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

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1 These data do lend some support to the prevailing public opinion .
2 However during 1960–3 there was some support for a British Commonwealth non-military space programme .
3 This finding provides some support for the logarithmic approximation made in ( 3 ) where higher order terms in a number of variables were dropped from the original specification .
4 FORGET the time recorded by Clydal Pal in the opening heats of the Ulster Derby ( 550 ) and give him some support in the first semi-final at Dunmore Stadium tomorrow night .
5 But generally the feeling is that the appropriate sort of area for Greater York er in terms of the main linkages erm are is that defined in the Greater York study , which appeared to er find some support in the local government commission for example .
6 The implication which follows , that the glacial erosional forms produced by arctic and by temperate glaciers differ in size and geometry , receives some support from the glacial geomorphology literature .
7 He was also confronted by continuing obstruction and hostility from Roosevelt , the US State Department , and Churchill ( though by this stage he could at least count on some support from the Foreign Office ) .
8 Before his association with William Smith and other Lollards of Leicester he had acted as a preacher and for a time as a hermit , with varied reception but some support from the Augustinian canons at Leicester Abbey .
9 So it was minuted in a sort of staff student consultative group last year , so I have been requested to confine it in some measure to a single text .
10 The question can not be realistically discussed , however , unless there is some measure of the genuine independence of the union .
11 All the adaptive expectations model says is that farmers supply , right , S T is some function of the expected price right , erm .
12 The British Government , seeing that this practice clearly violated the spirit of the agreement on fishing quotas which gave some protection to the British fishing industry , passed the Merchant Shipping Act of 1988 restricting British registration of fishing vessels to British individuals and companies .
13 There were different kinds of customary tenure , but they had in common the fact that they gave some protection to the unfree man against arbitrary expropriation .
14 At Khartoum North there were two platforms in an overall shed affording some protection from a fierce sun .
15 I hoped this trench was deep enough , and the roof strong enough to give us some protection from the increasing mortar fire that was now coming our way .
16 Once he had safely negotiated the slippery , ice-encrusted stepping stones , he was in the lee of the rising moor so that there was some protection from the swirling snow .
17 That night he slept in an old cardboard box that he 'd found , and that gave him some protection from the chilling morning dew .
18 No. 4 Commando positions were being heavily mortared when I arrived , and Jock , my friend of many years ago , took me off to find some shelter in a dug-out , giving at least some protection from the flying shrapnel .
19 The treatment of some shareholders on an unequal basis may take the offer outside the exemption and a valuer 's report may , accordingly , be required .
20 So , please , if we are going to constructively criticise this aspect of rugby , let's do it on the whole instead of singling out individual countries and then , perhaps , some progress in the right direction will be made .
21 Digital Equipment Corp executives remark that the Open Software Foundation better make some progress in the coming months stitching up the wounds of the old Unix wars and accommodating itself to new alliances or else it 's going to have a lot of trouble getting funding from its sponsors next year .
22 This was seen as at least some progress in the continuing dispute in the educational field between oralists and manualists .
23 It has recently been recognised that there have been considerable liquidity problems both before and after Big Bang for some of the smaller companies listed on the ISE , prompting some calls for a two-tier market .
24 I dropped some change to a lone mandolin player doing a slow-tempo ‘ Sweet Georgia Brown ’ , partly because he was good and partly because he might do the same for me someday .
25 This is especially the case when the action that is proposed requires some change from the usual flow of action .
26 To succeed , they must have evidence of some change from the white side .
27 ‘ Are ’ : spelt ‘ re , pronounced after vowels , usually with some change in the preceding vowel , e.g. ‘ you ’ — ‘ you 're ’ , ‘ we ’ — ‘ we 're ’ , ‘ they ’ — they 're ; linking r is used when a vowel follows , as explained in the next section .
28 It is difficult to deny that there has been some change in the right direction .
29 The administrative structures set up by the Colebrooke-Cameron Reforms , though subject to some change in the nineteenth century , remained largely intact until the early twentieth century .
30 The last few years have also witnessed some change in the administrative structure of the Welsh Joint Education Committee ( WJEC ) .
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