Example sentences of "[vb base] something [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No I want another half because I want something on the other one . |
| 2 | Although most customers want something like a conventional ferry , but faster , manufacturers have generally used materials and construction techniques from the aircraft industry . |
| 3 | You want something like a little erm , like a moose you know , a moose carton |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | These facts , however , in their turn pose something of a theoretical paradox . |
| 6 | Prentice reached up and put something on the thin collar of Rory 's shirt . |
| 7 | The analysis may appear to be unlike those which , to speak quickly and only of one central matter , describe something like a causal circumstance and an effect as two items which fall under a law , and then proceed to attempt to give an account of what a law is a true proposition of a certain character . |
| 8 | They are perhaps owe something to the tabloid newspapers and colour supplements , as these have emerged in the post-war years , with their high illustrative content and minimal text . |
| 9 | In mitigation I could appeal to Proust : ‘ Beneath the signs there lay something of a different kind , which I must try to discover … ’ |
| 10 | So the process that you have to carry out , then is to find a way of transferring your literal translation once you 've worked out word for word what is being said , into terms which mean something to a modern reader or , listener . |
| 11 | Modern psychotics also often make something of a personal divinity of the sun , as the following quotation suggests : |
| 12 | ‘ For every improvement to the guest-house , I make something for the local people , ’ Anne said . |
| 13 | Get something with a good conductance , not something with a high resistance but something with a high conductance . |
| 14 | but every now and then we get something with a special offer on which we 're getting the Kelloggs cornflake bowls at the moment . |
| 15 | So provided you get something at the right level of sophistication , you should n't go far wrong with any of the mainstream graphics software currently available . |
| 16 | Those who , like Iris Murdoch , speak of a ‘ selfless attention ’ to others as a supreme mark of virtue — hard to achieve and harder still , as a duty , to discount — surely imply something like a deep security of inner being . |
| 17 | As we now know something of the appalling story of his hounding by cultural officialdom , the raucous irony of the middle works and the bitter blackness of the last become entirely comprehensible . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | From collections of legal formulae we know something about the local archives of a city , in which wills and other actions were registered , and we find various officials , the defensor , curator , magister militum and other members of the local curia being called upon to open the archives for the registration of new grants , but we have Formularies only from a small number of civitates , and their contents are not often datable , except to the period before the ninth century , when most of them were written down . |
| 20 | Unless I hear something from a Labour spokesman to suggest they have reasonable plans for single householders , I think many people will be deserting and voting Conservative . |
| 21 | I think it 'll all go ahead and we 'll get the money but meanwhile before we knew about , we did do a lot of fund raising and we got some money in er I suppose something like a thousand pounds . |
| 22 | You hear these people say I do n't ask anything of my staff that I 'm not prepared to do myself , then you find something like a ninety hour week or something . |
| 23 | But the event need n't be all hard work — in fact it 's now become something of a social event . |
| 24 | The kadilik of Mecca , and that of Medina , constitute something of a special case with respect to their early history . |
| 25 | But there could be more trouble if the king does not open up the political system or do something about the great disparities of wealth . |
| 26 | The north should stop tut-tutting about juridical lapses or dictatorial ways and instead do something about the low commodity prices and the debt burdens that make the poor even poorer . |
| 27 | Apply slightly lighter highlighter on the remaining two-thirds of the eye — I prefer something with a little sparkle . |
| 28 | It 's at times like these that the brain cells slip into surrealist ‘ wavy picture ’ mode as you mentally conjure something with a 10 inch wide fretboard and a progression of thick wound strings tensed across it , creating monstrous internal forces and straining various components to breaking point . |
| 29 | I think you need something on the other panel , above the oculist charts , he said at last . |
| 30 | Napoleon marched through it on his way to Moscow , but today the road is used by those who wish to avoid the pressures of autobahn driving and see something of the pleasant , rolling countryside of Westphalia . |