Example sentences of "of [verb] [adv prt] some [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Moreover , the car is hideously noisy with the hood up , and it has the effect of filtering out some of the nice engine sounds and replacing them with rattles from the differential , whines from the gearbox and banging from the suspension . |
2 | Nonetheless , it did almost certainly delay the task of writing up some of the results contained in his voluminous notebooks . |
3 | Lastly we want to sort of clear up some of the mess that is made by the previous conservative registration . |
4 | Note , however , that if the slack only takes the form of paying out some of the monopoly rents as higher remuneration to factors of production , then there is no efficiency loss implied . |
5 | In this chapter I want , first of all , to outline some of the reasons for believing that different types of animal have different types of brain , and second , to discuss ways of getting round some of the difficulties created when we want to make extrapolations between species . |
6 | Frequent Bolovian references ( drawings , some rhymes , and much Bolovian dogma ) show that in the period 1927–30 Eliot found this a valuable way of letting off some of the emotional steam generated by his conversion ; serious discussions of theology are juxtaposed in this correspondence with ridiculous accounts of Bolovian religious practice , one letter dated according to the day of St Cecilia , another according to that of St Gumbolumbo . |
7 | If Foucault proposes the philosophy of the phantasm as a way for the historian to produce the meaning-effect of the event while still doing justice to its singularity , it also offers a way of thinking through some of the paradoxes that we have encountered in the problematic conceptualization of history . |
8 | ‘ Metazoan Phylogeny ’ is exciting to play , and we may , at last , be on the verge of working out some of the rules of the game . |