Example sentences of "[vb mod] be something [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a parent wants behaviour to stop there should be something to take its place . |
| 2 | If you can be confident that the person in charge is both perceptive and fair , the review meeting should be something to welcome , not to dread . |
| 3 | As you will see from Chapter 5 , investment can take many different forms and among the list of different options there should be something to suit almost everyone . |
| 4 | A wide range of other indoor and outdoor activities means that there should be something to suit all tastes . |
| 5 | Obviously there are certain key factors to any sort of reasonable living space : walls and ceiling will have to be decorated along with all the woodwork ; windows and floors have to be treated in some way ; there must be light both to see by and to enhance the space ; there should be something to sit on and probably to eat from and almost certainly somewhere to work at times . |
| 6 | My Lords , er the principle of co-option has been described as by a number of Your Lordships as an extension of principal of democracy , but I call on my experience not as er of a year as er Minister for the Police under my Noble Friend Lord Whitelaw , but my three years as Minister for the Prison Service er and er in that er service , there was erm in each prison a Board of Prison Visitors and I observed during that time that the membership of the prison population was becoming increasingly black , but that the membership of the er Boards of Prison Governors was remaining stubbornly white and I er put it , I made it then that I thought there should be something to redress this balance er the system is as it were a supervised co-option , the local er Board makes a proposal and the Minister approves or does n't , but also I had to refuse five successive of proposed co-options of white members to an all-white prison board for a prison which was predominantly black in population because it was alleged there were no suitable black people available . |
| 7 | Both men were silent for a moment then , clutching at a straw , Herr Nordern said , ‘ It must be something to do with you . |
| 8 | The driver 's eagerness must be something to do with Harry being a good customer , a hint to both turbojet fuel consumption and his enthusiastic utilisation . |
| 9 | ‘ I think it must be something to do with the pickled cabbage . |
| 10 | Of course , the noises must be something to do with the Devil 's work in the middle of the night . |
| 11 | Then there will be some days when nothing seems to resolve and so I always forget those days and do something else completely — I am sure it must be something to do with electricity in the air . ’ |
| 12 | It must be something to do with being an anthropologist , she decided . |
| 13 | It must be something to do , he decided , with her lack of a formal education . |
| 14 | Must be something to do with those intellectuals at Oxford : - ) ) ) |
| 15 | Must be something to do with the age difference . |
| 16 | They 're l lead men you know and he has er painted this and it must be something to do with these men but these drawings now , I 've never seen drawings like them |
| 17 | It must be something to do with you . |
| 18 | There must be something to individuate the thinking in question . |
| 19 | He crouched still for a time after that , for there was no haste , and now that it was time he found himself afraid ; there might be something to lose there , as well as something to find . |
| 20 | They suffered from bronchial diseases — even the children — and Jane made herself unpopular by suggesting it might be something to do with the ubiquitous air conditioning . |
| 21 | It might be something to do with the weather or with the experiences of travelling to the meeting . |
| 22 | It might be something to do with the two four foot tanks in his hallway or the huge 6′ × 2′ × 2′ Tanganyikan set-up in his lounge , housing among others , some fine Frontosas . |
| 23 | This morning , I had a horrible feeling that the news might be something to do with me . |
| 24 | This degree of self-inflicted pain , which might be something to do with his opium , clearly though is starting to challenge his conceptions about himself , and therefore about the world . |
| 25 | Oh , it might be something to do with the . |
| 26 | So , that might be something to bear in mind , that it 's not just the negative part , get rid of the excess sort of organics , but it 's to get rid of cure disease . |
| 27 | two copies so it 'll be something to do by the time we get back . |
| 28 | Oh no ; it 'll be something to hang on to . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ It 'll be something to tell them when we get back wo n't it . |
| 30 | I know it could be something to do with regime er banks of course are supervised by the Bank of England at the moment and er the financial services er regime is supervised by the S I B and it could be that is the reason why it is not explicitly stated er that the accountant has to be acting in his capacity as erm as auditor . |