Example sentences of "[coord] some [prep] [art] [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cost 3 to 5 times more than the yardstick items , and include Persian-style Chinese rugs and some of the better quality items from India and Pakistan . |
| 2 | Drilling carried out to prove an underlying granite cusp at shallow ( < 500 m ) depth was unsuccessful and some of the higher grade intersections of vein mineralisation , up to 11 m at 1 per cent Sn , contained refractory tin silicates ( MRP 48 ; MEG 73 and 198 ) . |
| 3 | The unions , so dormant in the 1980s , were now more positive in their approach , through leaders such as Gavin Laird ( Engineers ) , Tom Sawyer ( NUPE ) , and John Edmunds ( Municipal Workers ) , representatives of the older craft industries and some of the newer high-tech , white-collar workers , too . |
| 4 | The lights at the docks twinkled mistily , and some of the larger craft at moorings carried lights , but for the most part the harbour was a broad plain of darkness . |
| 5 | True , they could wimble ( see ‘ Flowers In Our Hair ’ and some of the later stuff for evidence ) but they were different . |
| 6 | It was a copy of The Daily Gleaner ; from a distance of twenty feet Martha could read all the headlines and some of the smaller print . |
| 7 | The success of get rich-quick schemes and some of the earlier pyramid ventures depend on the same thing . |
| 8 | Some comes directly from the upper mantle above the descending oceanic plate , some from partial melting of the oceanic plate itself , and some from the lower part of the continental crust . |