Example sentences of "but some [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But some of the members of the committee were upset , were n't they ? ’ |
| 2 | actually it was erm I forget what it was when me mother-in-law died and she used to moan about the shop and I said to Christine the time she goes down and back I mean things are dear in , but some of the things in the shop now , and then , are cheaper than down the town , so if you take your , your bus |
| 3 | One slight disappointment is in the fret finishing : the frets seem properly set into the fingerboard but some of the ends on the treble side are sitting ( or have lifted ) slightly off the fingerboard , allowing the top E to occasionally catch underneath them . |
| 4 | But some of the crossings around this area did n't have any barriers at all |
| 5 | The case for staying was particularly strong in that the tapes may have recorded not merely circumstantial evidence but some of the facts in issue in the case . |
| 6 | This book is about the transcendent worlds but some of the ideas of the philosophers of old are so noble and inspiring that the emotions they arouse are of the peak experience . |
| 7 | But some of the habits of court do appear strange to us . |
| 8 | It may be imagined that the village schoolteachers could establish cultural ties between party and peasant , but some of the weaknesses of these agents have already been revealed in the Smolensk guberniia . |
| 9 | Change in the garden is inevitable — but some of the ways in which it reveals itself are a great deal more interesting than others . |
| 10 | A Zeitgeist is all the more convincingly that , it may be argued , if it reveals itself simultaneously and without conspiracy or foreknowledge , but some of the cards in this pack look pretty wild . |
| 11 | When the Data Protection Committee came to consider the case for legislation it had no doubt that the public sector presented the greater set of problems : the complex modern government bureaucracies at national and local level are great consumers of personal information about citizens — mostly to the citizens ' benefit , of course , but some of the possibilities of linkage , network-formation and hence secret profile-building about identifiable individuals seemed frightening . |