Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] something [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The costs of a non-Europe research programme suggest that something in the region of 0.5 per cent of Community GDP may be " wasted " by nations favouring domestic public procurement policies and therefore an effective competition policy to counteract such protection measures must be accompanied by a re-distributive regional policy . |
| 2 | It is considered that something in the region of 40g daily should be quite sufficient to protect your health in all the ways which have been described , and to make it much easier for you to control your weight in the future . |
| 3 | Moreover the recording itself stands as something of a tribute to his long relationship with another French institution , the Opéra de Lyon , which he has conducted frequently since his début there in the same opera in 1981 . |
| 4 | That Mr Li should be felled by illness at the relatively youthful age of 64 has come as something of a shock in a country where leaders are traditionally long-lived . |
| 5 | ‘ Must have come as something of a shock to the old brigade , ’ said Milton . |
| 6 | The biographical sources for this period are neither detailed nor accurate enough to allow a close analysis of the degree to which the system had become elaborated in the first half of the sixteenth century , but the broader outlines may certainly be perceived and seem to confirm that something like the provisions of the Kanunname were operating by the early years of that century . |
| 7 | A quote has been received but it was felt that something on a less extensive scale would be sufficient . |
| 8 | A quote has been received but it was felt that something on a less extensive scale would be sufficient . |
| 9 | Through verbal mediation it is able to fix some of the criteria applied and something of the meaning extracted in the perception of art . |
| 10 | It came as something of a shock in the late 1970s , when developments in the human rights situation around the world and the increase in groups worldwide and the increase in groups worldwide led to fewer prisoner cases being available for UK groups . |
| 11 | This came as something of a surprise , for nothing Victor Saunders had told me about the Priut refuge quite prepared me for my first sight of this three-storey silver sausage — an amazing futuristic construction with a dining room that looks out on a wonderland of peaks , and with some four-bedded dormitories which , if you 're lucky enough to be allocated one , ensures a degree of comfort far different from alpine-style overcrowding . |
| 12 | After running a substantial international fibres business , it came as something of a cultural shock to find himself sitting in ICI 's headquarters with only a secretary to command . |
| 13 | So it came as something of a shock to Labour 's Brian Wilson when he found that a Commons motion he had tabled had been … well , subbed a bit by the authorities of the House . |
| 14 | It came as something of a shock to the Poles to realise that the Kaszubians saw no difference between selling their land to a Pole or selling it to a German . |
| 15 | So , it came as something of a disappointment when a Ms Mel Chevannes , who ran a black supplementary school in the West Midlands , wrote to the Wolverhampton Express and Star to protest at my testing ‘ hypotheses that black people are ‘ happy-go-lucky or very physical in their outlook ’ ’ and that my aims were to ‘ damage even further the life chances of black children ’ ( 25 June 1980 ) . |
| 16 | In view of these attitudes , it came as something of a surprise when the Chancellor 's 1989 Autumn statement included an extra £250 million over two years to tackle the problem of homelessness . |
| 17 | I asked her if she always painted with such alacrity and her answer came as something of a relief , ‘ I like to enjoy painting , so ofttimes I paint much more slowly , it 's like eating , you do n't want to rush through a great meal ’ . |
| 18 | This came as something of a surprise since most people had assumed that SIB , as the recognising authority , was exercising some sort of supervisory control . |
| 19 | THE PANIC world-wide over the Friday 13th computer viruses came as something of an anti-climax , with the Royal National Institute for the Blind emerging as the major casualty . |
| 20 | He brings Abraham down to earth with a bump , by giving us a subtle piece of comedy in which he features as something of a country bumpkin and gets , to use unsubtle language for a moment , ‘ right done ’ ! |
| 21 | In the light of what was to happen in the next few years , defeat by just 2–0 may be seen as something of a triumph , especially in view of the two traumas that occurred . |
| 22 | The mid-'70s are now seen as something of a cultural wasteland for rock and it is no exaggeration to say that Wednesday 's NME was the highlight of the musical week for a generation . |
| 23 | It may even be that the indiscriminacy of some of the air operations in the Second World War will come to be seen as something of a historical aberration , and a mere temporary consequence of the undeveloped state of the arts of target acquisition and guidance . |
| 24 | The teaching role of the staff nurse or equivalent clinical practitioner may have been seen as something of a Cinderella when compared with the traditional tasks of care giving and developing managerial expertise . |
| 25 | He is the first investment analyst to be charged with insider dealing , and as a result his trial will be seen as something of a test case in the City , especially as legislation is currently going through Parliament to extend the scope of insider dealing . |
| 26 | We anticipate that something over an extra 50,000 will now do so . |
| 27 | They must look like something from a fair booth — a shrimp and a black giant tied together ! |
| 28 | Through the quarry and the conifer woods and out into the main road where the yellow lights make you look like something in a Hammer horror . |
| 29 | Well , very briefly , the ideas was Freud in his early practice was getting stories from his patients that they had somehow been sexually interfered with or abused or something of the kind when they were very young , often by an older male friend of the family , a relative , or even their father and initially Freud thought these reminiscences were literally true . |
| 30 | And they , knowing me to be one not prone to exaggerated statements , well understood that something of an extraordinary nature was impending . |