Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | In comparison with the BCG matrix , the McKinsey-GE matrix seems at first to be less explicit about building some ‘ problem children ’ into ‘ stars ’ and identifying ‘ cash cows ’ and ‘ dogs ’ , but the implications are present , as indicated by figure 4.3 . |
| 2 | He has had a solid connection with the orchestra and the Scottish music scene ever since , and has been responsible for bringing some unusual works to the concert platform in the past . |
| 3 | He criticised the WEA for allowing some branches to be ‘ swallowed up by the vortex of gentility ’ , failing to engage in serious study and neglecting their mission to manual workers : he wanted such branches closed . |
| 4 | In the late 1980s it has seemed that social workers and their agencies have been caught in a political crossfire between being criticized on the one hand for allowing some children to suffer unnecessarily , sometimes to the point of death , at the hands of their parent(s) or guardian(s) , and on the other hand of intervening unwarrantably into other families and removing their children inappropriately . |
| 5 | The reasons for using some form of external assistance in recruiting key people are often quite clear : the confidentiality , the know-how and the experience are all obvious factors ; why bring in a headhunter rather than use an advertising consultant is sometimes more difficult to explain . |
| 6 | So both have a reason of justice for preferring some other solution to the checkerboard one . |
| 7 | Leave a message with my secretary about where you are and I 'll see about recouping some of your losses . |
| 8 | Forging a way back to the TARDIS , Barbara , who had fallen ill through touching some DN6-impregnated seeds , is restored to full health when the ship dematerialises , the time-travellers returning to full size in the process . |
| 9 | This collaboration was not only about generating some ideas which could become possible policies , it was also designed to allow a sharing of a common challenge and to promote understanding of the fact that everyone in an LMS environment has a vital role to play . |
| 10 | ( In his reply , Karajan pointed out that as two men had died whilst conducting Tristan und Isolde , both more or less in the same place in the score , it was perhaps worth sponsoring some medical research into the subject . ) |
| 11 | I know right I 've got ta make some pastry |
| 12 | In a report today , the lawyers , including representatives of the National Council for Civil Liberties and the Haldane Society , criticise Douglas Hogg , the former Home Office minister , and the RUC for accusing some solicitors of holding IRA sympathies . |
| 13 | Nautor is famous for producing some of the highest quality fibreglass yachts in the world . |
| 14 | Jane Mitchell and Neil Pike , her talented wine-maker , have a reputation for producing some of Australia 's finest wines . |
| 15 | I was starting to think about cooking some supper when I heard music . |
| 16 | The auditors of many of the recent VFM reports of the National Audit Office ( NAO ) are to be congratulated for tackling some rather contentious issues and presenting their findings in such an informative manner . |
| 17 | But from this comes the need for the resupply or , less agreeably , for keeping some part of the underclass in continued and deferential subjection . |
| 18 | Its skull — two metres long — was well developed , with three strong pointed horns useful for defence and for stripping some of the remaining shorter fronds , resembling the cycads used in Florida as indoor pot-plants . |
| 19 | ‘ Very often in archaeology there are some extravagant claims ’ noted Harris — now there is an ‘ independent method for checking some uncertain claims ’ . |
| 20 | He had clearly learned a thing or two from his family 's entrepreneurship , and was not willing to be confined to any form of anonymity such as overtook some would-be poets . |
| 21 | Thus , the dairymen who farmed the lush meadows of the Dove Valley geared their husbandry to a different system from that followed by the sheep-and-corn farmers on the Lincolnshire Wolds , and the range of opportunities for earning a living and for gaining some measure of independence from a lord or squire was much greater for a cottager living on the edge of a moor , forest or marsh than the scope available to his counterpart in one of the nucleated , corn-growing villages of the Midland Plain . |
| 22 | The two sides agreed to hold a further meeting soon which is expected to produce firm proposals for resolving some of the Irish concerns on security . |
| 23 | Although modern America and Western Europe , as well as Russia and Eastern Europe , are different in some respects from the type of society with which Freud was familiar before and after the First World War , there is still great value in Freud 's conceptualizations for understanding some problems in these societies . |
| 24 | And no matter how minor that discovery is , there is a peculiar excitement about understanding some natural phenomenon for the first time . |
| 25 | So we 've borrowed everything erm oh you 've got ta buy some proper ski gloves . |
| 26 | ABC tracked me down after seeing some of the papers in my case and wanted to know if I could confirm what they 'd been told . |
| 27 | After firing some 80 rounds from his legally owned 7.62mm SKS Chinese semi-automatic rifle , Frankum shot himself dead . |
| 28 | He could have been right at that , when one considers the trips that hippies take after eating some types of mushroom . |
| 29 | However , Lois Maxwell , who played the ever-loyal Miss Moneypenny , says , ‘ Diana and I had lunch together and after eating some shrimps she realized how much garlic there had been in them . |
| 30 | SEXY Top Of The Pops star Claudia Simon was rushed to hospital in agony after eating some dodgy olives . |