Example sentences of "[indef pn] to the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This mixture of fish gets on fine in my tank , except when a week after buying them , the Rainbows spawned which caused chaos as they pushed everything to the other end of the tank . |
| 2 | Bring everything to the small salon as soon as you have it ready . |
| 3 | These workers regarded themselves as temporarily relieving their parents of the burden of supporting them and perhaps contributing something to the overall family budget . |
| 4 | Its formation may have owed something to the traditional structure of the peasant commune ; its unity and authority were enhanced by the absence of firmly entrenched separate trade unions ; and its electoral procedure was drawn directly from the experience of the Shidlovsky Commission . |
| 5 | Much as he mistrusted almost every Irishman with whom he came in contact on the Continent ( Bishop Clement for his disrespect of patristic authority , the priest Sampson for his cavalier attitude to the baptismal rite , Virgil of Salzburg for sowing dissension between himself and the duke of Bavaria as well as for believing that the world was round ) , Boniface 's establishing of monasteries as the learned back-up to missionary work and his devotion to the papacy and to Rome both owed something to the Irish background in England . |
| 6 | I mean we used to do the annual report because the R C E had to provide something to the General Manager |
| 7 | Each of these three processes has contributed something to the changing broadcasting scene . |
| 8 | The Guild consists of around 140 writers and winning projects have to be environmentally sound as well as contributing something to the local economy . |
| 9 | I must not forget to say something to the whole school about her . ’ |
| 10 | He developed a distinctive style which owed something to the German illustrator Wilhelm Busch . |
| 11 | We saw a lot of the Bakers , and did day trips ; one to the historic railway at Weka Pass ; another to Mt.Herbert , the highest point on Banks Peninsula ( wonderful views over Lyttleton Harbour ) and Pigeon Bay ; and several visits to local beaches at Sumner and Taylor 's Mistake ( a bay named after a captain who thought it was the entrance to Lyttleton Harbour ) . |
| 12 | Leys refers to them both , but only applies one to the Kenyan situation , that of the creation of state posts to absorb the unemployed surplus population formed by changing relations of production . |
| 13 | Second , again the suspicion must creep back that the exclusive concentration on the individual blinds one to the real business of government , which is to co-ordinate and control large populations . |
| 14 | The opposite one to the right angle . |
| 15 | We found two underground passages , one to the sea and one to the landward side . |
| 16 | The Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) won two Lok Sabha seats ; one went to the Bahujan Samaj Party ( BSP ) and one to the Forward Bloc ; one result was countermanded . |
| 17 | He would place two cigarettes in his mouth , light them both , then hand one to the sex-starved spinster , sometimes even going to the length of installing it between her lips . |
| 18 | The absence of reverence for wine is what endears one to the Italian approach . |
| 19 | Tell that one to the White Rabbit . |
| 20 | Divide the party players into pairs of roughly equal sizes and tie the right leg of one to the left leg of the other . |
| 21 | A typical pattern is described by a former minister of transport and subsequent chairman of BR : ‘ Over and over again we could have settled much more cheaply by settling more quickly but , at each stage , we were told that we must not settle quickly because the Government really were going to fight this one to the bitter end … |
| 22 | One led to the drawing-room , one to the Chinese room , which was directly under her bedroom . |
| 23 | The letter was a little like the earlier one to the anorexic organisation , asking : Do you think ? and Can you tell me … |
| 24 | Adeane had strongly advised against the controversial speeches of the past year , especially the one to the architectural profession . |
| 25 | Our tiny underground Church was too small , so we invited everyone to the main hall of Munster Road School . |
| 26 | This is true but Hong Kong form means nothing to the average punter . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 " . |
| 29 | I listened to one choral song from Southwark Cathedral , prayers were said for a family whose names would mean nothing to the vast majority of listeners . |
| 30 | As long as people want to buy cakes which suggest that an old lady wearing a mob-cap is baking them in a Victorian farmhouse , the food firms will continue with dotty deceptions which add nothing to the nutritional value of our food . |