Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He was n't sure whether this was something to be welcomed or resisted . |
| 3 | In describing a proposed combined heat and power scheme , Auslan Cramb claims in a report today that carbon dioxide emissions contribute to the greenhouse effect ( as if this was something to be avoided ) . |
| 4 | This was nothing to what came ten years later , no more than a mini-boom , but prices began to rise and estate agents to rub their hands and gird their loins and look about them . |
| 5 | Here , indeed , this freak of fortune was felt to be all the more cruel on account of the impossibility of resenting it openly ; but this was nothing to the delighted grandfather . |
| 6 | But in one instance , he makes the text longer : this is where he replaces " this was nothing to the delighted grandfather " by " the delighted grandfather cared nothing for what the John Pontifexes might feel or might not feel " . |
| 7 | This was nothing to what happened after the second turn as the French-Romanian feud continued . |
| 8 | During the first six months of its existence it recorded 156 combats and seventeen confirmed victories ; most of these at Verdun , where it fought intermittently from May to Though still only partially fledged , the Lafayette 's direct contribution to the Battle of Verdun had been significant ; but this was nothing to what , indirectly , its presence there did for the French cause . |
| 9 | I was after all surviving — and that was nothing to be sneezed at , the way things had gone . |
| 10 | Her feet and hands were so cold they did n't seem to belong to her , but that was nothing to the coldness inside . |
| 11 | But that was nothing to the agony of never seeing him again , her heart replied despairingly . |
| 12 | That was nothing to my thoughts two minutes later when I joined the back of a long queue for a bus that already had people standing ! |
| 13 | That was nothing to me . |
| 14 | That was something to be thankful for . |
| 15 | That was something to be thankful for . |
| 16 | And that was something to er an experience to cherish ! |