Example sentences of "some [vb base] the " in BNC.
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1 | Some advocate the use of mathematical methods to gain insight into the properties of the software , as specified by the UK Ministry of Defence . |
2 | Some fear the murder may never be solved . |
3 | Some suffer the humiliation of having pornographic photographs on the walls and some are subjected to indecent exposure and even assault or rape . |
4 | Some cite the success of Raves and warehouse parties , for which it 's essential to look the part . |
5 | Some of them have been got at by the plant-breeders and bear no resemblance to the species or variety originally discovered ; some remain the same , being already sufficiently beautiful or useful . |
6 | Some make the recording one day , listen to it and come back and do the checking the next day . |
7 | Some skip the tight fantastic by using them as a jumping rope , others wear them as a scarf or string them up in the garden as a washing line . |
8 | Some focus on a particular joint-venture subsidiary company ; some involve the sharing of research and development ; some are an alliance of production capacity with marketing strength ; some involve putting a foreign product under a domestic label ; some alliances are intended to promote a new standard or form of compatibility ( and to defeat a rival standard ) . |
9 | Some say the escalators are controlled by the cones which march up and down the M1 , but I find this fanciful . |
10 | Some say the men were armed , others not . |
11 | Some say the lion was set up to celebrate a victory over the Venetians — although that seems barely credible , a defeated , down-trodden beast being the more usual symbol for a defeated enemy — others that it simply marks the position of the old eastern gate , through which travellers to and from Venice would go . |
12 | Some say the stone from these quarries was the hardest of the Dartmoor granites . |
13 | The answer to Ross Ferguson 's ( Letters , 24 March , p 840 ) is as follows : Fire and Ice Some say the world will end in fire , Some say in ice . |
14 | It is a great name , though some say the atmosphere at the ‘ Kempi ’ is not what it used to be . |
15 | Admittedly , the ideal ( some say the only ) way to introduce safe capsizing is in the swimming pool . |
16 | Some say the failed policy was really that of John Major , as shown by his devotion to the Maastricht Treaty which would lead to Monetary union . |
17 | But it is disquieting that the date of the start of the English county championship is still in dispute ; some say the 1860s , some the 1890s . |
18 | Some say the character of armagnac is under threat , others point out that double distillation actually predates single , continuous distillation in the area . |
19 | Some say the Big Grey Man is the ghost of a long dead giant . |
20 | However some say the giants were born after a band of women , banished from another land for murdering their husbands , slept with demons . |
21 | Some say the Duke has a new bedfellow — a southern lady . |
22 | Some say the idea originated in Greece or Turkey as a tourist stunt . |
23 | Some want the rotation requirement to apply to all companies , regardless of the problems that would cause for smaller practices ; others want it kept to listed and other public interest clients . |
24 | Some want the requirement to apply to the engagement partner alone , while others — like Touche — want all the audit partners involved rotated . |
25 | Some suggest the quantities of dead fish dumped overboard exceed the quantities retained , and a new rule was recently introduced stipulating that two inspectors accompany every foreign fishing vessel within Namibian waters . |
26 | Some emphasize the idealization of motherhood as a social phenomenon , arguing that the all-sacrificing , good-mother image is the cultural stereotype of femininity . |
27 | Whilst some welcome the opportunity of early retirement , others see it as an unwanted imposition on their lives . |
28 | Some welcome the brief diversion that the jamboree will bring and the possibility of earning some money ; others recall the lines of a local saying ‘ The soil of my country is purer than gold ’ . |
29 | Owned and bred in Ireland by Major Eustace Loder ( she was foaled only two years after Sceptre ( see pages 18–19 ) ) and trained at Newmarket by Peter Purcell Gilpin , she made her racecourse debut in the British Dominion Two-Year-Old Plate at Sandown Park in June 1903 and turned in an electrifying performance to win by an official margin of ten lengths — though some put the correct distance at nearly a hundred yards ! |
30 | There is no text entry for ‘ dinosaur ’ , but the index gives 11 references that together cover these creatures thoroughly , although some reveal the British distaste for an impact as the cause of the Cretaceous/Tertiary extinction . |