Example sentences of "[is] something to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rigidity of approach is something to be avoided at all costs — there is no point in being able to do a ‘ party piece ’ one way and be unable to take in new direction on the same material . |
| 2 | While different kinds of discrimination are not to be conflated , I believe there is something to be learned from homophobia about other kinds . |
| 3 | THERE is something to be said for a government creating horrible problems for itself . |
| 4 | At least that is something to be thankful for , something I shall not have to explain a tenth or fifteenth or hundredth time , one worry off my mind . |
| 5 | My mother taught me that the female body is something to be ashamed of . |
| 6 | Mere showmanship is not in Vengerov 's musical vocabulary , and in a piece like the Saint-Saens Havanaise the seductive tone quality , with all its shifts of colouring , is something to be relished . |
| 7 | ‘ It is something to be cherished and nurtured , adapted and improved , but in our country it is in mortal danger . ’ |
| 8 | There is something to be said for such a view . |
| 9 | But to engineers — particularly mechanical engineers — patent law is something to be aware of . |
| 10 | It is something to be proud of , ’ she said . |
| 11 | A right is something to which you are entitled . |
| 12 | On display is something to interest everyone , from the wartime Meteor to the supersonic Lightning , including such classics as the Vulcan , Canberra , Hunter and Starfighter . |
| 13 | As marriage partners view themselves with regard to the prospect of being loved there is something to be said for considering the phileo model . |
| 14 | It is , first of all , the only view according to the internal constitutional laws of the Dominions affected , and there is something to be said for avoiding conflicts of constitutional laws . |
| 15 | There are three basic misconceptions which are especially common : first , that doubt is wrong because it is the same thing as unbelief ; second , that doubt is a problem which troubles faith but not knowledge ; and third , that doubt is something to be ashamed of because it is dishonest to believe if you have doubts . |
| 16 | In this chapter we will examine a third misconception about doubt — the idea that doubt is something to be ashamed of because it is dishonest to believe if you have doubts . |
| 17 | It may , according to circumstances and the personalities involved , be best to fix a regular mutually agreeable day for visiting , so that it is something to be looked forward to and prepared for . |
| 18 | The Mid Shift button offers quite a marked change in tonality , and is something to be left to the taste of the individual and his/her guitar type . |
| 19 | However , there is something to be said for being kept waiting by a buyer . |
| 20 | The children are your constant care , and their education is something to you . |
| 21 | What I am trying to say is that the anorexic has sufficient sense of identity to know that identity is something to be fought for — by whatever means . |
| 22 | This is something to be aware of : say you 'd like it loud if you would , otherwise as a mistaken token of respect you 'll hardly hear it . |
| 23 | The conclusion to which we can come is that cannibalism is rare but that , in extremis , it is something to which the human species will resort . |
| 24 | He was already renowned for his view that ‘ democracy is something to be struggled for , not conferred from above ’ , and as Kelly points out , this doctrine was voiced during the September protests . |
| 25 | Maybe liberal reformism is something to be contemplated today , even by those waiting patiently for the revolution tomorrow . |
| 26 | That someone is unsteady on his feet , off-balance , swaying bout , is something to be seen , or , if we are holding him , felt . |
| 27 | This is something to which 70 per cent of the Carter camp will likewise admit , at a push . |
| 28 | Mama says that honest work , no matter how lowly , is something to be proud of . ’ |
| 29 | Eighteenth-century politics have long had an unsavoury reputation , and although in the case of Scotland much of that reputation can be traced to the persuasive , but not strictly accurate , writings of Henry Cockburn and other Whig reformers of the early nineteenth century , it must be conceded at the outset that there is something to be said for the received account . |
| 30 | Equally the way in which economic activity has increasingly come to be organized within the company rather than through the market is something to be celebrated instead of feared . |