Example sentences of "something of the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In our annual reports in Dumbarton Oaks Papers we have shown something of the extraordinary nature of the church and its decoration and shed much new light on the period immediately before Justinian . |
| 2 | Words that will express something of the deep complexity that makes us precisely the way we are , from the momentary effect of the barometer to the force that created men distinct from trees . |
| 3 | Suppose a man knows nothing of trusts and trustees , but has heard something of the separate use , leaves property — say £1,000 — to his married daughter ‘ for her separate use ’ . |
| 4 | Here I Am , expresses something of the living relationship between God and ourselves . |
| 5 | However , a pilot study has shown that if the available data is collected and sorted by computer , enough survives to enable something of the overall pattern to emerge , especially through comparison with the much more plentiful English data . |
| 6 | He will liaise with the medical rehabilitation teams and with the ERCs to know something of the overall picture of the person 's employment problem . |
| 7 | I can then approach the overseas groups knowing something of the overall picture . |
| 8 | Their world-view was essentially animatistic : every living thing and every outwardly inanimate thing too was a part of the living cosmos , and therefore imbued with something of the divine spirit . |
| 9 | Something of the administrative framework of the social services will have been gleaned from the preceding chapters on particular social problems and the services created in response to them . |
| 10 | Something of the almighty importance of it and something of the utter meaninglessness . |
| 11 | It is vitally important to know something of the individual richness and variety of each religious tradition before becoming subject to the generalisations of those engaged in comparative religion . |
| 12 | Something of the casual innocence of the picture may be lost when I tell you that I had to hunt this particular combination of light for two days before obtaining the shot I wanted ! |
| 13 | She tried , not successfully , to recall something of the pupil-teacher aspect of their relations . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Stephanie had hopes that the familial Christmas dinner might in some way restore something of the frail threadwork of decency and courteous behaviour broken by the earlier violence of her father and brother . |
| 16 | Something of the inaudible music that moves us along in our bodies from moment to moment like water in a river . |
| 17 | But the reader now knows something of the general setting of Libyan politics ; of the people involved and their problems , and it is possible to approach the topic of ideas and principles in the aftermath of the revolution . |
| 18 | So far we have been concerned with trying to understand something of the general reaction people have to various forms of loss , concentrating on the reactions people will discover in themselves when they or someone close to them is dying or has died . |
| 19 | He knew something of the new music , but neither the movement as a whole nor Wagner 's particular achievement within it meant anything special to him . |
| 20 | Zeinab , who tended to see things in personal terms and who , having been brought up in her father 's house , had something of the great lady in her , took it into her head to protect her servants and rushed out into the street in a passion . |
| 21 | There is no small irony in this , as applications to purchase foreign technology in the first place will only be approved if the relevant Soviet machine building ministry can not produce something of the appropriate standard and quantity in the time required . |
| 22 | This is not necessarily a central problem , but the Kingman Report does recommend that pupils should understand something of the systematic nature of languages other than English . |
| 23 | Something of the almighty importance of it and something of the utter meaninglessness . |
| 24 | They were more articulate , had seen something of the wider world , retained a thirst for knowledge , and were sceptical towards the Church . |
| 25 | This provided the opportunity for the members of the committee to see something of the rural development problems and programmes in Lewis and Harris , and discuss them with some of those working on them . |
| 26 | Fortunately for her , however , Pétain 's Staff-Captain , Serrigny , knew — as a good ADC — something of the elderly bachelor 's habits . |
| 27 | They preserved something of the golden age when , as Seneca says , " penes sapientes fuisse regnum Posidonius indicat " ( Ep . |
| 28 | They were thought to bring good luck to the wearer by extending to him something of the protective power of a Roman Emperor . |
| 29 | It is important to understand something of the recent history of Information Technology Departments . |
| 30 | In doing so , he achieved something of the economic uplift associated with a move to the West , with little of the attendant culture shock , a fact which Glasgow can take as a kick in the groin or a pat on the back . |