Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] [conj] some [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even a failed wizard knew that some substances were sensitive to light . |
| 2 | This study shows that some patients are not referred for specialist opinion , the shortfall being mainly among elderly people . |
| 3 | Anyway coach Olsen actually before this game mentioned that some players was knocking on the door for a place — Fjortoft and Sorloth has kind of been out of form recently . |
| 4 | This argument proposes that some workers operate within an environment dominated by low wages , high unemployment and turnover rates , with limited opportunities for mobility . |
| 5 | There is a method of solving the cube , due to Morwen Thistlethwaite , my colleague at the Polytechnic of the South Bank in London , that always restores the cube in at most 50 moves ( recently reduced from 52 ) and simple counting shows that some positions require at least 18 moves ( counting 180° turns as single moves ) or 21 right-angle turns . |
| 6 | 7.2.2 The White Paper comments that some GPs may have to be ‘ re-educated ’ in their referral practices , if the DHA arranged a contract with a hospital other than that which the GP has used by choice . |
| 7 | The fact that we come from a capitalist country means that some topics tend to be dealt with delicately or avoided , but that is all . |
| 8 | About 700m ecus are still waiting to be collected , partly because spending tends to bunch at the end of a period and partly because Britain 's system of local-authority finance means that some councils can not use the money . |
| 9 | Evidence exists from the period before the First War to show that some women were choosing not to have sexual relations with men as a political act . |
| 10 | One manager reports that some parents reacted badly to the basic but intrusive questions . |
| 11 | A reader from Crook , County Durham , writes to The Northern Echo complaining that some shops are being unfairly allocated double rations of eggs . |
| 12 | Not long after that day a big van came and some men filled it up with furniture . |
| 13 | Past experience suggests that some governments , at least , may not be prepared to sit this one out . |
| 14 | The programme of trials and different phasings for entry into local management meant that some schools were well to the fore and were able to demonstrate both the advantages and drawbacks of early thinking on the part of central and local government . |
| 15 | While one might expect eventual decisions to be made purely on the merits of the case , earlier evidence indicates that some objections are more likely to succeed in influencing decision-makers than others . |
| 16 | Less radically , intellectual fashion means that some names are in , and others out . |
| 17 | Moreover , the data from the unlinked anonymous survey shows that some men who knew they were infected with HIV-1 still acquired acute sexually transmitted diseases . |