Example sentences of "[verb] of some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm we will pay bed breakfast and evening meal up to thirty pound a night and I have to say the trainers will always know of some good deals . |
| 2 | Hypertext is becoming of some significance as an underlying structure in multimedia design and it is important , therefore , that we describe it , if only briefly , before we conclude our survey of the technological environment from which multimedia is emerging . |
| 3 | His mam was dying of some rare disease which no doctor could cure and always , but always , proved fatal . |
| 4 | She did not look as if she might be dying of some dreadful disease . |
| 5 | Looking at all the brightest and best on display in Birmingham , I was reminded of some comments made in the early '80s by the late Gordon Brown , then head of design for GM 's European passenger cars . |
| 6 | One was reminded of some hapless Victorian consumptive , fading away and unable to do anything about it . |
| 7 | The advantage for the butterfly is that if a bird seizes it by the wings , and is reminded of some earlier unpleasant experience with the species and its toxin , it will release the insect unharmed : a bluejay that has never seen a monarch butterfly will readily catch and eat it ; but within 15–30 minutes the toxins in the butterfly 's body cause the bird to vomit , and one such encounter is sufficient to make a bluejay avoid monarchs thereafter . |
| 8 | He hugged her tightly , unburdened of some inner horror , suddenly carefree . |
| 9 | Jones had tried to cover his tracks by disposing of some of the apparatus on a rubbish tip . |
| 10 | For Marx , a commodity is : an object outside us , a thing that by its properties satisfies human wants of some sort or another . |
| 11 | Such an unwieldy force consisting of some 200 men was to travel to the target area in 40 jeeps accompanied by another 40 3-ton lorries carrying supplies . |
| 12 | Finds that the hospital estate is a ‘ vast resource ’ consisting of some 2,000 buildings and over 50,000 acres of land . |
| 13 | It is currently considered that a House consisting of some 650 members is appropriate ; the figure has been between 600 and 650 for many decades although there is nothing magic about this particular size . |
| 14 | They have little in common beyond having a membership consisting of some of the states of Europe ( different in each case ) and will be considered separately . |
| 15 | Naturally enough , for vigorous growth , a medium consisting of some clay or mud is needed . |
| 16 | The simplest examples in the passages are the pattern in ( 11 ) - ( 13 ) which consists of the + NJ , the N , the NJ , the N the N and the pattern in ( 10 ) consisting of some in N , some in N ; in both of these the noun ( N ) is the only variable element . |
| 17 | As I suggested in the previous chapter , the creation of the European Economic Area and the looming enlargement of the Community make possible the development of an EEC consisting of some twenty to twenty-five freely cooperating nations . |
| 18 | A considerable amount of power was also vested in the Bose Levu Vakaturaga ( Great Council of Chiefs ) , a traditional structure consisting of some 100 Melanesian leaders . |
| 19 | And although the names given of some of the boys arrested for these offences — David Stones and Arthur Gobbing , for example — suggest the possibility of a hoax , police reports repeatedly referred to ‘ this dangerous practice ’ and that ‘ the danger to the public seems sufficiently marked to warrant some special steps ’ . |
| 20 | The busker who plays Chariots Of Fire on a Casio organ at Bank would leave it in a trice if only he could think of some other way of turning a penny . |
| 21 | We must think of some way to save him . |
| 22 | ‘ You 're a very brave girl ’ said Sir Benson , ‘ and I must think of some way of rewarding you for what you 've done . ’ |
| 23 | I 'm going to look after you — it 's time someone did — and we 'll think of some ways and means . |
| 24 | But the list might give some idea of the maximum proportions of people who might think of some other form of credit as a potential alternative , when actually offered any particular type of credit . |
| 25 | Some day we will be married ; I am certain of it , but it is a long time to wait till I am of age and we must think of some other way before then . |
| 26 | For the moment the sepoys , perplexed by his behaviour , were keeping well out of his way until they could think of some way of dealing with him . |
| 27 | Boys , can you think of some words to describe it ? |
| 28 | but if you can think of some way to say that and put it down so that we put down something like four sentences on paper and a few examples . |
| 29 | I 'll think of some way to ask Aunt Sarah or Uncle Nick what to do , without telling them the crazy part . |
| 30 | For next time if you like you can think of some tion words and and write them down . |