Example sentences of "[vb -s] [art] [adj] ring to [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story has a familiar ring to it in the sense that women are seldom encouraged to be in top positions at work the world over . |
| 2 | If such a three-pronged assault on the ailing Soviet economy has a familiar ring to it , that is hardly surprising . |
| 3 | The problem has a modern ring to it : how do you balance the necessary provision of aid to those really in need with the risk of supporting malingerers on the parish rates ? |
| 4 | That one has a nice ring to it . |
| 5 | One may agree that the expression which Firth dismisses as nonsense has a curious ring to it but this seems to be due to the choice of lexis which results in a particularly inconsequential proposition which it is hard to imagine ever figuring in actual use . |
| 6 | ‘ Stotting ’ has a certain ring to it for the waterfall-collection game . |
| 7 | This has a certain ring to it , but apparently it is not entirely accurate . |
| 8 | HE talks of jobs , of companies committing millions of dollars to the rebuilding scheme — which is has an impressive ring to it . |