Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] some [prep] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the usual cost-trimming exercises have been accomplished the only thing left to do is to sell off some of the most profitable parts to raise cash . |
| 2 | He even offered to continue to supply arms — thought at this time the new regime was trying to get the United States to buy back some of the more expensive equipment that the Shah had purchased . |
| 3 | It might be better to seal off some of the most polluted land — like America 's vast military estates — from the public and leave it as new wildernesses . |
| 4 | It is clear , for example , that there are still striking regional variations in the use of custodial remands , in spite of the Bail Act 's attempt to structure the decision-making process , which might have been expected to iron out some of the more extreme disparities . |
| 5 | The bicycle was accused of enlarging the scope for theft , and we were encouraged to linger over some of the more squalid details of profiteering and corruption which had accompanied the boom in the cycling industry . |