution . |