Example sentences of "[subord] it [verb] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Royal Commission on Capital Punishment which reported in 1953 ( Cmnd. 5932 ) examined the experience of countries throughout the world where the death penalty has been abolished , restored , abolished again or where it existed in some parts and not in others . |
| 2 | Although it grows to some 20cm in the wild it rarely achieves even half that size in the aquarium . |
| 3 | The agreement endorsed the principle of " self-sufficiency " , which stipulated that waste should be treated or disposed of as close as possible to the point of production , although it provided for some flexibility in the case of smaller countries . |
| 4 | The outcome of these changes is that the drug bill is rising faster than it has for some years and above the rate of inflation . |
| 5 | It looks as if it belongs in some fairy-tale . ’ |
| 6 | All chemical reactions were in a sense an expression of this principle ; and if it seemed in some case that the weights of the reactants and the products were unequal , then the chemist must have missed something . |
| 7 | If it amounts to some sort of ‘ machine privacy ’ , is that at all suggestive for the question of consciousness ? |
| 8 | The North Berwick line enjoys a spectacular claim to fame because it has at some time or other in its history been powered by every possible form of motive power ; horse , steam , diesel and electricity . |
| 9 | " Since it matters to some extent ( and perhaps a good deal ) which rule is chosen , we do best to use convention only to protect decisions that some responsible political institution has actually taken on the merits and to not include under that umbrella decisions by default , that is decisions no one has actually made . |
| 10 | Soon , however , a new controversy arose when it seemed to some zoologists and paleontologists that even the large dinosaurs could very well have had a high running speed , at least as high as an equivalent sized modern mammal . |
| 11 | So , between friends lost and friends forgotten , he was very much alone this Saturday night , and picked up the phone when it rang with some gratitude . |
| 12 | The next race was at Long Beach in California , billed as the US Grand Prix West , and though it ran through some streets , its relationship to Monaco , much hyped in the local press , was pretty tenuous . |
| 13 | fears about not bonding with or loving the child immediately — this can take some time , as it does with some birth parents . |
| 14 | The issue of conscription was a particularly tender one for the union , for it had for some time been under pressure from the Admiralty over breaches of the obligation of seamen , nominally enforced by the Board of Trade , that sailors should be on board their ships on time and hence not delay sailings . |