Example sentences of "some [noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Now one of the jobs of the police force , and especially the CID , is to try to establish a pattern in crime , if this is possible , and in this instance both Sergeant Lewis and myself found it difficult not to believe there was some link between the two events . |
| 4 | Extricating himself with some difficulty from the tangled bedclothes , Leo continued , ‘ I 'll have to go . ’ |
| 5 | Without a grid covering the shape , success rates for area or for counting squares fell to between 35–65 per cent for the bottom band , and there was generally some reduction for the remaining pupils . |
| 6 | Why is the word regarded with some revulsion among the orthodox religions ? |
| 7 | So far as the theorizing and model-building enterprises of sociology are concerned , these also require some assessment with the two criteria of sociological visibility and social presence in mind . |
| 8 | Put a tick in the columns which describe correctly some part of the special quadrilaterals . |
| 9 | It seems possible that he had worked as a journeyman for Rastell on some part of the massive volumes of Sir Anthony Fitzherbert 's Graunde abbregement , 1516 , and its Table , 1517 ( Short-Title Catalogue 10954–5 ) . |
| 10 | Where a similar pattern occurred in the parishes north of the Downland scarp there was some resistance from the local interests of lesser men , displaced as they often were from what they had come to regard as their ‘ customary ’ rights , particularly grazing on the extensive wastes . |
| 11 | ‘ There was some resistance in the early days , ’ says Mr Bristow , ‘ with booksellers believing that their jobs would be eroded . |
| 12 | Both of these appointments caused some discontent among the senior men of the industry , who resented the appointment of outsiders . |
| 13 | This will necessarily involve some interaction between the different levels of analysis . |
| 14 | Mosca , like Pareto , had at one stage of his writing career some sympathy for the socialist parties of the period , and like Pareto he is more remembered for his argument that socialists should be seen as dangerous purveyors of an illusory hope of democratic participation . |
| 15 | The least they can expect is some direction from the political parties prior to the election . ’ |
| 16 | Of course , I already had some experience with the various falconers ' knots and changing jesses with a bird perched on my fist , but poor old Derek got himself a bit tied up . |
| 17 | At the other end of Europe Roger II of Sicily promulgated his codes in 1129 at Melfi and in 1140 at Ariano ; they contained much that was traditional , much that was Roman ; much that was new ; and the idea of making some unity in the chaotic laws of his kingdom was especially novel . |
| 18 | Fitting the tee involves some manoeuvring of the two pipes this may mean removing some of the pipes from their clips |
| 19 | Whilst there is no denying that from its early days the Castro government provided safe haven and some aid to the revolutionary groups which flocked to Havana from all over Latin America and the Caribbean — in 1959 Cuba was the launching base for unsuccessful attacks on Haiti , Panama and the Dominican Republic — these activities must be set in context . |
| 20 | He then feels that , in all fairness , he must give some guidance on the loose ends , even at the last moment . |
| 21 | As they lurch with some aplomb through The Rolling Stones ‘ I Got The Blues ’ , Brokaw 's guitar falters horribly and the huddled masses groan in supplication . |
| 22 | Pacifists struggled to keep alive some remnant of the pre-war networks , and their modest successes laid a basis for the eventual revival of internationalism as the passions of war cooled . |
| 23 | There is likely to be some uncertainty in the initial months of the operation of the Act as to whether or not any particular procession is commonly or customarily held . |
| 24 | After some disappointment with the early issues ( half-empty pages , non-features featuring non-entities and cartoons which just were n't funny ) , I now look forward to articles of a length which does justice to the subject matter , fashion spreads which treat men like adults and a review section with critics who write with genuine authority ( and , in Gilbert Adair 's case , genuine elegance ) . |
| 25 | I will not insult you by asking you to be my servant , Burkett , but nevertheless I could use a good man to drive this coach down to Grasmere , get me some fishing over a few days , be prepared to go the odd errand — about a week in all I would guess . |
| 26 | This polarisation of attitudes was perhaps unfortunate since there had been signs of a certain willingness on the part of the Department to reconsider the validity of their ideas and to give some weight to the social issues behind the public reaction to the housing policy . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'll bring you some tea in a few minutes , ’ he said . |
| 28 | Here — ’ he shoved some gear off the wooden slats of the cockpit , ‘ sit down for a bit . ’ |
| 29 | We got some recognition from the other guitarists but did n't really have the foresight to make it into something big . |
| 30 | The project 's basic aim is to throw some light on the short-term forces making for change first on patterns of voting turnout and secondly on patterns of party choice , especially the vote for the governing party . |