Example sentences of "[pron] else to " in BNC.

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31 Ever-improving standards of production and design ( hear Arnold Bennett in 1921 complaining that ‘ operatic mismanagers are obsessed with the music and they leave everything else to people who are either dead and have forgotten to get themselves buried or who do n't know the elements of their job ’ ) .
32 ‘ If we thought it had something genuinely good about it , yes , but a lot of stuff is catchy and commercial because it sounds enough like everything else to be unchallenging and throwaway .
33 You know you 've got the electric fire , you 've got the telly and everything else to it .
34 But I 'll I 'll have to find out from them , it may be that they do n't want me to send anybody else to it because I made the initial contact with them .
35 And he expects everybody else to be like that too .
36 Well I think it 's er , you know , farmers are reacting like everybody else to this .
37 The next day the Prince was leading a small group of businessmen he had brought over from Britain , including Stephen O'Brien , to look at a scheme called the Boston Compact , evidence that the United States had woken up sooner than anyone else to the dilemma of falling educational standards .
38 With his entrepreneurial skills , and his international connections , he seemed for a time the man most likely to lead the British film industry away from its artisanal base , but he turned out to be no more responsive than anyone else to developments that were going to make things very difficult for the pioneers .
39 There is no substance in the assumption that because people are mentally handicapped they are less likely than anyone else to be happy .
40 But I wanted to do it , because I did n't want anyone else to be speaking my ideas when it was such a personal statement .
41 I think at this point it would be a good idea to tell you what my own personal beliefs are — and please remember that I am not attempting to convert anyone else to them .
42 The school is the type that has not adapted itself to alternative , non-academic needs and which , in general , is not sensitive to the fact that pupils are people with as much right as anyone else to be respected .
43 Once again he thought how privileged he was as a policeman , given a special dispensation to walk into other people 's houses — whether rich or poor , criminal or victim — and ask intimate questions that would have led anyone else to be punched on the nose .
44 It is not at all unlikely that at the conquest , Mehmed II appointed someone mufti in the newly conquered city ; and since the sources seem not to mention the appointment of anyone else to the post , it may possibly be that it was made an for Hizir Bey .
45 I can not commit myself or anyone else to what may happen in future .
46 Perhaps your correspondent could enlighten us as to the best method of preventing unwanted teenage pregnancy , bearing in mind that young people will always form sexual relationships , regardless of the wishes of their parents or anyone else to the contrary .
47 There was nothing else to be done .
48 With the Captain in his present mood , there was nothing else to be done .
49 Then , there was nothing else to be done except get back to work in the cutting room at Paramount where he was working around the clock on The Two Jakes , for which the world of movie entertainment was waiting with bated breath ; because even though all of the above makes fascinating reading for everyone intrigued by Hollywood 's pop royalty , especially one so colourful and mercurial as Nicholson , it is the mere trivia , the overcoat of gloss and glitz , that hides the real Jack Nicholson …
50 They will be so contaminated with the virus that there is nothing else to be done .
51 He was ever anxious about the weather and , when he could think of nothing else to be anxious about , he became worried that he must have forgotten something important that should have been causing him worry .
52 After some discussion , they felt that there was nothing else to be found on this site until the next ploughing and they would give it a miss until then .
53 " There was nothing else to be learned from Mrs. Bidwell .
54 I am sorry , but there 's nothing else to be done .
55 There seemed nothing else to be said , and Melissa went out of the room and upstairs to the secretary 's office , where , in response to her request to use the phone , Marie-Claire grudgingly pushed the instrument across her desk .
56 The remainder , very carelessly and messily written , was supplied by an unidentified copyist , who contributed nothing else to the score ; and it lacks trumpet parts , though he left staves for them .
57 No I 've got nothing else to be doing at this moment .
58 Nothing else to it .
59 Val did a brilliant job getting everyone else to Le Bourget using public transport ; I went on the bike with no map and only a vague idea where Le Bourget was , and every Frenchman I asked just waved me straight on ( lies ! ) , but I got there somehow and we had a very enjoyable , if unscheduled , visit .
60 The first one came after 27 minutes , when Neil Matthews beat everyone else to the ball .
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