Example sentences of "was something [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For bisexual Dana , it was something to be proud of , and he looked down upon my inferior condition . |
| 2 | There was something to sex , too , in those days . |
| 3 | Every half-minute or so , he peered over at the Loran navigation indicator — as if looking at it would make the numbers showing their position change more rapidly — then glanced up at the sky as if there was something to be divined in the matted darkness that could warn him of approaching doom . |
| 4 | It was something to be done . |
| 5 | It was something to be able to make this much of a gesture of loyalty . |
| 6 | Then , not more than a week later , I was coming down the back corridor from the kitchen when Miss Kenton came out of her parlour and uttered a statement she had clearly been rehearsing ; this was something to the effect that although she felt most uncomfortable drawing my attention to errors made by my staff , she and I had to work as a team , and she hoped I would not feel inhibited to do similarly should I notice errors made by female staff . |
| 7 | They thought as I thought , and cancer and one kidney was something to be talked about and shared . |
| 8 | Canon Atkinson regarded the word as indisputedly Old Danish , and the idea that ‘ horn ’ was something to be blown as another absurdity ; ‘ horn ’ meant horned stock and ‘ garth ’ meant fence , so we have ‘ horned-stock fence ’ — but for keeping animals out rather than in . |
| 9 | He was n't sure whether this was something to be welcomed or resisted . |
| 10 | Trouble was something to be nipped in the bud ; dangerous agitators people to be kept behind bars . |
| 11 | After all , there was something to be admired , something good and beautiful in every kind of weather . |
| 12 | While this ambiguity worried socialist doctrinaires , there was something to be said for leaving the question open , since nobody actually knew how capitalism would respond in practice to a determined reforming government , and meanwhile the ambiguity would tend to maximize the breadth of support for the programme . |
| 13 | Not that his age mattered to Ashi ; in Iran a tradition of arranged marriages meant that maturity in a man was something to be respected . |
| 14 | The weekly arrival of the Stornoway Gazette was something to be looked forward to , and the paper ( some of which was in Gaelic ) read from cover to cover . |
| 15 | But at least she was alive , which was something to be glad about , so she winked at Vi-in-the-mirror then turned to the window and the almost unbelievable beauty outside . |
| 16 | This meant a lot of work with the Treasury solicitor 's office ; but it did mean that the commissioner had to write the report and not us , so there was something to be said for the arrangement . |
| 17 | Considering the fears of Jacobite invasion there was something to be said for such a policy but it was not popular , especially in London , which had become the centre of support for Pitt and the war . |
| 18 | And yet there was something to it . |
| 19 | Surely the uniform of an officer cadet was something to be proud of . |
| 20 | Honour , the esteem of both peer group and others , was something to be won in war . |
| 21 | That was something to be thankful for . |
| 22 | They have agreed that there was something to be discussed . |
| 23 | He talked , it was true , with a little too much self-confidence , and she could tell that his views were not entirely original , but she did not really care , because they were interesting , and it was something to be interested . |
| 24 | An agenda was something to be got through , not discussed . |
| 25 | Otherwise it was something to be put across in demonstration-lectures to those wanting to keep up with what was going on , but not to bother with too much detail . |
| 26 | That was something to be thankful for . |
| 27 | Mark was approaching with an elderly clergyman , Father Anstruther , a former vicar , who had on his retirement bought a house just on the boundary of the parish , rather tactlessly , some thought , but as he was a celibate there was no wife to poke her nose into parish affairs which was something to be thankful for . |
| 28 | The peculiarity of the electoral system was shown again , for the Conservatives had kept the majority of votes-8.66 million against the Labour 8.36 ; and there was something to be said for the view that a drift of mainly middle-class population southward , and the absence of an up-to-date register of the already enfranchised voters , had benefited Labour in the tally of actual seats . |
| 29 | Erm , and it was going on about it was something to the sum insurance ? |
| 30 | Although , since she 'd once experienced the so-called ‘ real thing ’ — a wild , tempestuous tide of overwhelming emotion and desire , which had brought her nothing but misery and unhappiness — well , maybe there was something to be said for a warm , calm and friendly relationship … ? |