Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] some [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | That does n't necessarily mean biggest , although it requires some critical mass in each country , and only in selected industries in each country ’ Carroll said . |
2 | What is perhaps most remarkable about this grassland is that it is only maintained under active management even rabbits were introduced by the Normans and , although it resembles some periglacial assemblages of plants , it must have been reconstituted after the forest maximum unless there were extensive grazed glades in that period . |
3 | Although this memorandum was immediately denounced and repudiated , there is no doubt that it touched some sensitive nerves . |
4 | He believed that communications was only different in that it offered some vocational skills . |
5 | language … gives structure to experience , and helps to determine our way of looking at things , so that it requires some intellectual effort to see them in any other way than that which our language suggests to us . |
6 | ‘ Thirty years ago Julian Huxley and Eliot Slater speculated that the reason why the disadvantageous schizophrenia gene was not progressively eliminated from the gene pool was that it conveyed some biological advantage such as resistance to infection . |
7 | One of the reasons it thinks that COSE is interested in its participation is that it has some key technology that in typical DEC fashion , it has failed to trumpet . |
8 | The tribunal is not restricted to evidence acceptable in a court of law ; provided that it has some probative value the court will not reassess its weight . |
9 | A second important contribution made by the notion of implicature is that it provides some explicit account of how it is possible to mean ( in some general sense ) more than what is actually " said " ( i.e. more than what is literally expressed by the conventional sense of the linguistic expressions uttered ) . |
10 | I I would I would suspect that it needs some some interpretation . |
11 | This is sometimes done at discotheques , and it produces some dramatic effects . |
12 | The study is re- examining the national accounts measurement of government services ; it argues that most public servants in fact do things which can be measured and it provides some alternative estimates for real output growth in education , health and public administration ( which compares well with broadly analogous private financial services ) . |
13 | therefore investigated recognition memory for conversation in a ‘ soap opera ’ and found that the surface form of an utterance was remembered if it carried some pragmatic meaning . |
14 | He held the book out between finger and thumb as if it contained some dangerous virus which at any moment could threaten the whole school . |
15 | Still , she did n't mind at all having the blame laid at her door if it saved some other female from having to put up with his unwanted attentions . |
16 | " Pictures for the People " was a grand slogan , and if it extracted some national treasures from London for display in Middlesbrough and Huddersfield , it might even do some good . |
17 | Reading this poem urges us to ask what ‘ essential history ’ is and wonder if it has some ritual pattern . |
18 | This filter examines every character to see if it has some special meaning or if it is to be translated into another character or sequence of characters . |
19 | ‘ It would be gratifying if it held some more revelations , but perhaps that would be too much to hope for . |
20 | Food for Microwaving is also useful but it has some curious entries : under flour , for instance , it simply describes what flour is and what it is used for , but has nothing to offer on how microwaving affects it in pastry , cakes , etc . |
21 | Bay 's chief scented ; leaves used in potpourri use is in cooking , but it has some medical value also . |
22 | Multimedia is one ingredient in this climate of change and potential diversification but it has some particular implications which publishers need to understand . |
23 | But it has some clear themes . |
24 | Its tone is playful and frivolous but it makes some valid criticisms . |
25 | It is not as highly structured a programme as microteaching would demand but it applies some microteaching principles in the emphasis placed on the elements of classroom interaction . |
26 | Unless it had some other cause entirely … |
27 | The Bank told us that it does not reject applicants for loans unless it has some firm reason ( such as serious doubt about ability to repay ) . |
28 | Again , the placebo could be powerful because it meets some psychological need for attention and treatment . |
29 | These two abilities presumably evolved separately ; after all , the splitting of water is useful in its own right , because it releases some chemical energy . |
30 | Severe actions may be sanctioned against Ireland because it is naturally cursed , or because it needs extreme measures to bring it the fruits of reformation ( desired by God ) , or because it holds some particular horror for England which the English will deserve unless they do something about it . |