Example sentences of "[verb] some [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The governors of the Mines Royal decided to send up one Captain Thomas Whitmore to investigate , and if possible , educe some means of reviving them … but there is no evidence of any real improvement . |
| 2 | Yeah , cos I 've heard some people stand up , pronounce that |
| 3 | Well , the you 've heard , I 've heard some people being nasty and , and they did n't say no , but it was always , not always it was occasionally done grudgingly , and , and erm in many cases of course it was done willingly , you know come in yes please do , and , and they did n't even want the penny that , that you offered them for the telephone call . |
| 4 | Why do you think some people opposed the building of oil refineries near Milford Haven ? |
| 5 | Horse riding is a significant part of the economy , generating some £350 million a year in business for ancillary trades . |
| 6 | She looked at Tommaso Talvi in her mind 's eye , she adjusted her image of him to fit with her sister 's , she inventoried his features , beginning with the eyes , and redrafted them in order to see them as ‘ pretty ’ , she scanned his caffelatte pallor and his big hands , grasping the bread she had cut for him , she looked at his mouth , the purplish fullness of his lips and the strong teeth that showed when he grinned , as he had done , often , but without laughter , when the men were disagreeing about the possibilities of change , the chances of the election on returning the Socialists , of bringing about improvements for the labourers now that the franchise had at last been widened to include some people who were n't bosses , like her father , a music teacher with a sense of honour , of justice . |
| 7 | However , whilst DEC 's diskless , monochrome 300L offers some 70% better integer performance than any other $5,000 box , the SunClassic remains the only workstation configured with a disk and colour screen for under $5,000 . |
| 8 | I remember going to see some works by the artist Klement Redko . |
| 9 | Tim wants you to see some people he knows who do investment advice — then you 'd get more out of those shares . |
| 10 | It may be that the policy of differing rates of support for different categories of residential and nursing homes clients encourages some specialisation. b Literature A survey of registered nursing homes in Edinburgh showed that about 70% of residents suffered mild , moderate or severe dementia , but figures varied from home to home , indicating differing practices , not necessarily related to the declared policy of the homes ( Primrose and Capewell , 1987 ) . |
| 11 | Knowledge that sample results are not unproblematic indicators encourages some staff , when confronted with marginal cases where the pollution is not particularly noticeable , to adopt a degree of tolerance : |
| 12 | The numbers of cetaceans caught in gill-nets through incidental catch need not be large to severely affect some species , nor are catches confined to developing countries . |
| 13 | Other sources of fungi which may affect some people |
| 14 | See it would n't affect some people but |
| 15 | Some people , it does n't affect some people like . |
| 16 | In class terms the peasants were identified as part of the rural petty bourgeoisie : generally speaking , not members of the proletariat because they usually owned some means of production to support themselves . |
| 17 | Egypt also stood to lose some $200 million because of the devaluation of Gulf currencies , in addition to $500 million in back pay owed by Iraq to Egyptian workers , and $150-200 million owed by the Iraqi government to Egyptian companies . |
| 18 | Research also suggests it discourages some people from re-offending . |
| 19 | Though it is expected to recover slightly thereafter it will still remain some 25% short of its peak until the end of the century . |
| 20 | All told , BT had expected to invest some $100m in the three ventures . |
| 21 | Well over 20,000 people have already been encouraged to invest some £53 million in their own training with the benefit of those loans . |
| 22 | Although Commonwealth observers reported that voting had been free and fair , Mancham said that the poll had been rigged against the Democratic Party , claiming that there had been an " abundant use of state apparatus " in the SPPF campaign and that there had been irregularities in the establishment of the electoral lists , allowing some people to vote more than once . |
| 23 | Egypt would also suffer from a reduction in its earnings from tourism , which had totalled $2,000 million the previous year , and would earn some $200 million less from Suez Canal traffic , which had fallen off following the trade sanctions against Iraq . |
| 24 | With the hot spell set to continue , doctors now fear some people may expose themselves to the risk of skin cancer.Gareth Furby reports . |
| 25 | Ulcers tend to run in families , and genetic factors may make some people more susceptible to aggressive factors than others . |
| 26 | ‘ Glandular changes can make some people gain weight at the menopause but the commonest cause is eating and drinking more than you need . ’ |
| 27 | An allocation is Pareto-efficient for a given set of consumer tastes , resources , and technology , if it is impossible to move to another allocation which would make some people better off and nobody worse off . |
| 28 | An allocation is Pareto-efficient if there is no reallocation of resources that would make some people better off without making some people worse off . |
| 29 | towards crime prevention on the other hand it might make some people realise that if they 're no longer a scheme then they do n't get the er the |
| 30 | A few years ago — before 1986 — I was at a party with a few friends and we met some people who used to be in athletics . |