Example sentences of "[det] [prep] some " in BNC.

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1 Except on North America voyages , and despite falling unemployment and rising real wages in the country as a whole , seamen 's wages rose little for some years .
2 It is possible to imagine that for some people such consolation might make it easier to reconcile the two , and to wonder what it was that made the difference in Fraser 's case .
3 After that for some months I was unemployed .
4 It could also be that for some of you 1988 has also seen some trouble , a bereavement perhaps , that has shaken you to the foundations .
5 It must be recognised , however , that for some people , touching would be an unacceptable invasion of personal privacy ( Turton , 1989 ) , and skill is required to detect this reservation , especially when the person has reduced personal independence .
6 It was saddled and bridled which meant , so Allen reasoned , that either its rider had been thrown in the darkness of the Waste and the horse had bolted , or that for some unknown reason the verderers had been content to abandon the harness with the horse .
7 Thinking back on it , I should have used the amp like that for some of the other songs too , because it really worked …
8 It would seem that for some of the pop contingent evolution never happened .
9 At this point it is sufficient to mention that it is accepted that there were differences between the real and reported rates , but that for some crimes over certain periods of time the difference was fairly constant .
10 Of claims that the relationship was one of passionate intimacy , the brigadier said : ‘ They have been suggesting that for some time .
11 ‘ The consequence has been that for some time , by mutual agreement , we have led more separate lives . ’
12 ‘ The public has known that for some time . ’
13 It may indeed be that for some teachers there really is no possibility of working with real integrity , and consequently no possibility of deriving any deep satisfaction from what they do .
14 Yet it was also to emerge that for some antislavery controversialists ‘ impolicy ’ itself arose from abrogating the natural order in the form of the laws of liberal political economy ; consistency and principle together would bring greater prosperity .
15 Lack of dynamic testing can mean that for some independent software vendors less than 20% of their application code is relevant , which can lead to any number of unforeseen problems when the application is run under different environments .
16 Butler insists that a particular passion , like that for some particular food , say an apple pie , is not directed at self at all , but at some external object , such as the pie .
17 Lack of dynamic testing can mean that for some independent software vendors less than 20% of their application code is relevant , which can lead to any number of unforeseen problems when the application is run under different environments .
18 SCO 's development partner DEC will have to soldier on alone , if it has not been doing just that for some time ( UX No 364 ) , if it intends to put OSF/1-for-ACE on its MIPS R4000 machines .
19 Well , maybe it 's like that for some people , but not me .
20 I 've seen that for some time .
21 He was silent after that for some time , and eventually she asked what he was thinking .
22 Well I work as a psychotherapist and it seems to me that for some people change is impossible and when that is the case then its my job to help them to come to terms with who they are and what they are and how there going to remain , but the other side of it is helping people to change and I have to say usually its to loose weight , that 's the biggest reason people want to change .
23 ‘ And you say she said that eagles of Callanish carry a burden and that for some it is hard … ’ and her voice drifted into a distance .
24 Is it possible , ’ wondered the earl , appealing deferentially to Prior Robert 's more profound instruction in things holy , ‘ that for some beneficent purpose of her own she may have transferred herself miraculously from the place where she was laid ?
25 You suggest , in effect , that for some reason it is justifiable for boat owners who , after all , must have some financial resources to have acquired a permanent mooring in the first place , to be supported by ordinary countrywide residents , many of whom genuinely have little or no financial resources and who could not care less about a handful of sailors .
26 It could well be that for some musical purposes the above result may contain too great an element of consonance in the form of triads .
27 The bad news was that for some reason our shore watchers had missed her actual departure and could only guess that she had been gone about an hour .
28 Hereward would n't have that for some reason , so he took his little spade and started himself . ’
29 Well he did n't get much satisfaction with that for some people would n't do it .
30 There were only workhouses and like that for some of them .
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