Example sentences of "some [noun sg] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However during 1960–3 there was some support for a British Commonwealth non-military space programme . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | At Khartoum North there were two platforms in an overall shed affording some protection from a fierce sun . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Women 's work in sweated trades ( defined with some difficulty by a Select Committee on the subject in 1890 as work carried on for inadequate wages and for excessive hours in insanitary conditions ) , was also opposed because of the threat it posed to motherhood and the rearing of an imperial race . |
| 6 | The frank accounts of two early love affairs , adding some notoriety to a political autobiography , make honest and sympathetic reading ; but of far greater substance is his analysis of British politics from Wilson to Major . |
| 7 | Well I would have thought that if there was to be some assessment of a reasonable expectation of development proceeding , then there ought to be some assessment of demand , and I have n't seen that yet . |
| 8 | They have no means of assessing the reliability of automatic control systems but they can make some assessment of a skilled individual and without knowing very much about his working procedures they will trust his actions if he seems calm , competent and mature . |
| 9 | This shows that as soon as some part of a further track ( over and above two or three respectively ) is necessary for I 2 , a higher-level index I 1 should be created . |
| 10 | Scrawls I might enjoy , on their own , but unfortunately they are not just mere scuttles — oh , no , it seems I 'm in some kind of a scuttle-free universe — these scuttles spell something . |
| 11 | She had some kind of a mid-European accent . |
| 12 | ‘ The only thing that will delay some kind of a new regime is people causing disturbances and rioting , because that wo n't help proceedings . |
| 13 | Where are they gon na get these , how can they impose taxes unless there 's some kind of a healthy economy ? |
| 14 | The drought in Zimbabwe , so the needs are massive , and if we can just make some kind of a major inroad into one million pounds , then we will have given an awful lot of people new hope . |
| 15 | It was some kind of a medical thing ; he 'd seen the bracelets before , and this was just another variation . |
| 16 | Still I think there are concerns for Leeds about the scale of employment land proposed in Selby for example , which seems to us significantly more than could be supported by the arithmetic calculation plus some kind of a sensible allowance , it seems to f to be excessively generous . |
| 17 | They also hope to develop some kind of a synchronised timetable to provide five or six ships sailing at least every hour for 364 days a year . |
| 18 | I got some stick from a small section of the Palace crowd which I did n't expect , but it did n't bother me . |
| 19 | Many workers in the private sector receive some payment as a fixed fee independent of the value of their marginal product . |
| 20 | Clive Allen gave West Ham some hope with a 79th-minute goal , his 14th of the season , but then Aldridge inspired the Merseysiders in a grandstand finish . |
| 21 | If only John Postlethwaite would go away things could return to normal and he might be able to get some money as a special case in view of the emergency and the delicate state of politics . |
| 22 | To understand it , it helps to have had some experience of a bartering society . |
| 23 | To gain some experience of a larger set up , he moved to AY 's Business Service Group in London before leaving to become financial controller of various subsidiaries of Addison Consultancy Group plc . |
| 24 | In addition to the learners , there is at least one resource person who knows both the target language and the native language , and who has some experience in a non-directive style of counselling as opposed to the more traditional role played by the teacher using the audio-lingual method . |
| 25 | He remembered some story about a primitive farmer who discovered roast pork when his house and his pig barn burned down and then imagined that he had to set fire to the place again every time he fancied a bit of crackling . |
| 26 | He 'd covered her over with a coat and taken her few possessions inside , and she 'd slept on ; she 'd been the same way for the last couple of hours of the journey , ever since they 'd made their final stop at a twenty-four hour garage so that he could fill the Zodiac 's tank and buy some tape for a running repair to the headlamp that he 'd broken when , lights doused to escape notice , he 'd clipped the corner of the garage block on their way out of the parking area . |
| 27 | Some suggest a tropical origin for the breed , probably Indian ; some talk about a yellow Caspian type drifting through the Balkans and into Spain , and thence into France and the Channel Islands — bearing in mind that Jersey was directly linked with mainland France by a landbridge or causeway until the year 709 . |
| 28 | There is some talk of a collective leadership , but that would not last . |
| 29 | Its results were meagre ; the Russians agreed to consider Eisenhower 's " open skies " proposal for aerial inspection of military installations ( only to reject it later ) , and there was some talk of a new spirit in international affairs — the " spirit of Geneva " . |
| 30 | He 's a sharp operator , adept at playing the angles , continually bouncing gags off the course of a meandering conversation which takes in flotation tanks ( ’ They told me they wanted to recreate the conditions of the womb , but that 's all I need : some jerk in a white coat stabbing me with an ice-pick for half an hour ’ ) : Panama ( ’ Most American casualties over there were self-inflicted , but that 's because we have a lot of Hispanics in the armed services and some guys get confused ; some Hispanics in the armed services and some guys get confused ; some Hispanics shot themselves , they 're that loyal ’ ) ; even , somehow , the British motorway system ( ’ Driving up the M1 ! |