Example sentences of "have [art] [adj] ring to " 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 | The notion that there is nothing more to the idea of parliamentary sovereignty than that Parliament is more powerful than the Crown has a strange ring to today 's ears . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Stotting ’ has a certain ring to it for the waterfall-collection game . |
| 8 | This has a certain ring to it , but apparently it is not entirely accurate . |
| 9 | HE talks of jobs , of companies committing millions of dollars to the rebuilding scheme — which is has an impressive ring to it . |
| 10 | This definition would make central to pragmatics a notion of appropriateness or felicity : ( 14 ) Pragmatics is the study of the ability of language users to pair sentences with the contexts in which they would be appropriate Such a definition should have a nice ring to it , from the point of view of those who wish to place pragmatics on a par with other aspects of linguistic inquiry . |
| 11 | In Nigeria , so I had heard , people gave their houses numbers for aesthetic reasons , because a certain number might have a distinguished ring to it . |
| 12 | The doctrine of caveat emptor , with the adoption of the Latin tag , does have an authentic ring to it although it is alien to the spirit of the civil law . |
| 13 | It 's a very costly business , you know , but it must ring true because of course the actuality 's on our televisions screens every other night and if it does n't have an authentic ring to it then people wo n't accept what the picture has to say . |
| 14 | This , thought Robert , had the right ring to it . |
| 15 | De Gaulle 's priorities on becoming the Fourth Republic 's last prime minister had a familiar ring to anybody who remembered his actions in the 1940s . |
| 16 | De Raimes laughed , but the sound had a nasty ring to it . |
| 17 | The workhouse — institutional rather than ‘ outdoor ’ relief — was one way of controlling the help given to paupers ; but demands that such institutions should pay for themselves had a hollow ring to it — many of the inmates were there because their skills were not needed in declining industries , so they could hardly be set to work profitably once they were taken within its walls . |
| 18 | The articles I read in Zhongguo Qingnian about the brightest graduates turning down good jobs to volunteer for rural middle schools had a hollow ring to them . |
| 19 | The thought had a hollow ring to it . |
| 20 | Such bookbindery had a Biblical ring to it , particularly with all those oases and goats of many colours , and recalled the building of Solomon 's temple . |
| 21 | Most of us , myself included , thought that this was completely pointless as the old name had a better ring to it and most people still referred to our boats as Revenue Cutters in preference . |
| 22 | Critical acclaim also had a pleasant ring to it , with phrases extolling his virtues such as ‘ one of the few gifted movie actors we have ’ and ‘ a superb performance ’ . |
| 23 | Blackpool Moody had a certain ring to it . |
| 24 | — ‘ Non , ’ Alyssia said , mastering the French word and deciding that it had a certain ring to it when used in conversation with this particular woman . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , the dispatch of a Foreign Office minister , Ted Rowlands , to Port Stanley to try to persuade the Falklanders of the merits of starting up diplomatic negotiations with the Argentine government , which claimed the islands as their sovereign ‘ Malvinas ’ , had an ominous ring to it . |
| 26 | Her voice sounded different : it had an unfamiliar ring to it . |
| 27 | In the light of such reflections of opinion , stereotype reports that people ‘ with insight ’ were saying the Führer could not be aware of the extent of the damage , otherwise more extensive rescue operations would have been deployed , or that people were looking ‘ full of trust ’ to the Führer and expressing the wish that he should stir them up and strengthen their faith , have a hollow ring to them . |
| 28 | Indeed , the problems he cites — the commercialism of the press , the effect of advertising , the trend to sensationalism , concentration of ownership , and the reduction of political coverage — have a contemporary ring to them . |
| 29 | And does n't the Bradford , Bingley & Dagenham have a convincing ring to it ? |
| 30 | Words uttered in haste often have a prophetic ring to them ; within a month Benjamin and I would be fighting for our lives on icy waters in Somerset . ) |