Example sentences of "some [noun] [verb] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that she held to her theory of carpel polymorphism , despite the overwhelming criticism levelled against it , in some measure detracts from the overall impact of her morphological work . |
| 2 | Some prisoners benefiting from the general amnesty of March 7 had been detained following earlier incidents in October 1987 and October 1988 . |
| 3 | Some galleries project from the first floor of the house ; others are on barn buildings above the yard . |
| 4 | Because I am a writer caught up willy-nilly in the polluted air of our own times , because I can not avoid entirely the language , assumptions , behaviour and weirdly chiliastic bombast so typical of a corrupted age , I can force myself to imagine by what tormented mental process an educated and rational man of some sensibility moves from the cerebral subtleties of Keynsian economics to the animal crudities of purchasing unsatisfactory and momentary sexual release from a cheap little whore . |
| 5 | ‘ I myself can not even begin to imagine by what mental process an educated and rational man of some sensibility moves from the reputed subtleties of Keynsian economics ( the process which has , apparently , saved the capitalist system from the collapse which would in turn have provoked a revolution ) to the blatant crudities of contemplating intercourse with a mindless whore . |
| 6 | A full list is given in appendix C. Some symbols derive from the Latin names of the elements ( see table 4.2 ) . |
| 7 | But even a Ministry Curriculum Development Centre can find itself in some sense isolated from the main machinery of educational planning and administration and thus acquire a certain sense of unreality . |
| 8 | The traditional " absent mindedness " of a professor represents a concentration on some subject removed from the daily life going on around the poor old man . |
| 9 | The activists ' message scrawled on a wall near the ground is some way removed from the burning passions normally aroused by football , while the T-shirts are more machismo than menace , and pop songs peppered with heavy breathing are apparently in vogue if not in keeping with pre-match entertainment . |
| 10 | But the ‘ Pacific ’ which has led to such thinking is a very different place from that dreamed up by soldiers or geologists , and once again is some way removed from the real , warts-and-all Pacific to which later chapters will be devoted . |
| 11 | Here , again , the situation is artificial , and the questioning some way removed from the real world . |
| 12 | This does not mean however that mental processes are in some way divorced from the physical world , nor does it mean that they should be excluded from the subject matter of natural science . |
| 13 | Various colonies exist under voluntary foundation where the mentally handicapped can live useful and happy lives , to some extent sheltered from the outside world but permitted a considerable degree of independence and self-determination . |
| 14 | Of course , he was to some extent screened from the uncomfortable reality . |