Example sentences of "be something [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed DNA molecules , whose capacity for storing information has already impressed us , are something close to crystals themselves . |
| 2 | But there always seemed to be something else to be done about the farm . |
| 3 | This is something just to absolutely specific about it , which will actually arise out of the work done by the district councils in their local plans . |
| 4 | I think this is policing on the cheap , and it is something profoundly to be regretted . |
| 5 | It is my experience that whenever I try to combine shooting and ferreting I wait a long time for the chance of a shot , then there is something else to be done . |
| 6 | Could you know anything without first presupposing that you are there to know it and that there is something there to be known ? |
| 7 | ‘ That 's something yet to be proven . ’ |
| 8 | I think that that 's something close to what you 're saying . |
| 9 | Besides , being so late in the season he did not anticipate any difficulty ; although there was something else to which he had not given any thought . |
| 10 | He remembered her at moments such as these and felt a twinge of guilt — not a searing kick in the gut — which , he supposed , was something else to be thankful for . |
| 11 | Indeed it can be argued that the churches in such places were heir to a ‘ purer ’ tradition than Rome 's , because it was not diluted and distorted by Pauline thought ; it was something closer to what Jesus himself , James and the original Nazarean hierarchy would have propagated . |