Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] for some " in BNC.

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1 But they 're all the same so that if you are er with which is the medical side and an opportunity arose for some other reason for you to transfer to another group we have n't got to retrain you .
2 The idea of eating these things seemed absurd , and yet Pinkie asked for some .
3 – This means that the outer G forme was removed from the press part way through — printing stopped for some reason — and someone dropped it , scattering the letters everywhere .
4 Conditions of work were not pleasant ; landowners tried to get their estates cultivated by indentured labourers who had come out under a contract to work for some years for the man who paid for the journey or anyone to whom he sold the right to command their services .
5 In the heart of London and in its leafy suburbs , English Heritage cares for some marvellous properties which survive , after extensive restoration , almost in their original state .
6 It is in its work on health and healing , the Board of Social Responsibility has for some years now been concerned with the provision of training conferences for ministers and others involved in this aspect of the church 's commission .
7 It may be that the script on the Phaistos Disc represents a chance survival of a script developed for some special , possibly religious purpose .
8 In the United Kingdom in 1988 , there were 1298 publicly maintained nursery schools catering for some 98,000 children , 82% of them on a part-time basis .
9 To this end , this association has for some years now made the data sheet compendium — written originally for doctors and pharmacists — available to public libraries and , on request , to individual members of the public .
10 The Revenue has for some time been concerned about what is done with the money .
11 BML has for some time been concerned about the declining popularity of the NBS , which began in a blaze of publicity in 1955 .
12 The University of Warwick has for some time provided the possibility of studying both English and foreign texts in a comparative way at undergraduate level .
13 There were moments when the sun almost burst through the mist and I kept on driving , waiting and hoping for a first glimpse of the cordillera , my mind groping for some answer to the enigma of Iris Sunderby 's behaviour .
14 The most important development in sprint and marathon racing for some time was the introducing of starting gates at the World Sprint Championships in Paris .
15 As before the Polish crisis , there was little protest except from the far left who kept the local Councils of Action going for some months as centres of mobilization and revolutionary propaganda .
16 The storyline called for some expensive-sounding sequences , not the least being the burning of Rome , a galley ship foundering , and establishing shots of the Imperial capital .
17 In effect , without the support of advertisers the British media would be in a poorer and much truncated form : advertising revenue accounts for some 40% of the popular press 's total revenue and some 70% of the qualities ' total revenue ; advertising revenue also finances the commercial television channels , countless commercial radio channels and a sizeable proportion of the new cable and satellite channels .
18 Since Intersolv reckons that maintenance accounts for some half of all programming work in MVS sites , and says that the research makes up for the bulk of this work , the potential time savings for users and the potential market for Intersolv are substantial .
19 The low vaulted roof stretched for some forty feet until it met the blank wall at the far end .
20 Economic studies of cleaning , however , have shown that manual labour accounts for some 89 per cent of energy costs which themselves account for as much as 96 per cent of the total cleaning bill .
21 After Henry VIII 's death and the accession of the nine-year-old Edward VI his subjects hoped for some relaxation of the Forest law .
22 In an attempt to account for some of the peculiarities of the sternopleural region , Ferris ( 1940 , etc. ) has argued that the greater part of the ventral side of the thorax of some insects is derived from pleural structures , but further critical study of his theory is necessary .
23 In the early days both methods co-existed for some time in Great Britain , but the adherents of each method campaigned against one another here and elsewhere in Europe until towards the close of the nineteenth century , when oralism for the time being triumphed in all European countries .
24 This encouraged the authors to argue for some causal role for these specific event types .
25 And at the same time these voices call for some social sacrifices in the very idealistic belief that it 's better to have the pain all at once and be able to put the operation behind us .
26 Blaney 's success in the States lasted for some years and then , in 1910 , the affluent company decided to tour Great Britain .
27 Recently he had had to have a catheter fitted for some medical problem and because of his absconding behaviour , the nurses had hit on a really original wheeze — to force him to carry the slowly filling urine bag in one of those four-milk crates one sometimes sees on doorsteps .
28 She and her boyfriend have had their future planned for some time : they want to start farming in a nearby village , where they also intend to build a bungalow .
29 There is no doubt that amplified vibration can provide dramatic assistance in acquiring speed speechreading for some people with profound hearing loss .
30 As it happened , though the tension continued for some time after the building of the Berlin Wall in August to stop the flight of East Germans to the West , the two sides had to settle for a stalemate .
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