Example sentences of "it [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since history affects people 's decisions , it plays some part in producing future history . |
| 2 | In about May 1977 he formed a company called Yash Pal Kansal & Co. , which flourished until by 1983 it operated some 20 chemist shops . |
| 3 | Having pledged its support for the environment and the poor , there is mounting pressure for it to institutionalize some safeguards . |
| 4 | And the press did come down , I mean it got some coverage . |
| 5 | Sir Kenneth Newman — then commandant — suggests that the book 's claim to attention is that its contents are contributed by insiders ; while in their introduction , the authors claim it goes some way to challenging Holdaway 's claim ( 1979 ) that ‘ research from the Police Staff College has not resulted in a major project on the police ’ . |
| 6 | If this is correct , it goes some way towards dealing with cases of ‘ cumulative provocation ’ , and towards a broader defence of emotional pressure . |
| 7 | Surely a forlorn ambition , but it goes some way to explain , what would otherwise be so difficult to understand , why eminent members of the nascent |
| 8 | Most of the old great Elf towns date from this period and it goes some way towards accounting for their remoteness . |
| 9 | All this formed a background to the first century of crusading ; and it goes some way to explaining the more secular aspects of the magnetism which drew French knights to take up the cross in their thousands . |
| 10 | It probably means that the average family is a much more relaxed affair than the traditional Scottish household used to be , but it goes some way towards explaining the numbers of children at risk in our society from adults outside the home , as well as from their own undisciplined emotions . |
| 11 | Research also suggests it discourages some people from re-offending . |
| 12 | Although it might be objected that Skocpol 's analysis courts the danger of falling into another version of functionalism , since it postulates some inherent functions of the state , it has the benefit of drawing attention to processes within the state and the specific logic which guides them . |
| 13 | ‘ Thirty years ago Julian Huxley and Eliot Slater speculated that the reason why the disadvantageous schizophrenia gene was not progressively eliminated from the gene pool was that it conveyed some biological advantage such as resistance to infection . |
| 14 | It represents some 25 per cent . |
| 15 | In recent years , however , the canine colon has become a standard model for colonic motility studies and , although it displays some kinds of contractile activity not seen in man , it has been useful for investigating neuropharmacological interactions . |
| 16 | In the first place , it involves some actual power of control over the thing possessed . |
| 17 | In the second place , it involves some intention to maintain that control on the part of the possessor . |
| 18 | Does it want some new batteries in ? |
| 19 | We did it with Dangerous Lady , too , which was an amazing success for us last year [ it sold some 130,000 copies ] . |
| 20 | The library reference room was on the Fludyer Street side of the building and although it housed some to the 5,000 volumes in the manuscript library , some had to be distributed throughout the passages of the building . |
| 21 | However , it thinks some kind of contact will be forged over time and expects a port to the company 's DRS6000 Unix box to materialise in the not too distant future . |
| 22 | I 'm a sucker for coastal walking and am naturally attracted to Dorset as it offers some of the best in the country . |
| 23 | Although the valley looks an uncomfortable place to spend the night , it offers some protection from the wind . |
| 24 | The Scheme and the debates about it highlight some of the long-standing tensions in English educational policy . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , to some extent it can be said that it fulfils some of the functions of the preambles in Community texts to which I have just referred . |
| 26 | This is a positive horizontal externality created by one retailer on others ; in attempting to gain a greater margin for itself , it drives some custom away . |
| 27 | It produced some odd scenes : when NoS wanted to state that the paper was going to be ‘ progressive ’ and ‘ accessible ’ , articles from the dummy had to be scrutinized to make sure they proved this was true . |
| 28 | It might have been a suitable sales pitch for conglomerates shifting Blood Sweat & tears albums ; it produced some qualms amongst It staffers and others . |
| 29 | It produces some odd effects , however , for strict equivalence between postcranial and cranial elements is only reached when all the jaws are broken and the molars released . |
| 30 | Secondly , there are a number of different types of situation where there is missing information : either the recogniser produces no candidates for a letter string , or it produces some candidates . |