Example sentences of "be something to the " in BNC.

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1 And this paragraph 's is something to the effect that your , here is the erm tt the estimate of our work and we 're seeking authority .
2 Yet the difficulties which some governments have experienced in recent years in delivering political promises that the size of the bureaucracy would be reduced suggest that there is something to the foundation upon which economic models of bureaucracy have been built .
3 If there IS something to the story , it begs 2 questions : —
4 If you can get it back that 's why I say do the graph if you can get it back to erm but it 's not just something to the fifth , it 's really It 's something to the tenth .
5 Then , not more than a week later , I was coming down the back corridor from the kitchen when Miss Kenton came out of her parlour and uttered a statement she had clearly been rehearsing ; this was something to the effect that although she felt most uncomfortable drawing my attention to errors made by my staff , she and I had to work as a team , and she hoped I would not feel inhibited to do similarly should I notice errors made by female staff .
6 Erm , and it was going on about it was something to the sum insurance ?
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