Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [indef pn] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This coexistence of change and resistance owes something to the limits set by nature . |
| 2 | ‘ I was thinking that an obviously romantic setting has something to be said for it . |
| 3 | While that child is away , the organizer chooses someone to be the murderer . |
| 4 | fully ordered preferences ( for any pair of possible outcomes , the agent prefers one to the other or ranks them equal ; and the sum of these pair-wise rankings is a consistent and complete ordering ) ; |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , but the term means nothing to me . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , the term means something to all of us . |
| 7 | ‘ Religion means nothing to me , Mr Collins . |
| 8 | There are many people around who call a spade a spade , but who do so in such a rude , offensive way , that this kind of plain-speaking becomes something to be avoided . |
| 9 | A third possibility , and perhaps the most likely explanation , is that the cat 's litter tray leaves something to be desired . |
| 10 | Legend has it that the lake was formed by the tears of a love torn nymph , and at the end of a luminous day , when the sun turns everything to delicate hues , even the sceptical are ready to admit they have seen the Trasimeno nymph — adding to the water level with a few tears more . |
| 11 | Thus , when the Law deems something to be O.K. , chances are it stops being much fun . |
| 12 | If any boy says anything to Weeks about it I will cane him . ’ |
| 13 | In the warm afternoon shade the scene says nothing to me . |
| 14 | ‘ If your marriage means nothing to you , Harvey , ’ she said , ‘ then your self-respect should . |
| 15 | Just now with the flowers it is a profusion of colour and our cemetery leaves nothing to be desired . |
| 16 | You may , for example , have a powerful defence to a vague statement that your work leaves something to be desired . |
| 17 | Quine suggests very plausibly that , even if experience shows something to be wrong with a theory , it can not point a finger at any particular hypothesis . |
| 18 | I learned that even if you pay the mortgage on your home and your husband contributes nothing to bills , you can not legally lock him out of the matrimonial home . |
| 19 | Their refusal owes something to a distaste for addiction in itself . |
| 20 | My group has nothing to be ashamed of , but , like everybody else nowadays , we suffer from a general shortage of cash . |
| 21 | The idiom means nothing to him , but he gets the idea . |
| 22 | ‘ Fame does something to people , ’ he says . |
| 23 | This declared ambition to reach a broad readership beyond the closed bastions of academia brings one to the first fissure in the book . |
| 24 | RADA offers two to three scholarships per year for UK students , Webber Douglas offers two , RSAMD offer a small number of scholarships and Guildford School of Acting offers one to an acting student , for fees only . |
| 25 | Lucker murmurs something to Jasper and leads him away closing the door on me . |
| 26 | The devil has something to be said for him : he acts on his own initiative and is n't just following orders . |
| 27 | An instruction adds one to each field of a specified index register , and jumps to a specified address unless the loop count field has reached zero . |
| 28 | An instruction adds one to the modifier field of a specified index register , and jumps to a specified address unless the two fields are equal . |
| 29 | On the other hand , when she behaves in what might be regarded as ‘ non-traditional ’ ways her failure is dismal ; such behaviour adds nothing to her character 's appeal . |
| 30 | ‘ Again the name means nothing to me . ’ |