Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | He added : " It is a strange world we live in where it is not all right to kill some animals because they are prettier or more intelligent than others . " |
| 2 | And when I was lucky enough to enjoy some rare hot weather my feet stayed as cool as I could have expected . |
| 3 | He is optimistic enough to see some point in directing , harnessing or tempering the largely commercial forces behind the 100-mile city , but not in ignoring them . |
| 4 | Yet the might of the Western war machinery moves swiftly to implement some UN resolutions but not others . |
| 5 | On another day , Leeds ' performance might have been good enough to claim some reward . |
| 6 | His list was none the less wide-ranging enough to include some handsome illustrated books , as well as the first regular publications of both Alfred , Lord Tennyson [ q.v . ] |
| 7 | The association would do better to invest some of that money in advertising to attract a larger audience to the annual meeting . |
| 8 | This was a chance not only to see some sport , but to make some extra money , and many a good profit made on a good deal on the Friday was lost on a poor horse on the Saturday . |
| 9 | DOWN in Nashville , its capital , the 1990s boom in American country music has gone on long enough to prompt some heady forecasts . |
| 10 | I gave him a piece , which to my horror he popped straight into his mouth , for it was surely large enough to kill some half-dozen dragoons together with their horses . |
| 11 | As the whole House has shown this afternoon , recent events in Belfast have considerably underlined the need for the political leaders within the Province to come together to find some solution to the problems that is acceptable throughout both communities and within the island of Ireland ? |
| 12 | To change the amount of data passed between sub-programs it is necessary only to modify some code in the sub-program bodies , not the sub-program specifications , and to modify the declaration of the record itself . |
| 13 | In recent years it has become the practice in leases granted for more than five years or so to contain some machinery for enabling the rent to be reviewed , either continuously or at periodic intervals . |
| 14 | Assuming that a president can overcome these difficulties sufficiently to establish some discipline within the executive branch , he must also obtain the agreement of congress to his legislative proposals . |
| 15 | Paper circulates today in vast quantities , and you need only to retrieve some of this to provide yourself with an adequate body of notes at no cost at all . |
| 16 | You will definitely take the odd blow to the mid-section so your muscles should be strong enough to absorb some impact energy . |
| 17 | The dark band below the centre is the innermost dust lane , dense enough to absorb some infrared ; the dust lane in fact glows slightly ‘ red ’ with 2.2-mm radiation from regions within it where stars are forming . |
| 18 | It is consequently difficult to describe in a brief space , and the following account attempts only to indicate some basic features of government finance between 1471 and about 1534 . |
| 19 | For the independent pusher , it can be frustrating when you wheel yourself around a likely ‘ circular ’ route , only to discover some steps have not been marked on the map so you have to turn round and come back exactly the same way . |
| 20 | And — to cap it all — there is no source of drinking water on the island — unless you are clever enough to find some way of catching and storing rain when it falls , which it does almost every day . |
| 21 | We climbed far enough to find some specimens of the Mount Cook lily ( which is n't a lily at all , but a giant buttercup found only at altitude in this part of the South Island ) , and while the others rested I went across to investigate a steep track up a snow-filled gully . |
| 22 | The lease from 1580 worked well enough to provide some regular rent for the society , even after Daniel 's death just before 14 May 1581 , when he was buried in Crosthwaite church . |
| 23 | This is because Culpitt endeavours not only to provide some useful insights into such thorny issues as welfare rights and obligations as well as the concept of need ( which should be read in conjunction with Doyal and Gough 's ( 1991 ) recent analysis ) but also to chart the way in which the management of welfare has been transformed as a result of the drift towards privatization and the emerging emphasis on the purchase rather than the provision of welfare in the public sphere . |
| 24 | Before I came to prison I thought I was introspective but ten minutes here and there is not enough to answer some of these questions |
| 25 | Although exercise will be working properly only if it is vigorous enough to cause some sweating and panting , you can check what it is doing to your heart , if you fear overstraining , by monitoring the pulse rate . |
| 26 | It may be lucky enough to win some seats without reaching the quota . |
| 27 | But when he spoke again it was only to express some anxiety about the conduct of the services while he was away . |
| 28 | Enough to buy some time . ’ |
| 29 | When the school opened in 1989 , the government provided ‘ just enough to buy some blackboards ’ , says the headmistress , Li Xuelan . |
| 30 | By now , anyone ill-informed enough to imagine some elderly Miss Whiplash will have been put right . |