Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [adj] [verb] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's impossible to judge exactly how many people will come in as a result of that and er , how much expenditure will be incurred because as you know we 're in a recessionary period and as you 've already heard there is concern about current trading , but I would hope that it would bring in er , something like a hundred and fifty thousand extra people , certainly in a good year I 'd expect more than that but really that 's about as much as I 'm prepared to say with some additional spending which will be incurred at Alton Towers . |
| 2 | The fit of this brace was firm and it felt comfortable , despite the fact that it is an off-the-shelf model ( its older brother , the CTI , is custom-fit ) and I found I was able to ski with some confidence in my otherwise highly unstable knee . |
| 3 | We are therefore looking to YOU — Perhaps you are prepared to help in some way ? ? ? |
| 4 | ‘ You are welcome to look into some of the other rooms if you wish . |
| 5 | Er you 're entitled to go through some sort of training programme |
| 6 | We are all to blame in some way . |
| 7 | From a knowledge of what edges and surfaces are present , and how they are oriented relative to the eye , we are able to deduce with some confidence what three-dimensional objects are present . |
| 8 | We were all staying with some friends of Steve 's — that 's the man who 's organising the exhibition ; Rick shares a studio with him in London . |
| 9 | We were all looking for some direction in our lives and they gave us that direction . |
| 10 | Then not long after , we were both walking under some scaffolding — she was already under it and out of view — when a workman whistled , so I knew it was for me , not her . |
| 11 | There was a party afterwards during which we were able to talk to some of the officers who seemed faintly bored by the whole process . |
| 12 | I would say the thing that kept me sane during that period was the fact that I had a part time job , and erm we were able to pay for some home help . |
| 13 | The American archives suggest that even in 1954 the British would have been somewhat reassured had they been able to eavesdrop on some of the discussions which were taking place in Washington . |
| 14 | He , like many of his critics and followers , failed to see that the claims for a new scientific conceptualization rest not only on the ‘ facts ’ they are concerned to put into some kind of order , but also on the capacity of the new theoretical framework to bring out connections between what , until the new framework is used , appear as unconnected bits and pieces of information . |
| 15 | As soon as more advanced types evolved in response to a stimulating environment , they spread out around the world , driving earlier , more primitive forms into marginal locations where they were able to survive for some time before extinction . |
| 16 | ‘ I never seen anybody come back for a second dose of the blue , ’ said a man behind her , for all the world as though he were safe reminiscing in some bar of his old age . |
| 17 | It 's great to work alongside some really experienced footballers like Frank Gray and Tony McAndrew , ’ said Nigel . |
| 18 | On this page we just talk about Dinghy Sailing , but this is a very flexible centre , where it 's easy to mix in some windsurfing — see page 27 . |
| 19 | , it 's all done with some sort of ultra sound thing . |
| 20 | But it 's hard to reply to some sweet , well-meaning English family who are making the effort to be sociable , by throwing your tomato at them and yelling , ‘ What do you know , you lazy bastards ? |
| 21 | It 's it 's easier to say for some reason or other and yet |
| 22 | In practice , the kind of uniform state that historical scholars have had in mind has frequently been the uniform standard language ; for this reason it is appropriate to start with some comments on the tendency to envisage the history of English as a unilinear history of the standard language . |
| 23 | For this reason , it is better to refer at some stage to the primary source of an idea , even if you came across it first in a secondary source . |
| 24 | In this exploration , it is necessary to engage in some detailed and rather technical analyses of concepts . |
| 25 | Given that most visitors only have a couple of weeks , it is necessary to arrive with some sort of plan . |
| 26 | Since the conventions offer an imperfect guide to the subject at hand , it is necessary to look at some of the other types of sources which are generally recognised as being useful in establishing what the law is , and in relating it to specific situations and technical developments . |
| 27 | It is instructive to look at some particular examples , because they show that the simple economic case for pricing turns out to be only part of the story . |
| 28 | The difficulty is that the assumptions on which it is based are to say the least shaky : the assumptions , namely , that only one vote suffices although more than one candidate is to be elected ; that preferential voting is reliable , even when used in ignorance of all the relevant information and inhibited by the arbitrary exclusion of candidates who might otherwise be successful ; that it is reasonable to grant to some votes the privilege of being transferred , and to lower-preference votes the possibility of exercising greater influence than is warranted by their very definition ; that it is reasonable also to give to all transferred votes the same weighting as to original votes ; and that election by quota is sensible even if the quotas are manifestly make-believe . |
| 29 | Since The Machine Gunners found the biggest audience , it is useful to look in some detail at the range of reasons offered by teachers for its popularity . |
| 30 | Before we go too deeply into the treatment of illness with homoeopathy , it is useful to consider in some detail the nature of health and disease , and what is likely to have happened when an individual becomes ill . |