Example sentences of "some [prep] [pron] [noun] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is equally safe to wager that some of her actions will bring her into conflict with the competition directorate in Brussels , while her community policy plans will draw fire from Britain and Germany . |
| 2 | Then again , he talked with her because he longed to satisfy to meet her needs , as a human being she 'd aspiration , she 'd hope , she 'd desires and as she looked back on her life , some of them may have been fulfilled , some of her plans may have been realized , but there must have been an awful emptiness , and awful hollowness about so much . |
| 3 | And they will also know , that the more often they have to subject their students to the selective , norm-based assessment , the more some of their students will lose confidence and motivation and be reinforced in failure . |
| 4 | In a recent article Poppy Holden has reflected upon the work of several major English choirs specializing in early music and suggests that some of their directors would regard this as the ideal way to work : |
| 5 | Compared to states or executives , governments tend to be of short duration — state institutions often remain in existence for long periods and officials in the executive may have lifelong careers , while governments come and go ( although some of their personnel may hold office in more than one government ) . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , people can die before they reach retirement and some of their spouses may have a rude shock when they discover that instead of receiving a huge pension fund , they are entitled only to a return of the premiums . |
| 7 | It drew their attention to the fact that some of their clients may have a hearing problem without expressly saying so . |
| 8 | Many people make the mistake of basing their calculations on their current commitments and expenditure , without properly realising that some of their requirements will change . |
| 9 | Unilever was still in the doldrums over fears that some of its brands will suffer in price wars . |
| 10 | DIVISION in the oil industry on tax changes intensified yesterday when the body representing small independent producers warned that some of its members might withdraw applications for new drilling licences . |
| 11 | Of those it is worth singling out D. 32.95 and D. 33.2.34.1 , in which the jurist indicates ( in the first case implicitly , in the second explicitly ) that the use of the clause has turned out to have crucial consequences for the effectiveness of the testator 's will : for without it his will or some of its dispositions would have been of no force . |
| 12 | This has taken a number of forms and has not spread as widely as some of its supporters might have hoped . |
| 13 | Assad did not want the civil war to continue , for if Lebanon suffered any more wounds some of its blood might seep into Syria , through those narrow grey wadis in the anti-Lebanon mountain range and down into the plateau beyond , perhaps even infecting Damascus , whose carefully balanced but Alawite-controlled metabolism had so far remained untouched by the epidemic on the other side of the border . |
| 14 | Indeed , some of its recommendations will have the opposite effect . |
| 15 | Some of its ideas will form the basis of our club . |
| 16 | The Enham material has been discussed at such length because it suggests much about contemporary conditions , and is essential to an understanding of the documents which Wulfstan wrote under Cnut , some of whose actions must have been disapproved . |
| 17 | Bosch , with total sales of £12 billion last year , has 40 p.c. of the German market for wall-hung boilers and its products , some of which Worcester will make in Britain , are said to be complementary . |
| 18 | Obviously there are other aspects of intelligent behaviour , some of which Bali may discourage ; perhaps a time will come when he tells himself ‘ I 've run away from a big world to a little one , I was wrong ’ . |
| 19 | I stood outside for fifteen months with some girls from Barking Hospital , some of yous people might remember that . |
| 20 | If the language were extended to include vectors the situation would be more difficult , and some of our laws would have to include exception conditions . |
| 21 | ‘ Some of our cases can take months . ’ |
| 22 | Seefeld also boasts the 6 hole Golf Academy and driving range : some of our hotels will offer you a discount on both courses , ask for details . |
| 23 | Indeed , if it were to be as firmly and clearly drawn as some of our mentors would wish , I can not help feeling that a number of leading cases in your Lordships ' House would never have been decided the way they were . |
| 24 | Er and I suspect some of our competitors may have to do so as well . |
| 25 | And some of our speakers will bring their own leaflets er make noes by all means but you may find that er you 'll get er good handouts from some of the speakers not every not all of them . |
| 26 | I had suggested that some of our guests might enjoy a post-wedding , post-reception , post-dinner nightcap in our hotel room . |
| 27 | If he did that , some of our constituents might receive benefits , and the people involved in crime might get sent down for longer periods . |
| 28 | As in the vast majority of human biles the sn-1 fatty acid is palmitic acid and physiologic variations occur mainly in the sn-2 position , some of our data may reflect events in vivo . |
| 29 | I often wonder just how extraordinary some of our customs must appear to those who have no experience of churchgoing . |
| 30 | since he came to our Lordships House with some very and has had to sit this thing ever since then with one exception er to speeches deeply and seriously critical er of the proposals er coming from Members of your Lordships House mostly with vast experience of the subject matter former Secretary 's er er former Chief Constable er and er so many others and I arise only to put one point to you if my Noble Friend decides to resist these amendments , it seems to me I may be wrong but it seems to me overwhelmingly clear that they will be carrying against him and they will be put into the Bill which will be very considerably altered and amended , some of your Lordships may think improved , but certainly drastically altered and I wonder whether er my Noble Friend thinks that really would be helpful from the point of view either of the pr future progress of the Bill , or the position of the Government . |