Example sentences of "to some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , one day I started to be sick in reaction to some drugs , and this guy jumped out of bed — the nurses were busy . |
| 2 | All were spontaneous outbursts : none , contrary to some claims , were politically inspired or orchestrated ( except in Northern Ireland where urban problems existed on a grander , more devastating scale , and where there was a unique heritage ) . |
| 3 | Manufacturers can no longer charge according to some idea of ‘ value ’ but must compete on price and performance . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Thus , during treatment there are visits to some meetings of appropriate Anonymous Fellowships outside the treatment centre so that there is preparation for long-term commitment to recovery through the Anonymous Fellowships . |
| 6 | I mean I go , I go to some meetings , yeah and I asked who 's been burgled and all the hands shoot up . |
| 7 | For example birth control , you see you could use the same argument , you could say oh the Catholics say birth control is unnatural and we know they have a whole position on that and yet the data on infertility shows that in fact most women generate antibodies to some sperm , so the , those datas suggest that actively discriminating against sperm on the part of the women is actually natural and all that is happening in modern birth control technology is that women are developing or building on a natural er foundation that is already there namely to be choosy about when they become pregnant and by whom . |
| 8 | They were not quite a secret society but certainly a network , not always trusted , not , indeed , acceptable to some bishops and in some livings . |
| 9 | It also led to some boxing lessons somewhere in Boston 's South End . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The things I find so tragic , and I was talking to some girls erm in a sixth form college recently , and the thing that I find saddest is that the schools evade the issue . |
| 14 | Will it appeal to some teaching styles more than others ? 3 . |
| 15 | ( 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Analysing one 's bargaining power may not appeal to some managers . |
| 18 | Although a head 's trust both in colleagues and in the capacity of pupils to use what teachers offer is an essential part of management , the uncertainty involved is , to some managers , frustrating . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | With bank interest over the years it amounted to some £320,000-certainly enough to meet the Ingard cheque . |
| 21 | By definition , event-related potentials are time-locked to some stimulus or other specifiable event . |
| 22 | According to some criteria perhaps , but if so they would have to exclude from ‘ the political , considerations such as those described here . |
| 23 | Though in some ways Colin was quite close to his drivers — closer to some than to others — he was , in financial matters , something of a cheese-parer and though his sponsors were generally reasonably generous , even at the height of Lotus 's reputation he neither enjoyed the kind of largesse available to some teams nor , with his many other commitments and his fairly flamboyant life style , could devote all of what he did receive to his team . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The share of demand for natural gas should rise to some 17% by the year 2000 . |
| 27 | Failure was due to some weakness or perversity peculiar to the individual " . |
| 28 | The hut was home to some lizards and to the island 's one taxi driver who had sequestered it as his office and gasoline store . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . " |