Sentence examples for some pretensions from inspiring English sources

Described by Loudon, in the oxymoronic language of the day, as a "double-detached house", the idea was "to build two small houses which should appear as one, and have some pretensions to architectural design".

In my early 20s I attended a dinner party with some pretensions to grandeur, which kicked off with bowls of cold Happy Shopper tomato soup garnished with cucumber slices, cayenne pepper and the piece de resistance, a large green pepper of the sort all too familiar from the kebab van.

Even among fourth-century authors that had at least some pretensions to historical accuracy and who had access to the best information available, there are widely divergent presentations, simply because such contradictions were endemic to the evidence available in the fourth century.

I used to know a woman of some pretension who liked to exclaim: "The marvellous French alexandrine, with the caesura in the middle!

Sufficient time has already passed to permit interpretation of that period with some pretension to finality, and I have not modified the conclusions reached in the former work.

I expect some pretension, but receive warmth, friendliness.

Gravity necessarily imposes some pretensioning to the nondependent lung units, causing a lower resting compliance.

Unintentionally, one assumes, the solo also teased some ballet pretensions that informed Ms. Fay's rather academic "Praise to Bach" and "Vocalise".

The album has some minor pretensions: titling one CD "Rhythm" and the other "Blues" for no obvious reason besides a handful of songs with "blues" in their titles on the second disc.

The Adelaide Nursing School was especially popular among Protestants with some social pretensions, but it was also a good place as far as actual training for the profession was concerned, the Adelaide having been among the first hospitals in these islands to institute any sort of training system at all, in 1858, when a colleague of Florence Nightingale's set it up.

For years, Tate Britain even refused to put most of its great collection on the walls, out of some curatorial pretension or other.