Example sentences of "something to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite its title , and for all Fraser 's grave and civil investigative demeanour , the book does not exhibit this past as something to be searched for , uncovered , so much as something which is unfindable , interminable . |
| 2 | We may be meant to think that time is simultaneous , in a way that may owe something to the simultaneity propounded , ‘ perhaps ’ , in Eliot 's Four Quartets , where ‘ History is now and England ’ ; or that it is cyclical , a turning wheel , with human depravity paling into insignificance as the wheel turns into modern times . |
| 3 | Rigidity of approach is something to be avoided at all costs — there is no point in being able to do a ‘ party piece ’ one way and be unable to take in new direction on the same material . |
| 4 | The new actor is generally operating in top gear and if this momentum is stopped it can be very damaging to the morale and can result in an actor 's technical skills going rusty — something to be avoided at all costs . |
| 5 | He put his hands out to take up the carving knife and fork and Amy Hall murmured something to her neighbour about Arthur always having wanted to be a surgeon really . |
| 6 | She disappeared , then reappeared behind the counter and whispered something to the girl who was on duty there . |
| 7 | There is always something to be learned from a knowledgeable local instructor , and a flight is far more valuable than just a site briefing . |
| 8 | That way , every time she turned her head to address one section of the audience , the rest of them would have something to be surprised about . |
| 9 | The boy held out something to Susan . |
| 10 | ‘ I mean , ’ he was saying to Caroline , 'she 'd bring something to the table and I 'd have to ask what it was . |
| 11 | Beyond this , current sensations converge with knowledge and memory and desire to make sense of the experience of the present : I not only experience this object but I recognize it — as something of a certain kind ; as yours , as mine , as something I have seen before ; and it means something to me in terms of my appetites and needs and ambitions . |
| 12 | No one would deny that enterprise and competitiveness are important ; but what we see around us today is the elevation of self-interest as something to be applauded . |
| 13 | Like-for-like sales growth at Olympus was a hefty 18 per cent and Miss Selfridge chalked up gains of 17.4 per cent which owes something to comparatively grim weather in the previous year but also shows that mortgage pressures do not bear down on customers equally . |
| 14 | IN THE EDWARDIAN world in which Patricia Cockburn grew up , writes James Pettifer ( further to the Obituary by Richard Ingrams , 9 October ) , there were rational certainties : the family bank , as an Arbuthnot ; the Empire , as a source of employment and , in the case of the grandparents , huge wealth from China ; and within the Empire , the natural world , as something to be explored , revered , loved . |
| 15 | Not for them the hollow reply , ‘ What meeting ? ’ when a call is made to check that they are bringing something to the pot luck supper at school that very evening . |
| 16 | [ Name ] is the type of fella that if there 's something to be done that might cause him paperwork , he 'll do anything to avoid it . |
| 17 | For example , a drunken woman was brought into the station one night after assaulting a policewoman and using very abusive language , something to be expected from gougers , but was allowed home uncharged after spending a night in the cells : she was even allowed to leave early enough in the morning to avoid all but the milkman from seeing her arrive home in a police vehicle . |
| 18 | He continued , ‘ That friend of yours , the Scotsman , Duncan something or other , he was called out during the night to deliver something to 45 Royal Marine Commando . |
| 19 | If someone really works hard to get something to my attention , it will be heard that much quicker . |
| 20 | While different kinds of discrimination are not to be conflated , I believe there is something to be learned from homophobia about other kinds . |
| 21 | They owed something to European social democracy , including the French experience of planning , and something to the planning experience of other parts of the developing world , notably India . |
| 22 | They owed something to European social democracy , including the French experience of planning , and something to the planning experience of other parts of the developing world , notably India . |
| 23 | Neither of these problems seems insurmountable , and it is the purpose of this book to explain the history of the developing relationship between Marxism and anthropology , in a way which the non-specialist should find accessible , as well as to contribute something to ongoing debates . |
| 24 | On the other hand , the stage represented by the gens in The Origin , a stage which owes something to Morgan and something to Engels , represents the coming together of the rhetorical and the historical . |
| 25 | On the other hand , the stage represented by the gens in The Origin , a stage which owes something to Morgan and something to Engels , represents the coming together of the rhetorical and the historical . |
| 26 | Tony , over to my right , shouted something to me , released his hook and was gone . |
| 27 | He says something to Odd-Knut who turns to Tony . |
| 28 | The easy course , in fact , in a life of ‘ self-sufficiency ’ is to drift from day to day , working hard but always responding to circumstances ; on a subsistence holding like ours , there is always somewhere to be weeded ; something to be mended or maintained . |
| 29 | I am entering the RAF and then the Navy because I believe I can contribute something to this country by so doing . |
| 30 | It is not quite the setting the founders of the game envisaged but it has something to be said for it . |