Example sentences of "this [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | This assuaged some of the fears expressed by managers and engineers in the existing supply undertakings about possible over-centralisation of power in a nationalised undertaking . |
| 2 | Ha face was pale , her eyes dark-rimmed , and this assuaged some of my pain at the nun 's silly chatter . |
| 3 | In Japan , where state welfare provision is poor , this constitutes some 2 per cent of employment . |
| 4 | He 's lost a dozen in a decade and this goes some way towards explaining his surprisingly philosophical attitude to his own bad luck . |
| 5 | If a common phenomenon , this goes some way towards accounting for the ingrained belief that such growth engendered serious economic and social problems , not least Carew 's conviction that the opening of tin workings impoverished a parish , whilst their discontinuance restored prosperity . |
| 6 | This goes some way to explaining why the complicated campaigns within Toulouse in the second half of the century were largely fought out under the banners of the Angevin , Aragonese , and French kings ; and why the revolts of Henry II 's sons had widespread ramifications . |
| 7 | This goes some way towards typing the organism causing the disease . |
| 8 | This involves some expenditure , but this can be avoided if staff awareness is raised and a ‘ switch off ’ attitude is developed . |
| 9 | The important thing seems to be that teachers should be aware of this conflict and take some steps to resolve it , and this involves some kind of negotiation between teacher and pupils . |
| 10 | I make no apology for reminding the House of the quotation from Sir Winston Churchill upon which I drew last year : ’ It is said with truth that this involves some sacrifice or merger of national sovereignty . |
| 11 | This led some policemen to enjoy the sport which the court room offered ( Holdaway 1983 : 74 ) . |
| 12 | This led some people to maintain that he had derived the idea of civil disobedience from Thoreau , a fact which Gandhi himself denied.a In due course he substituted the phrase ‘ civil resistance ’ for ‘ civil disobedience ’ on the grounds that it conveyed the notion of non-violence better , but he continued to regard civil disobedience as a branch of satyāgraha . |
| 13 | This led some to speak of a ‘ natural religion ’ implanted in the human heart and necessary to human well-being . |
| 14 | This led some writers to suspect that the Third World , like the First World , was not of a piece , but that there might be substantial differences of kind as well as the obvious differences of degree between countries . |
| 15 | There is nowhere better or , frankly , easier than this to see some of the high Pyrenean lakes , of which there are at least four that you can get to here by car , as well as a fifth reachable fairly simply on foot . |
| 16 | e.g. " Combined with the NEP and the thaw in Russia 's relations with other countries , this made some Bolsheviks fear the onset of a creeping reaction ; they were haunted by fears of Thermidor " . |
| 17 | This offers some sound control ( assigning WAV files to Windows events or individual icons ) and will animate your cursor , and look after Windows wallpaper and screen savers . |
| 18 | This has some affinity with the Marxist position . |
| 19 | This has some intriguing exhibits , even if they are not always quite Pyrenean . |
| 20 | Now thi this has some implications for decision making . |
| 21 | This has some advantages , as the rotational envelope results in a spreading of the intensity of a band over a wide range , and may lead to overlapping of bands due to different vibrations . |
| 22 | So it , this has some things in the picture gain importance , although I still the black and white ones . |
| 23 | However , the technique is also used in the form of a heated ‘ smoke wire ’ onto which the oil has been previously coated or is allowed to trickle continuously ; this has some of the versatility of the hydrogen bubble method in water described below . |
| 24 | The Doctor had expected this to provoke some reaction but the Chelonians remained resolutely silent , their eyes fixed on the big screen that showed a trundling view of their journey through the wastes . |
| 25 | Well this provided some very interesting information I think , because I was very surprised the degree to which men were involved in decisions about what to put in the home and had very strong opinions about quite small details of colour and this kind of thing as to what went into the home . |
| 26 | This involved some form of lexical checking . |
| 27 | In the first trial year the Project material was used by ten schools , and in its improved form was used the following year by eleven schools ; and in most cases this involved some 120 children at a time . |
| 28 | As outlined in the Introduction , this book specifically and deliberately concentrates on the upper end of the British search market , and is not concerned with firms specialising in lower-level appointments , selection and advertising , except when this accompanies some higher-level work , as in the case of MSL . |
| 29 | The team is unattended , and this worries some , who wish to exchange the girl with one of the youths . |
| 30 | This occurred some 40 days after he bought the car . |