Example sentences of "something of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In our annual reports in Dumbarton Oaks Papers we have shown something of the extraordinary nature of the church and its decoration and shed much new light on the period immediately before Justinian . |
| 2 | This concept of individual timetables enables us to get away from the focus on the family or household as an undifferentiated unit , and to understand something of the complex patterns which evolve when individuals ' lives are woven together over the period of their lifetimes . |
| 3 | Words that will express something of the deep complexity that makes us precisely the way we are , from the momentary effect of the barometer to the force that created men distinct from trees . |
| 4 | Suppose a man knows nothing of trusts and trustees , but has heard something of the separate use , leaves property — say £1,000 — to his married daughter ‘ for her separate use ’ . |
| 5 | Here I Am , expresses something of the living relationship between God and ourselves . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | However , a pilot study has shown that if the available data is collected and sorted by computer , enough survives to enable something of the overall pattern to emerge , especially through comparison with the much more plentiful English data . |
| 8 | I can then approach the overseas groups knowing something of the overall picture . |
| 9 | Their world-view was essentially animatistic : every living thing and every outwardly inanimate thing too was a part of the living cosmos , and therefore imbued with something of the divine spirit . |
| 10 | There were several discernible influences at work here — one was undoubtedly her father 's piping , which suggested decorations to the melodic line at North-east songs not always accustomed to such , and the other was acquaintance with young English revival singers who had incorporated into their singing styles something of the sean nos tradition of the West of Ireland . |
| 11 | Something of the administrative framework of the social services will have been gleaned from the preceding chapters on particular social problems and the services created in response to them . |
| 12 | Something of the almighty importance of it and something of the utter meaninglessness . |
| 13 | It is vitally important to know something of the individual richness and variety of each religious tradition before becoming subject to the generalisations of those engaged in comparative religion . |
| 14 | Something of the casual innocence of the picture may be lost when I tell you that I had to hunt this particular combination of light for two days before obtaining the shot I wanted ! |
| 15 | She tried , not successfully , to recall something of the pupil-teacher aspect of their relations . |
| 16 | ‘ I want to paint men and women with that something of the eternal which the halo used to symbolize , ’ Van Gogh had written , groping to define for his brother the human essence that was his aim in pictures such as this . ’ |
| 17 | As we now know something of the appalling story of his hounding by cultural officialdom , the raucous irony of the middle works and the bitter blackness of the last become entirely comprehensible . |
| 18 | Stephanie had hopes that the familial Christmas dinner might in some way restore something of the frail threadwork of decency and courteous behaviour broken by the earlier violence of her father and brother . |
| 19 | The organization claimed membership from all parts of the South , and its membership contained education specialists , lawyers , people from the media , and civil servants , at least one of whom knew something of the existing channels of power and communication between church and state in the national school system . |
| 20 | Something of the inaudible music that moves us along in our bodies from moment to moment like water in a river . |
| 21 | Napoleon marched through it on his way to Moscow , but today the road is used by those who wish to avoid the pressures of autobahn driving and see something of the pleasant , rolling countryside of Westphalia . |
| 22 | Or Natural Selection ? , but is introduced in the next short chapter where we take a brief diversion to present something of the vast integrated cycles by which life is maintained upon our planet . |
| 23 | She clicked her false teeth together , and announced with something of the normal snap in her voice that she was going to call Margaret right now . |
| 24 | So far we have been concerned with trying to understand something of the general reaction people have to various forms of loss , concentrating on the reactions people will discover in themselves when they or someone close to them is dying or has died . |
| 25 | But the reader now knows something of the general setting of Libyan politics ; of the people involved and their problems , and it is possible to approach the topic of ideas and principles in the aftermath of the revolution . |
| 26 | He knew something of the new music , but neither the movement as a whole nor Wagner 's particular achievement within it meant anything special to him . |
| 27 | We rarely played close to the building which , when not lit up , had something of the baleful haunted house about it . |
| 28 | Built from soft Headington stone , and blackened by the soot from college chimneys , it had something of the crumbly , grand appearance of a country house in Ireland . |
| 29 | We might have expected to see something of the great movies , Gold Rush , Modern Times , Limelight … |
| 30 | Zeinab , who tended to see things in personal terms and who , having been brought up in her father 's house , had something of the great lady in her , took it into her head to protect her servants and rushed out into the street in a passion . |