Example sentences of "[vb -s] some [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And of course that 's what encourages some of the chaps in the large goods vehicles to use their weight er to push their way through . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Table 10.1 summarizes some of the changes in women 's work , or at least its statistical visibility , over the twentieth century . |
| 4 | Paul , from South Bank , Middlesbrough , opened an exhibition at Kirkleatham Old Hall Museum , near Redcar , which exposes some of the tricks of his trade . |
| 5 | Her account has some of the qualities of myth in validating shared beliefs and providing a charter for social action . |
| 6 | The announcement of room temperature fusion in 1989 has some of the hallmarks of a detective mystery where appearances deceive . |
| 7 | The general principle ( line 3 ) uses the world ‘ all ’ , the implication being that a potential X has some of the rights of an X. This is true of anyone a mere heartbeat from the monarchy . |
| 8 | It should perhaps come as no surprise that the Assessment of Performance Unit ( APU ) in England and Wales has some of the characteristics of the National Assessment of Educational Progress ( NAEP ) in the US ; or that new moves in the UK to establish procedures to make incompetent teachers liable to sanctions ( reported in the Times Educational Supplement . |
| 9 | If the Soviet state machine , the process of production and the producers , are directed by the party-state nomenklatura officials , who recruit by co-option from among the beneficiaries of higher education , and who in various ways benefit from privilege , it follows that this ruling stratum has some of the characteristics of a ruling class , though not that of ownership , except possibly in some collective sense . |
| 10 | To be sure , Guatemala has some of the virtues of a poor Latin American democracy . |
| 11 | A study from the Policy Studies Institute , Women into engineering and science — employers ' policies and practices , highlights some of the problems of combining a career and a family . |
| 12 | The example of the national parks illustrates some of the consequences of negative development control planning , but positive planning may also have serious implications for local communities . |
| 13 | An examination by Richards ( 1982 ) of the factors employed in the recruitment of apprentices in the East Midlands illustrates some of the problems in this area , especially in relation to the current occupationalist assertion that young people will benefit from a more ‘ vocational ’ education in order to counteract their lack of experience . |
| 14 | If you want to keep an eye on your sodium intake , refer to the nutritional information which accompanies some of the recipes in BBC Good Food . |
| 15 | A method of reconstruction which incorporates some of the advantages of both physical reconstruction and reconstruction drawings is the scale model . |
| 16 | Your otherwise useful report perpetuates some of the myths of the Clinton ideologues , notably the claim that ‘ the system leaves 35m Americans with no insurance at all . ’ |
| 17 | Bingham L.J. , at p. 287 , plainly took the view that a customer in a supermarket assumes some of the rights of an owner when he takes goods into his possession and exercises control over them by putting them in a basket or trolley , and thus appropriates them . |
| 18 | Although Gluckman does not consider the variable of gender , he describes some of the functions of gossip : the unification and affirmation of community values , the control of aspiring individuals and cliques within society , the selection of leaders , the maintenance of group exclusiveness . |
| 19 | A background paper ( Appendix D ) describes some of the limitations of conventional floristic and monographic writing , and outlines some of the ways in which computing can assist in conducting scientific research in these areas and in making the scientific information thus obtained available to ourselves and to others . |
| 20 | Hicks describes some of the limitations of co-citation measures as being the delayed inception of clusters , and inconsistent definitions of subject and keyword terms . |
| 21 | Our China correspondent describes some of the results in Sichuan province |
| 22 | Effective plotting requires practice , and achieving a good result can take time ; the appendix to this chapter describes some of the ways in which plots can be improved . |
| 23 | From her favourite vantage-point by the Dogana , jan Morris reviews some of the ghost-fleets of the Serenissima 's seafaring past and considers the continuing love affair between the Venetians and their boats . |
| 24 | The analysis also pursues some of the contrasts between sanctioning and compliance systems of enforcement , using the now substantial literature about the policeman on the street to throw the behaviour of the pollution control field staff into bolder relief . |
| 25 | This brief survey reveals some of the difficulties of establishing that shareholders are morally entitled to control companies by virtue of their legal property rights , and hence of attempting to legitimate corporate power by reference to those rights . |
| 26 | It also reveals some of the difficulties in relating this to the popular reception of Hitler 's image . |
| 27 | Robert Woods reveals some of the tricks of the trade . |
| 28 | Elizabeth Blackadder shows a group of those charming still lives in which she gathers some of the objects to be found in her Edinburgh home and paints them as if they were in situ . |
| 29 | There can be no doubt that Linda Nochlin has played an important role in making feminist interests and priorities visible ; this collection shows some of the ways in which she has brought these issues to the surface over the last twenty years . |
| 30 | See Robertson ( 1984 ) for a handy key to vegetation types in Scotland , which includes some of the communities of the Outer Hebrides . |