Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what was much more important was the relationship between the particular nature of this political crisis and the religious recourse which some people took . |
| 2 | The kids are presented as decent and thoughtful , and there 's an Arcadian absence of the stress and violence which some might look for in a class where the teacher swears and free-associates , and throws up and bunks off into the bargain . |
| 3 | He was wise enough in his broadcasts to refrain from one tactic , the inspiration of that chill fear which some of his political ranting achieved in the 193()s . |
| 4 | Such a format will help to diminish the feeling of isolation which some individuals or departments may feel and will provide a forum for the exchange of views and ideas . |
| 5 | Donning the coat I felt something attached to the shoulder and in my cabin mirror was reflected a very gaudy and lifelike plastic parrot which some crew member had stitched there . |
| 6 | The movement of artefacts between one place and another is often loosely called ‘ trade ’ , a term which some archaeologists object to as the mechanism by which finds move is not always clear . |
| 7 | ‘ The new awards will not determine fixed courses of study — they actually reflect the recognition which some programmes of modules have gained . |
| 8 | Consideration of that impact — more attention to issues of insight and inspiration , communication and commitment — can help to humanize considerations of strategic management while restoring to leadership study itself some of the flavour that Selznick ( 1957 ) sought ( largely in vain ) to instil 30 years ago . |
| 9 | Noting in passing how conclusively the ‘ frigifaire paten ’ rules out any notion of a translation of propertius ( unless it were a translation in the sense of a raucous travesty or ‘ put-down ’ — and indeed some academic latinists did misconceive Pound 's poem in that way ) , some early readers were understandably disconcerted by the inversions of conversational or prosaic word-order — ‘ Happy who ’ , ‘ Stands genius ’ — especially from a poet who some years before had seemed to polemicize for just that rule about word-order which he here flouted . |
| 10 | That may be because people have got so used to killings : after the murder of Lalith Athulathmudali , one of Sri Lanka 's two main opposition leaders , on April 23rd , the assassination of the president who some suspected of involvement in his rival 's killing was no great surprise . |
| 11 | The particular rules in question related to advertising and touting and became the focus for the antagonism which some established members of the profession displayed towards the new centres . |
| 12 | The cumulative effect is often a contagious euphoria which some call ‘ progressive ’ . |
| 13 | Next door , in the house on the right , someone had been watching the visitor 's arrival from the side of an upstairs window , a middle-aged woman with a startling mass of red hair piled high above a powdered face with a well rouged mouth and plucked and pencilled eyebrows , a woman dressed in a dark crimson gown , of the kind which some years before would have been described in fashionable circles as ‘ tea gowns ’ . |
| 14 | These benefits were not , of course , costless , and there were aspects of the reorganisation which some managers felt were decreasing their efficiency . |
| 15 | Your Committee has purchased an ex G.W.R. coach which some people believe to have run on the BCR in its last years before it went out of use . |
| 16 | I sometimes thought that he would enjoy being mistaken for the one rather than the other , because he disliked the idea of poetry as a ‘ profession ’ : an attitude which some lesser figures found puzzling . |
| 17 | De Gaulle 's strident language suggested a fundamentally unsympathetic attitude towards the pieds noirs — an attitude which some have traced back to the latter 's wartime Vichyism , others to the General 's aversion for Mediterranean temperaments or to his incomprehension of the pieds noirs ' " tortured double identity — half French , half Algerian " . |
| 18 | We need only recognize that history is a method with no distinct object corresponding to it to reject the equivalence between the notion of history and the notion of humanity which some have tried to foist on us with the unavowed aim of making historicity the last refuge of a transcendental humanism : as if men could regain the illusion of liberty on the plane of the ‘ we ’ merely by giving up the ‘ I 's that are too obviously wanting in consistency . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , however , its independence would be instrumental in addressing another aspect of independence which some felt the study quickly passed over — that of audit from other services provided by the same accounting firm . |
| 20 | There is frequent and interesting use of metaphor which some occasionally may find puzzling . |
| 21 | I also feel , Brian , we may be avoiding the question that or the part of this question which some of our listeners may be particularly interest in , and Bob did touch upon it , which is have things changed much in democracy in the classroom , is there a change ? |
| 22 | Within the Federal Reserve Board itself some of the governors were known to favour a less restrictive policy , while most of the 12 regional Federal Reserve Bank presidents were believed to support high rates . |
| 23 | The representation of a Light Table , a ‘ real-world ’ tool which some readers may already be familiar with , shows an imaginative use of a graphical user interface . |
| 24 | An alternative very different conclusion which some might draw from the method of isolation is that only some vast whole like that of planet earth and all life on it at large can have intrinsic value . |
| 25 | The nine-member secretariat , which had previously conducted party affairs on a day-to-day basis , was abolished , a move which some commentators assessed as increasing Kaysone 's personal control of the party . |
| 26 | Dick Lindsell sums up a notable achievement in this way : ‘ C&P having been conveived and put into motion by ICI in a move which some saw as defensive , I believe that we are now increasingly demonstrating that we are as attractive as other ICI businesses . |
| 27 | There is also an Englishness about the place which some guests — including the Americans — find particularly appealing . |
| 28 | The Council " notes the particular importance which some member states attach to the adoption of arrangements taking account of the special competence of regional or local institutions as regards certain Community policies [ and ] the need to consider suitable procedures for the consultation of such institutions " . |
| 29 | The spirit of laissez-faire which some see as the root of Victorian values was giving way to legislative control in fields such as pollution . |
| 30 | However , the dismal picture which some computer scientists have painted of hackerhood , it should be noted , applies only to extreme cases . |