Example sentences of "something [adv] [adj] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In medieval times the word ‘ road ’ denoted something rather different to the meaning we give it today . |
| 2 | PROGRAMMES on development frequently suffer from overkill , being too long and too much for the well-intentioned , but reluctant to slay with the subject and not turn to something less troubling to the conscience . |
| 3 | Also there was no other way to express her sense of something having arrived from somewhere else , something normally invisible to the eye choosing to put on a human form . |
| 4 | Similarly , down in the Undercroft , the ladies form the Cathedral brought something extra special to the hospitality , as they always do . |
| 5 | In these circumstances , it might well have modified its present adaptation to ground dwelling and nesting to something more appropriate to the more complex tundra environments that then existed . |
| 6 | Colleague contracts , such as most friendships , involve an exchange of similar kinds of things whereas , in the patron-client relationship , the different status is reflected in the fact that the patron offers something quite different to the relationship from the contribution of the client . |
| 7 | Robertson says : ‘ They know they 've issued something completely contrary to the actual situation , yet they 're not going to issue a correction . |
| 8 | procedures which are , do n't quite fit you , then I think what we ought to be looking for is a certain amount of common ground between your procedure and our procedure , so there is not something , you 're doing something completely different to the way the rest of us are doing it . |
| 9 | HUNCHED over something very similar to the control deck on Starship Enterprise , Sam Coombes slid up the tape-monitor levers and pressed a series of buttons marked ‘ Remix ’ . |
| 10 | It 's a fair bet you would end up with something very close to the 348 . |
| 11 | Josie looked into her eyes , and saw that this was something very close to the truth . |