Example sentences of "something [adv] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Things do not look white in virtue of something analytically involved in their looking white , something which they have in common — as metals have in common that their oxides dissolved in water yield an alkaline solution — with other things that look white . |
| 2 | Seeing how the boy stared at Hammond 's hand a moment before tentatively offering his own , how he studied the meeting of their hands , as if it were something wholly new to him , Spatz understood . |
| 3 | It was not clear enough to protect the sellers from the consequences of their own negligence and it did not apply when the sellers had delivered something wholly different in kind from that which had been ordered . |
| 4 | There was something altogether untoward about the reinventor of the ocarina . |
| 5 | This interpretation of the General Theory labour supply function seems initially quite plausible , but the further one pursues Keynes 's chain of reasoning , the more apparent it becomes that he had something altogether different from the formulation in mind . |
| 6 | When Willie woke the next day , there was something altogether unusual about the morning . |
| 7 | there is a hardcore , see , it 's not necessarily what they 've done , but when you meet them there 's something instinctively repulsive about them |
| 8 | THE DOCTOR : There 's something fundamentally absurd about your attributing reason to a lunatic . |
| 9 | Even the little mosque to the side of the gatehouse has a whiff of degeneracy about it : its three domes are flirtatiously striped like the flared pyjama bottoms of a nautch girl ; there is something fundamentally voluptuous in its buxom curves and poise . |
| 10 | This , admittedly , is a hard saying , and may well stir a first inkling that there must be something fundamentally wrong with the approach which has brought us to this point . |
| 11 | Above all , the public inquiry system is seen to alleviate public anxiety and concern that there might be something fundamentally wrong with the way certain facets of aviation are being conducted . |
| 12 | Socialists had of course always argued that there was something fundamentally wrong with capitalist progress ( and for this reason I shall concentrate on their attitudes ) . |
| 13 | Mr Parkinson told MPs on the Commons transport committee : ‘ Road pricing has a lot of practical difficulties and ‘ there is something fundamentally unattractive about pricing people off the road , ’ he told MPs on the Commons transport committee .. ’ |
| 14 | That kind of mystical knowledge that there is something incredibly black around the corner . |
| 15 | I have found no mention of this Festival of Love in any other accounts of the Masai , but there is something blatantly sexual about the warriors . |
| 16 | Each character sees something most abhorrent to himself in the tapestries — his loved ones being defiled and slaughtered , Clerics of his religion being massacred , his people being slain by racial enemies , or similar . |
| 17 | There is something rather incongruous about a helicopter performing a roll , yet , given a suitable model , it is probably easier to do than a loop . |
| 18 | There 's something rather unhealthy about this particular game . |
| 19 | There was something rather reckless in my attending the present lectures at all , because it was in the depths of winter , and from where I now lived it was rather a long walk to the town — over a mile , at any rate . |
| 20 | Is there not even something rather arrogant about the assumption that the human mind and capacity to make things supply the only proper model for conceiving of a supreme reality ? |
| 21 | There was , Henry felt , something rather unsavoury about Maltby. perhaps that was why he had never worked up the notes he had made on the case . |
| 22 | Rory McShane , for Newry and Mourne Council , said Mrs Trainor 's daughter noticed something rather strange about it when she started to eat the soup . |
| 23 | THERE is something rather symbolic about the presence of Sophia Loren at today 's draw in Rome for the 1990 World Cup . |
| 24 | There was something rather nasty about the robe of woven-together eyes . |
| 25 | If the answer to these questions is ‘ yes ’ , then we are back to something rather similar to Durkheim 's adaptive function : today 's criminals are in fact helping to usher in the better society of tomorrow . |
| 26 | There was something rather eerie about people turning up unexpectedly around the door and starting to sing . |
| 27 | So there 'd be something rather odd about people voting out of moral motivation for a utilitarian because they would be voting their estimate of where the general happiness lies , rather than putting their input into the sum from which someone else can calculate where the general happiness lies . |
| 28 | In medieval times the word ‘ road ’ denoted something rather different to the meaning we give it today . |
| 29 | Weiss was Ritschl 's son-in-law , and had set out to investigate the theme of the kingdom of God in the synoptic gospels with a suspicion that it amounted to something rather different from what Ritschl had made of it . |
| 30 | The features of sign language interpreting so far described , and the possible registers available , suggest something rather different from the linguistic models of Seleskovitch ( 1978 ) and others . |