Example sentences of "[adv prt] some [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 As certain areas of Great Britain , for example , take on some of the characteristics of divided societies , the focus of this study also has a relevance , of increasing proportion , outside the province and beyond what many residents in Northern Ireland might see as most directly pertinent to them .
2 ‘ A botanical illustrator who 's retired here is filling in some of the gaps in our plant and tree records .
3 Russians are filling in some of the gaps in their lives by seeking out anything that was forbidden or hard to get in Soviet times .
4 Right before I fill in some of the details on this again an important point to grasp coming up .
5 These administrative arrangements broke down some of the barriers in co-ordinating services , but grassroots co-operation has not appeared to be necessarily easier than elsewhere in Great Britain .
6 ‘ We had a gale last night , and it brought down some of the tiles on your cottage .
7 If you start writing down some of the responses to that question , you will find you have along the way acquired a ragbag of elements that will have an important bearing on the design .
8 You know , i i it is a very fine line between er how we talk to our customers , which is why I , I , I ca n't stress enough the need for the project coordinators to talk face to face with the customer first of all , and perhaps gently lead him down some of the items in this list that the project coordinator thinks the client might not have remembered .
9 Yolland thought that the only action needed was to cut down some of the trees in a young plantation in order to give people riding or driving on the turnpike a good view of an advancing train in the cutting .
10 We must face the issue seriously and not in the way in which the Prime Minister faced the issue at Harare when he said that he would write off some of the debts in return for the acceptance of an economic model imposed by the International Monetary Fund , and say that there has to be a write-off of debt .
11 The virtuous and those plagued by dogs ( not mutually exclusive groups ) can always walk off some of the effects of a pudding afterwards .
12 It is becoming a tradition in our family ( extended by friends ) to do a fairly long walk between Christmas and the New Year , to walk off some of the effects of the turkey and tone up the system for the usual see-the-New- Year-in celebrations .
13 It was bad enough having to admit that the APT train project was a dead duck , but BR shot itself in the foot and provided the cynical national media with a field day by selling off some of the vehicles to a Sheffield scrapyard .
14 I if you get them off some of the mosses up our way , then they boil away far quicker but the other thing I think is mainly variety .
15 While Father Aden tidies the rooms , Brother Bernard slips into his role as tourist guide , showing off some off the treasures of the Abbey .
16 It 's heartening to see NI take up some of the challenges of feminism in a thoughtful , provocative way .
17 Perhaps I could point up some of the concerns about c the second criterion .
18 This research builds on an earlier survey based on a postal questionnaire by following up some of the respondents to the questionnaire .
19 I could probably dig up some of the rules for the 90 Mins one if anyone is really interested .
20 Following up some of the conclusions of the first CACE report ( see 1947 Clarke ) this inquiry considered ‘ the natural interests and pursuits of school children out of school hours ’ .
21 I want to give you I 'm going to give each of you , yeah if you just wan na just clear up some of the bits of paper then that 's alright .
22 To be expected to relinquish this power , and give up some of the spoils to the likes of SARU , who had been at the forefront in demanding the non-participation of the Springboks in international competition since it was ‘ impossible to play normal sport in an abnormal society ’ , must , understandably , be a difficult to swallow .
23 However , because some aspects of United Kingdom law were somewhat vague and ill-defined ( for example , the meaning of fair-dealing ) it was decided to tighten up some of the exceptions to copyright infringement , the necessary changes to the 1988 Act being made by the Copyright ( Computer Programs ) Regulations 1992 .
24 Since universities had become relatively autonomous in 1863 , the authorities ' general attitude towards education seemed to indicate a readiness on their part to give up some of the prerogatives of the central bureaucracy .
25 I shall take up some of the comments of the hon. Member for Stamford and Spalding on a single currency .
26 Josie fluffed out some of the tail-feathers on a costume for the upcoming number , and gave the matter some thought .
27 As part of their familiarisation process with the new assessment procedures , the students tried out some of the tasks from the Negotiator module in pairs .
28 Now that we have outlined the basic operations of fiscal policy , it is desirable to conclude by pointing out some of the limitations of this approach to economic management :
29 At the same time , the children are learning to control them and are finding out some of the properties of a circle .
30 The primary value of privatizing marketable services and contracting out some of the inputs to the production of non-marketable services is to reduce the monopoly power of bureaus and review committees and provide services at a price known to the representatives of middle-demand groups .
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