Example sentences of "some [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1170 he had persuaded Marie , Viscountess of Bearn , to do homage to him for all her lands — and this included some estates which , theoretically speaking , were within the duchy of Aquitaine . |
| 2 | There are some secrets which isolated cells or computers can not reveal . |
| 3 | ‘ Women have to have some secrets you know , ’ said Barbara Cartland , whose date of birth has been listed in Who 's Who only since her 90th birthday . |
| 4 | The failure of the second coup attempt against General Noriega in less than two years has disappointed and enraged some Panamanians who felt the US missed a golden opportunity to use its troops to dispose of the general , indicted by the Americans on drug-smuggling charges last year . |
| 5 | ( 2 ) During an offer neither the offeror nor the board of the target company may provide information to some shareholders which is not made available to all . |
| 6 | Similarly , a rise in the market rate of interest should make unprofitable some investments which were previously profitable , so that aggregate investment should fall . |
| 7 | This balance is important , since , for example , some accounts whose critical focus is the rise of the individual , private , property-owning self , almost appear to conspire with that reification of the self which they seek to criticize in contemporary culture , by isolating and concentrating on this single factor . |
| 8 | For some calls they wear plain clothes , but mostly work is done in uniform , as it must be if neighbourhood policing is to work . |
| 9 | On the other hand , it was sometimes difficult to be certain of this , for there were some lairds who took a very unfavourable view of such officers , and there was a danger that a politician who desired to win a friend might make a mortal enemy . |
| 10 | Some herbs which are tender can be dug up and planted in containers during early-mid autumn , first cutting off their no-longer-wanted top growth . |
| 11 | This herb has tiny leaves here , and is furiously strong : I made tea from some herbs I picked , put in a generous sprig of peppermint , and spat out the result in shock . |
| 12 | ‘ Some vegetables I 'm very fond of — peas I 'm relatively neutral about . ’ |
| 13 | I think this is the problem that is going to arise with a lot of teachers responsible for art courses … who 've been quite accustomed to sending their work off to be marked by somebody else , now they 're suddenly going to be faced with mounting and displaying the work , making some judgments themselves and justifying their work . |
| 14 | I read with interest and some misgivings your Soviet Union issue ( Moscow Circus NI 190 ) . |
| 15 | With some pros you could have got the sack on the spot . |
| 16 | There are some experts whose advice you may seek , and whose fees you will not recover , but who easily justify their fee by the increase that they obtain in the damages awarded . |
| 17 | The result was an uneasy compromise , in which for some meetings there would be a chairperson , in others not . |
| 18 | After some minutes they went up to the room . |
| 19 | For some minutes it smoked its pipe and did not speak , but at last it took the pipe out of its mouth , and said , ‘ So you 've changed , have you ? |
| 20 | After the struggles had continued for some minutes it became clear to his ambushers that Putt was not about to die and they dragged him away through the trees to a spot out of sight of the track , where a small fire was burning low . |
| 21 | For some minutes she again wondered if Cara would have fared any better . |
| 22 | The powerful London Society of Compositors managed to see that women were on the whole excluded from the capital , even if some employers who had moved to the provinces did employ women . |
| 23 | Some prisoners who would not normally have received the death sentence may have fallen victim to political interference in the judicial process . |
| 24 | Must be some prisoners who 've escaped . ’ |
| 25 | The Kha-Khan wanted to see some prisoners who were taken near Pesth . |
| 26 | Under the policy of " re-insertion " introduced in the late 1980s some prisoners who renounced violence had been offered amnesties [ see pp. 36628 ; 37587 ] . |
| 27 | Test results show that some products which have been publicised as Alar-free by retailers and manufacturers were still found to contain Alar . |
| 28 | However , there are some products which are likely to be of particular interest to older people and some areas where mechanisms are needed to ensure they get a fair deal . |
| 29 | But the company believes that it has some products it can sell new , notably software for diagnosing faults in computers . |
| 30 | All groups are invited to send resolution which may or may not be actually debated but erm , we , we do n't normally send one in , but some , some groups they send them in , no , no one 's thinking |