Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was too deeply into the part to see anything outside the stage . |
| 2 | This decision represents something of a final throw . |
| 3 | Laura 's insistence on punctuality for meal times became something of a fetish , not because she was herself preparing meals which risked being spoiled ; she rarely had time for cooking any more . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It seems a shame to waste the opportunity to see something of the country . ’ |
| 6 | But ideologically , nationalisation became something of an irrelevance since both major political parties accepted that some form of state control and assistance was essential for coal , rail transport , electricity , gas , civil aviation , cable and wireless , and the Bank of England . |
| 7 | Aswan has none of the melancholy transience of most end-of the-line towns . |
| 8 | The down-side is that the critic 's representation of the text has none of the authority that objectivity would lend to the analysis . |
| 9 | But she could do nothing , while Sylvie 's presence drew everyone like a charm . |
| 10 | This coexistence of change and resistance owes something to the limits set by nature . |
| 11 | I may not for instance sue somebody in a court of law . |
| 12 | All the rotaries , as with any noise gate , take a little time to get into using and effective gating comes about through practice , although it can at times appear something of a black art . |
| 13 | However , as John Springhall has recently argued , there is little evidence that teenagers suffer anything like an ‘ identity crisis ’ during their adolescent years . |
| 14 | The unitary , all embracing , concept of man which is postulated by such expressions as " Anthropology is the science of man " is really a by-product of the post-Cartesian attempt to objectify everything in the world , to view human relationships as commodities , to see everything as quantifiable and predictable and governed by simple laws of cause and effect . |
| 15 | Mr. Ennals got one from the Prime Minister 's son during his visit here on behalf of the British Government . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But Malcolm Morley , although born in England , is an American painter , and in many respects Hockney became one in the 1960s though he 's now living with the French masters in a Côte d'Azur of his own imagining . |
| 18 | But the whole sequence of cumulative steps constitutes anything but a chance process , when you consider the complexity of the final end-product relative to the original starting point . |
| 19 | But the stroke made none of the impact she was expecting . |
| 20 | Tilda cared nothing for the future , and had , as a result , a great capacity for happiness . |
| 21 | The fashion for opera , its current potency to promote anything from a fast car to a pension scheme , does not venture beyond Puccini . |
| 22 | One leading UFF figure in the area last week referred to a gun attack on a house in Jamaica Street in the Ardoyne area on St. Patrick 's night and said it was the intention to kill anyone in the house . |
| 23 | The gopher tortoise that lives in the southwestern deserts of the United States needs one as a shelter in which to escape the worst of the mid-day heat and it digs into the sun-baked ground with slow ponderous sweeps of its armoured fore-legs . |
| 24 | ‘ A visit to the Moon and a space walk-to say nothing of the Big Dipper and the Whiplash — all in one day ? |
| 25 | They remain different ways , because the institutions of natural science involve the practice of giving causal explanations with the aid of models and statistics , whereas those of religion involve nothing of the sort . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It seems that many of the communities trading with Minoan Crete caught something of the flavour of its culture , whether material or spiritual , and developed it in their own way . |
| 28 | Hungary owes something in the order of twenty billion dollars in international debt . |
| 29 | British Champion Colin McRae pushing everything to the limits … it requires rapid changes through the gear box … even when cornering … now in the Banbury factory of Prodrive engineers have spent 18 months developing a semi-automatic gear box … they 're already becoming common in Formula One … now for the first time they 've been successfully introduced in a rally car … with just a touch of a button the driver can change gear without having to take his hand off the steering wheel . |
| 30 | The British Medical Association says one in a hundred schoolgirls under sixteen is becoming pregnant . |