Example sentences of "[subord] something [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With complex machinery like machining centres , where something like sixty tools may be used to machine a workpiece , and where the piece and the machining head can be rotated in a number of ways , separate programming was done — often by ex-machinists — and the machine would be operated by a skilled operator . |
| 2 | An analagus case is Brown , where something like these facts occured . |
| 3 | where something like five hours ago |
| 4 | However , many have argued that the dependency perspective failed to explain how the practices of the TNCs and those who act as their agents in the Third World actually operated to produce underdevelopment , particularly where something like the kinds of development that are taken for granted in the First World have occurred regionally or in particular industries in some Third World countries . |
| 5 | Erm I 'd prefer to give a definition , rather than a list , so something like any situation where you find yourself talking to people . |
| 6 | Right so something like that and so this represent I mean you can figure this line as being sort of the real wage over the time you mention increasing throughout . |
| 7 | But it seems that , I mean , redressing a paper that you know what it says is one thing erm so something like Hillman 's Guardian , he knows what words they are going to use in those headlines and he provides them with a new look for saying those words in , but in many ways his redesign of that paper was erm it was an undynamic one in the sense that he was still providing them with elements which they could bolt together to make a page in a classic broadsheet newspaper way . |
| 8 | hurricane has gone out of the news now , once something like that has happened there 's always another disaster coming behind that actually takes over the headlines , so , about six months , a year , two years afterwards they were still finding that in parts of Europe the general level of nuclear activity was higher than it had been before Chernobyl , why would that happen ? |
| 9 | Because really in my view it should be that once something like this happened then it should be on the owners to prove they have n't been negligent . |
| 10 | The problem is resolved when Chris announces that his conference has been put forward to 5 June , although something in his manner suggests to Matty that he got the date wrong in the first place . |
| 11 | I have hinted that the dawn has many times come to me through the leaves of the willow , but it is less the tree itself nowadays that transmits things seen to my mind — than something of which the willow is a visible type . |
| 12 | I could see , as he sang , the years drop away — so that I knew him : the young and hopeful singer , all the best to come , a bottle no more than something to be cracked among friends . |
| 13 | Rather than something to be relegated to nothingness , like we find today . |
| 14 | Professionals segregate according to expert criteria , but ‘ what is it to be human ? ’ sounds like a philosophical question — in which case it is also a political one — rather than something for experts to decide . |
| 15 | In particular data being used by the dual processors must be stored on the the processors have to be attached to a IBM 9333 high performance disk system , shared data must be capable of storage on raw disk configurations rather than something like the the AIX Journaled File System and software must be specifically configured to work with the HACMP/6000 Distributed Lock Manager . |
| 16 | A and really the remit is nothing other than something like undertake erm er survey work , design , detailed drawings or the reconstruction or repairs to blah blah blah blah including pre-imposed contract work . |
| 17 | Very few schools get away with teaching the Lord 's prayer in anything other than something like the traditional way . |
| 18 | He asked if I had enough of those for a whole album , because he felt it would make quite an original debut , to do only music taken from other instruments , rather than something from the standard guitar repertoire . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They must look like something from a fair booth — a shrimp and a black giant tied together ! |
| 21 | The numbers to be employed in the raid provided something of a problem . |
| 22 | This provided something of a contrast to previous surveys , in which rural areas have shown up as having generally better housing than urban areas ( Dunn et al . |
| 23 | It was a genuine attempt to explore the innate bases of behaviour and their social implications , even if something of the confused Darwinian metaphor remained . |
| 24 | Erm so one suspects that if something of truly national importance really came , that it might any planning control might be overridden in the merits in the urgency of the case . |
| 25 | I mean the way I 'd look at it , would look at it if something of happened to John , well I still go |
| 26 | If something with an improbability of one dealion was predicted and then happened , we should diagnose a miracle unless , which is more probable , we suspected fraud . |
| 27 | If something outside your control is creating stress , forget it ; there 's nothing you can do about it . |
| 28 | Write to the Letters page if something about the industry really winds you up . |
| 29 | Write to the Letters page if something about the industry really winds you up . |
| 30 | Rincewind thought he could see a faint streak in the air , as if something from the mountain had reached out and touched the beast . |