Example sentences of "something in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One can also add that there is something in the present policies of the SDLP which suggest a need to maintain a somewhat fragile unity in respect of the national question . |
| 2 | He agrees that if public services expand then something in the industrial sector must decrease — profits or investment — but ‘ it does not follow that the former is the cause of the latter ’ ; rather they are both the joint results of the non-competitiveness of British goods in the international market . |
| 3 | Because there exists no distinction between causing the experience by acting and the maintenance of the experience requiring action , and so no conception of acting in order to experience a something in the external world . |
| 4 | If the adventurers stop to negotiate , Juliane explains that she and Maximilian have come to the Castle to find something in the Great Tower . |
| 5 | For a moment there was a flash of something in the dark eye . |
| 6 | He was something in the Civil Service . ’ |
| 7 | It was as if something in the skinny mare compelled him ; he did not look at any of the others . |
| 8 | At a World Cup : ‘ The manager must have said something in the Dutch dressing gown at half-time . ’ |
| 9 | But if , having served a term in purgatory , if having had the chance to try his arguments on other philosophers , Hegel was not unrepentant , he might agree that there was perhaps something in the alternative view : that each of the factors affecting historical development does have its own authenticity ; that they act upon and react to one another ; that from time to time this or that factor will take on a greater or lesser importance ; that of course — with a nod in the direction of Marx — at least since the neolithic age and the development of agriculture the mode of production has been a major factor ; and that the actions of particular men , Marx among them , have in fact been formative , changing not merely the degree of development of a kind already prescribed by a programme of social evolution , but the kind of development itself . |
| 10 | I think for every feeling , no matter how inward and personal it appears , the writer has to find something in the visible world which corresponds to it , to make it visible for the reader . |
| 11 | No answer , but perhaps he found something in the watchful face that was not quite mute , for he smiled , and deep within the hollow eyes a spark kindled . |
| 12 | There is something in the new package for everybody , and for every aspect of the exam . |
| 13 | Bingham wants to hand over to his successor a highly competent squad capable of doing something in the European Championships and the basis of it is certainly there . |
| 14 | After a while he boiled something in the blackened tin suspended over the fire , stirring it with a white peeled twig , and then plunging the tin into the stream to cool it . |
| 15 | And there was something in the dusty black of her coat , the half-wild scrawny look of her , that gave me a clue . |
| 16 | On the flickering screen just to the right , light suddenly reflected from something in the black hole of the cell-like room . |
| 17 | His translators over the past two centuries might be divided into literalists , freewheeling creativists , and those — the greater number — who have attempted something in the middle way between Newmark 's " semantic " and " communicative " ; those , indeed , who have attempted to " English " him . |
| 18 | er , I 'll do , you know the afternoon or a morning or something in the middle school |
| 19 | It tells us that the soldiers are thinking back to before the war , to the sun as if it were something in the distant past which they took for granted but has now become their last hope and so they are turning back to nature to put right a problem they caused . |
| 20 | ‘ You 've got to do something in the close season when there 's no jumping , ’ Elsworth joked , making light of a triumph that clearly thrilled him enormously . |
| 21 | Is there something in the English soul that wants to bond with land ? |
| 22 | The whiteness of his shirt seemed to emphasise his tan , but it was something in the glittering gaze , raking her slowly from head to toe , that made her hesitate . |
| 23 | Something in the same vein ? |
| 24 | But if the tyre had not been expanded enough , we 'd have to have levers and gently lever and hammer it on , something in the same way as you 'd do with a bicycle tyre . |
| 25 | A software crash generally happens when you try to do something in the same way — i.e. the crash is repeatable . |
| 26 | There 'd been something in the local papers about me and my work , and these girls , aged about eight to eleven years old , sent me a book of poems they 'd written , printed and sold to raise money . |
| 27 | There is something in the British character which predisposes us to push to the limit , and beyond , the resources of self-deception to create the illusion that we can enjoy incompatible advantages simultaneously and secure a prize without paying the price for it . |
| 28 | Oh you have a bag of something in the sweet box in the cupboard in the kitchen which you must take and put on your desk . |
| 29 | seventy five per cent way up , now there 's something in the human spirit that actually says I would like to change that , but we really do n't want the children to die in Somalia do we ? |
| 30 | For a moment unguarded amusement tugged at the stern line of that mouth , and lit something in the haunting depth of those eyes . |