Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] something [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you want something complimentary or something insulting ? |
| 2 | ‘ Something interesting or something dirty ? ’ |
| 3 | It 's at moments like this that something magical happens . |
| 4 | Yet it is clear that something akin to what Kazantzakis depicts must have occurred in actuality . |
| 5 | It is clear that something important is supposed to be happening . |
| 6 | This was why she was there ; this and something more … |
| 7 | A mixture of something old and something new , everybody here at Club has his or her own favourite , and we 've also asked a few personalities to say a few words about their number 1 trip . |
| 8 | After following the age-old tradition of marrying in something old and something new , practical Anne has also opted for something four-wheel drive . |
| 9 | Rather they use smashing as something interesting to do … |
| 10 | but the second way in which section fourteen arises is this slightly more oblique way , erm , it 's , it 's not really the question of competition law it 's more a question of administrative law or constitutional law , erm whether it arises on the question er , your Lordship will have to decide , but , if , if it does then we believe that our case is extremely strong , because what one is saying here is , is section fourteen a block to an article eighty five action , erm does it make it either virtually impossible or something lesser excessively difficult , er and we say er that that 's one aspect and two can we show it 's discriminatory , well we say first of all it is discriminatory because even on analysis of the bad faith argument they are putting in a claimant with an article eighty five case to an extraordinary length in order to make good his case , he first of all has to super declaration presumably that he is entitled to damages , but he ca n't get damages all he 's entitled to is the declaration if then do n't satisfy that claim by paying up and their not going to be ordered by the court to pay up because that 's a claim for damages and you ca n't have that then you have to sue them again on the basis of breach of bad faith , er no other provision in English law would go to that effect and that of course even , even that assumes whether rightly or wrongly and we say possibly wrongly that er , er the failure to comply with the judgment of the declaration would be bad faith within the meaning of the act , but even assuming it 's right it puts a plaintiff suing for breach of article eighty five in the worst position possible |
| 11 | Many , particularly among the younger deputies , were convinced that something radical had to be done . |
| 12 | Hilton 's attempt to revive the idea of Lollard influence on the revolt by redefining Lollardy as something more than the following of Wyclif ( 78 , p.213 ) disregards the general character of later Lollardy , which only rarely developed revolutionary tendencies . |
| 13 | Other people would hate that , it 's too restricting and er er and again it is , if you think about it , because if you 've got a , a regular date and you 're retired and something nice and exciting comes up , and that 's right in the middle of your , it bashes into your regular date , so then you have to say do I go or do I do or , or do n't I ? |
| 14 | In 1951 a well-documented eruption of this kind took place on Mt Lamington in Papua , another of those volcanoes which was thought to be extinct until something nasty happened . |
| 15 | What we 've attempted to do is to put all of our instructions into one manual , so that we do n't view quality as an add-on or something extra . |
| 16 | But knowledge of the English burnings was widespread , and Scottish Protestants could not be sure that something similar might not now happen to them . |
| 17 | Although I was not sure what ‘ the lot ’ meant , I was sure that something big was expected , for even Matron was in a hurry as she went to her office , at that time of day too ! |
| 18 | Erm so if they do come down , or when they do come down , I think it it will benefit the area , as long as something better is repl is there to replace them . |
| 19 | ‘ The child is born blind or something terrible . ’ |
| 20 | The following remark , for example , made in the realization that physics was both something less and something more than an objective body of knowledge , was very similar to remarks made by the arts students about English : |
| 21 | Guard dogs hurled themselves against the wire and then chased the car the length of the property , barking frantically , while Cinzia told Zen how she had persuaded Gianluigi to buy a place in the country although he could n't see the point , but to her nature was not a luxury but something fundamental , a source of sanity and order , did he understand what she meant ? |
| 22 | I am not happy when something unfair happens to someone else and I try to stand up for what is right . |
| 23 | They correspond respectively to the ‘ heroic ’ view of evil as something external to be resisted and the Boethian opinion that evil is essentially internal , psychological , negative . |
| 24 | Nevertheless his career reveals the strong point of a ‘ heroic ’ view of evil , the weak point of a Boethian one : if you regard evil as something internal , to be pitied , more harmful to the malefactor than the victim , you may be philosophically consistent but you may also be exposing others to sacrifices to which they have not consented ( like being murdered by Viking ravagers or , as The Lord of the Rings was being written , being herded into gas-chambers ) . |
| 25 | As important to Tolkien , though , was that it is a word ( like ‘ shadow ’ ) which people use every day , and with exactly the right shade of uncertainty over whether they mean something completely humdrum and practical or something mysterious and supernatural . |
| 26 | No I thought , I thought the best one had to be erm home , home and office uses for home ex for high explosive or something stupid like that I mean that was |
| 27 | The alternation of something familiar and something new , of ‘ statement and change ’ , can be used in many ways , to build small paragraphs , longer sections , or lengthy movements . |
| 28 | with the little children that he went with last year died during the year she was a West Indian or something two lovely little children gone somewhere else to live with their aunt , . |
| 29 | The BR spokesman said : It could have been something simple like a gate left open or something sinister like vandalism . ’ |
| 30 | That 's what he called them , and he was worried because something big was coming up and it would get out of control . |