Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [verb] [prep] some of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course oil exporters , e.g. Nigeria and Algeria , have had to revise ambitious economic development programmes whilst some of the Persian Gulf oil exporters have disposed of some of their capital and money market investments . |
| 2 | Already , Community funds have led to some of Europe 's best wildlife habitats — for example , Lake Prespa in Greece , home to wolf , bears , otter and rare birds such as the Dalmatian pelican and pygmy cormorant . |
| 3 | Increasingly , as we 've been studying the problems of developing countries , two major changes have been occurring ; one in our own thinking that in many ways problems of developing countries are linked in extricably with things that are going on in Britain or Europe or other parts of the so-called industrial world , and secondly that as we 've been studying developing countries , we 've been finding that more and more problems in Britain and other industrial countries begin to look like some of the same problems that we 've been used to in developing countries . |
| 4 | Tim James , the council 's urban woodlands officer , said : ‘ Dutch elm disease has killed some of the trees and the high winds have accounted for some of the pine and larch . |
| 5 | My hypothesis is that the conditions of work are such that one mode of relating is that of schizoid withdrawal which means that individuals have to take on some of the characteristics just described . |
| 6 | Though the areas with organized cattle stealing ranged from some of the least to most prosperous in Sri Lanka , they had in common an economy based largely on the production of rice and other grains for local consumption . |
| 7 | Abrams attempted to account for some of the striking variations in ‘ neighbour behaviour ’ which he found in different areas . |
| 8 | This is just as well because high interest rates have led to some of Wehmiller 's customers in the UK deferring capital purchases in the short term . |
| 9 | WITH millions already shaping up for their New Year diet , doctors have warned against some of Britain 's most popular weight-loss plans . |
| 10 | Environmental standards have improved in some of the older zones , and local physical and economic development has been improved . |
| 11 | Houshold rubbish and builders waste strewn around some of the most picturesque parts of the forest . |
| 12 | Of course there is nothing entirely new in all this — various librarians have argued along some of these lines before . |