Example sentences of "something [adj] [conj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Eden , in 1797 Manchester cotton weavers earned around 16s ( 80p ) , and that from choosing to work something less than a full six-day week . |
| 2 | Carlos Alberto Reutemann , that cunning , solitary ace from Argentina , worried about his racing twenty-four hours a day ; James seemed to give it scarcely a thought — technically , as a contributor to development he was something less than a devoted genius ( but on the track he had extraordinarily good reflexes and a lot of savvy ) . |
| 3 | It was clearly not an all-party government , yet , until September 1932 at least , it was something more than a mere Conservative front . |
| 4 | This is something more than a mere disturbance of the public calm or quiet but it appears that in the context of public order , the element of violence deemed essential in R. v. Howell ( C.A. , 1982 ) , in relation to powers of summary arrest , has not always been required . |
| 5 | [ T ] he state is something more than a mere collection of families , or an agglomeration of occupational organisation , or a referee holding the ring between the conflicting interests of the voluntary associations which it permits to exist . |
| 6 | St George Jackson Mivart 's Genesis of Species of 1871 offered a cornucopia of anti-Darwinian arguments based on the claim that evolution must be something more than a haphazard process of adaptation . |
| 7 | Romer J. relied on William Whiteley Ltd. v. The King , 101 L.T. 741 and Slater v. Burnley Corporation , 59 L.T. 636 , in reaching his decision , and he also referred [ 1946 ] Ch. 236 , 241 , to the ‘ principle of duress colore officii ’ in a manner which showed that the necessary duress required something more than a simple demand by an official . |
| 8 | An example from German would be : Because two ( or more ) changes are involved , something more than a simple substitution drill is required for mastering these features . |
| 9 | However , formulae such as " adjectives precede their nouns " do not take us beyond a very shallow level of linguistic description ; nor is it an improvement to find phrases such as " an attributive adjective " unless the description proceeds in some way to give an account of how a term like attributive may mean something more than a simple statement about formal grouping . |
| 10 | But these days she was stepping way out of line , coming on like she had something on him , like she was something more than a two-bit secretary . |
| 11 | But perhaps my real mistake lay in assuming there was something there to know — something more than a cardboard cut-out . ’ |
| 12 | Consequently , ‘ risk ’ must be something more than a remote possibility but less than a probability . |
| 13 | It warns users interested in open systems to be wary of NT because of Microsoft 's reluctance to implement standards or create something more than a limited proprietary system . |
| 14 | And drastic measures are needed in the Serious Fraud Office , set up last year , to ensure that it moves at something more than a glacial pace . |
| 15 | Photography is 80 per cent casting , and with Kate it was something more than a beautiful face . |
| 16 | As a result of this potent combination of sentiment and self-interest , the war had assumed the character of something more than a military operation : in the minds of the military and of many civilians , left and right , it had quickly become a decisive test of France 's national will and international power . |
| 17 | Land Rover has produced something more than a face-lifted Range Rover . |
| 18 | And this is something more than a literary point . |
| 19 | Something wider than a standard lens . |
| 20 | Elizabeth Mowbray was baffled by the girl 's refusal to see the matter in its true light and more than a little troubled by what she was beginning to see as something other than a passing infatuation . |
| 21 | The aunts would reply indignantly that they only wanted to help , whereupon Addy would shout from the kitchen that if either of them could cook worth a damn perhaps they could be something other than a bloody nuisance . |
| 22 | In spite of what the candidates may feel at the time , there is no stigma or criticism in being allocated a job flying something other than a fast jet : rescuing downed pilots in foul conditions or carrying out low level paratroop insertions in a Hercules are just as dangerous and demanding . |
| 23 | IT was a mild shock to discover yesterday that St Valentine 's Day is something other than a jolly wheeze fashioned by the greetings card industry to steal our hearts and an unfair proportion of our wages . |
| 24 | Just the thing for special occasions , when you fancy something special and a little bit different . |