Example sentences of "[indef pn] of the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | to remember that teenagers normally go through the phase of being attracted to someone of the same sex . |
| 2 | In the absence of an analysis of heterosexism , heterosexuals can ( and do ) reduce our gayness or lesbianism to just living with someone of the same sex , thus enabling them to remove the possibility of challenge from our relationships with them . |
| 3 | The experience made me deeply grateful that nothing of the same kind , at least with current technology , can be deduced from prose . |
| 4 | They were becoming very tired , and when they came back from their missions there was none of the former exuberance if everyone returned safely , and just fatalistic shoulder-shrugging if someone was lost . |
| 5 | None of the same calibre , I mean . |
| 6 | He was therefore as vital a figure as Salisbury , and in something of the same way : Salisbury was the link between the anti-coalition forces outside the government , and Law was the link between anti-coalitionists outside and critical Unionists within . |
| 7 | For a time he showed a certain curiosity about Liszt and something of the same kind about Wagner . |
| 8 | I never got good enough ( or brave enough ) to test her advice out , but , being by inclination an optimist , I would like to think that something of the same logic would apply to the National Curriculum and its tests . |
| 9 | An impressive university department might be staffed with the established academics who have lately confessed , in print , to basic doubts about the validity and purpose of English literary studies ; and it is hard today to think of any branch of formal literary study that does not reflect something of the same malaise . |
| 10 | I felt something of the same awe and excitement I had experienced four years before when tramping round and round Warwick Gardens with Chesterton , debating the execution of Charles I. Here was someone who ought to have been a member of the Society that G. K. C. had dominated at St. Paul 's from 1891 to 1893 . |
| 11 | Something of the same librarian 's desire for accuracy seems to have afflicted Gainsborough 's later nods in the direction of costume melodrama . |
| 12 | There 's something of the same blankness of effect , too , in Ismail Saray 's white sheet hung against red , the white perforated with large burnt holes . |
| 13 | " Taking a spouse for granted " — in which , perhaps , something of the same reason exists — was listed by 7 per cent in respect of women and 21 per cent in respect of men ; how many men , once their wife 's attentions are taken up by child-rearing , leave them to get on with it and follow their own devices ? |
| 14 | She could n't get out of the pit , but somebody knew she was there : her therapist gave her something of the same feeling but was far from being as much fun . |
| 15 | Something of the same analysis can be applied to capitalism . |
| 16 | Something of the same quality of camp horror is to be found in The Blob ( 18 Braveworld 25 Oct ) , a remake of the 1958 B movie about a mysterious substance that eats people . |
| 17 | Something of the same quality can be detected in Jane Rosen 's work . |
| 18 | Well , two things , I can assure you that married women will remain the one of the most issue on selection . |
| 19 | A six-footer behind some-one of the same size in the driver 's seat would have to sit in a splayed knees/bent neck posture . |
| 20 | If you ca n't buy these little black olives in Soho , at least avoid the great brownish ones sold in most delicatessen stores ; they really have n't anything of the same character . |
| 21 | On 4 June , the day the Dunkirk evacuation ended , he wrote to the Chiefs of Staff : ‘ if it is so easy for the Germans to invade us … why should it be … impossible for us to do anything of the same kind to him ? ’ |