Example sentences of "something [adj] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few minutes earlier Ruth would have welcomed the idea of everyone going off to sleep ( not that Sean showed any sign of doing so ) as an opportunity for her to indulge in her own thoughts , but the fits of uninhibited laughter had restored her to something nearer to normality , and at last she was present with her companions in mind as well as in the flesh . |
| 2 | The officers recommended federation and something similar to federation is what is on the table now . |
| 3 | Now correlation , in a similar way , measures something similar to association but it gives you a bit more detail . |
| 4 | Li ( 1976 : 484 ) suggests more natural structures for achieving something similar to topicalization in English : |
| 5 | If we were to use the word ‘ God ’ to mean something subject to change we would have ceased to use it in the Jewish-Christian-Islamic sense to refer to the mystery of Creation . |
| 6 | The distinction between this case and Stevenson 's case is that in Stevenson 's case the defendant had a regular practice of selling his ex-rental cars and also in selling those cars he was selling something akin to stock-in-trade . |
| 7 | In every way , the submarine cable was proving to be ‘ … one of the great technical adventures of the 19th century , something akin to exploration of space today ’ .9 |
| 8 | ‘ Hardly in mourning , ’ Luke asserted distastefully , his features hard with something akin to rejection . |
| 9 | Something akin to gratitude overwhelmed her . |
| 10 | Even the fact that someone inside is writing fieldnotes will produce unease , as I have experienced ; and their collation can almost certainly be tantamount to something akin to espionage ; for as Sean Conlin ( 1980 ) observed : ‘ often our work can seem ‘ political ’ rather than scientific ’ . |
| 11 | She had walked down through suburban Summertown , taking her time but without reluctance ; watching the tidiness of the shoppers and the smartness of the shops with something akin to smugness - how little energy and vitality they had , compared to her own shopping street , with its untidy market atmosphere permeating even the Safeways and Boots which had tried to raise their modern , never-had-it-so-good façades in challenge to the poverty and squalor , and had failed . |
| 12 | This is probably a function of a higher proportion of guilty pleas being put forward when the victims are younger : something akin to plea bargaining is almost certainly taking place . |
| 13 | When five o'clock came , however , and not one word had she heard from Naylor , Leith , with something akin to relief , realised that she had been mistaken . |
| 14 | Something akin to pain seared through her . |
| 15 | This smacks of something akin to censorship , as one impeccably non-racist European festival director sadly pointed out to me . |
| 16 | Thus , under general principles if , for instance , A , B and C — trustees of an interest in possession trust — receive £100 rent which they must pay to Z beneficiary — the life tenant — ( after the deduction of their expenses ) the trustees can be assessed to income tax at the basic rate on the monies they received under Schedule A. The other fundamental case where trusteeship was reduced to something akin to agency is Archer-Shee v Baker ( 1927 ) 11 TC 749 . |
| 17 | Finlayson searched around for something simple to blood Tribe on . |
| 18 | Something apt to garden , |
| 19 | After all there must be something more to life than sleeping in a garden shed and having no money and nobody who cared twopence whether you were alive or dead ( not after the competition , anyway — Nutty at least needed him till then ) but what it was Nails could not fathom . |
| 20 | The deep friendship between my father and Modigliani derived from the fact that both believed life to have a meaning and that the artist 's duty was to say something essential to mankind . |
| 21 | So we might well expect something equivalent to negotiation , as Robert Hinde has argued . |
| 22 | With its finances balanced precariously , with Ministry restrictions on the appointment of tutor-organisers and the withdrawal of some of the university 's resident tutors , it had to rely heavily on voluntary effort — and no-one who reads the branch or Federation literature of this period can fail to be moved by the zealous commitment of ordinary WEA members , a commitment based upon the sheer love of learning and an earnest desire to offer something worthwhile to society . |
| 23 | Or you can stay and experience something new , something unknown to science . |