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

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1 Lee used nothing but this disc to carve the piece with an angle grinder , and he describes some of the effects the tool can achieve .
2 In some of the cases the creditor was unable to enforce the security against the wife notwithstanding that no positive impropriety , such as undue influence or misrepresentation , had been committed by the husband .
3 ‘ That 's peanuts compared to some of the schemes the Government are running , ’ he said .
4 He felt that the appraisal would highlight some of the problems the school was faced with , in particular the change in the intake from white middle class to multi-ethnic and with a growing proportion of pupils with learning difficulties .
5 They illustrate some of the problems the policeman/anthropologist faces when he sets out to describe and interpret police culture , for he must — if the ethnography is to count — reveal hidden aspects of the relationships of power which are an integral aspect of this institution of state .
6 Two examples illustrate some of the dilemmas the strategy has exposed and the policies initiated to deal with them .
7 The panel did n't review supermodel Cindy Crawford 's new video which has already come under fire in some fitness circles but Mr Dickinson adds : ‘ It clearly contains some of the exercises the panel had elsewhere criticised as outdated ’ .
8 Some of the transactions the Crown sought to rely on were not at arm 's length and might therefore be of no assistance , but there might be other transactions which had taken place between parties who were genuinely trying to strike an open market value , and there was no reason why such cases should be ignored .
9 If it is emptying too slowly you can burn some of the holes a bit bigger with a cigarette end or cut them into wider slots with a knife or pair of scissors .
10 That must give some of the girls a shock — a pleasant one , perhaps . ’
11 I mean now talking to some of the girls a lot of their parents are very strict on them .
12 So , I pull handfuls of weed and leave it near the water 's edge , giving at least some of the creatures the chance to nip back into the water again .
13 By substituting some of the layers the mineral can be delaminated and the platelets kept apart physically .
14 If we say that characterising the topic framework is a means of making explicit some of the assumptions a speaker can make about his hearer 's knowledge , we are not talking about the total knowledge which the speaker believes he shares with his hearer .
15 This takes the form of a steep rock garden with some of the rocks the size of small cottages , making for some very interesting eddies .
16 Our picture shows the display department 's project controller Pam Griffith , centre , giving some of the retailers a lesson in the art of table decoration during their visit to shopfitting and exhibition services .
17 But even if you would rather not know , in the next century you have at least a chance of benefiting from some of the advances the team are suggesting in surgical techniques .
18 There is dampness here too , and in some of the rooms the ceiling has fallen in , the plaster and lath lying draped over the heavy , old-fashioned furniture like some clumsy travesty of a dust-sheet .
19 The following are just some of the ways the customer is encouraged to part with his money .
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