Example sentences of "some [prep] [Wh det] [vb mod] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The paucity of available evidence concerning the foundation of the institution and the activities of the early Muftis means that one can hope to do no more than to draw reasonable inferences from the little evidence that does exist ; and some of what can be said about these problems involves a projection backward from the activities of later Muftis and will therefore be considered in greater detail in later sections . |
| 2 | The advantages of such a mechanism are clear , it is possible to manipulate the model and thus understand the outside world in the sense of predicting what will happen without the potential costs of attempting to manipulate the real world and allowing things to happen , some of which might be considered to be unfortunate . |
| 3 | Plants from the Physic Garden were copied by the gifted collage artist , Mrs Delaney , and fourteen were faithfully reproduced in her delicate paper mosaic work , some of which may be seen in the British Museum today . |
| 4 | Full-time provision includes courses of one to three and four years ' duration , some of which may be studied as separate ‘ end-on ’ courses and many of which provide opportunities for transfer of suitable students to degree courses . |
| 5 | In cleaning and disinfection there are six basic steps , some of which may be combined or omitted , to evolve a particular method . |
| 6 | Over four years , Ukraine would receive 75,000 million cubic metres of gas and 50,000,000-70,000,000 tons of oil , some of which would be passed on to other European countries . |
| 7 | Even though the individual shopper will often find some functional justification for his or her particular choice , as being especially practical , other reasons , some of which will be analysed in later chapters , may be adduced , relating to social rather than functional considerations which may more convincingly account for the majority of purchases . |
| 8 | There are many other self-help methods available , some of which will be dealt with later in other sections of this book . |
| 9 | The central argument in the book is that there are a variety of ways of organising work , some of which may be more efficient than others , some of which will be preferred by workers , and others which may be preferred by managers . |
| 10 | The company is currently debt-free with a cash reserve of $31m , some of which will be used for acquisitions . |
| 11 | However , such a comparison is invalid for several reasons , some of which will be addressed in the concluding section of this chapter . |
| 12 | The context consists of a set of elements some of which will be sampled along with elements of the target stimulus on each exposure . |
| 13 | Thus although it may be the case that communicative demands result in error because the learner does not have enough time to access second language systemic knowledge , equally they may do so because such demands quite naturally lead learners to call upon whatever resources they have at their disposal , some of which will be drawn from their own language . |
| 14 | The total of these requirements — some of which will be spread over several years — will give a good indication as to how much you have left to offer for the freehold or rent . |
| 15 | It is to these triumphs , some of which could be made intelligible to laymen while others remained obscure , that we shall now turn , looking first at the discoveries rather than at their reception outside the scientific community . |
| 16 | In the background all this time was the knowledge on both sides of the Atlantic that one or two airlines had adopted anonymous reporting systems which had brought to light the most important and hair-raising incidents , some of which could be eliminated without difficulty by altering certain operating practices . |
| 17 | It is all to do with the most effective means to ends , at least some of which must be given ( and thus are perhaps open to structural explanations of how the agent came to have them ) . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , the list of Confluent words which follows disregards the stances involved , which number almost nine thousand and are all named , and merely offers a few definitions , some of which must be regarded as tentative . |
| 19 | There are various ways of defining validity , only some of which can be quantified . |
| 20 | It provides a further list of options , some of which can be accessed by all LIFESPAN users , some of which are available only to certain privileged users . |
| 21 | They form spontaneously in the waters of our planet without the elaborate ‘ machinery ’ that DNA needs ; and they develop flaws spontaneously , some of which can be replicated in subsequent layers of crystal . |
| 22 | Herons , flamingos , spoonbills and cranes are examples , some of which can be seen elsewhere in the park . |
| 23 | But increasingly , doubts , some of which can be traced back to a general report on the supply of professional services by the Monopolies Commission in 1970 , were raised about whether restraints on competition in the professions are necessarily beneficial . |
| 24 | This is not as much of a gamble as it may appear at first sight , there are general principles of how to cope with the system , some of which can be built into automatic safeguards and some of which can be conveyed to the operator as knowledge and instructions . |
| 25 | Virtually all infections , be they sexually transmitted or not , provoke the formation of antibodies , some of which can be found circulating in the blood-stream . |
| 26 | It is widely found in cough mixtures ( eg Actifed ) and hay-fever medication , some of which can be bought without a prescription . |
| 27 | There are fewer than 20 instruments altogether , some of which can be disregarded immediately because , although they were made in London , they fall into the class of quasi-Ruckers harpsichords ( like the Ham House instrument ) and were always intended to deceive . |
| 28 | The latter is a heterogenous group of disorders that represent the end stage of a variety of disease processes , some of which can be associated with non-caseating granulomas in the lung . |
| 29 | You can see several of the topographic features discussed in the preceding section : a floor lower than the terrain beyond the rim ; the central peaks ; the wall slumps ; a floor flattened by infill ; an ( rather degraded ) ejecta blanket ; small surrounding craters , some of which can be shown to be secondaries . |
| 30 | This is not as much of a gamble as it may appear at first sight , there are general principles of how to cope with the system , some of which can be built into automatic safeguards and some of which can be conveyed to the operator as knowledge and instructions . |