Example sentences of "it [verb] some [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 Although it might be objected that Skocpol 's analysis courts the danger of falling into another version of functionalism , since it postulates some inherent functions of the state , it has the benefit of drawing attention to processes within the state and the specific logic which guides them .
2 In the first place , it involves some actual power of control over the thing possessed .
3 Apart from the interior , the south transept portico remains from the Romanesque period ; the portico — la Puerte de las Platerias — was built in 1103 ; it has some fine sculpture of 1116 ( 396 ) .
4 It took some three years of war before the political spotlight began to play on employment plans .
5 Feminism 's attempts to explore the subjectivities of female subjects who are ignored or silenced by western discourses have led it to develop some methodological preferences of its own .
6 Despite its state-centrism , it is worth quoting at length as it catches some key specifics of the practices of the communications industries ' project for global consumerism .
7 A second important contribution made by the notion of implicature is that it provides some explicit account of how it is possible to mean ( in some general sense ) more than what is actually " said " ( i.e. more than what is literally expressed by the conventional sense of the linguistic expressions uttered ) .
8 What is perhaps most remarkable about this grassland is that it is only maintained under active management even rabbits were introduced by the Normans and , although it resembles some periglacial assemblages of plants , it must have been reconstituted after the forest maximum unless there were extensive grazed glades in that period .
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