Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | That figure has now risen to some 86 per cent. , which shows the Government 's achievement . |
| 2 | Considerable exploration effort in those areas has been felt by the industry to be worthwhile , and in the United States has already met with some commercial success . |
| 3 | Although timbers with high levels of latex , silica or high density are avoided there ; another plant in New Guinea can now utilize wood from up to 200 species , including dead and defective trees , so that yields have already increased by some 300% . |
| 4 | Rain had obviously driven in some time during the night and the dried splashes were clearly visible on the tiled floor . |
| 5 | Add to these statistics that translations have now appeared in some 850 languages and it will be apparent that , except in a few notable cases , rarity is not often a factor to be reckoned with . |
| 6 | Governments of all persuasions have always bought in some services , but this Government have taken the process further . |
| 7 | Even more important , perhaps , in its effect upon class action is the attachment which individuals have always had to some tribal , ethnic , linguistic or national community , with which they identify their own interests , by contrast and often in conflict with other such communities . |
| 8 | The chief superintendent was seething that his friend had obviously spoken to some other people in Special Branch and that the commander was now involved . |
| 9 | Since the late 1960s , deaths from heart disease in the UK have only declined by some 10% for men and some 2% for women as compared with Canada and the USA which have achieved reductions of some 40% and 50% respectively [ 3 ] . |
| 10 | Their studies have also led to some surprising conclusions concerning chronology : Jacopo Bellini 's Paris album they have argued , contrary to most of the literature , precedes the London album , which they date to 1460–70 ; they have been able to date Paolino Veneto 's Map of Venice in the Marciana Library precisely to around 1328 , when previously it was thought to have been made in the second half of the century . |
| 11 | Stewart and Tait began with the idea that the great majority of mankind had always believed in some fashion in life after death . |
| 12 | However , in legitimating these tasks , the legal framework established by the state has inevitably suffered from some confusion over whether it is primarily directed at helping families to achieve social control of their children or at ratifying state intervention . |
| 13 | The proposal for a Severn barrage has also led to some public debate , chiefly on environment issues . |
| 14 | When the Bank of Scotland had threatened to imprison his Constable partner Robert Cadell in Calton Hill Gaol , Cadell took refuge in the debtors ' sanctuary at Holyrood — where Thomas de Quincey had also stayed for some time . |
| 15 | The theory is that development for a Third World country is not possible within the orbit of capitalist imperialism , a dependency theory of the type discussed in Chapter 2 ; while the experience is that FDI has often led to some ‘ development ’ , apparently for the benefit of all . |
| 16 | That number has now increased to some 340,000. 95% of patients are detained without their consent , at a rate of 250 per 100,000 population , compared with just 2.5 per 100,000 in Europe . |
| 17 | They will become aware that they live in a world that is changing all the time , and that older people in their lifetimes have often lived through some major changes . |
| 18 | The study of the discipline does not often include a study of its own academic evolution ; indeed , one suspects than an ahistorical attitude is sometimes projected by lecturers , as if the discipline had always existed in some vague Platonic sense , and could not possibly not have been there . |
| 19 | Carol Eastman had also written in some other characteristics of Nicholson himself , such as his directness , his honesty and his ability to cut through hypocritical jargon . |
| 20 | Trials of interferon in viral disease have certainly met with some success . |