Example sentences of "some [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speich , for instance , was a genuine investigator with some coups behind him , and they had the scent of something hot now . |
| 2 | Mace claims that some $1bn of business has now been conducted on 88000-based system products , and claims , as the group often does , that there will be more converts to the cause — this time around there are five or six Intel Corp i860 manufacturers on its hitlist. 88open will open a European office this summer , either in the UK or Germany , which will use space rented in one of its members ' offices . |
| 3 | Ariana is the brainchild of Roger Haddad , who previously founded Metrologie , probably one of the most successful value added hardware and software distribution networks ever created in Europe , with sales worth some $1bn in 1990 . |
| 4 | Some 63% of wives took part in decision making . |
| 5 | Aged about 25 ( macaws can live and breed up to 70 ) , she has n't mated yet , but like some gardeners are ‘ green-fingered ’ , some aviculturalists like Harry are ‘ blue-fingered ’ . |
| 6 | Lastly I told him that there was supposed to be a plan for a British submarine which would take off escaped prisoners somewhere near La Spezia , and I produced some maps of the area which I had managed to get from a book seller friend of mine in Parma . |
| 7 | Please could somebody do some maps for Terminator 2 ? |
| 8 | The position can be illustrated simply by thinking of a study that is to take place of the social workings of a youth club to test out some hypothesis about the manifest and latent functions of this association . |
| 9 | Given that we have no privileged access to the minds of others we must proceed on some hypothesis about mental events or mental states . |
| 10 | Even on a crossed telephone line , listening at random to shortwave radio messages , or casting a note in a bottle on to the waves , humans always form some hypothesis about the sender or receiver . |
| 11 | Josh only gave him some whisky for his own good . |
| 12 | She sloshed some whisky into the cup . |
| 13 | I 'm going to make you a cup of tea and we 'll put some whisky in it to make you feel better . |
| 14 | Do you want some whisky in your tea ? |
| 15 | Some 50% of Britons and 38% of Germans believed that Mr Reagan 's foreign policy had increased the dangers of war in Europe . |
| 16 | Of the joint registrations made in 1989 , 72% were made by parents living at the same address , which suggests that some 50% of children born outside marriage were born to a cohabiting couple . |
| 17 | If all goes to plan , oil should account for some 50% of demand in 1990 and 38% in the year 2000 . |
| 18 | US customers take some 50% of Mexican oil exports . |
| 19 | However , Mr Barber reports that the number of people planning to retire to a home in France now accounts for some 50% of enquiries . |
| 20 | The World Bank in Washington DC has placed an order with Reading , Berkshire-based Racal-Redac ( UK ) Ltd for 154 of its CadStar printed circuit board design packages and 57 advanced MS-DOS routers : the products will be used by participants in India 's Impact programme , set up with the help of the World Bank , to provide the country 's leading educational institutions with electronic design automation tools and other software ; Racal-Redac reckons the deal gives it some 50% of the Indian printed circuit board design software market . |
| 21 | Unisys Corp claims to have won some 50% of the world 's open systems transaction processing business , but still only has around 22 Tuxedo customers on its books , including the Union Bank of Switzerland , Eurodollar car rental , La Namur Assurance Co in Belgium and Koninklijke PTT Telecom Nederland NV ; NCR Corp , it estimates , has some 10 to 15 customers for Top End monitor , while Transarc Corp 's rival Encina has only just started shipping . |
| 22 | This generates some 50% of total revenues , and Ms Keegan says Kapiti is working towards Posix-compliance . |
| 23 | Overall , Joan 's only uses a few Creole features : some Creole past tense forms ( did go , etc . |
| 24 | In " Area B " , one of two areas of South-East London where Hewitt worked and one which has a relatively high density of Caribbeans , even white children may learn some Creole in primary school , through peer contact ( 1986 : 150 ) . |
| 25 | During the Munich crisis of September 1938 some rehearsals for evacuation were carried out , and in the following months arrangements were speeded up . |
| 26 | The occupational therapist may supply portable handrails in the early stages after the stroke , so that the patient has some support on each side while he sits on the toilet , although these should not be used to lean on when standing up or sitting down . |
| 27 | While Leapor could never have been published without some support of this kind , patronage introduced a new influence on Leapor 's writing . |
| 28 | Some support of the sectors involved in the administration of justice , for example , by serving on Advisory Committee , Compensation Boards , The Parole Board , Mental Health Act Tribunal and assisting in appointing magistrates [ voluntary ] . |
| 29 | Glaxo Group Research runs a child minding service managed by the company to give some support to mothers returning to work . |
| 30 | This informal group was started up by an NCT member in 1986 to give some support to mums who were at work , or thinking about going back . |