Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] something of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems a shame to waste the opportunity to see something of the country . ’ |
| 2 | Every song on the album contains something of my own experience over the last year but the words are applicable to everyone . ’ |
| 3 | It was not that what he said was startlingly new , for it was based on a long tradition , but his particular talent and novelty was that he managed to combine biblical exegesis with growing papal ideology , to induce the texts to mean something of relevance to his leadership of society . |
| 4 | The gardens have something of interest to offer throughout the year . |
| 5 | This provided the opportunity for the members of the committee to see something of the rural development problems and programmes in Lewis and Harris , and discuss them with some of those working on them . |
| 6 | It lay at the point where the fertile coastal plain to which Shurton belonged gave way to the austerely beautiful Quantock Hills , and in the meeting of those two quite different landscapes the village acquired something of its distinctive character : Stowey was a place always busy with the concerns of a lowland domestic world , but the gateway as well to a solitary hill country where man 's dominance was suddenly challenged and nature prevailed . |
| 7 | Designed with the shell of the old smiddy and adjoining cottages , the inn retains something of the original atmosphere . |
| 8 | Over the years he had not only made himself a small fortune , but in the process gained something of a respectable reputation . |
| 9 | He will liaise with the medical rehabilitation teams and with the ERCs to know something of the overall picture of the person 's employment problem . |
| 10 | Yet the sensitivities of both for the sufferings of men , women , and children drawn unwillingly into the war reflect something of the way in which thinking men asked themselves whether war was , in fact , not so much a way to peace as the prolongation of bitter conflict . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This is no semantic nicety ; rather , it is arguable that the distinction reveals something of their political specificities . |
| 13 | The future exhibitions programme of the ICA supplies something of a guide to the sorts of significances that a critically-minded culture of a post-modernist kind will be pursuing in the next year or two . |
| 14 | There is little doubt that this particular development was motivated largely by the wish to restore something of the vigour and resistance to disease of the older types to modern colours and shapes . |
| 15 | In the end the role became something of a timeshare job — awarded to both Storm — for his impeccable behaviour and tri-colour Brandy — for his good looks and lovely nature — most of the time . |
| 16 | It should be remembered that an offer may be withdrawn any time before acceptance , unless the person making the offer receives something of value to keep the offer open or the offer is made under seal . |
| 17 | The analyst meets something of phylogenetic origin in this type of experience in therapy . |
| 18 | the order of the objectives reveals something of the process of historical writing . |
| 19 | Given Ungermann 's fighting talk about Asynchronous Transfer Mode to the desktop , the Dragonswitch seems something of an anti-climax , despite the company 's claims that , combined with Virtual Network Architecture it ‘ provides many of the benefits of Asynchronous Transfer Mode technology on today 's Ethernet networks ’ . |
| 20 | These international visitors do n't want to shock , only to impress … and give the Oxford crowd something of a fairy tale ending . |
| 21 | It is worth the effort to convey something of how this is done but do not worry if you find the remaining paragraphs of this section rather abstract and demanding . |
| 22 | The Emperor has something of the technique of comic and fantastic exaggeration that we associate with Dickens , and something of the manner , too , of Dickens 's reader , Kafka : |
| 23 | In order to give a sense of an ‘ ethical a priori ’ position , I will at this point in the book say something of my own odyssey . |
| 24 | She was unmarried and her urge and talent for giving to the world had something of gratitude at its root . |
| 25 | ( The teaching of the Catechism has something of the air of a lost cause about it . |
| 26 | The film took something of a battering from US critics . |
| 27 | The country experienced something of a flight of capital as investors sought alternative outlets in more favourable economic climates . |
| 28 | The chapel had something of the calm , attentive atmosphere of a drawing-room just vacated by its owners . |
| 29 | These events across the Channel had something of a postscript after Cnut 's death . |
| 30 | After a fine spring , the summer of 1980 became a big disappointment and the weather reached something of a soggy climax for the fifth Test at Headingley . |