Example sentences of "there was [adj] [noun] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only thing that really happened was that my mum got a divorce in 1972 on the grounds that he had sexually assaulted me and there was mental cruelty to her . |
| 2 | I had to stay in camp next day as there was strong opposition to my going out shooting . |
| 3 | Yet if there was one principle to which classical ( and even post-classical ) law had held fast , it was that trusts were actionable only in personam . |
| 4 | Though there was one side to him that was irritatingly consistent . |
| 5 | Apparently , I mean I 've read this , but I do n't know how there was actual references to it as well but apparently what they used to do run a test they used to do was they used to get people very very angry take some blood from them , put put them inside of rats and it would kill the rats . |
| 6 | At the time , however , in France it was practically unthinkable and one may surmise that while France itself might have recovered from the débâcle of 1940 there was added point to her recovery of Vietnam after the humiliation and tragedy of March 1945 . |
| 7 | There was damp quality to it , an odd stickiness . |
| 8 | There was some reference to it as being their country . |
| 9 | Their eyes light up as they tell y' , because there was some meanin' to it . |
| 10 | for fear that he would start a separatist movement in the south — there was some point to his suggestions that Bao Dai should be better advertised ; that he should have an American adviser and that American technicians should give the Vietnamese government a ‘ new look ’ . |
| 11 | Benny reached out to turn the body , hoping to see if there was any clue to what had killed him . |
| 12 | ‘ And that 's why I was pleased when the Whitesnake opportunity came along in ‘ 77 , because there was more feel to their music then . |
| 13 | I never found out which area they covered , nor whether they returned home at night , nor whether there was another side to their work . |
| 14 | ‘ There was another side to him which I did n't see at first . |
| 15 | Maybe , as Gloria had hinted , there was another side to his nature , carefully hidden from the outside world , a side that was capable of strong passion and sudden violence . |