Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [be] [indef pn] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He or she will be someone to whom , owing to the quite serious situation they have become involved in , events of a comic , deflationary character happen . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , there may be something to be said for the notion of denunciation . |
| 3 | Finally , there may be something to be said for a non-exhaustive list of situations in which consent will be negatived . |
| 4 | When foreign-language teachers are nowadays being encouraged to ‘ play the role of a sympathetic native speaker ’ , there must be something to be said for their actually being ‘ sympathetic native speakers ’ . |
| 5 | I was just thinking there might be something to that tale Ralf told last night , if the monks need an escort to move their flocks . ’ |
| 6 | It was the association of hot springs and helium that had made him think that there could be something to Chatterjee 's idea after all , and maybe to the claims by Fleischmann and Pons . |
| 7 | ‘ Rebuilding the cab and engine without advice or drawings would be very difficult and I 'm sure there would be something to be gained by appealing for some personal recollections . ’ |
| 8 | That entity must be based on consensus and it must be one to which the British people will willingly belong because they appreciate the advantages to which the hon. Member for Chichester has already referred . |
| 9 | ‘ When it works , it 'll be nothing to be ashamed of It 's what I 've been working towards for most of my professional life , ’ the doctor said defensively . |
| 10 | At one point he talks of the extension over time of ‘ a personality ’ rather than of ‘ a person ’ , and might have said that , even if the general knew what he did as a boy , it could be nothing to him , no part of his adult conception of himself , and so not a matter for guilt or blame . |
| 11 | The Robemaker had only to exert his will ; he had already clawed his way into the minds of the two slaves with the axes ; it would be nothing to him now to whip their minds to his will . |