Example sentences of "something [prep] [Wh det] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This might help them to see his lack of social responsiveness as a symptom of his illness and something for which they should make allowances rather than as an unfriendly act or a personal slight on their company . |
| 2 | There were ripples of self-satisfied laughter , as if to have such a mad dream was something for which they could congratulate themselves . |
| 3 | A whole week in Paris at Easter seemed to her something for which she would willingly have sold her soul . |
| 4 | It was , I felt sure , something about which she would have something to say . |
| 5 | The photographs show you something of what you will see — underground roadways , coal-faces , haulage engines , and on the surface the blacksmiths ' shop , the baths , and exhibitions . |
| 6 | That is something of which we ought to be extremely wary . |
| 7 | And it is something of which we can not give or receive too much . |
| 8 | That is not something of which we can be certain . |
| 9 | This respect for Eliot and the desire to do something of which he would approve , was further manifested in the Maritains ' wish that I should visit Bergson . |
| 10 | There is , I am glad to say , no direct allusion to the activities in which you engage in the Koran or in the Hadith of the prophet , although from what I know of the blessed Muhammad — may God rest him and grant him peace — it is not something of which he would approve . |
| 11 | Looking back , I can not deny that the grant of the licence was something of which he could legitimately complain , but his capacity for complaints exceeded any normal human being 's by a very large measure . |
| 12 | Although Darwin had guessed that the Galapagos birds originated from there , because the Galapagos were so young , it was not something of which he could be certain . |
| 13 | Yet if we deny the creature this understanding , which even Clark himself seems to acknowledge , yet insist with him that it nonetheless fears death , then it is in the distinctly paradoxical position of fearing something of which it could not , in any sense , be aware . |
| 14 | Something with which we could go to the customer and say , ‘ This is the sort of thing it is now possible to do . |
| 15 | I looked round for something with which I could knock him out after we had taken off . |
| 16 | There are peel-off labels for the long holiday dates , something with which you can amuse yourself on the next bank holiday . |
| 17 | Opening his own door , he thought how great , how truly fantastic it was that there should be something into which they need not yet rush . |
| 18 | Only then will the public begin to realise that mental handicap is not a taboo subject , but something in which we can all be involved . |
| 19 | And I believe it is something in which we should all be involved . |
| 20 | The genius of the football supporter is that he has managed to convert something as unappetizing and unpromising as an English football season into something from which he can take pleasure . |
| 21 | The middle-class children 's toy is never intended for mere amusement or pleasure ; its prime interest is its educational value , the child must absorb the toy as a challenge , something from which it will learn in order to improve itself . |
| 22 | I 'm not making it just because observation comes before communication , although it does : since before an observable truth can be communicated , someone somewhere must get that true belief — or something from which it can be inferred — by observation . |
| 23 | This experience should be something from which you will both learn . |
| 24 | It is something on which they can rely and something that their colleagues in other countries will find difficult to deny . |
| 25 | Well that 's not something on which I would wish to comment on . |
| 26 | The input/central distinction is something on which I shall be heavily reliant when I come to my positive thesis . |
| 27 | This is something on which you will need legal advice , from a lawyer familiar with the law in that country . |
| 28 | ( Readers should note the exclusivity of the choice presented here ; something to which I shall return . ) |
| 29 | It 's about individual people realising they can do something beyond what they may normally expect to achieve . ’ |
| 30 | A number of tradesmen in the timber , textile and tin-plate industries looked upon coffin-making and funeral furnishing as something by which they could profit , and it was not unknown for some to meet with such success that they abandoned their established trade to go into undertaking full time . |