Example sentences of "to some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manufacturers can no longer charge according to some idea of ‘ value ’ but must compete on price and performance . |
| 2 | Western philosophy , with Plato as an exemplary first instance , has generally acted on the presupposition that language is subservient to some idea , intention or referent that lies outside it . |
| 3 | It also led to some boxing lessons somewhere in Boston 's South End . |
| 4 | To some boxing purists , Mr Bowe 's performance was only faintly more ridiculous than the addition of strawweight ( or mini-flyweight ) as the 17th weight division in the late 1980s . |
| 5 | Should private individuals be given a remedy through the courts ; or should it , rather , be left to some public official , such as the Attorney-General , or to Parliament or an ombudsman , or to some officer or body within government itself to supervise the activities of government ? |
| 6 | Any theory of sentence production , then , will be a theory which describes what the constructive processes are which , when applied to some thought which a speaker wishes to convey to someone else , result in the formulation and production of an appropriate sentence . |
| 7 | Will it appeal to some teaching styles more than others ? 3 . |
| 8 | ( 4 ) Included within the ‘ extraordinary ’ or ‘ special ’ category might be , for example , cases where the child is proposing to submit to a sterilisation , an abortion , the removal of an organ for donation , or some similar non-therapeutic procedure , or where the child is refusing to submit to some procedure necessary to prolong or save the child 's life or to protect the child from really serious and irreparable harm . |
| 9 | So whilst you might think it 's a nice idea to make a change to some procedure or work instruction or whatever you want to call it , there may be the odd occasion on which it 's not actually possible to bring in a change because we 're faced with still er meeting the requirements in the base er I S O Nine Thousand document . |
| 10 | His success led to some intimacy with the Indians , who told him that a vast sea lay off to the west — a sea , and a land , infinitely rich in gold . |
| 11 | By definition , event-related potentials are time-locked to some stimulus or other specifiable event . |
| 12 | Whether Morrissey and Marr realise the degree of luck involved is still subject to some speculation , for the combination was of four very diverse musical influences . |
| 13 | The indisposition of the 8F led to some speculation by passengers on the Cambrian Limited , last Sunday , that the Standard 4 No 75069 would fulfil the Red Rose roster in place of No 8233 . |
| 14 | Failure was due to some weakness or perversity peculiar to the individual " . |
| 15 | Simon had n't inherited yet ; the house was entailed of course and as there was no direct male heir ( my being what I am ) it looked as if it were going to some cousin overseas , only later it became known that Mary had had a posthumous son : he 's still a minor — here 's another member of my family whom I have n't met , I seem to have an assortment . |
| 16 | Maman put down the loaded fork with a sigh and turned to Twomey at the sideboard : " Please give Miss Nicandra a clean plate and help her to some spinach . " |
| 17 | The thing is June if it puts you to some inconvenience then do n't it ? |
| 18 | If a cut-off maximum on the number of livestock per farm attracting HLCAs was applied in the UK ( as it is in France ) , a major incentive to over-grazing ( leading to some moorland and roughland loss ; degradation of species rich grasslands ; broadleaved woodland destruction and mountain erosion ) would be removed . |
| 19 | Often a priority given to some activity in this police hierarchy of meaning has been laid down from a constable 's first days as a probationer and now lies beneath the immediate consciousness , so that any calls for a change in direction of police response may well be defeated by an unspoken semantic value which the institution gives to that activity . |
| 20 | Or perhaps still according to some plan established days before . |
| 21 | Colinvaux therefore suggests that the so-called refugia were thus denied to some rain-forest species presently there , i.e. the supposed migrations to them of lowland species in inducing today 's diversity is questionable . |
| 22 | Even to relatively unsophisticated subjects it is quite intuitive to sell when the price is high and store when the price is low , but it is much less intuitive to produce where the marginal cost is equal to some expectation . |
| 23 | This masterpiece lacks its head ; but if we look from the hawk-priestess to some marble heads of the later sixth century we see the beginning and end of the tradition in which it must have been made . |
| 24 | The people who set the standards are no longer the older generation , the people who have lived their lives and come to some judgement on what life is all about . |
| 25 | within the language-system itself , to some judgement as to the truth of the utterance . |
| 26 | That 's the reason I have brought you to this quiet garden , not to some tavern where I would drink myself senseless . |
| 27 | For successful anaphor resolution , it is important to co-ordinate the contributions of system components embodying different types of linguistic and non-linguistic knowledge , such as configurational constraints in ( ‘ He examined him ’ , the two pronouns can not co-refer ) , sortal restrictions ( in ‘ She drank it ’ , ‘ it ’ must refer to some liquid if ‘ drank ’ is interpreted literally ) , focusing ( as in ‘ He examined its legs ’ above ) , and reasoning ( as in the second sentence of ‘ John told the waiter he had no money . |
| 28 | We did n't half get up to some mischief , I 'll tell you . |
| 29 | I trust you , you 're not a fool , you know what could happen if you got up to some mischief out there , ’ and her fingers described general obloquy with a sweeping gesture of abolition , ‘ and then you 'll never get a husband either . |
| 30 | Always up to some mischief or other . |