Example sentences of "something [adj] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , she could not avoid it at The Tamarisks , for although Fru Møller offered a generous choice of hors d'œuvres and puddings she did not provide a choice of main course and Elisabeth would not have dreamt of placing herself at a disadvantage by drawing attention to her disability and pleading for something easier than steak to swallow . |
| 2 | Tears of outrage stung his eyes , and something deeper than humiliation sank like a stone into the pit of his stomach . |
| 3 | Many times Louisa had wished that the woman might weep as her husband had done , might permit something deeper than care for her creature comforts to reach her . |
| 4 | Yet , if she stopped to examine it , was n't there something better than intoxication being built between them , as delicately as a spider 's web , line by gossamer line ? |
| 5 | Cologne 's unusually intense art scene began with what Kacprzak describes as a post-war vie de bohème , made possible by low rents in Cologne and Düsseldorf , and a rather un-German tolerance for something less than order . |
| 6 | For heads , other teachers and governors partnership needs , as a first step , self-awareness , self-esteem and a capacity to tolerate something less than perfection . |
| 7 | I then drafted a statement for the management side and sent it by hand to Mellowes who was sufficiently impressed by this initiative to pop his head around the door an hour later with a look of something less than mistrust . |
| 8 | So the Devolution Bills proposed something less than federalism . |
| 9 | In any event , something less than adoption , that is custodianship , would be enough ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ All right then , but you mind he does — and I hope he 's got something more than milk to drink up there . |
| 11 | The need for flexibility in plan making was stressed ; something more than land use maps were required and they had to be more responsive to the rapid changes then being experienced in the 1960s in terms of economic and social trends , population forecasts and traffic growth . |
| 12 | Somebody called John Hawley reviewed the novel for the Times , and he was rather sniffy : ‘ Begley is clearly after something more than entertainment here : he wants to write The Great Gatsby . |
| 13 | The most radical Westerners , following a path very close to that of the Petrashevtsy , aspired to something more than liberalism and embraced socialism . |
| 14 | But the slogan , however carelessly drafted , means something more than banality ; it stands for an attitude that is important and open to challenge . |
| 15 | Something more than emergency rations are required in a country where 80% of children under the age of five suffer from malnutrition . |
| 16 | There was something more in his eyes , something more than apology . |
| 17 | But this was something more than intelligence . |
| 18 | I knew it must be something more than flu . |
| 19 | Perhaps there was something more than coherence at stake . |
| 20 | ’ In my view there must certainly be something more than infringement before the assistance of civil proceedings can be invoked and accorded for the protection or promotion of the interests of the inhabitants of the area . |
| 21 | In the passage I have just quoted , Lord Templeman said that there must certainly be something more than infringement before the assistance of civil proceedings can be invoked . |
| 22 | I seem to detect something more than uneasiness . |
| 23 | The only thing that really matters is feeling and living what you believe — so long as it 's something more than belief in your own comfort . |
| 24 | He rose from the ridiculous chair and made his way carefully down the crowded row , responding politely to those who greeted him by name , noting with carefully repressed surprise that two of the women who gave him private little smiles were seated next to each other , friends who had no idea they had something more than friendship in common . |
| 25 | He knew I worked with Malcolm because he was one of the few teachers I could have a conversation with about something more than homework or football . |
| 26 | We may need something stronger than tea after what I 'm going to tell you . ’ |
| 27 | Walking out , finding a cab , leaning back against its leather upholstery , she wished she felt something stronger than lethargy . |
| 28 | ‘ I need something stronger than coffee , ’ he said , and Claudia could see that he was under considerable strain . |
| 29 | Something stronger than party was clearly at work . |
| 30 | Despite the fact that both mother and teacher said that he was always like this , it happened on average three times a day only after he was asked to do something other than play by himself . |