Example sentences of "something [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clean , the front pickup is warm but clear , something perhaps between a Strat and a Gretsch , while the treble unit puts out what might be described as a more cultured version of a PAF . |
| 2 | After 10 years at top level , it 's a pity that Ben still has n't understood that you can never be the best climber sin the world , because there is always someone who will do something better in a given area of the sport . |
| 3 | There is , in common sense , something close to a paradox which generates the problem of universals . |
| 4 | And any ‘ green shoots of recovery ’ may well be choked by the tares of something close to a world slump . |
| 5 | There is a strong thriller element to the novel , particularly in the last part , in which Piero is tracked down by the agents of what is portrayed as something close to a police or military state in the underground corridors of the prison-like block of flats where Charles lives and the fugitive has been hiding . |
| 6 | He had challenged almost everything she had said and what was meant as an informative introduction to a public relations exercise had developed into something close to a public brawl . |
| 7 | To achieve something close to a perfect finish , a little forethought and measurement are essential before the first length of wallcovering is cut to length . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This year represents something close to a dismantling of the American presidential campaign . |
| 10 | After all , by conforming with the prejudices of many voters , it must offer something close to a ‘ dream ’ economic platform for the politicians . |
| 11 | The question eludes a convincing answer ; yet the intuition persists that behind its lyric grace , its elegant melancholia , " Diffugere nives " conceals something close to a political statement of disillusion and regret . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Impact printers are the largest group and consist of three main sub categories ; dot matrix , daisy wheel and ink jet and , apart from the latter which actually fires its ink these operate by pressing something hard through a ribbon in order to leave an impression on the sheet of paper . |
| 15 | After all , there was something almost like a brother about him and he was a near neighbour . |
| 16 | It 's something there in a magazine the other week there . |
| 17 | You know we we 've heard a lot about this leaf bud structure and what to replace it with but since this is Nottingham and this centre of lace why could n't they put something there like a loom or something sculptured to look like a loom ? |
| 18 | If I had failed to get a place in a law school and had been forced to take something else as a second choice then this would have been acceptable . |
| 19 | Erm the only thing that erm I thought she might er do was erm er something else on a ten year basis , because she 's only fifty six , I mean that 's relatively young , so would you possibly suggest anything that could go for ten or more years ? |
| 20 | let me ask you something else on a development Mr I when I watched use the er help from time to time there are major items of expenditure , after the properties built , correct |
| 21 | Then he 'd have to go off and do something else for a while before he could stomach being with him again . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's a name I seem to be stuck with , but it really would be nice to be called something else for a change , says actor Nigel Havers , best known for his role in the ITV series of the same name . |
| 23 | But she wished the silly sod would look at somebody or something else for a change . |
| 24 | erm because that 's like a continuous thing erm with with some other stuff , if it 's just like essays or projects due in at the end of this term or beginning of next , you know get , get the light stuff out of the way first erm and try you may find it easier if you , if you , what I used to do was sort of try and , you know , pace it out a little bit and not try and write an essay all at once because I found that very difficult to do but if you just sort of write a paragraph and do , do something else for a bit and you know kind of write another paragraph a bit later on in the day and , and , you know , kind of erm you know work , you know do n't , do n't try and write an essay all in one evening but try and sort of , you know , if you 've managed to spread it out over the course of a few days so that you do n't have to do too much at once I mean it 's difficult to concentrate on one thing |
| 25 | I think you need to go and do something else for a little while I said cos if you keep looking over thinking you ca n't do it , have a break and go back to it afterwards you just get really despondent |
| 26 | Is it allegorical ( i.e. each character or event in the passage stands for something else in a parallel story ) ? |
| 27 | It was late afternoon , the micro hones had been taken away , the hall was only half lit ; Karajan sat with the orchestra in something closer to a seance or seminar than a rehearsal . |
| 28 | While Winston Churchill ( in his 1940–5 wartime government ) and Margaret Thatcher ( 1979–90 ) were very dominant figures in the cabinets they presided over , prime ministers like Clement Attlee ( 1945–51 ) and John Major ( 1990 to date ) seem to have run their cabinets on something closer to a collective-decision basis . |
| 29 | Something very like a shriek , hastily cut off , sounded in a basement , but Colin Campbell , looking back to see if the dog was following , heard nothing . |
| 30 | His European diplomacy had been a triumph ; he had sealed something very like a partnership with Mikhail Gorbachev ; he had reason to think that a deal on the Uruguay round of the GATT would be completed by Christmas . |