Example sentences of "it [vb -s] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since history affects people 's decisions , it plays some part in producing future history . |
| 2 | Sir Kenneth Newman — then commandant — suggests that the book 's claim to attention is that its contents are contributed by insiders ; while in their introduction , the authors claim it goes some way to challenging Holdaway 's claim ( 1979 ) that ‘ research from the Police Staff College has not resulted in a major project on the police ’ . |
| 3 | If this is correct , it goes some way towards dealing with cases of ‘ cumulative provocation ’ , and towards a broader defence of emotional pressure . |
| 4 | Surely a forlorn ambition , but it goes some way to explain , what would otherwise be so difficult to understand , why eminent members of the nascent |
| 5 | Most of the old great Elf towns date from this period and it goes some way towards accounting for their remoteness . |
| 6 | All this formed a background to the first century of crusading ; and it goes some way to explaining the more secular aspects of the magnetism which drew French knights to take up the cross in their thousands . |
| 7 | It probably means that the average family is a much more relaxed affair than the traditional Scottish household used to be , but it goes some way towards explaining the numbers of children at risk in our society from adults outside the home , as well as from their own undisciplined emotions . |
| 8 | Research also suggests it discourages some people from re-offending . |
| 9 | Although it might be objected that Skocpol 's analysis courts the danger of falling into another version of functionalism , since it postulates some inherent functions of the state , it has the benefit of drawing attention to processes within the state and the specific logic which guides them . |
| 10 | It represents some 25 per cent . |
| 11 | In recent years , however , the canine colon has become a standard model for colonic motility studies and , although it displays some kinds of contractile activity not seen in man , it has been useful for investigating neuropharmacological interactions . |
| 12 | In the first place , it involves some actual power of control over the thing possessed . |
| 13 | In the second place , it involves some intention to maintain that control on the part of the possessor . |
| 14 | However , it thinks some kind of contact will be forged over time and expects a port to the company 's DRS6000 Unix box to materialise in the not too distant future . |
| 15 | I 'm a sucker for coastal walking and am naturally attracted to Dorset as it offers some of the best in the country . |
| 16 | Although the valley looks an uncomfortable place to spend the night , it offers some protection from the wind . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , to some extent it can be said that it fulfils some of the functions of the preambles in Community texts to which I have just referred . |
| 18 | This is a positive horizontal externality created by one retailer on others ; in attempting to gain a greater margin for itself , it drives some custom away . |
| 19 | It produces some odd effects , however , for strict equivalence between postcranial and cranial elements is only reached when all the jaws are broken and the molars released . |
| 20 | Secondly , there are a number of different types of situation where there is missing information : either the recogniser produces no candidates for a letter string , or it produces some candidates . |
| 21 | An amino acid is a chemical sub-unit of a protein , and ultimately everything that happens in a cell it produces some kind of protein , so you can see that erm the triplet or produces erm which is one of the , one of the er amino acids and so on and there are also punctuation marks U A A or U A G means stop , as does U G A , so when , when a R N A template running through a gets to a sequence which reads , where was it now , U A A it stops reading because it knows it 's got to the end of the gene . |
| 22 | This is sometimes done at discotheques , and it produces some dramatic effects . |
| 23 | It lies some five miles north of Manchester . |
| 24 | A final dividend is due and payable on the date it is declared , unless the resolution declaring it specifies some other date ( Hurll v IRC ( 1922 ) 8 TC 292 ) . |
| 25 | It incorporates some knowledge , to wit the algorithm itself , but no more . |
| 26 | It needs some sort of collective arrangement on exchange rates . |
| 27 | But it needs some encouragement to port to Unix and substitute it for the server , rather than OS/2 . |
| 28 | So it needs some , an action somewhere to erm , er , er , he said could we get , if we 've got a conformation , conformation that 's from R E S could you send it to British Section . |
| 29 | But it needs some kind of explanation . |
| 30 | To avoid misunderstanding , even disappointment , it needs some careful qualification . |