Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Guardian sought to invoke some sort of privilege , which they could not seriously have believed existed , to protect their publication of the Labour Party 's confidential information . |
| 2 | The course planned to use some experimental learning and group work exercises , both of which were likely to be new concepts to the participants . |
| 3 | Sometimes , earthworks of ridge and furrow or narrow early enclosed strips remain to give some clue to the course , but elsewhere the boundary itself must be the clue to the former existence of such an arrangement . |
| 4 | When this last measure failed to force some authorities sufficiently into line , the Conservative government , in 1984 , introduced a measure called rate capping that made it illegal for authorities designated by the Secretary of State to levy more than a certain amount in rates , their only form of independent finance . |
| 5 | In New York the Dow Jones Index tried to regain some of yesterday 's lost ground , at at four thirty stood up two point seven two points at two four five five point six nine . |
| 6 | Going down a sporting memory lane has enticed some 16 million people to pay their cable-TV charge to watch the fight . |
| 7 | In order to make this decision , the retailer needs to do some market research into the socioeconomics of the area . |
| 8 | It could even put a question mark over the future of England captain and selector Graham Gooch , whose fitness and discipline regime have become a hallmark of the current side , and which Gower has had some difficulty fitting in with . |
| 9 | The decision has left some of them facing financial hardship . |
| 10 | Jim has made some enquiries through Italian legal colleagues and by all accounts the man does come from a very good family — very good indeed — so at least he has n't told her a tissue of lies about his background . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Of course Prince has got some very nice publicity by saying people who had tickets for Blenheim Palace can go to one of his concerts this June . ’ |
| 12 | Temple has made some of the best music videos that exist . |
| 13 | The failure to find broad patterns relating crime with social and economic change has led some scholars to examine in detail the possibility that government policy may have exercised an independent influence on patterns of crime . |
| 14 | The GCE and CSE examinations were conducted by a variety of Boards and , although subject experts tried to judge some standard of achievement , it was basically a normative assessment i.e. the same percentage pass the examination each year . |
| 15 | Jellie Dijkstra has published some telling information she discovered in Belgian archives : around one-third of all the fifteenth-century commissions and half of the sixteenth-century commissions request a copy of one kind or another . |
| 16 | i pulled this of rec.sport.soccer ( see last part of mail ) — the post was rather mingled so i have tried to fix it up a little : take it for what it is — a post from memory from a guy somewhere and no mentioning of what year/what cup/ etc. i think the poster has messed up or something — my guess is that the home match is the first mentioned : meaning that G has beaten some respectable teams like PSV , Roma and Frankfurt at home and beating Roma and Frankfurt at aggregate . |
| 17 | Students taking degree courses involving field work ( eg Architecture , Ecology , Geography , and Geology ) can incur expenses of £200 plus , spread over the three , four or five years of the course , but can in most cases expect to receive some help from University funds in meeting these . |
| 18 | If because risk had passed to him the buyer has to bear some loss , it follows that he is not excused from carrying out the contract . |
| 19 | It will , of course , seldom happen that after the buyer has had some benefit , the contract is avoided by section 7 because usually by the time the goods are delivered to the buyer risk will have passed to him ; section 7 applies only where the goods perish before the risk passes to the buyer . |
| 20 | This will occur if for example the buyer has had some use of the goods and subsequently they perished thereby frustrating the contract . |
| 21 | Linfield 's new strip has caused some controversy with certain fans complaining that there is n't enough ‘ blue ’ in it ; Lotto are planning a darker hue for next season . |
| 22 | The E I U has produce some very damming report on I C I . |
| 23 | Recession has hit some towns harder than others , and Bookland branches reflected this in sales over the Christmas period ranging from 20% up to declines of 15%l ‘ Overall takings will be up by a few points , but volume will be very slightly down . ’ |
| 24 | But the threat of the old section of the course has meant some swift action to deal with a worsening plight . |
| 25 | When the guardians proposed moving some families to Henfield , a few miles away , a fight broke out which could only be stopped by troops from Brighton . |
| 26 | But the parting has brought some sweet sorrow to her and her landlord . |
| 27 | But the ban has upset some workers , and union officials say it 's unnecessary . |
| 28 | Professor Wolfgang Wild , president of Munich 's Technical University has provided some pointers . |
| 29 | A team of scientists from the distinctly untropical environment of the University College of North Wales in Bangor has solved some of these problems by designing food fit for a prawn to eat . |
| 30 | The 1982 reorganisation tried to simplify some of the worst complexities of 1974 by pruning the consultative machinery , abolishing the area tiers , simplifying the planning machinery and advocating greater devolution of decision-making to units of management at the level of hospitals and community services . |