Example sentences of "something [adj] [conj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simon used to tell people she was a Giorgione toned down by Gainsborough ; there is something lighter than pure Italian . |
| 2 | Truth is not something fixed and solid beyond and behind the literary text , and to which the text can be reduced : it is simply what comes last in the text . |
| 3 | Frantically he rolled clear of any follow-up attack , and as he did so he felt something hard and bulky dig painfully into the small of his back . |
| 4 | I had to get half way under the bottom strand of barbed wire to see inside properly and as I did so , my hand closed on something smooth and rubbery half buried in the ground . |
| 5 | just as Peter Slade had to stand up against a tradition of formalised children 's drama , so Brian Way had to educate teachers into understanding that children deserved something better than light entertainment . |
| 6 | ‘ So long as you give me something better than bottom pudding I 'm willing to sit here till nightfall if need be . ’ |
| 7 | We want something better than just money and keeping up with the Joneses . |
| 8 | The wind was moaning more strongly now , and there was a sense of something powerful and irresistible drawing nearer . |
| 9 | Thank God my self-consciousness is something nobler than vulgar conceit in having done something . |
| 10 | Actual bodily harm must mean something less than serious harm . |
| 11 | They find themselves , for the first time , able to contemplate the two main features of Labour policy , greater independence in the investigation of complaints and a London police authority , with something less than total horror . |
| 12 | That arrangement meant Brian McClair and Gary McAllister turned up to play for Scotland in something less than prime condition . |
| 13 | Naturally , that something less than attractive fringe also found its way to the beach house . |
| 14 | There were a significant number of specialists even in the early decades of the century , including both the exponents of the Linnaean tradition of classification and the philosophical naturalists , who hoped to achieve something more than mere cataloguing . |
| 15 | Something more than mere loneliness , mere senile fantasies and quirks , burnt in his striking eyes , in that abrupt , probing then dropping conversation , in those sudden oblique looks at nothing . |
| 16 | Now that he had moved nearer Fran could see that there was a muscle ticking along the hard line of his jaw and that his eyes were glittering with something more than mere mockery , and she went cold . |
| 17 | She had sensed something more than mere adoration in the way he had kissed her and been aware of her body 's response . |
| 18 | In the second year of recovery the recurrent cravings have mostly subsided and people in recovery develop progressively more insight into the nature of addictive disease in general and their own addictive disease in particular and also into the true , broader , meaning of recovery as something more than mere avoidance of previous addictive substances or behaviour . |
| 19 | In his Philosophie anatomique of 1818–22 , Geoffroy argued that the basic similarity that allowed all the vertebrates to be assigned to a single type of organization reflected something more than mere engineering efficiency . |
| 20 | Silas 's eyes reflected something more than mere appreciation but he said nothing as he pulled out the chair for her to sit down . |
| 21 | The Divisional Court , presided over by the Lord Chief Justice , Lord Parker , emphasized that there had to be a ‘ real possibility ’ of a breach of the peace , but went on to find that just such a situation of menace existed here : eighteen people ‘ milling about ’ when there were only eight people in the works created a ‘ real danger of something more than mere picketing ’ . |
| 22 | This had been of something more than philosophical interest to Karen and I in our pre-coital phase , since it meant that we could count on at least a minute thirty seconds before he reappeared , or as much as three minutes forty-five seconds if we heard the seat go down for a big jobby . |
| 23 | Mr Smith is right to shed old baggage , but he will have to offer voters something more than dull blamelessness . |
| 24 | Even the evolutionists who accepted that species change in response to adaptive pressures realized that something more than simple adaptation was involved . |
| 25 | But he meant something other by the word : something more than simple agreement . |
| 26 | Jared Tunstall thought that something more than hard work had brought his daughter fulfilment and a new maturity — and , with them both , a deeper beauty . |
| 27 | To suggest that rape is something more than sexual intercourse without consent runs counter to the view of the Heilbron Committee which considered that this was precisely the meaning of rape . |
| 28 | It is hardly the same poem ; it seems to have meant more than slightly different things to three different people in different ages , if " meaning " involves something more than strict fidelity to content ( and even then the texts wander away from the original ) . |
| 29 | It gave them something more than local interest to build on . |
| 30 | They sought alternative explanations of how the process might work , which allowed them to believe that Nature was driven by something higher than mere selfishness . |