Example sentences of "that something [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He remembered the dream where he had been riding north with Jinneth into the mountains , and he was sure that something of that figure had been Jenny . |
| 2 | There can be no doubt that something of this sort took place at this time in Montreal , and that it forms one of the subconscious inputs in the growing boy 's development , along with the high family traditions and the significance of his names . |
| 3 | ‘ I warned , did I not , that something of this nature might occur ? ’ |
| 4 | That the expansion of exports falls well short of absorbing the growth in manufacturing output suggests that something of this kind must have happened , as does the fact that the nature of the new products does not allow for explanation in terms of extra spending on luxuries by high-income earners . |
| 5 | ‘ But ’ , I said slowly , looking round the hall , ‘ I think I have evidence — clear evidence — that something of this sort is going on , right here , under our very noses in our … ’ |
| 6 | It still remains the case that something between 50 and 60 per cent of all regions in the Community lie within 15 per cent of the Community average per capita GDP . |
| 7 | I could not help thinking that something beside mere chance was at work here , showing me the way . |
| 8 | The clinical instinct I was beginning to develop told me that something inside this animal was fundamentally awry . |
| 9 | And we are moving into an age , I think it must be recognised , where some of the traditional jobs for girls , for example , secretaries , shops , things of this sort , are actually being decreased because of the technological revolution , so bearing in mind that something like seventy per cent of women are actually in employment , it 's very important that a girl , at the age of thirteen or fourteen , does not decide to cut herself off from the possibility of employment in these technological , engineering fields . |
| 10 | The 1555 survey contains forty-six ( exclusive of men who were also freeholders ) , and it is reasonable to assume that something like thirty held land that was sublet in 1522 , an estimate that finds a measure of confirmation in the subsidy schedule which , perhaps in deference to the provision for the taxing of income from customary holdings , mentions the landed wealth of twenty-six men who were assessed on goods . |
| 11 | You would see that something like thirty percent of our work is at Leeds North West electrification . |
| 12 | By the time Chiang fell upon his Chinese communist rivals and destroyed the Canton commune in the spring of 1927 , and thus terminated the League 's existence also , it has been estimated that something like 200 ‘ graduates ’ of Ho 's Canton course had returned to Vietnam and although many of them were arrested , it was a significant infusion to be added to what might be called the natural sources of discontent . |
| 13 | But this record shows that something like 30,340 imperial shillings were expected in revenue : 3300 from the Patrimony , 5800 from religious institutions , and 21,200 , the lion 's share , from states and vassals . |
| 14 | But the Turks for their part point out , when you visit them , that something like four-fifths of the undiminished Greek army is concentrated in Thrace , on Turkey 's border … |
| 15 | ‘ Perhaps she realised that something like that would make it easier for her to be found . ’ |
| 16 | That 's not literary opinion , that 's a fact , and is n't in , incredible that something like that did n't shake some foundations , not a bit of it . |
| 17 | Well our research has shown that something like eighty percent of all small business 's do n't undertake any formal training within their first three years of operation and more than sixty percent do not do any formal business planning or look further ahead than one month from today . |
| 18 | Well research suggests that something like eighty eight percent , that 's research by Klaus and Bass , Klaus and Bass nineteen eighty-eight , actually I may have got that date wrong so I 'm not sure you should quote the date , anyway it 's Klaus and Bass . |
| 19 | Well , I know pigs might fly , but hope springs eternal and Bob was eternally hopeful that something like this might happen . |
| 20 | It beggars belief that something like this could happen . ’ |
| 21 | Consultations with other doctors in Britain suggested that something like this format may well have been fairly common in the past with the very poorest patients , while modern studies of casualty departments revealed that something approximating to it was still used with the most stigmatised of patients . |
| 22 | It is just conceivable that something like this might have happened had there been a Communist government in France . |
| 23 | The Collector knew it was time he hurried downstairs … he had expected that something like this would happen , but not so quickly . |
| 24 | I should have guessed that something like this was going on . |
| 25 | I 'd been given a hint that something like this could be on the cards when I was first approached . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Do you think that something like this might be the answer for Jennifer — and for your parents ? ’ |
| 27 | It is always a possible that something like this will happen . |
| 28 | ‘ But I never had any inkling that something like this would happen . ’ |