Example sentences of "something [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , there is something right about an argument which holds , as does the argument from error , that for the very same sort of reason that you do n't know you are not a brain in a vat , you do n't know , e.g. , that The Times will be published tomorrow , nor whether you are sitting reading . |
| 2 | I should have thought up something better on the way over , but no one could think in that wind . |
| 3 | Hoped to have something better by the evening . |
| 4 | He 's coming home tomorrow — And we 'll probably be doing something together in the afternoon . |
| 5 | More importantly , the city has long been a centre of manufacturing excellence ; why then should it still arouse such hostility ; is there something deeper to the disapproval of Birmingham than the quality of its goods . |
| 6 | ‘ Beauty palls after a while — unless , of course , there 's something deeper beneath the surface to hold the interest , ’ observed Lucenzo laconically . |
| 7 | I had just winched in the staysail 's port sheet when the explosion sounded , or something so like an explosion that I instinctively cowered by Wavebreaker 's rail as my mind whipped back to the crash of practice shells ripping through the sleet in Norway . |
| 8 | I do n't want to do something just for the sake of it , I do n't really care about being on the Council , it 's just that I wanted to do something about those wretched caravans . |
| 9 | The old man does tell the visitor the story of the woman of Porto Pim ( and his own ) , but there remains something menacing about the silence of the listener-narrator , as though he were taking something away with no intention of giving anything in return . |
| 10 | If one of the big parties wins something close to a majority of seats , it may have two ways of avoiding dependence on either Catalans or Basques . |
| 11 | This year represents something close to a dismantling of the American presidential campaign . |
| 12 | And any ‘ green shoots of recovery ’ may well be choked by the tares of something close to a world slump . |
| 13 | There is , in common sense , something close to a paradox which generates the problem of universals . |
| 14 | The picture that emerges , at least as a possibility , is of something close to the idea of a constitutional monarch , a king whose power was substantially restricted by the overwhelming spiritual , political and economic power of the priesthood . |
| 15 | Today many live on something close to the Church 's minimum stipend of £12,200 a year and their accommodation is more likely to be in the council semi mould . |
| 16 | Mr Chairman we did tackle very successfully er under utilities where we employ an extra couple of officers , I even asked the question at for County Council what was going on , we , I think we 've got something further on the agenda elsewhere where we 're trying to keep our stand standards up , but I still feel that if we 're going to be able to deliver a promise we 've got to deliver it , if it means monitoring the erm utilities then I think we should do it . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , we can say something further about the vulnerability itself ; namely that the psychotic temperament does seem to be under strong genetic control . |
| 18 | Durance himself may manage something once in a while , but there is no one who can help him achieve those masterpieces in the way that Jourdain did . |
| 19 | Tonks also attended Saturday 's game and when asked about the situation , he smiled confidently and said : ‘ We are hoping to announce something early in the week . ’ |
| 20 | erm just just as something totally off the top of my head erm I very much regretted the demise of the proper programme erm and in fact I I actually object to the paying twenty pence for something that er really does n't represent value for money . |
| 21 | It tells us something also about the weight with which received connotations attach to long-established traditions : it was probably the pre-modern ( or at least pre-industrial ) , and at the same time the quasi-ritualistic motoric-gestural associations clinging strongly to the high Baroque style which attracted the rock group and their counter cultural followers . |
| 22 | But it may say something also about the condition of the musical theatre that this subject has caught the attention of two composers . |
| 23 | In the form in which the proposals on community service appeared in the Bill they owed something also to the Government 's hope that the new measure would be seen as a credible alternative to custodial sentences , thus contributing towards the aim of bringing down the prison population . |
| 24 | ‘ Something far from the ordinary . |
| 25 | Sir Frank Cooper argues that , despite intelligence reports of something amiss in the South Atlantic , it would have been inappropriate to have stopped these shipments . |
| 26 | Whenever there was something amiss in the district she wondered where her brothers had been at the time , and as she had been making her way to Sainsbury 's this thought had yet again crossed her mind . |
| 27 | Something deep on an organ , perhaps . |
| 28 | Through no fault of their own , through deformity or genetic accident , they found themselves marginalized by Indian society , turned into something half-way between a talisman and an object of ridicule . |
| 29 | Preston 's playing is so vivacious , his enthusiasm for the music so stimulating and his obvious enjoyment in playing this marvellous instrument ( which the DG engineers have recorded with something well into the demonstration category ) so infectious that I doubt even the most dyed-in-the-wool hater of organ music could fail to be won over to the cause . |
| 30 | And you 'd expect some broken headlights or something here on the road . |