Example sentences of "that something [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although these had seen their origin in the reign of Henry IV , it was to be in his son 's brief reign that something of a revolution ( whose effects , however , were not to last ) took place . |
| 2 | I admit they will find that something of a puzzle , but given the low critical standards of provincial audiences , they might hit upon the felicitous conclusion that she choked while in the midst of an exaggeratedly hilarious response to that pathetic farce . |
| 3 | When pressed , he almost conceded that something of the original philosophy of the 1992 programme may have been lost . |
| 4 | Somehow , even to my youthful reasoning , it was as though the past was speaking to the present , that something of the love between these two people still lingered . |
| 5 | Roughly , and somewhat metaphorically , we can say that something of the following sort goes on when successful communication takes place . |
| 6 | I never got good enough ( or brave enough ) to test her advice out , but , being by inclination an optimist , I would like to think that something of the same logic would apply to the National Curriculum and its tests . |
| 7 | Sensing that something of the sort might be going through his mind , Lesley-Jane interposed , ‘ We were just talking about Micky 's death . ’ |
| 8 | And they , knowing me to be one not prone to exaggerated statements , well understood that something of an extraordinary nature was impending . |
| 9 | Everything pointed to the fact that something at an extremely high altitude looked favourably on Branson 's endeavours . |
| 10 | A quote has been received but it was felt that something on a less extensive scale would be sufficient . |
| 11 | A quote has been received but it was felt that something on a less extensive scale would be sufficient . |
| 12 | We anticipate that something over an extra 50,000 will now do so . |
| 13 | One is that something about the dream itself ( its illogicality perhaps ) makes it difficult to remember , and the other that there is something about the physiological state in which we find ourselves when first woken up that makes remembering difficult . |
| 14 | It was also clear that something about the young man made him intensely uncomfortable . |
| 15 | Any variation greater than this indicates that something in a process has changed . |
| 16 | Any variation greater than this indicates that something in a process has changed . |
| 17 | Thus the Lacanian account of the impossibility of desire often cites the following passage from Freud 's ‘ On the Universal Tendency to Debasement in the Sphere of Love ’ : ‘ It is my belief that , however strange it may sound , we must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is unfavourable to the realization of complete satisfaction , ( vii . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I have a sensation of heat as I approach the fire ; but when I approach the same fire too closely , I have a sensation of pain ; so there is nothing to convince me that something in the fire resembles heat , any more than the pain ; it is just that there must be something in it ( whatever this may turn out to be ) that produces the sensations of heat or pain . |
| 20 | The ocean carrier , therefore , was deemed to warrant to the consignor safe transport and delivery and could avoid liability only if he proved that something in the nature of force majeure had intervened . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | How would it be proved that something against the rules of war had occurred ? |
| 23 | Be best cut out with a sharp knife that something like a Stanley knife |
| 24 | As the months have passed , it his become clear that something like a campaign of disinformation has been waged , for reasons which can still only be guessed at . |
| 25 | The evaluators must conclude that something like the input of resources which characterised the Essex project is a necessary condition for improving library provision and associated resources ( Objective 3 ) and to facilitate reforms in pedagogy , but that it is by no means a sufficient condition for significant change . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | As we saw in Chapter 2 , many people find it hard to believe that something like the eye , Paley 's favourite example , so complex and well designed , with so many interlocking working parts , could have arisen from small beginnings by a gradual series of step-by-step changes . |