Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] some [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Possibly , selected or routine use of intraoperative cholangiography could have prevented or diagnosed some of the injuries .
2 We must relax or remove some of the rules on private sector leasing .
3 Batty recognises that he could have taken a sharper look at the derivative nature of the designs or examined some of the problems likely to face the company in the future .
4 If the corporate group wishes to raise further funds from external sources or use some of the funds for dividends or to repurchase shares , there is nothing in portfolio-grid analysis to stop it .
5 For example , in many classrooms pupils can be found discussing the differences in vocabulary there would be between an on-the-spot oral account of a road accident and a newspaper report of it the following day ; or considering the ways in which conventional spellings can be violated in advertisements and brand names ; or listing some of the differences between their grandparents ' use of language and their own ; or talking about the way a poet 's choice of metaphor yokes together two dissimilar things so that something familiar is suddenly perceived in a new way ; and so on .
6 Did you come here by yourself or did some of the members of the family travel with you , when you travel
7 Without it we should not have the motive or stimulus to reach our goals or survive some of the situations in which we find ourselves .
8 ‘ Nothing , ’ said Comfort , who had been unable either to forget or justify some of the things she had said to Julia during the war .
9 Yet the staff had n't realized it , and nor had some of the readers .
10 He said that the last of the 14 fences was too brightly painted and frightened some of the horses .
11 In this chapter , I would like to try to explain some of the laws and customs of my people , particularly with regard to women and marriage , and dispel some of the myths and fairy stories which had totally misled me .
12 These pages have described and examined some of the ways in which groups of adults perceived young workers , and how and why they sought to train , supervise , and control them .
13 And given some of the difficulties which we 've suggested in the course of this half hour are involved .
14 Shaved , shorn and bewigged , Simon Lay struts his forbidden stuff and upstages some of the girls but the deed is far more convincing than the intention .
15 Taking on a new persona is in any case impossible but it is possible to adopt and adapt some of the methods of effective presentation which others employ .
16 Last month I went back over the past 40 years of owning knitting machines and described some of the ways that I made sufficient money for the machines to pay for themselves .
17 We will have to meet and discuss some of the problems .
18 John came and moved some of the boxes .
19 ‘ When I got it , I actually went round the flat and stopped some of the radiators and turned them off , ’ she said .
20 Econometric analysis is used to study the behaviour in these relationships and test some of the hypotheses that have been proposed about the arms trade , as well as the open economy implications of arms exports and imports .
21 The course will also look back at garden history and explore some of the ways in which budding designers can learn from the great designers of the past .
22 2 The 19-minute video , ‘ Earth , Water , fire and Air ’ presented by TV botanist David Bellamy , highlights the company 's environmental policies and illustrates some of the benefits brought to the community .
23 Your stringer should be able to explain these terms and more — and understanding some of the stringers ' buzz words can be useful , even if it 's just to impress your friends .
24 We passed along some of the corridors and slammed some of the doors .
25 It can now be concluded that while initially forms of antislavery activity were in considerable part shaped by the struggle against the West Indians , they moved beyond these limits and assumed some of the characteristics of a popular movement .
26 He then proceeded to identify a periglacial cycle which went beyond a relationship between climate and process and attracted some of the criticisms that had previously been levelled at the Davisian ‘ normal ’ cycle .
27 The ‘ Crossroads ’ experiment presented a mentally handicapped child within the dimensions of a programme which purports to be about real people and real life , and to explore some of the issues raised in having such a child .
28 In the Mediterranean , where many such frugivores overwinter , bird fruits tend not to ripen until winter , and show some of the attributes of tropical specialized fruits in that they are drier and more nutritious than northern fruits and can provide a complete diet for the birds .
29 This approach could involve studying the statistical distribution of child abuse , or comparing a group of known child abusers with a non-abusing control group , in order to try to identify and isolate some of the factors that make it more likely that some parents will abuse their children .
30 Sitting down , he extracted folders and studied some of the contents , including photographs of letters written by Byron , Shelley , Claire Clairmont , Byron 's mistress , and Shelley 's wife Mary , author of Frankenstein .
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