Example sentences of "[to-vb] something of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the one hand , as I wrote , I found myself wanting to alert readers to an increasing amount of detailed literature , across a wide range of disciplines , currently being reported ; and to indicate something of the complexity of the issues being pursued . |
| 2 | It is vitally important to know something of the individual richness and variety of each religious tradition before becoming subject to the generalisations of those engaged in comparative religion . |
| 3 | ‘ We must make every effort to know something of the detail of what is happening . |
| 4 | It will be interesting to know something of the history too . |
| 5 | It was only when I got to know something of the poverty of India 's villages ( some 500,000 of them ) that I really saw far worse poverty . |
| 6 | He will liaise with the medical rehabilitation teams and with the ERCs to know something of the overall picture of the person 's employment problem . |
| 7 | But in order to appreciate Derrida 's critique of these issues , it is necessary to know something of the position from which he makes it . |
| 8 | Each of the catechists must be in touch with their own life experience , and in particular the helper catechists need to know something of the life history of their friends so that a real historical event can be shared when it comes to the time for each one to share parts of their personal story — for that is where God speaks to each one of us . |
| 9 | ‘ Did his general condition lead you to expect something of the sort ? ’ |
| 10 | Bearing in mind the bias of the Canongate survey , it is nevertheless possible to use data from the 38 families with compositor daughters to suggest something of the family background from which a number of our women compositors came . |
| 11 | If this is so , then the church may begin to experience something of the grief of Jesus going ‘ through all the towns and villages ’ and being filled with compassion because the crowds ‘ were harassed and helpless , like sheep without a shepherd ’ . |
| 12 | We began to experience something of the build up to labour pains . |
| 13 | Instead his diaries had begun to assume something of the knowingness of incipient middle age ; at times , indeed , he was in danger of becoming priggish and opinionated . |
| 14 | There is little doubt that this particular development was motivated largely by the wish to restore something of the vigour and resistance to disease of the older types to modern colours and shapes . |
| 15 | Prior to becoming a teacher , Roddick decided she wanted to see something of the world . |
| 16 | This provided the opportunity for the members of the committee to see something of the rural development problems and programmes in Lewis and Harris , and discuss them with some of those working on them . |
| 17 | We might have expected to see something of the great movies , Gold Rush , Modern Times , Limelight … |
| 18 | This is taking us from the mundane and the ugly and helping us to see something of the reality of the splendour of God in our lives , particularly when we worship Him . |
| 19 | Immediately beyond the church and school the road has a less steep section , and soon passes a small cheese dairy where , depending on circumstances of the season , there may be an opportunity to see something of the work that is typical of this type of country . |
| 20 | Suddenly , after two centuries of obscurity and legends , two documents coming from the chancery of Antiochus III allow us to see something of the life of Jerusalem ; the second document is again quoted by Flavius Josephus ( Ant . |
| 21 | As to the visit to Merstham , I had hoped that if he were to come all that way , he ought to see something of the country , as it was then still of an unspoilt rural character and in autumn especially beautiful . |
| 22 | ‘ You said you 'd like to see something of the Cotswold Way . |
| 23 | Yes my Lord I I I 'm not going to invite your Lordship t to take a great deal of time reading reports that state in detail erm but I think the witness statements and I think probably the documentation that might help your Lordship at this stage er to see something of the and to ensure that where evidence is given it can proceed fairly fairly quickly . |
| 24 | It seems a shame to waste the opportunity to see something of the country . ’ |
| 25 | It was also a pleasant break from air-travel to go by road from Agra to Delhi , and to see something of the country . |
| 26 | However , a pilot study has shown that if the available data is collected and sorted by computer , enough survives to enable something of the overall pattern to emerge , especially through comparison with the much more plentiful English data . |
| 27 | The general principle is shown in the photograph , and with a little ingenuity it should be possible to devise something of the sort . |
| 28 | Just watch a bat weave its way through the evening sky and you may begin to glimpse something of the world it perceives . |
| 29 | An example may serve best at this stage to illustrate something of the range of problems often encountered by pupils when composing non-time-related texts . |
| 30 | It was a tremendous morale-booster for Michael to do something of the sort again , but I am sure none of the delegates at the conference knew of the pain he was in , nor how much discomfort he concealed behind his ready laugh . |