Example sentences of "[prep] some [noun pl] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 There has been for some years a basic agreement that the parliamentary salary should be sufficient to prevent MPs feeling the need to seek supplementary income .
2 On the contrary it seems on the face of it to be likely that with some learners a conscious awareness of how language works and the subjection of their experience to analysis would suit their cognitive style , increase motivation by giving added point to their activities , and so enhance learning .
3 Under some circumstances a face-to-face interaction is preferred but , in others , for a variety of different reasons , the individual may prefer to conduct his transaction in writing .
4 Amino-terminal to the HLH region , a further helical sequence of basic residues is found and , in some members a well-conserved leucine zipper is present after the HLH motif .
5 Surrounding the fuel is a ‘ moderator ’ — in some reactors a solid substance , like graphite , in others , purified water .
6 The matter of sexually abusive language in texts is in some senses a separate issue .
7 In some circumstances a better curve for countering an apparent concavity of form can be a very flat cycloid , like a five centred arch .
8 In some circumstances a hand-held urinal or a commode may make life easier .
9 ( a ) Specializing , as in the cases of sustaining or promoting work in a particular medium or branch of an art , and in some circumstances a particular style ;
10 Most indexing terms in a thesaurus are ‘ uniterms ’ or single-concept terms , although in some instances a deliberate decision may be made to include some multi-concept terms .
11 In some cases a Stipendiary Magistrate sits .
12 There is no future in raising subscriptions to a point where we are faced with a genuine reluctance , and in some cases a real inability , to pay .
13 In some cases a pre-existing centre , which already possessed an economic role , will have been incorporated into the new system and perhaps attracted other functions as well .
14 Second , in many communities where it was treasured at the most sophisticated level it was an exotic , even in some cases a mysterious substance , only to be secured from a distance .
15 They fear they could lay themselves open to prosecution for murder or manslaughter — or in some cases a civil action for damages — if they disconnect a feeding tube without court permission .
16 Neighbours who were unwary enough to let the Misses Lovelock look after the chickens in their absence rarely found any eggs awaiting them on their return , and in some cases a plump chicken had died .
17 Therefore one major trend in rural public transport studies has been a move away from ‘ behavioural ’ to ‘ need ’ studies and in some cases a joint approach .
18 Partly in response to these feelings , the planners generally showed great interest in , and in some cases a considerable amount of use of , the online information services .
19 In some cases a single aerial serves a block of flats or a valley area where off-air reception is poor .
20 I find that about 5 per cent of the students I teach are never able to overcome this difficulty ( even though they may have perfect hearing and in some cases a high level of linguistic and musical ability ) ; of the remainder , a few are especially gifted and can not understand how anyone could find the task difficult , and most others eventually learn after five or ten hours of practical classes .
21 It is now common for printers , particularly quick print outlets to employ an artist or in some cases a creative team .
22 In some countries a large majority of the electorate do not even exercise the right to vote .
23 Firstly , they show that the pattern of villages and hamlets seen on the map today is incomplete and that , contrary to earlier ideas about medieval settlement , in some areas a large number of former sites has disappeared .
24 ( There is in some machines a lower level called microcode but this need not concern us here . )
25 In some cities a relative plethora of doctors and rapid urbanisation have led to a boom in private medical practice , which now provides a substantial amount of curative care for the inhabitants , including the poor ( p 673 ) .
26 Yet what had previously been an alternative tendency within the general social order , and in some respects a central tendency within the rising industrial bourgeoisie , was now , in this crisis , shifted into an oppositional tendency .
27 ‘ Reading Primo Levi ’ is in some respects a strong essay .
28 I am suggesting that within the one is the other — in some respects a Chinese Box would have provided a better diagram than a polarisation continuum , although it would have been difficult to decide which box should be on the outside .
29 In some churches a casual visitor gets the impression from the mournful atmosphere of the service that the congregation must be rehearsing their own funerals !
30 Our forests also have some interesting trails , but in some places a strong person is needed to push the chair .
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