Example sentences of "[verb] something [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They do this by adopting something like a structuralist understanding of signification systems , treating them as changing structures of oppositions and differences , where obvious meanings are always shadowed by the meanings they exclude . |
| 2 | At this point , some hawk-eyed philosopher ( hawks have very acute eyes — you could n't make a hawk 's eye by throwing lenses and light-sensitive cells together at random ) will start mumbling something about a circular argument . |
| 3 | And then I wonder if another means of acquiring something of a scientific education might not be found . |
| 4 | Hunt was acquiring something of a bad reputation : both for being accident-prone and for being excessively forthright . |
| 5 | One of them , a handsome man scarcely more than an adolescent , shouted something in a high voice . |
| 6 | The greengrocer spoke with exaggerated patience as though explaining something to a backward child . |
| 7 | Hereford are staging something of a mini revival this year inching their way out of the gloom at the bottom of division three . |
| 8 | The state now provided something of a protective safety net from the cradle to the grave . |
| 9 | Although most customers want something like a conventional ferry , but faster , manufacturers have generally used materials and construction techniques from the aircraft industry . |
| 10 | You want something like a little erm , like a moose you know , a moose carton |
| 11 | The trouble was , of course , that among Henry 's sort of person , a rugby-playing surveyor , for example , or the kind of dentist like David Sprott who was n't afraid to get up on his hind legs at a social gathering and talk , seriously and at length , about teeth , he was considered something of a subversive . |
| 12 | This created something of a diplomatic flurry between London and Washington , as the Americans sought assurances that the British were not trying to sabotage their plans . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Its atmosphere has something of a European town square about it , albeit taken inside and miniaturised . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , The Logic of Fantasy has something of a two-world structure of its own . |
| 16 | Fishbane has something on a grander scale altogether . |
| 17 | Thoroughly wet wood has something like a third of the strength and stiffness of completely dry wood . |
| 18 | Many a Harvard dealer has needed to haggle with one of the market-makers in the adjoining room , in order to obtain something like a fair deal for his client . |
| 19 | The complicating factor is the reader 's motivation : the effort that children will make if they need to obtain something from a particular book or periodical . |
| 20 | Every area you look at South Africa in a report I gave to the Norwegian government which they commissioned we pointed out every area is like a major disaster area as if you 've been hit by an earthquake in every area of human activity and that situation needs something like a martial plan if we are , a martial aid plan , if we 're to address it but in the world we live in there 's no prospect of such assistance coming to Southern Africa . |
| 21 | These facts , however , in their turn pose something of a theoretical paradox . |
| 22 | Their doctor had murmured something about a weak heart , but Lord Grafton had dismissed the warning , saying the physician was an old woman . |
| 23 | The fact is that many Liberals , and especially those in the local constituencies , adopted something of a larger mentality towards change . |
| 24 | Here , more than anywhere , in these moments of shared contemplation where the presence of death is so immediate and so visible , do you sense something like a collective consciousness being forged , a powerful combative resolve . |
| 25 | I can sense something like a vast , artificial intelligence . |
| 26 | MARTIN EDWARDS has not been the only man in Manchester trying to sell something of a sporting nature . |
| 27 | Mr John Rennilson , the county planning officer , said : ‘ Unless we can achieve something in a short time the inevitable will happen on March 31 . ’ |
| 28 | Tufnell was still there to wheel away , but after his earlier successes , he was enduring something of a lean spell . |
| 29 | If a public sector organisation says that it will do something at a certain time , the customer wants that to happen . |
| 30 | First of all , presumably , you lose your normal time structure of having to go off and do something on a regular basis . |