Example sentences of "some [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The position can be illustrated simply by thinking of a study that is to take place of the social workings of a youth club to test out some hypothesis about the manifest and latent functions of this association . |
| 2 | Given that we have no privileged access to the minds of others we must proceed on some hypothesis about mental events or mental states . |
| 3 | Even on a crossed telephone line , listening at random to shortwave radio messages , or casting a note in a bottle on to the waves , humans always form some hypothesis about the sender or receiver . |
| 4 | Josh only gave him some whisky for his own good . |
| 5 | She sloshed some whisky into the cup . |
| 6 | I 'm going to make you a cup of tea and we 'll put some whisky in it to make you feel better . |
| 7 | Do you want some whisky in your tea ? |
| 8 | Overall , Joan 's only uses a few Creole features : some Creole past tense forms ( did go , etc . |
| 9 | In " Area B " , one of two areas of South-East London where Hewitt worked and one which has a relatively high density of Caribbeans , even white children may learn some Creole in primary school , through peer contact ( 1986 : 150 ) . |
| 10 | The occupational therapist may supply portable handrails in the early stages after the stroke , so that the patient has some support on each side while he sits on the toilet , although these should not be used to lean on when standing up or sitting down . |
| 11 | While Leapor could never have been published without some support of this kind , patronage introduced a new influence on Leapor 's writing . |
| 12 | Some support of the sectors involved in the administration of justice , for example , by serving on Advisory Committee , Compensation Boards , The Parole Board , Mental Health Act Tribunal and assisting in appointing magistrates [ voluntary ] . |
| 13 | Glaxo Group Research runs a child minding service managed by the company to give some support to mothers returning to work . |
| 14 | This informal group was started up by an NCT member in 1986 to give some support to mums who were at work , or thinking about going back . |
| 15 | The review here can not claim to have gone into any great depth , but its purpose is correspondingly modest , and that is to provide some support to this generalisation . |
| 16 | If colour is applied in a robust manner you may need some support to the canvas where it crosses the stretcher , or you could work on canvas mounted on board . |
| 17 | The evolutionary story , to the extent that it can now be understood ( and to the much more modest extent to which I understand it myself ) seems to me to give some support to the view that in this respect the historical story means very much what it seems to mean . |
| 18 | The results give some support to the advocates of comprehensive secondary schooling that the system will reduce class inequalities and lead to an improvement in overall educational achievement . |
| 19 | The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council appeared to give some support to this distinction . |
| 20 | Evidence from rhymes and occasional spellings gives some support to this , and the view taken by Wyld ( 1936 ) and followed by Kokeritz ( 1953 ) and Dobson ( 1968 ) is that there was a merger followed by a reversal and re-merger . |
| 21 | Rosenfeld 's study seems to lend some support to the functionalist view that social stratification , at least in terms of power and prestige , is inevitable in human society . |
| 22 | The historical case studies carried out by Lakatos and his followers certainly lend some support to that latter claim . |
| 23 | These views , which have undoubted attraction , give some support to the Woolwich principle but they are inconsistent with the reasoning in Slater v. Burnley Corporation , 59 L.T. 636 ; William Whiteley Ltd. v. The King , 101 L.T. 741 ; Twyford v. Manchester Corporation [ 1946 ] Ch. 236 and with that of Windeyer J. in Mason v. New South Wales , 102 C.L.R. 108 . |
| 24 | The omission of these words from the definition of theft lends some support to the argument that an act may amount to an appropriation although it is done with the consent of the owner . |
| 25 | These data do lend some support to the prevailing public opinion . |
| 26 | and she 's doing other things through work that you know , I 'm I mean it in theory it 's sort of giving some support to . |
| 27 | He therefore lends some support to that candid Italian scholar of unimpeachable erudition , Aurelio Peretti , who , in the year 1942 , tried to persuade himself ( and if possible his readers ) that no man of Indo-Germanic blood could have protested against Rome : only Jews and other Orientals scribbled Sibylline oracles against the ruling power ( La Sibilla Babilonese , 1943 ) . |
| 28 | Only in one respect is a consideration of their characteristics illuminating , in emphasizing the fact that the state is not the only means by which the cohesion of a society is assured , and so giving some support to those liberal pluralist theories which treat the state as one association among others , and not always the most important . |
| 29 | Members of the Group , and others , can provide some support to users , but it is essential that each request for assistance should be noted centrally , so that a record of problems , and actions taken in response , can be built up . |
| 30 | Work done in the USA has lent some support to the tendon splitting operation as a treatment for some tendon injuries . |