Example sentences of "[v-ing] something [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | [ Op paras ] I enclose with this letter , the following : ( a ) a leaflet explaining the position regarding costs and the funding of your claim ; ( b ) a leaflet explaining your entitlement to Legal Aid ; ( c ) a leaflet explaining entitlements to welfare benefits ; ( d ) a brochure briefly explaining what happens next in Personal Injury cases ; ( e ) a short brochure explaining something about the Firm 's other services . |
| 2 | During the first years of the Federal Republic , from 1949 to 1953 , when the Right was staging something of a recovery , attempts had been made to distinguish between ‘ insane Hitlerism ’ and the positive aspects of National Socialism . |
| 3 | And I think that is the message which I want to get over to you , because if you can find that way to tread that difficult line which is there in our society which is over-protective , over-secretive , which is concerned about not not letting people unless they 're of a certain rank , level or certain job , speak out publicly unless you can break through it I think you 're actually , first of all , denying something for yourselves , and that you 're denying something for the public at large . |
| 4 | They replace familiar Class 101 DMUs , which were introduced across East Anglia as steam locomotives were withdrawn but are themselves now becoming something of a rarity . |
| 5 | Morgan was understandably downcast following Scotland 's pool loss to Canada — rapidly becoming something of a jinx team , given the sevens defeat in Hong Kong two years ago , the Test match loss in New Brunswick also in 1991 , and the draw in Dubai last November . |
| 6 | Where once lifetime employment was said to be the key factor behind high productivity levels , the need to reduce labour costs now means that ‘ Lifetime employment is becoming something of a curse to Japanese industries ’ ( FTW 12/3/83 ) . |
| 7 | I even smartened myself up , becoming something of a dandy . |
| 8 | Reagan was obviously rather good at his job , rapidly becoming something of a celebrity in Des Moines and , ‘ one of the best sportscasters in his region ’ . |
| 9 | Through her relationship with photographer and gallery owner , Alfred Steiglitz , she entered his fashionable artistic circle , becoming something of a celebrity in the New York art scene in the twenties . |
| 10 | Howard is becoming something of an expert on the theory of social work , in fact ; Rose is doing it , too . |
| 11 | But she 's becoming something of an obsession with Ryan , particularly since his wife 's death . |
| 12 | Rather than ‘ structuring tasks for collaboration ’ , it was more a process of ‘ structuring a learning environment for collaboration ’ , with each of the elements contributing something to the whole and therefore needing to be understood in relation to the whole . |
| 13 | Scientific research is usually carried out by a team of scientists , often from several disciplines who work together , each of whom contributing something to the whole . |
| 14 | Petion and Ace followed him , arriving just as he threw open the door of a spartan room with expensive mahogany flooring , and bumped straight into Dubois , who was backing towards them while scattering something on the floor . |
| 15 | Instead of water lapping the romantic old stone walls of wharves and warehouses , palaces and towers , there is mud — a pallid dark grey mud , littered with the dunnage of long-dispersed cargoes , bits of broken packing cases , carried up with the tide and brought down again , the rusted frames of worn-out bicycles , the pathetic remnants of somebody 's pram , upside down , its upholstery all gone , motionless , futile wheels apparently beseeching something from the air . |
| 16 | They do , however , have a most extraordinary fructification , a large knob arising from the centre of the crown , looking something like a corncob , and bearing numerous , very large seeds . |
| 17 | ‘ The room you 've got at the Palace Hotel is causing something of a problem , ’ she informed me . |
| 18 | Miami 's new-born Murk label that has been causing something of a stir on these shores of late , enough at least for Network to wet their oars and row straight for a licensing deal that sees three of the label 's best tracks to date brought together for a sampler EP . |
| 19 | What is actually meant is that the world is no longer so clearly divided as it was in the 1950s and 1960s into two armed camps of allies , with China , after 1960 , causing something of a schism in the Russian camp . |
| 20 | On McDowell 's account , it would presumably be either as the language acquired such new structure , developing something like a pronoun system and ( iterated ) belief attributions or as , quite independently , behaviour became more complex , calling for higher-order indexical belief states for its explanation ( cf. |
| 21 | But , of course , writing something into a constitution does not necessarily mean that it will be honoured in practice . |
| 22 | I sat on one of those contemporary chairs with spindly legs and talked to a poor woman who had got me as a prize for writing something about A Wreath of Roses . |
| 23 | And the polite , formally suited African was writing something on a sheet of paper , to her instructions . |
| 24 | Dr Florin retains a strong commitment to communication and is at present reading up on Eastern Christian icons with a view to writing something on the subject . |
| 25 | All the windows in the farmhouse had been shattered , the whole scene resembling something from the Blitz . |
| 26 | ( In this particular area of using dictionaries in catalogue systems , the only precedent of which I am aware is of a university paying something in the region of $40–50,000 . ) |
| 27 | Are you rewinding something on the video ? |
| 28 | Instead I have to start by describing something of the unease I feel about its use and study within the literature , and gradually move toward a position from which I can either offer a definition of labourism or construct boundaries within which it exists and operates . |
| 29 | Using sharp needles and ink , they were in the act of tattooing something on the girl 's back . |
| 30 | She seemed to be deciding something about the knitting in her lap . |