Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem for the students to some extent , is being compounded by the withdrawal of housing benefit , which means that they 're paying the full cost of rents in the private sector , whereas before they might have been getting ten , twelve even , more pounds a week refunded to them through the housing benefit scheme . |
| 2 | Erm some of the banks actually lay off the charges to some extent , but I think he might find that a bit expensive to run , erm and of course they 'll take their charges even if they do n't make a profit for you . |
| 3 | She has recently left home , and whenever they talk about her my parents ' voices are disapproving , as if she has gone off the rails in some way which they do n't specify . |
| 4 | Over lunch , Dobson regaled Branson with a tale of how Private Eye had suppressed a story about adulterous liaisons at a national newspaper — precisely the kind of story in which the Eye habitually delighted — because of the interests of some Eye contributors who worked for the paper . |
| 5 | He thought it must be one of the maids with some food sent up by Claudia . |
| 6 | The sky was still grey and menacing and both sisters allowed their eyes to comb the white mantled slope of the moors for some evidence of life . |
| 7 | He was also the most vigorous opponent in the House of the attempts of some purity advocates to amend the Bill by including punishment by flogging for certain types of offenders , a provision that was renewed in a similar atmosphere of hysteria in 1912 . |
| 8 | The attempt of the Communist Party to implement Comintern decisions naturally gave rise to the most widely publicized of the movements for some kind of co-operation on the Left . |
| 9 | A small amount of intra-crystalline porosity was also formed at the same time by corrosion and removal of the centres of some dolomite crystals ( Fig. 10 ) . |
| 10 | Because of the reservations of some member states , notably Germany and the UK , the clause clearly restricts the scope of Community action . |
| 11 | out of the dumps into some beachside bower |
| 12 | Although you naturally hope to reproduce the desirable qualities , you are just as likely to reproduce the undesirable ones , and not only those of the parents , but those also of the ancestors from some way back . |
| 13 | Two principal ( albeit contradictory ) difficulties arose : the belief of the governments of some member states ( including the UK ) that any such procedure should be voluntary , and the fact that Vredeling was not limited to collective representation of employees through trade unions . |
| 14 | Group chief facilitator said : ‘ Initially we have been successful in helping to establish teams in the personnel , training , public relations , sales and distribution departments at Barlaston , while Johnson Brothers have had five teams indifferent areas of the offices for some time now . ’ |
| 15 | A certain Mr Tomlinson was in trouble ‘ having several times played in the upper part of the links with some gentleman who was not a member of the Club and who had on each occasion omitted to pay his green fee ’ ( at this time 2s. 6d . ) . |
| 16 | The windows of the house glowed suddenly bright , like the eyes of some monster waking in the dark . |
| 17 | ‘ I remember vividly being on night guard prior to the morning executions when some prisoners sang and rattled their tin mugs against the bars in some form of defiance . |
| 18 | Capital gains tax is payable by the trustees when investments are sold , or when the trust is terminated in whole or in part , and a beneficiary becomes entitled absolutely against the trustees to some property within the settlement . |
| 19 | That is the reasoning behind the pleas for some allocation of R & D Funds to basic research where this sort of behaviour would be encouraged ( the following up of leads for their own sake ) . |
| 20 | Something like a third of the increase has been taken up in higher prices , with the prices of some capital goods , such as houses , actually doubling . |
| 21 | His father quarrelled with the Colonels over some detail of graft . |
| 22 | He may have cooperated with the Danes in some way at the siege of Canterbury in 1011 , and it was maybe in 1023 that he received the bishopric of Sherborne after the expulsion of Bishop Brihtwine . |
| 23 | This section looks briefly at some of the basic ideas and illustrates them with the results of some laboratory experiments . |
| 24 | but erm erm anyway the erm children were absorbed into the schools of some sort |
| 25 | Announcements in the city pages of Britain 's national newspapers might send shivers up the spines of some yacht owners based on the South Coast . |
| 26 | There are all sorts of effects — like fade , paint and melt — along the lines of some presentation graphics packages , only better . |
| 27 | The dog-handled pot-lids from Mochlos , for example , seem to show a particular dog relaxing on a particular afternoon in the hot bronze age sunshine ; the crowds in the miniature frescoes seem alive with the excitement of the spectacle they are witnessing , and seem to have been caught mid-shout ; the hoopoes in the Pilgrim Hostel fresco seem at first glance to have fallen from the pages of some bronze age edition of Audubon . |
| 28 | This is a paradoxical fact for those empiricists who think that new theories are derived from the facts in some way , but it is quite comprehensible when it is realized that precise experimentation can only be carried out if one has a precise theory capable of yielding predictions in the form of precise observation statements . |
| 29 | Scientists and health experts , led by Professor van Velzen in Liverpool , said yesterday the most recent results show cell changes in the brains of some cot death babies . |
| 30 | Usually to be defined as child sex abuse I think w for most authors there 'd need to be some kind of discrepancy in the ages in some way , that is y'know if somebody was about thirteen and the other person was about eighteen it might be ah starting to get er a big enough discrepancy to be outside the realm of of y'know kind of normal y'know sort of boyfriend and girlfriend to use those saccarinous terms erm relationships and maybe might be considered to be er to be something like child abuse . |