Example sentences of "[conj] some [prep] [art] [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | There is little to be seen of the former docks now , only depressions marked with stakes identifying the site , but the village remains , where some of the master shipwrights lived who built Nelson 's favourite ship , HMS Agamemnon , as well as many other men o' war for the British fleet . |
2 | One advantage of using Barclaycard , American Express or some of the Gold cards is that they offer ‘ purchase protection ’ . |
3 | Fenella and Caspar could see this clearly ; they could see that some of the Tree Spirits were still breathing , shallowly and painfully , their strange , wise faces shuttered and suffering , their branches torn from their bodies and great , gaping wounds still bleeding . |
4 | At the Aquatic Convention ‘ 92 ( Ilford DAS ) a lecture by Steve La ‘ Thange revealed that some of the Blackwater streams in the Brazilian Amazon where he regularly fished are only 65°F |
5 | The other side of the coin is that some of the manufacturing jobs lost in high wage countries have turned up in low wage countries . |
6 | If there was a drawback to this grand strategy , it is that some of the gramophone recordings in recent years have lacked the startling intensity and insights of the theatre performances they have helped to prepare . |
7 | I suspect that some of the drug barons who shell out money in support of what must be a pretty costly operation regard the academically-minded staff of the OHE as a bunch of eggheads , not to say ‘ wets ’ , who ought to be earning their keep by polishing up the industry 's somewhat tarnished image , and by encouraging sales , instead of spending their time and the companies ' profits on airy-fairy projects which are n't going to rustle up a pennyworth of business . |
8 | Sinclair Hood ( 1971 ) says that some of the fresco subjects were secular , but the evidence points increasingly to a pervasive religious content . |
9 | As the championship progressed it was fairly obvious that England 's magnificent Grand Slamming run was coming to an end , not because of the passion and pride displayed by Wales and Ireland , but the fact that some of the England veterans are undoubtedly past their shelf life . |
10 | The basic statistical problem with this type of analysis , of course , is that some of the subject areas contain small numbers of students . |
11 | While the same special regime exists for both National Parks and AONBs , in that some of the GDO permissions are not available , Conservation Areas are under even tighter control . |
12 | I am told that there has been an agreement that some of the contact orders should be varied now but that does not form part of the appeal . |
13 | It was so big that some of the ASP surfers refused to go out . |
14 | You will also notice that some of the menu options have short cut keypresses listed next to their names . |
15 | If you go to see this football club to watch the football match , you are not allowed to park on the grass verge outside because the police do n't let you but if you go to a car boot sale at the football club the next day the cars , the grass verge is littered with cars cos it 's Sunday presumably and the police are not allowed to enforce on it so I do think that some of the traffic problems maybe need to be more carefully reinforced to stop this , you know , to stop the dealers you 're not going tyo these places but you know I think you do need to , you do need to , to regulate them but please , you know , do n't let's push them out altogether . |
16 | No but I think it is interesting that some of the Parish Councils for instance who initially were opposed to the application and very strongly , as they have been supplied with further and better information have modified their position and are now saying subject to rigorous planning controls they are no longer opposed outright to the application . |
17 | We want something written into the Bill that makes it likely that some of the consumer safeguards will become a reality . |
18 | As an example , let us assume that a package exists and that some of the constituent modules are also contained in other packages which have different managers . |
19 | We 've , we 've got the erm , we 've got the six hundred organizations running so far about three thousand events , probably a few more if you count every single er course that some of the training schools are running but in terms of key events I 'm very confident in being able to say there are three thousand events running around the country about half of which are new and that 's the important thing so about fifteen hundred new and inaugural events that did n't go on last year or the year before Belinda the R Y A Public Relations Officer has been coordinating the public relations campaign and these days to get the young pe young people and those young people whose parents do n't sail because it 's to get at the people whose parents do sail , you 've actually got to get in the media and er we 've been on Blue Peter , we 've been on Going Live another children 's programme on a Saturday morning and |
20 | Far more than is suspected are inefficient wives responsible for the misery of many back-street homes , and it is perhaps more than a coincidence that some of the Lancashire towns with the worst repute for their high rate of infant mortality have no girls ' club within their areas . |
21 | He told a conference organised by Paisley University that some of the safety cases being prepared by oil companies for the Health and Safety Executive seemed to be putting emphasis on the technology involved in operations . |
22 | Differences between the studies include the fact that Canadian workers ‘ receive a substantial proportion ( 20–40% ) of their total exposure as an internal dose ( largely due to tritium ) , ’ that workers in Ontario did not have the types of chemical exposure received by the Sellafield workers , and that some of the control fathers with high doses were uranium miners . |
23 | Tom confirmed our assumption that we were in the Beka'a Valley saying that Carton , an Arabic speaker , told him that some of the food wrappers had Baalbek addresses on them . |
24 | I had an unpleasant suspicion that some of the letter writers were rather disappointed that 1984 will not see an enormous ministry for rewriting history and so on . |
25 | It could well be that some of the summit surfaces of the Hercynian blocks are Eogene pediplains , while the weathering responsible for the formation of tors may have been tropical weathering of the same date . |
26 | Although some of the Wealden towns may have been regional centres for craft specialisation , such as Battle with its leather working and shoemaking , most of them provided a wide range of services which allowed a high degree of virtual self-sufficiency to their surrounding areas . |
27 | They have a black matt finish and are exceptionally durable , although some of the PVC ones are fairly comparable with their reinforcing welded terylene web . |
28 | Since then , a long spell of bad weather has helped to clean almost all the visible oil off the stones , although some of the building interiors remain contaminated . |
29 | Before the decision on its abolition , the ILEA had already virtually abandoned the recommendations of The Fish Report , although some of the topic papers continued to support the idea of integration in general , unspecified ways . |
30 | ‘ Would you believe it 's no less than some of the company directors and their wives paying a visit to Family Day ? ’ |