Example sentences of "but something [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could hear it , as if it were not in her chest but something outside herself . |
| 2 | It is as if by being able to make moral judgements people recognise , not simply an additional technical possibility , but something to which they wish to give ultimate significance . |
| 3 | And make no mistake , the rum ration is very important to a matelot ; not only to be sipped or gulped , but something to be used for bargaining or the repayment of a favour , or even bottled and taken home on leave . |
| 4 | At the same time it should make us aware of the enormity of the task that still lies before us in developing an adequate analysis of the art made by artists for whom ‘ being a woman ’ was not a given , but something to be explored through a historically shaped and socially conditioned artistic . |
| 5 | The pursuit of their properties was intellectually exciting but something of a gamble if the aim was to discover a drug for a specific purpose . |
| 6 | The labours of his protesting stomach had corroded his dark skin with pustules ; he was still sharp of bone and languid in movement , but something of the family vigour was visible . |
| 7 | Kuhn 's direction has accuracy and breadth on its side , and also just speeds , but something of the incandescence this score calls for is missing . |
| 8 | There has obviously been some attempt to alter and/or censor , but something of the truth can nevertheless be teased out of the fragments that remain . |
| 9 | Thus does one see him in the Gospels — loyal , but something of a yokel , and certainly not thinking in any very sophisticated religious or political terms . |
| 10 | For Bultmann , the resurrection is not an event in our world ( for resurrections he would hold , as I , do not occur in our world ) , but something of far greater magnitude , an eschatological event which represents the breaking in of another world order . |
| 11 | Cos in a very profound sense this is true , and I was so glad that it was I think a very serious part of the flow of Dr Stuart 's report that he mentioned that the er s sense of the ministry of the whole people of God as being much more than a distant objective for us , but something of absolutely essential , vital importance to the whole life and service and outreach of the church . |
| 12 | So deep-rooted were his various obsessions and so pronounced his self-importance that he came to be regarded in some quarters as not merely an individualist but something of a crank . |
| 13 | Our special guest Adam Faith , he 's in Alfie , which is at Nottingham 's Theatre Royal on the twenty eighth of March next year and the box office has just opened so can actually er go there to see not just a performance I think , not just a play , but something of an event . |
| 14 | Well , of course , there are big atoms and small atoms hydrogen is a very small atom , uranium is a big atom — but something of the order of ten to the minus eight of a centimetre . |
| 15 | but something on the outskirts of the Garden City might be O K perhaps on the northern side |
| 16 | No , then it 's not the wood itself , but something on it . |
| 17 | Some thought the scandal might have done better , in terms of audience ratings , if the name had not been the leaden ‘ Iran-contra affair ’ but something with panache , cloak-and-dagger stuff . |
| 18 | But something with a bit of class . |
| 19 | He saw not Alina , but something with eyes of blazing green ; her hair a long mane strewn with weeds , her dress a dripping shroud , her teeth sharp , her skin pale and scaly as a snake 's . |
| 20 | Get something with a good conductance , not something with a high resistance but something with a high conductance . |
| 21 | But something about Mr Gummer 's face — like the look of insufferable smugness - should have warned Dr Clark that it was all about to go horribly wrong for him . |
| 22 | She opened her mouth to argue further , being plainly in the mood to announce she was leaving her job rather than allow any arrangement to succeed , but something about McLeish 's expression checked her and she agreed meekly . |
| 23 | ‘ But something about that evidence bothers you . ’ |
| 24 | Her dress was in the high-waisted Empire style worn by almost all young women nowadays , but something about it seemed to Karelius , far from expert though he was , vaguely wrong . |
| 25 | She did n't , but something about the way she moved confirmed my suspicion that she saw herself as damaged goods . |
| 26 | But something about him had fastened itself to her memory , and she found herself saying to a bartender the night after , ‘ Do you know a boy , about fifteen or sixteen , a legit , who goes around with a large black dog ? ’ |
| 27 | He was not a tall man , but something about his confidence and reputation gave him an impressive stature . |
| 28 | Christians have always proclaimed not simply Jesus ' teaching , but something about Jesus . |
| 29 | The style of Mrs Praga 's book , Dainty Dinner Tables and How to Decorate Them ( published in 1907 ) , may be archaic , but something about the tone and even the context is curiously familiar . |
| 30 | He had a few days growth of stubble but something about him was fundamentally clean cut . |