Example sentences of "something [adj] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it 's too long for you , just let me know and I 'll find something shorter and a bit easier . ’ |
| 2 | Something larger than a man . |
| 3 | The army was an unsatisfactory occupation for a man who lacked the money to purchase promotion , for he was likely to be in the situation of the Master of Elphinstone , who complained in 1715 that ‘ I have served as Capt[ai-n] this nine years which I have the vanity to believe intitelis me to something better than a company of foot ’ . |
| 4 | And he was young enough to hope for something better than a pat on the head from the Leaderene . |
| 5 | Something less than a precision guided missile would do the trick . |
| 6 | Mrs Guest was born to polite society , but broke with convention as a wayward débutante , taking to the stage and sitting for Diego Rivera in something less than a presentation gown . |
| 7 | The ‘ synod ’ or , in Latin , ‘ council ’ ( the modern distinction making a synod something less than a council was unknown in antiquity ) became an indispensable way of keeping a common mind , and helped to keep maverick individuals from centrifugal tendencies . |
| 8 | Inouye : I just wanted the record to be clear , because somehow I felt like something less than a patriot all day long . |
| 9 | Writers on policy analysis are agreed that a policy is something more than a decision . |
| 10 | If you have succeeded in fully engaging the sympathies of your readers you will probably have produced for them a main character who is something more than a stereotype , who has about him or her a good deal of the complexity of real life . |
| 11 | I should like to be something more than a drill-master for competent philologists — the generation of present-day teachers , the care of the growing younger generation , this is what I have in mind . " |
| 12 | The next chapter examines the governmental context of Charles 's fiscal and monetary methods : his imitation of late-Roman emperors was something more than a charade or a figleaf for impotence . |
| 13 | Lewis , whose youthful enthusiasm had been for Norse sagas and the verse tales of William Morris , seems to have been converted to Christianity by considering whether the Christian myth might not , after all ‘ be something more than a fiction . |
| 14 | Now something more than a quelling look appeared on Lord Woodleigh 's fine-bred features . |
| 15 | A piece to be presented should have something more than a surface narrative quality in the characterisation . |
| 16 | We can perhaps only guess at what exactly lay behind such incidents , although these kinds of details begin to add up to something more than a fringe resentment of the police by a marginal ‘ criminal element ’ . |
| 17 | It appeared as if there was something more than a cupboard there . |
| 18 | She was something more than a housekeeper , more also than a nurse . |
| 19 | It 's something more than a Crucifixion ; it 's almost a piece of slaughter , butchery ; meat and flesh . |
| 20 | The community was something more than a collection of species working together for mutual advantage — it obeyed laws that could only be understood at a level transcending that of the individual organisms . |
| 21 | Most were still bewildered by the way Northampton opened out the game to create openings for surprise attacks , and after a 4–1 win at Swindon , the Railwaymen 's international winger Fleming told Chapman : ‘ You have something more than a team : you have a machine . ’ |
| 22 | The great features of that map , which make it something more than a picture to be imperfectly copied by laborious childish pens , are the great promontories of Caernarvon , of Pembroke , of Gower and of Cornwall , jutting out into the western sea , like the features of a grim large face , such a face as is carved on a ship 's prow … . |
| 23 | Something more than a vote was expected in return for the major posts , but essentially they too were employed to aid the development of a political interest . |
| 24 | as something other than a Poetry book . |
| 25 | For years , China has used a combination of strong arm diplomacy and shrill rhetoric to try to deny the Dalai Lama international recognition as a legitimate representative of Tibet 's aspirations as something other than a part of China . |
| 26 | The Marquis of Queensberry may be judged , in this context , to have made an involuntary and uncharacteristic joke in accusing Wilde of ‘ posing as a somdomite ’ : a phrase that smells of the multiple self , and of the uncertainty of interpretation — and indeed spelling ( Ackroyd , as it happens , interprets him as something other than a sodomite ) . |
| 27 | However , we want to argue in favour of thinking in terms of something other than a sentence as being the major psychological processing unit ; and , as we will see , a more appropriate processing unit is probably the clause . |
| 28 | Equally ( as I have suggested ) it is difficult for her to have a God who is something other than a force ( perhaps a human idea ) present within history . |
| 29 | Smith 's early demise opened the door for the much-anticipated return of David Gower , who had flown down for the Wimbledon men 's final in something other than a Tiger Moth the day before . |
| 30 | However , as transcripts of spontaneous speech like the one above illustrate , the listener who is attempting to understand spoken language is often being confronted with something other than a string of sentences . |