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

  Next page
No Sentence
1 But some of the members of the committee were upset , were n't they ? ’
2 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 .
3 But some of the habits of court do appear strange to us .
4 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 .
5 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 .
  Next page