Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [be] [verb] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | This smuggling of pictures is done by some close friend or relative . |
| 2 | It is for this reason that approval of collections was refused in some cases . |
| 3 | The variable ( a ) ( see above ) illustrates this point ; the speech of a number of persons was transcribed in some phonetic detail before it became clear that tokens of the vowel in a certain range of environments were never front-raised , and seemed moreover to be implicationally ordered with respect to their tolerance of back-raising ( see J. Milroy 1981a for details ) . |
| 4 | A number of theories are built upon some conception of human nature . |
| 5 | The Cambridge Group for the Study of Population and Social Structure ( CAMPOP ) have shown that in seventy communities where total lists of inhabitants were made at some point between the late sixteenth and the early nineteenth century the proportion of householders who were widowed was about 1:5 ; at Clayworth ( Notts. ) in 1688 it was higher than 1:4 . |
| 6 | A selection of materials are tested by some of Britain 's top artists for readers of The Artist 's and Illustrator 's Magazine . |
| 7 | The introduction of biguanides was met with some scepticism of their efficacy and fears about the possibility of precipitating lactic acidosis . |
| 8 | Thousands of babies are born with some form of birth defect and most have immediately to go into incubators with doctors and nurses having to work round the clock to give them intensive care . |
| 9 | Most students start with vague objectives or change direction quite fundamentally during their first year so that a wider range of courses is required including some broadly-based and some of a more specialized nature . |
| 10 | On the other hand , while the High Authority required the support of the Council in , for example , any attempt to limit output because of overproduction or when seeking an equitable distribution of supplies during a shortage in output , the Council of Ministers was inhibited to some extent because the national governments did not directly finance the ECSC . |
| 11 | Or maybe the spectrum of smells is perceived in some way similar to our human perception of colour . |
| 12 | But superimposed on this background were brief ‘ bursts ’ of high-frequency activity , in which whole ensembles of cells were firing in some sort of rhythmic synchrony ( Figure 10.10 ) . |
| 13 | She reckons that more than 70% of schoolgirls are subjected to some form of sexual harassment by their male teachers , and that a significant number are physically exploited or even raped . |
| 14 | Bones in pellets are protected for some time ( see discussions on this in the sections on trampling and weathering , above ) , but in wet conditions or in water the pellets disintegrate and the bones they contain are dispersed ( Korth , 1979 ) . |
| 15 | NorthWest TAP Training Access Points is acting as a central clearing house for courses being run by some 400 local training providers . |