Example sentences of "[subord] it [verb] some [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea has now reached dimensions where it requires some assistance by individuals with stature and/or money to legitimize its growth . |
| 2 | When they were not , they switched to cockles ( although it took some time for them to learn the technique of shell penetration ) . |
| 3 | The extent to which deliberate Acts of Parliament are able to contradict Community law is a more vexed question , although it found some answer in the case of the Spanish-owned fishing companies in 1991 . |
| 4 | If it possesses some sort of strength — physical , chemical or armoured — it can face up boldly to its enemies and defy them . |
| 5 | Rupert repeated his earlier greeting and came towards her with a glass jug that looked as if it contained some kind of cocktail . |
| 6 | If it raises some alarm for ambulance provision in a scattered community like Teesdale , the implications for a town of 35,000 people like Newton Aycliffe are positively terrifying . |
| 7 | Now that allowance would be nice if it bore some relationship to what was allowed in the estimated er , figures . |
| 8 | When both taxes and public spending seemed out of control at the end of the Callaghan era , the proportion of voters telling Gallup that ‘ taxes should be cut even if it means some reduction in government services such as health , education and welfare ’ was exactly the same as the proportion saying ‘ government services such as health , education and welfare should be extended even if it means some increase in taxes ’ . |
| 9 | When both taxes and public spending seemed out of control at the end of the Callaghan era , the proportion of voters telling Gallup that ‘ taxes should be cut even if it means some reduction in government services such as health , education and welfare ’ was exactly the same as the proportion saying ‘ government services such as health , education and welfare should be extended even if it means some increase in taxes ’ . |
| 10 | If music is like a language , if it communicates some kind of emotional or spiritual message , then noise is best defined as interference , something which blocks transmission , jams the code , prevents sense being made . |
| 11 | Learning it is easier if it has some reason behind it ; but such reasons are theoretically based , and will therefore date . |
| 12 | If this were so in the present case , he concealed the fact with remarkable aplomb ; but my impression was that he rather welcomed this degree of personal contact , as if it provided some sort of relief from the heavy intellectual conversation repeatedly forced upon him . |
| 13 | The melee was extraordinary , because it took some time for Hunt to realize that he was world champion . |
| 14 | She resented the claim because it raised some barrier between them . |
| 15 | The woman wore a dress that seemed very short when I recalled the picture through the next few years : broad shoulders , a straight skirt that hung the way it did — I know now — because it had some rayon in it . |
| 16 | ‘ Customers said it was great that we were open because it showed some normality in the town . ’ |
| 17 | the situa , perhaps it 's worth outlining how Litchfield came to look at the new settlement option , because it has some relevance to York |
| 18 | MANY people believe that the Royal Navy is referred to as the Senior Service because it has some sort of superiority to the Army , but the term was not even heard before the 17th Century . |
| 19 | In the context of this chapter , however , it is particularly important to deal with the corporatist perspective on the politics of organised interests since it provides some kind of challenge to the pluralist perspective ( even though pluralism and corporatism share a number of basic assumptions ) , and it fleshes out elements of the left critique of pluralism ( even though much corporatist theory is hostile to a Marxist theory of the capitalist state ) . |
| 20 | The simplicity of the process assumed for aggregate demand is something we shall return to later , since it has some bearing on the interpretation of Lucas 's results . |
| 21 | The present situation , therefore , even though it allows some fudging of extraordinary items , must be far from perfect from Mr Damant 's point of view . |
| 22 | It was concerned mainly with England , though it took some evidence from other English-speaking countries ( including Scotland ) . |
| 23 | Though it claimed some influence upon the councils of action in the North East and in London , its impact was minimal . |
| 24 | She heard a car go up the road and then still heard it as it travelled some way along the road at the top , and realised the wind must be coming from the south for the sound to come to her so distinctly . |