Example sentences of "some [prep] [art] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To allow this country to import coal into the United Kingdom putting people out of work when in fact we have some of the finest and most competitive deep mine coal in the world to offer for sale . |
| 2 | The trouble is that some of the very best ‘ independent organic ’ wine-makers ( who can be some of the strictest and most idealistic ) such as Aime Guibert of Mas de Daumas Gassac or Franois Perrin of Chateau Beaucastel ( widely available ) , have chosen not to join any association . |
| 3 | Many elderly people can remain in their own homes even if they are living alone , provided that they can get adequate help with some of the heavier and more awkward chores : cleaning high up , or low down , under furniture or in corners which have become inaccessible to them . |
| 4 | This is some of the best and most fervent writing sport has seen . |
| 5 | I polished the latches a bit with my shirtsleeve , then I put the briefcase back exactly as I 'd found it and took my leaf-trembling self along to the dining car , already regretting , before I got there , that I had n't stayed until the Canadian left , knowing that I 'd wasted some of the best and perhaps the only chance I would get of seeing what Filmer had brought with him on the train . |
| 6 | Dawson and Smith also recognized that some of the veined and pervasively metasomatized peridotite xenoliths from the Bultfontein Floors mine dumps at Kimberley have replacement mineral compositions that are broadly similar to those of the MARID suite ( although the relationship between the two is not simple and some important chemical distinctions remain , possibly reflecting different degrees of interaction between veins and peridotite wall rocks ) . |
| 7 | ‘ We checked my symptoms in some of the six or so books we had on the subject of birth , but none of them matched up with what I was feeling . |
| 8 | He will be fortunate to receive a similar service this evening against some of the toughest and most knowledgeable defenders in Europe . |
| 9 | Raised in some of the toughest and most deprived areas of Glasgow , he was a gifted schoolboy footballer with a precocious ability to use poverty to his advantage . |
| 10 | At a meeting of the Association in 1913 , Bailey was described by Caroline Spurgeon ( the first woman to be appointed to a British university professorship in arts — she was a University of London Professor of English Literature at Bedford College from 1913 — and a member of the Newbolt Committee ) as " a treasure keeper " in , his role as " a custodian of some of the greatest and most precious national possessions , England 's places of historical interest and beauty " . |
| 11 | This is what is normally called the problem of social order , and of course it 's been around in philosophy and , and social sciences , really since the beginning , and er , some of the greatest and earliest works of er , social philosophy like Plato 's Republic , are really in part about this er question . |
| 12 | Two hours before kick off Chief Inspector Tony Judge briefs some of the 100 or so officers . |
| 13 | Vova nevertheless has managed to make some of the funniest and most up-to-date Soviet sound recordings of the mid-Eighties . |
| 14 | The process is similar to oral tradition , in which good descriptions , tales , or verses are preserved and repeated ; indeed the audience or reader would have been disappointed if some of the famous and much loved descriptions were not included . |
| 15 | The Treasury has responsibility for the health of the economy ; the Social Services Department has responsibility for some of the poorest and most vulnerable people in the country . |
| 16 | Helped by a battery of mutualistic protozoa , bacteria and fungi , they have mastered the nutritional and energetic problems of surviving in some of the poorest and most indigestible foodstuffs , from dead logs to soil humus . |
| 17 | Unemployment is not equally distributed among all groups in society but is concentrated among some of the poorest and least powerful in the labour force and in society as a whole . |
| 18 | The Open University 's ( address on page 148 ) pre-retirement course book lists some of the good as well as the bad feelings you can have about being alone : ‘ I feel I do n't have to put on an act ’ , ‘ I feel really me ’ , ‘ I feel relaxed ’ are some of the items on the list . |
| 19 | An excerpt from the list of source node names which shows some of the most and least frequent names |
| 20 | An excerpt from the list of target node names which shows some of the most and least frequent names |
| 21 | They carry heavy loads of sediment , abandoning it along their course and in extensive deltas ; the finer deposits are often colonized by vegetation , providing some of the richest and most productive communities in the tundra mosaics . |
| 22 | The two-dimensional behaviour of electrons in the MOSFET structure was exciting news to experimentalists because they could test some of the unusual and potentially useful properties that theory predicted . |
| 23 | Some of the 150 or so places for new postgraduate students are in shared rooms . |
| 24 | Some of the 150 or so cast and production crew he gathered together at a local hotel broke down and wept as he confirmed their worst fears . |
| 25 | Silver Machines National Tri-Plate Steels A true design classic and some of the strangest and most beautiful guitars ever built , National Tri-Plates hold a weird fascination for players and collectors alike … |
| 26 | This book will whisk you away to some of the wildest and most beautiful trekking areas in the world : from the Annapurna Circuit in Nepal to the Mountains of the Moon in Uganda ; from the Royal Road of the Incas in Peru to New Zealand 's Routeburn Track ; and from stormswept Patagonia to Vancouver Island . |
| 27 | This book will whisk you away to some of the wildest and most beautiful trekking areas in the world : from the Annapurna Circuit in Nepal to the Mountains of the Moon in Uganda ; from the Royal Road of the Incas in Peru to New Zealand 's Routeburn Track ; and from stormswept Patagonia to Vancouver Island . |
| 28 | As we have seen , some of the earlier and more enthusiastic apologists for pluralism , such as Dahl and Plamenatz , did suggest both that the spread of pressure and interest groups covered more or less the whole of society and also that such groups competed with each other on a roughly equal basis . |
| 29 | The melodies of Zarewitsch were some of the loveliest and most powerful Lehar had ever written . |
| 30 | ‘ I notice he made no mention of London Transport 's 30-year-old double deckers which are some of the oldest and most reliable in the country . ’ |