Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] for some " in BNC.
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| 1 | – 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 . |
| 2 | It may be that the script on the Phaistos Disc represents a chance survival of a script developed for some special , possibly religious purpose . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The low vaulted roof stretched for some forty feet until it met the blank wall at the far end . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | According to Martin Haslam of Sussex accountants Keymer Haslam & Co , clients subscribed for some BES schemes , particularly from Johnson Fry . |
| 9 | The directorate searched for some method , other than a quick fix-it , which would draw the business into acceptable profitability and then develop that position . |
| 10 | At one time this column stretched for some ten miles along the road to Viktring , together with their horses and lorries , supplies and women … |
| 11 | Something over two hundred vacancies resulted in the immediate aftermath and a trickle of further resignations followed for some years to come . |
| 12 | One might say that the ‘ candid camera ’ technique used for some television programmes , where people have tricks played on them for the benefit of the viewers , is rather in this mode of observation , though it is to be hoped that social researchers would not encourage people to make fools of themselves in the way television producers do . |
| 13 | There are , of course , countless buildings that were purposely designed as pubs , yet many more occupy buildings intended for some other , usually domestic , use . |
| 14 | Copper vessels were selling for around £4 : 13s. 4d. the cwt. , although manufacturing costs accounted for some £2 17s. : 8d. of this . |
| 15 | I think , she remembered , as he walked a little behind her , it was a title received for some public work or other … . |
| 16 | It is evident from the Life of Guthlac that a harmonious relationship prevailed for some time after Aethelbald became king between the Mercian king and Aelfwald , son of Ealdwulf , king of the East Angles , otherwise it would be difficult to explain the dedication of the Life of a Mercian saint to King Aelfwald . |
| 17 | Elite studies preserved for some time their emphasis on stability and survival of political rule rather than on the visible exercise of power . |
| 18 | The procedure used for some large works is to project a negative onto a wall covered with pieces of positive paper . |
| 19 | And the Uzi a primitive weapon , the bio suit mistaken for some sort of ceremonial armour ? |
| 20 | The Cabinet changes predicted for some weeks were announced on May 20 . |
| 21 | careful preparation and engineering needed for some ground conditions |
| 22 | He was so angry he strung them up in the back of his open lorry , head downwards , like side of beef bound for some unhygienic market . |
| 23 | The file organisation method chosen for some files could even be serial or sequential , particularly if the data is likely to be accessed in batch mode . |
| 24 | It can also be propagated from seed in the manner described for some earlier species . |
| 25 | It was one of the most complicated developments undertaken for some time , with Wendy working weekends and holidays to complete the project . |
| 26 | Mo may just not care what gets said about the Company — it 's all the new team now — as long as he is n't caught saying it himself And if he gas blamed for some dirty work that got started fifteen years ago — and I doubt he was directly responsible ; he was too senior then — how much does it hurt him now ? |
| 27 | The door rattled for some time : Marcus was struggling with his key . |
| 28 | Part of it , some writers supposed , was a longing for heroes in an age without them , for cleavers of Gordian knots ( as the Wall Street Journal called North ) possessed of simple and shining certitudes ; at the end of North 's testimony even Inouye concluded that he had become another man destined for some piece of important marble in Washington , alongside Lincoln . |
| 29 | Furthermore the term register is sometimes used to refer to any device which holds a group of one or more bits of information , and which is capable of being accessed at electronic speeds : in this book we use it only for storage devices provided for some special purpose ( such as the SAR ) , and do not apply it to a general store location . |
| 30 | When he slept there , as he occasionally did in the classroom on the ground floor known for some mysterious reason as the ‘ Remove ’ , he could hear the trains run past the end of the garden and to him it was the most romantic sound in the world . |