Example sentences of "something [verb] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beauty therefore meant decoration , something applied to the surface of objects . |
| 2 | Something fluttered to the floor as she did so . |
| 3 | Something fluttered to the floor . |
| 4 | Every type of restaurant and café will have something to appeal to the health-conscious customer — though , in some places , like pubs and snack bars , you may have to look a little harder . |
| 5 | Something happening to the horses ? ’ |
| 6 | I detect something happening to the profile of the flying binbag ; at the top of its arc the shape bulges in its upper surface , a small clenched fist bursts through , punching the dark . |
| 7 | Women have long been politically active ; it is not something confined to the present wave of feminism . |
| 8 | In their bedroom something crashed to the floor , which immediately woke one of the twins who began to howl . |
| 9 | The only way to solve it is for something to be done to those four officers , something done to the Korean lady who shot the girl , something done to the Compton policeman who killed those two Samoan brothers … |
| 10 | The only way to solve it is for something to be done to those four officers , something done to the Korean lady who shot the girl , something done to the Compton policeman who killed those two Samoan brothers … |
| 11 | Something dropped to the floor , there was a rattle of paper . |
| 12 | long time to remember what 's going to happen in three months ' time , but if it 's something related to an event like Christmas or Easter or something like that , a lot of , a lot of press people are always thinking ‘ What the hell am I going to do that 's different for Christmas or Easter or so forth , ’ so if you do a signal , lay on a special event related to a , a time , in other words a sort of custom , a calendar custom-type event , they 're going to appreciate that notice because they may do some forward planning which would actually help them in that respect . |
| 13 | But it must have been something connected to the the French when the they said it was French polishing . |
| 14 | In the case of words which combine a fairly definite descriptive meaning with a valuational meaning it is rather a puzzle to say what correct linguistic usage bids one do , if one recognizes that something answers to the descriptive meaning , but does not have the attitude towards it which the word expresses in virtue of its ‘ value charge ’ , as one might put it . |
| 15 | It is always news when something happens to a tram ! |
| 16 | Accidents can and do happen , but if something happens to the horse , however minor , tell the owner — do n't let her find out that it has overreached or whatever , when she next looks at her horse . |
| 17 | During his time at Cuddesdon something happened to the Church of England , at the national level , which left an indelible mark upon many young ordinands of the time , and certainly upon Michael Ramsey . |
| 18 | SOMETHING happened to the old rock and mountain studies in the mid-1960s . |
| 19 | A long time ago — many thousands of years — something happened to the sun which shines on that world . |
| 20 | something that it , either it is successful in itself and it no , no longer needs to be subsidized or something that they want to see go to the wall , if they want to see something going to the wall , it |
| 21 | Something sprang to the floor and he mashed it with a large flying-boot . |
| 22 | She observed the way his foot twitched under the table with strange flicks , as though he was trying to shake off something stuck to the sole of his shoe . |
| 23 | Kelly notes that builders are constrained by the threat of lawsuits should something happen to a structure built outside normal building codes . |
| 24 | Monism , dualism , pluralism , although apparently in conflict with one another , all have something to contribute to a comprehensive view of style . |
| 25 | Despite these problems , natural law and rights-based theories undoubtedly have something to contribute to an understanding and development of law in a broader social perspective . |
| 26 | He was not clever or epigrammatic in the Union manner and only occasionally witty , but always spoke as though he had something to contribute to the debate . |
| 27 | the group you do n't have to be an expert on something to contribute to the group . |
| 28 | It 's a trivial offence , something tossed to the reviewers . |
| 29 | There is at least one similarity between the two approaches : there has to be some mechanism by which something corresponding to a complex ref-O is represented . |
| 30 | Finally , it seems also to be a taken-for-granted principle that in human affairs where there is order there is something corresponding to a rule to be looked for in the background of the actions which appear as orderly . |