Example sentences of "this [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no case beyond this for some mysterium , an agent of non-material origins , unless information processing itself is given that status . |
| 2 | He continued to do this for some time . |
| 3 | The French and the US National Science Foundation have been doing this for some time . ’ |
| 4 | I worked on this for some time and extended , integrated and tried to twist it to my style . |
| 5 | He travelled like this for some distance , meeting no other traffic . |
| 6 | We agree that there is a case for this for some of the drugs they mention , particularly to avoid toxicity in renal failure or , in the case of itraconazole , to ensure that adequate dosages are used . |
| 7 | Secondly , if she 's likely to … be like this for some time , that the Lord Whatsit is the best nursing home available . ’ |
| 8 | They have apparently been doing this for some time . |
| 9 | There was no law , strictly speaking , against experimenting , although considering the stage which Alexei 's trials had reached , it was clear that he must have been working on this for some time . |
| 10 | As an intermediate skier I found some of the information ( eg buying skis and the extensive section on snowboarding ) irrelevant as I will not be doing this for some time . |
| 11 | ‘ You do n't appear to have used this for some time . ’ |
| 12 | The medical profession has known this for some time , though , so it 's hardly hot news . |
| 13 | Bill Clough lay thinking about this for some time . |
| 14 | They lay half entwined like this for some time , occasionally exchanging kisses . |
| 15 | I also understand that one of the street lights in Lower Dolphinholme is burning continuously and has been like this for some time . |
| 16 | ‘ You will have to live with this for some time , ’ the sheriff added . |
| 17 | This fiction has various names : ‘ private eye fiction ’ , ‘ hardboiled fiction ’ which is a way of describing its style , and erm I have been interested in this for some time , partly trying to assess the reasons why such fiction occurred in America as a complete breakaway from the old kind of detective fiction which we all know about , the country house murder , why erm the figure of the private detective becomes so important in this kind of fiction between the wars , and what the relationship of this sort of fiction is to not merely other kinds of American fiction during that period but to more abiding American themes , particularly erm themes of individualism and toughness . |
| 18 | She , in her turn , interprets this as some kind of hatred of her . |
| 19 | We believed that the best practice reflects a consensus rather than such extreme positions , and we did not see this as some timid compromise . |
| 20 | Rose and Adams , in Langley 's collection , wrongly see this as some form of limitation : ‘ Possibly the greatest difficulty that we have in furthering our understanding of pain and suffering in other animals is the limitation of the human model ’ ( 1989 : 63 ) . |
| 21 | The irresponsible , indeed disgusting , Belgrade press presents this as some kind of victory . |
| 22 | He resisted any temptation to treat this as some kind of a revelation because Wayne was dead , and talked to nobody . |
| 23 | Nigel Lawson rebutted this with some vigour . |
| 24 | It has never , of course , been my privilege to have seen such things at first hand , but I will nevertheless hazard this with some confidence : the English landscape at its finest — such as I saw it this morning — possesses a quality that the landscapes of other nations , however more superficially dramatic , inevitably fail to possess . |
| 25 | However — and I say this with some pride and gratitude — Lord Darlington never made any efforts to conceal things from my own eyes and ears ; I can recall on numerous occasions , some personage breaking off in mid-sentence to glance warily towards my person , only for his lordship to say : ‘ Oh , that 's all right . |
| 26 | Several LEAs already do this with some of their specific grant funding such as the LEA Training Grant Scheme ( LEATGS ) or Education Support Grant ( ESG ) . |
| 27 | Ted Parsons 's story involved a submarine 's wrecking , but no doubt the Germans — if not the Italians — took this with some hefty pinches of salt . |
| 28 | ‘ I would treat all this with some caution , ’ he said . |
| 29 | Apart from the entries , there are fascinating and often amusing essays on the Fortnum Collection ( fundamental reading for anyone interested in the collecting of small bronzes ) , ‘ Sculpture in the Department of Fine Art ’ , the architectural and sculptural decoration of the University Galleries and the Taylor Institute , ‘ Chantrey , Westmacott , and the casts after the Antique ’ ( this with some rather damning things to say about the standards of curatorship in the past ) , and the Brocklebank Bronzes and Gilbert 's ‘ Circe ’ . |
| 30 | Mead , like Malinowski , went to live among the peoples she was studying , observed their behaviour as a participant in the society , and combined this with some informal interviewing of members of the tribes that she studied closely . |