Example sentences of "of something [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll go and get a bottle of something down the road . |
| 2 | Now , you remember the really big puzzle on there , the imaginary bit goes there , and minus seven of something along the route bit and minus twenty four of them , so I 'm going minus seven six hundred and twenty fifths there , minus twenty four , seven , so the actual lines go like that , so the one point nine at that angle , so the actual is going to be which is two sixty one point nine . |
| 3 | Okay so does everyone , think they 'll gon na be able to think of something over the weekend ? |
| 4 | If oil in these quantities were to be found China 's production could be double today 's level by the end of the century with a consequent addition to government revenues of something of the order of $10 billion per year . |
| 5 | It should serve the purpose , however , of providing a sense or a reminder of something of the range of alternative answers there are to questions about the rational foundations of ethics . |
| 6 | So why put him under the pressure , she sa cos I said , I want to know what the long-term effect of me taking him out of this is , because , effectively I 'm taking him out of something of the system , knowing , he 's going to miss that . |
| 7 | In addition , it makes possible the recording , in the form of a ‘ map ’ , of something of the nature of that response . |
| 8 | He was becoming increasingly conscious of the existence of something at the core — in fact , a suspicion , a threat , which must at all costs be shielded from his probes . |
| 9 | Aragorn , then , has some hope of the future and of something outside the ‘ circles of the world ’ that may come to heal their sorrow , but he does not know what it is . |
| 10 | Perhaps it was newspaper speculation that the ‘ courting couple ’ were about to get married that convinced Jason it was time to turn the tide in favour of something nearer the truth and gently let everyone into their secret that it was just one big publicity stunt which , once started , was easier to carry on with than deny , and far more profitable in any event . |
| 11 | Cut-ins , in which a close-up detail of something within the main shot is used , are similar to cutaways and serve much the same purpose . |
| 12 | The natural law doctrine of a core of unassailable and self-evident moral truths rapidly gets squashed by the mountain of successive interpretations which devitalise even the simple phrases of something like the Ten Commandments . |
| 13 | As you probably read in the quality press , FIMBRA are always being taken to task for er not spotting investment groups that have gone too far , er and er when you get the collapse of something like the Levitt group erm which you 'll be aware of perhaps was the er sort of boxing and impresario type route that was taken by the man in the dicky bow . |
| 14 | They have been particularly interested in a fact that I touched upon earlier when discussing the ‘ Ontological Argument ’ , namely that existence is not a quality or attribute of something in the way that being round , or hard , or long-haired is an attribute . |
| 15 | There were definite signs of something in the wind and when I saw who we were drawn with for the first rounds — Nick Price and Ray Floyd — both Nick and I were delighted . |
| 16 | This tallies with the figure which was quite widely quoted to us by lenders of something in the region of one per cent of credit transactions turning into bad debts ( less with some lenders , more with others ) . |
| 17 | Red lights bleed from behind wire mesh , ankle-height , like the burning eyes of something in the sewer out of a John Carpenter film . |
| 18 | But , in the absence of something in the context which suggests that narrower meaning , the authorities in the 19th century and earlier all seem to point to the conclusion that the requirement to establish a conviction requires a proof not only of the finding of guilt but also of the court 's final adjudication by sentence or other order . |
| 19 | I also thought of something in the church the afternoon Damien was killed . ’ |
| 20 | There are sacks and sacks of something in the back of the plane . |
| 21 | All the same , he had a feeling of guilt as if he had been accused of something in the middle of a bad dream and , waking , could not remember what it was . |
| 22 | For a moment there was a flash of something in the dark eye . |
| 23 | Now what I 'm saying to you is that there 's a big question mark as far as Goodey er report is concerned and they can talk about er the surpluses , they can talk about the trustees , but there 's no majority as far as the employees are concerned and this was the question mark that we we were saying that one of the reasons why they were saying you know that the employee should be in the minority because in the end paragraph of the summing up of the Goodey report that states quite clearly that all the responsibility and all the but the employer , now you yourself has said that er as far as the schemes and we 're talking of something in the region of a hundred and twenty eight thousand . |
| 24 | 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 . |