Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] some [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nautor is famous for producing some of the highest quality fibreglass yachts in the world . |
| 2 | Its skull — two metres long — was well developed , with three strong pointed horns useful for defence and for stripping some of the remaining shorter fronds , resembling the cycads used in Florida as indoor pot-plants . |
| 3 | The two sides agreed to hold a further meeting soon which is expected to produce firm proposals for resolving some of the Irish concerns on security . |
| 4 | After surveying some of the available evidence on the United Kingdom , France , Germany and the United States regarding parliamentary defence against the dominance of officials , Page concluded that in the approval of legislation , the approval of the budget and scrutiny of administration , European parliaments are largely dominated by the executive . |
| 5 | The news was welcomed by members of Darlington Health Authority which has now reversed a trend , after having some of the fastest growing waiting lists in the region this time last year . |
| 6 | An hour later , after admiring some of the rare and beautiful pieces in the shop , Müller left , having learned nothing . |
| 7 | After mentioning some of the New Age practices and beliefs , I asked again for a show of hands from those who knew friends and neighbours who were involved . |
| 8 | I erm , I think it 's worth correcting some of the financial mistakes again , that Mr , and then perhaps give him some more facts on that . |
| 9 | The bodies given the task of recovering some of the lost money , most notably the Resolution Trust Corporation and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation , made it clear more than a year ago that the thrifts ' auditors and advisers would be first in the firing line leading many accountants to accuse the government of targeting them as ‘ deep pockets ’ . |
| 10 | No matter how bad the weather , you can always find some sheltered stretches , and there is normally the bonus of seeing some of the first swallows and martins of the year as well . |
| 11 | Despite adopting some of the paramilitary trappings of the old Carson Ulster Volunteers , the UPV made significant efforts to discipline the movement and separate it from illegal violence . |
| 12 | A while back , I wrote about my experience of keeping some of the newer catfish on the market . |
| 13 | If it was not for her , this Council would have had more opportunity of addressing some of the deep problems the Tories either created or left behind . |
| 14 | Religion has been , and is , capable of sustaining some of the finest civilizations the world has seen , and it has attracted many of the most brilliant and high-minded people who have ever lived . |
| 15 | In summing up on this ideas section , we seem to be moving towards advocating that you : ( i ) fix on some aims or targets or intentions ( ii ) decide how these might relate to the actions and behaviour of pupils and teachers ( iii ) try to produce a teaching unit that is illustrative of these intentions and that strives towards promoting some of the desired behaviour ( iv ) report back on the actual relationship between the intentions and the behaviour . |
| 16 | ‘ County Durham 's constabulary has been increased since 1979 and the Home Office is still looking at the possibility of reallocating some of the 1,000 extra posts to the county , ’ he said . |
| 17 | The capital accounting system is a method of forcing some of the financial consequences of their actions into those time horizons . |
| 18 | But given the shortage of money , ought not some of that money go towards preserving some of the great companies who are now under great pressure ? |
| 19 | Lowther was interested not merely in profits , but also in ways of solving some of the immense technological difficulties confronting coalmining in the eighteenth century . |
| 20 | p 214 ) runs the risk of minimising some of the human problems posed by new technology . |
| 21 | This is my way of sharing some of the good fortune I have had . |
| 22 | However , the film seems to opt out of tacking some of the thornier issues that arise whenever transexuality is discussed . |
| 23 | Despite having some of the largest base-metal mines in Europe , Ireland has collected only £5 million in mining royalties , which have typically run at between five and nine per cent of profits since 1970 . |
| 24 | WIRRAL fishermen rate the promenade between Seacombe Ferry and Egremont as capable of giving some of the best fishing in the North West . |
| 25 | The easiest means of illustrating some of the foregoing points is to introduce in outline some special classification schemes . |
| 26 | Its advent was auspicious in that following the Second World War the strenuous efforts of many social scientists , especially in the United States , to secure a more acceptable place for social science , which itself contributed to many of the techniques which became part of variable analysis , was served by a way of thinking which seemed to offer a way of emulating some of the crucial features of the scientific method . |
| 27 | Reducing drinking hours , therefore , would seem to be a sensible way of curbing some of the worst examples of drunken violence . |
| 28 | I hope you wrote some of them down and have started thinking very creatively towards achieving some of the short-term ones and making long-term plans for the more ambitious ones . |
| 29 | But significantly , both Germany and Japan manage to remain competitive in spite of carrying some of the highest prices . |
| 30 | He killed himself because he was literally sick to death of fighting some of the largest manufacturers of FM radios for the royalties they owed him . |