Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] something [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A person may buy something in good faith , but may find out afterwards that the seller had no title to it , perhaps because the seller or somebody else stole it . |
| 2 | Those journalists may know something about environmental issues , but if they understand transport issues , they were jolly well doing their best to conceal the fact . |
| 3 | If the hon. Gentleman is as clever about local government as he is trying to impress us , perhaps we could hear something about local government . |
| 4 | I have set out some of the reasons why the new clauses should not become part of the Bill and now I shall say something about general intention . |
| 5 | Sounds as if the guy is suffering from Hemingway Syndrome : ‘ computers may see their silicon lives flash before their eyes , so to speak , just before they die , ’ Prodigy Services Co suggests , reporting that physicist Stephen Thaler of McDonnell Douglas Corp has been playing with neural networks as a way to speed diamond crystal growth but while by day , he created and trained the neural nets , by night , he began annihilating them to see what would happen , randomly severing links , and when between 10% and 60% of the links were destroyed , the network regurgitated nonsense , but as it approached death , 90% of the connections severed , it generated distinct values that had been trained into it , and at times even output ‘ whimsical ’ states , where it would generate values that were neither trained nor ones that would appear in a healthy net , says Thaler , who thinks it may say something about near-death experiences for humans — ‘ It may not just be fancy biochemistry , ’ he suggests . |
| 6 | This may say something of social class , intellectual outlook or opportunity . |
| 7 | It showed you can achieve something at short notice , provided you 're prepared to drop everything and cover the cost . |
| 8 | But I am aware that it can be a statement ; traditional dress can say something to other people , the same way big boots or punk dress can . |