Example sentences of "of [noun] [verb] some of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These pupils are shaped by many other factors than their schooling , and the extract from Coleman 's The Nature of Adolescence considers some of the main features influencing adolescent development and their relation to school . |
| 2 | Coarser gauges and of course knitting some of the more specialist yarns like Channel which in particular . |
| 3 | And what the female mimic does is it swims in and instead of releasing eggs , which is what the resident male expects , they release vast clouds of sperm and of course fertilize some of the eggs . |
| 4 | The following selection of cases illustrates some of the most common kinds of lawsuit which a haulier might have to defend . |
| 5 | There was some attempt by friends of Highlander to purchase some of the books etc. at the auction but the buildings and most of the moveable assets were lost . |
| 6 | Fodor ( 1981 ) provides a very clear description of functionalism , and his book The Modularity of Mind discusses some of the philosophical issues surrounding cognitive neuropsychology . |
| 7 | Looking at this as one of the points of research avoids some of the narrowness of the kind of conception that has tended to dominate thinking about social research , namely that it is about testing theoretical explanations of the facts . |
| 8 | The national movement for the establishment of Compacts demonstrates some of the problems . |
| 9 | There is considerable controversy about the process of incineration , largely because , if incinerators are not working at the most efficient temperatures , the emissions may include small amounts of dioxins , a group of compounds containing some of the most dangerous pollutants . |
| 10 | Handkerchiefs held in place by the nose clips of sunglasses alleviated some of the worst effects but the speed of burning was staggering . |
| 11 | The circular or quinary system of Swainson interested some of the more speculative minds of the next generation , including Huxley , A. R. Wallace ( who annotated his copy of Swainson on the geographical distribution of animals ) , and Darwin ( who had copies made of MacLeay 's writings in order to criticize them ) . |
| 12 | In this Pensions Special , we have brought together a top team of writers to address some of the key factors which all people who are concerned to have as comfortable a retirement as possible should take into account . |
| 13 | It contains a huge amount of such data including amongst many other surveys and statistics , the 1981 National Census , 500 maps , 22,000 photographs , 1,500 items of text in the form of essays and published articles and , on side two of the disc , about an hour of video recording some of the events of 1986 . |
| 14 | A page from the register of the Leicestershire parish of Countesthorpe illustrates some of the difficulties one is likely to encounter . |
| 15 | One last form of co-residence brought some of the closest relationships between grandparents and grandchildren , as well as some of the most sustained instances of tension . |
| 16 | Large numbers of scientists tackled some of the most basic problems , including the question of the origin of the vertebrates . |
| 17 | When in 1918 the party needed a social programme for negotiations with Lloyd George , it was to the work of the USRC that they turned ; in 1922 Griffith-Boscawen was able as Minister of Health to do some of the things he had attempted in 1912 ; much of Neville Chamberlain 's work as a reformer of the Poor Law was presaged by a USRC report of 1913 written by Hills . |
| 18 | These examples of ambiguity , of the switching of resources , and of corruption explain some of the failures of aid which can be attributed primarily to the recipients . |
| 19 | Threads of spider silk are between 0.01 and 2 microns thick , depending on the spider making them and the purpose for which they are intended — the gossamer sheets of Textrix employ some of the finest and are probably the only webs that could hold water . |
| 20 | After discussing what led a girl to become a prostitute they then set up a series of dramas showing some of the stresses ( including poverty ) a fictitious character had had to face in her early life . |
| 21 | ‘ The cheers melted into gasps of admiration and roars of approval from the stands as , in turn , this famous pair of chasers made some of the most prodigious leaps ever seen on an English racecourse , ’ wrote Len Thomas in the Sporting Life : ‘ It was a spectacle which I shall never forget . ’ |
| 22 | During the given period of time , exposure to the decisions of others communicates some of the information these decision-makers originally lacked . |
| 23 | How might managers of industries describe some of the advantages and the disadvantages of being in south east England ? |
| 24 | Always more extreme than Braque , Picasso , in his work at Cadaquès in the summer of 1910 , used the same grid type of composition to produce some of the most abstract and hermetic of all Cubist paintings . |
| 25 | However , in the spring of 1989 the Japanese Ministry of Finance relaxed some of the restrictions on arbitrage , and from then onwards the mispricings declined substantially , so that there were very few arbitrage opportunities by the end of the data period . |
| 26 | ‘ To put the economic aspect into perspective , it would need at least a doubling of the price of energy to make some of the supply options attractive to investors . ’ |