Example sentences of "of [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a swollen overdraft there could be no outlay on new players — it was in fact a case of salvaging some small return from huge expenditure early in 1950 . |
| 2 | ‘ Hell , you 've had experience very recently of handling some tricky situations , taking instant decisions , and they came out just the way we wanted them . |
| 3 | The real benefit of reading Baudelaire himself on the art of his contemporaries is the chance of recovering some of the excitement the poet felt . |
| 4 | Here , briefly , I want to take their critique seriously as a way of identifying the issue of value , of resisting the more celebratory aspects of an accommodation to the logic of commodification and consumption , and of recovering some of the ground lost or forfeited by critique . |
| 5 | The Franks report cost £60 000 and stands a good chance of recovering some of that cost through sales of the report . |
| 6 | The bodies given the task of recovering some of the lost money , most notably the Resolution Trust Corporation and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation , made it clear more than a year ago that the thrifts ' auditors and advisers would be first in the firing line leading many accountants to accuse the government of targeting them as ‘ deep pockets ’ . |
| 7 | Thus , the Report refers to " English in the highest sense " as " the channel for formative culture for all English people , and the medium of the creative art by which all English writers of distinction , whether poets , historians , Philosopher , or men of science , have secured for us the power of realising some part of their own experience of life " . |
| 8 | You may be in the habit of using some visual behaviours that run the risk of giving the other person a poor impression of you . |
| 9 | There have been dramatic declines of a few bird species as a result of using some chemicals , and perhaps more subtle and long-term changes as a result of the simplification of the plant community of farmland arising from cropping changes and the widespread use of increasingly sophisticated herbicides . |
| 10 | The second point i is this issue about self containment , er Mr Davis accused me this morning of using some somewhat outlandish words , I think , erm , I did obviously refer to the er my vision of what a new settlement of this size proposed would be , and I I did n't in that mean to imply that I did n't in that mean to imply that I did n't expect that with the right planning that it could n't have clearly local facilities , local school , library , etcetera , but it seemed to me quite clear that the scale proposed it would not have the higher order functions which as we 've heard earlier , Greater York has been defined based on York 's planning assumptions , clearly the major shopping , educational , and social facilities will continue to be provided in the city , and it will produce what is in effect dormitory settlement . |
| 11 | I only hope that the police committee will actually support those and get on towards introducing them , because that is a way of using some of the people in our village communities to erm , to keep an eye on the community and see that those people that should n't go round . |
| 12 | Survey evidence showed that although training is an important and effective way of helping some unemployed people back to work , it is not the only way or always the best way . |
| 13 | The group reviewed evidence that the warming effect might be delayed by the high levels of sulphur dioxide present in the atmosphere as a result of industrial pollution , on account of the gas 's property of reflecting some of the sun 's incoming heat . |
| 14 | Impressed by their officials ' strictures about the need for obeying government rules and directives as a means of maintaining some notion of good local government and the good opinion of Central Government , with a sense of loyalty and dependency towards their officials , and a feeling that their own integrity was at stake , they maintained the policy . |
| 15 | Shinwell , however , helped tilt the balance in favour of maintaining some regional independence , and he told the House of Commons that : |
| 16 | Nothing in it suggests even that he is aware of pursuing some covert stratagem in the battle . |
| 17 | No matter how bad the weather , you can always find some sheltered stretches , and there is normally the bonus of seeing some of the first swallows and martins of the year as well . |
| 18 | I have had the pleasure of seeing some welcome sights in my time , but that comes very near the top of the list . |
| 19 | It may also be that women have a greater need of seeing some of the qualities of the future . |
| 20 | And Frye is sceptical about the possibility of women looking to their foremothers as a source of inspiration ; of seeing some women , at least , as having led lives that were not wholly male-mediated . |
| 21 | It was n't a difficult exercise and normally it would have been a very pleasant way of seeing some wonderful countryside . |
| 22 | Each has at least had the consolation , if that is the appropriate word , of seeing some of his worst fears come to pass . |
| 23 | And so on the whole the unions in Britain have seen this as a way of catching some people who otherwise would fall through the net entirely . |
| 24 | The offeror often reserves the right to waive the higher condition , however , and the consequences of accepting some lower percentage are described in para 9.1.2 below . |
| 25 | Two films , Hell 's Angels on Wheels and Rebel Rouser were supposed to follow in the wake of The Wild Angels , even to the point of including some of the cast of that film , like Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd . |
| 26 | In addition , the use of neural net technology is being investigated as a means of including some learning features useful to the diagnostic process . |
| 27 | I was thinking of sticking some pages on the World Wide Web for this great team and was wondering if anyone has done this already . |
| 28 | The house was perfect — well , it would have been perfect ; it needed a complete overhaul , of course , redecorating from top to bottom , and then I 'd thought of building some guest-houses , and it seemed a little silly to have a villa with perfect anchorage unless I used it , so I 'd thought of a yacht … |
| 29 | Apart from anything else , this gives the individual manager the best chance of building some capital , and the problem of a large organization as opposed to the self-employed lies in the area of capital accumulation . |
| 30 | There is also the future possibility of building some of the elements of the European convention on human rights into specific treaty additions of the European Community . |