Example sentences of "some [prep] the [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interestingly , some of the earliest written texts of Western European culture , the Socratic dialogues , present as conversation what modern writers would present as monologue . |
| 2 | All the same , Pisano 's work is more truly ‘ madrigalian ’ than some of the earliest published madrigals actually so called , the Madrigali de diversi musici libr. po. de la serena ( Rome , 1530 ) . |
| 3 | Some of the earliest known fossil vascular plants , those of the Rhynie Chert of the Devonian 370m years ago , show damage , which might be attributable to biting arthropods . |
| 4 | ( iii ) In the context of their own writing and reading , they should learn about some of the frequently occurring words and roots that have been absorbed into English from other languages , so that they become familiar with the common word-building processes and spelling patterns that derive from them . |
| 5 | use this data to challenge some of the widely cited research findings from the Equal Opportunities Commission ( 1984 ) , that men carers receive a disproportionate share of the statutory services . |
| 6 | Allowing for the categories omitted ( not to mention possible undercounting in some of the slackly administered sub-gaols ) , the true total could be several thousand higher . |
| 7 | A dramatization of stories in verse and prose for children from eight to eighty , featuring some of the best loved characters from children 's fiction : the Pied Piper of Hamelin , the Little Prince , Winnie the Pooh , Christopher Robin . |
| 8 | Apart from primates , some of the best known tool users among the mammals are the African and Asian elephants , whose prehensile trunk gives them a considerable advantage when it comes to holding and manipulating objects . |
| 9 | The architecture in the background shows some of the best known buildings in Frome . |
| 10 | For seven years prior to 1961 , twenty-nine electrical corporations , including some of the best known names in the country , such as General Electric and Westinghouse , conspired illegally to fix prices on large , mainly government contracts , so as to avoid competition and hence reap enormous illegal profit ( Geis 1967 ; Smith 1961 ) . |
| 11 | Some of the best established tea companies are now entering the herbal tea market , offering blends for evening and morning drinking . |
| 12 | Some of the best preserved buildings have been excavated at Cowdery 's Down and can be arranged sequentially into a minimum of three phases ( Millett 1983 ) . |
| 13 | The Cork area still boasts some of the best rallying country in Ireland and I understand this year 's route includes many of the classic stages from the region . |
| 14 | Although organisations like Comshare and Information Resources have developed software dedicated to handling organisations ' consolidation needs , consolidation is an integral part of some of the well known EIS systems , such as EPiC , from Planning Sciences , as Sandy Skinner explains : ‘ It 's possible to call information in from a variety of diverse sources , and then use the advanced modelling facilities of the system to manipulate information in virtually any way you choose . |
| 15 | Consolidation is an integral part of some of the well known EIS systems BOC Gases supplies hydrogen , which is a component of the controlled atmosphere in which silicon crystals are grown for microchip manufacture |
| 16 | Some of the well known yachts which have emerged from West in recent years include the quarter-tonner Diamond , the Laurent Giles/Warwick Collins-designed Phantom , the Dubois one tonner Midnight Express , and Rapscallion of Russel a cruising version of Phantom . |
| 17 | Johnnie Walker , Dewar 's , White Horse , and Bell 's Scotch whiskies are just some of the well known names in the portfolio . |
| 18 | Some of the carefully calculated compartments in Kircher 's ark . |
| 19 | This study was intended to explore some of the previously discussed concepts while subjects are actually driving a car in normal urban traffic environment . |
| 20 | As Stanyer ( 1976 , ch. 1 ) reminds us , it is important to see each locality as a miniature political and administrative system in its own right , a point reinforced by the Widdicombe Report ( 1986 , p. 22 ) when the committee emphasized that ‘ some of the commonly held assumptions about local government are valid only in a minority of authorities ’ . |
| 21 | The biggest ice cream factory in Europe is throwing open its doors to the public … revealing some of the closest kept secrets of the ice cream world . |
| 22 | Its attraction would seem to lie in the fact that it gives a formalized account of some of the popularly held impressions concerning the character of science , its explanatory and predictive power , its objectivity and its superior reliability compared with other forms of knowledge . |
| 23 | Some of the recently introduced products , Itek 's PTW for example , do include full WYSIWYG and are menu rather than command driven but they sacrifice the raw power of products like TeX ( pronounced tech ) or JustText . |
| 24 | Despite being directed against relatively specific components of H pylori , their sensitivity ( excluding that of Bio-Rad GAP Test ) and their specificity values are lower than some of the recently published data . |