Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] some [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | My first book , When Sixpence Was A Fortune , has reached many corners of the world — a lady told me her sister read some of the poems to an audience of exiled Scots in New Zealand and half the folk there ‘ wiz greetin' ’ ! |
2 | Anyway , one day at a time : tomorrow I go to Durham and , as Mother said ’ — she pursed her lips now — ‘ it will give me an opportunity to wear some of the clothes I have been spending my money on . |
3 | The teaching checklist 3 in the Appendix epitomizes some of the issues he faces . |
4 | And what the female mimic does is it swims in and instead of releasing eggs , which is what the resident male expects , they release vast clouds of sperm and of course fertilize some of the eggs . |
5 | Despite OSF 's attempt to harmonise some of the products based upon its technology , it has come too late to net some of the larger fish . |
6 | The early modern transvestite and the post/modern gay ( anti ) sensibility suggest some of the ways in which transgressive reinscriptions have been around for much longer than post-modernism has been fashionable . |
7 | The study highlights some of the problems associated with user participation in centres which purport to provide social and ‘ rehabilitative ’ facilities in an explicitly voluntarist framework . |
8 | The following case study illustrates some of the points covered above in the selection of appropriate software . |
9 | But this booklet is a serious attempt to highlight some of the questions which are most frequently asked about the role which alcohol plays in society . |
10 | There are several accounts of the events of this crucial period in the history of British ‘ race relations ’ : what follows is an attempt to highlight some of the features which I feel are pertinent to a discussion of ‘ racial problem ’ films of the era . |
11 | This chapter describes some of the sources you might need to look at as you go about your study , how to find them , and how to use them . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | There was some attempt by friends of Highlander to purchase some of the books etc. at the auction but the buildings and most of the moveable assets were lost . |
14 | The police came to the college to arrest some of the students . |
15 | Prime Minister John Major 's Citizen 's Charter initiative , launched in the summer of 1991 , represents an attempt to apply some of the tenets of total quality management to the civil service , transport , health and education . |
16 | This chapter is not a systematic analysis of the areas of women 's invisibility in sociology ; rather , it is an attempt to suggest some of the areas and ways in which it is manifested , some of the reasons why it occurs , and why , from the point of view of sociology ( and women ) it matters . |
17 | Our photograph shows some of the members cheerfully tootling along the Antrim coast road on a recent 120-mile jaunt from Belfast and Ballycastle and back . |
18 | Bingham does not question this opinion but indicates that more explanation about the uncertainty surrounding some of the loans would have been helpful . |
19 | For example , the Association of Environmental Consultancies was established in 1991 by a group of 20 European environmental consultancies , in an attempt to dispel some of the uncertainties surrounding the professional standards of consulting firms . |
20 | During the 1930s the interest in public opinion polling germinated a more academically oriented interest in attitudes , in part as an attempt to resolve some of the problems arising from electoral prediction . |
21 | Last season a referee allowed himself to be wired up for a League match at The Den to record some of the things he had to put up with from players . |
22 | This was an attempt to retain some of the advantages of the gold standard , since stable rates of exchange were thought to be beneficial to the conduct of trade and other international transactions , and yet adjustments in the exchange rate were deemed desirable for a country facing a permanent payments imbalance . |
23 | Many organisations in fact are overwhelmed by a superabundance of communications and some are looking to computerisation to solve some of the problems created by information bombardment . |
24 | A companion photograph lists some of the officers and other ranks taught to fly the Taube by this intrepid airman . |
25 | In the evaluators ' view , the county is to be congratulated on undertaking a project of this type in an attempt to overcome some of the inadequacies that characterise school library provision and curriculum planning within and beyond Essex . |
26 | The material presented in this chapter echoes some of the themes developed by Margaret Donaldson in Children 's Minds ( 1978 ) . |
27 | However , it could provide ammunition for legal action which Ferranti intends to take against advisers and individuals in an attempt to recover some of the losses it has suffered . |
28 | Sterling is looking to part with one or more of the aircraft in an attempt to recover some of the costs incurred in bringing the aircraft back to civilisation . |
29 | Even after the abuses of the Star Chamber had been curbed the magistrates , who in the absence of a police force had some of the functions of a modern juge d'instruction , had power to interrogate the accused before trial . |
30 | Even after the abuses of the Star Chamber had been curbed the magistrates , who in the absence of a police force had some of the functions of a modern juge d'instruction , had power to interrogate the accused before trial . ’ |