Example sentences of "something [adj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Graham can write something solid about the lousy deal research gets in this country , it can do nothing but good . |
| 2 | He 'd done something dishonest for the first time in his business life , and it sat uneasily on his conscience . |
| 3 | The other available forms of pre-testing for print ads by means of survey research are all elaborations of the folder test — for example , an ad can be inserted into an actual magazine rather than a folder to provide something nearer to the real world . |
| 4 | There was something odd about the whole procedure because there was no great urgency . |
| 5 | He thought he could detect something odd in the other man 's voice — a faint sing-song tone ; a little , obsessive rhythm , lilting and mad . |
| 6 | Yes , there was something sexual between the two of them now , but any interest he had felt six years ago would have been connected solely with the phenomenon of the awe he had inspired , so overwhelmingly intense that it had reduced her to awkward , agonised silence every time he was around . |
| 7 | Beyond contentious politics lay something else , something non-political like the natural geography of a region . |
| 8 | ‘ Is something wrong with the local menu ? ’ |
| 9 | When he came to think of it , was there something wrong with the three of them ? |
| 10 | Cos , there was something wrong with the receiving part of the dish . |
| 11 | I wonder : is there something wrong with the electric seat motors or should they sound like they have sand in them ? |
| 12 | From the very first , I had sensed something wrong about the long-haired Mamba … for one thing a man should not be that beautiful . |
| 13 | ‘ If we do n't see something sensible in the next 24 hours then there is no point in carrying on , ’ he said . |
| 14 | There was something suicidal about the whole pretentious enterprise , which Dustin should have been talked down from before he leaped . |
| 15 | In its wisdom , the Community felt able to do that for the Iberian peninsula a few years ago and it would be right and proper for it to do something analogous for the central European countries . |
| 16 | Imagination from other viewpoints depends on my having already perceived something analogous from the then present and my own , and is undernourished if I was distracted at the time by consideration of the future or of others . |
| 17 | ‘ Something unpleasant about the whole affair do n't you think ? ’ |
| 18 | Since studies of the volatility-maturity relationship for other assets have found much more support for the Samuelson hypothesis ( even when the high and low prices are not used in measuring volatility ) , this suggests there is something different about the volatility-maturity relationship for index futures . |
| 19 | Hubbub , shoving and ten good ideas before breakfast — the character , in short , of the 100 days that have just passed — need to give way to something different in the 1,361 that are left . |
| 20 | It sighed and groaned and creaked so that sometimes it was easy to believe ghostly footsteps were padding about ; but this noise was something different from the usual spasmodic little creaks — it seemed regular and deliberate . |
| 21 | So unambiguously marked are these , that they draw attention away from other features of his — his odd stock of knowledge and his quiet eagerness to increase it — his unassuming inclination for the arts , and particularly music something different from the practical awareness that comes from being married to a singer — his compassion — his steadfastness . |
| 22 | However it is evident that he intended something different from the simple a cappella doubling of voices by instruments , and this ‘ something different ’ became known as the ‘ concerted style ’ ( stile concertato ) , a ‘ consort ’ of voices and instruments . |
| 23 | When I took it over from Matt I realised that a wilderness was something different from the average person 's orderly life . |
| 24 | If you want something different from the standard offerings of garden centres , order fledgling plants in plugs of soil , and seedlings . |
| 25 | When considering the passing of property from the seller to the buyer , we are therefore dealing with something different from the physical handing over ( i. e. delivery ) of the goods . |
| 26 | She had not felt it since her days of poverty , when she had faced the world alone ; it was something different from the polished ruthlessness that money had brought ; it was brighter-eyed , more truculent . |
| 27 | It is not something peculiar to the Royal Family — people have very humdrum existences and the Royals provide a bit of excitement . |
| 28 | Nobody can say that depressions were something peculiar to the 1930s . |
| 29 | You could write something similar to the following example anywhere in your program where you wished this calculation to be carried out . |
| 30 | It would like something similar to the G-24 that co-ordinates western aid to Eastern Europe . |