Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] some [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Rand found that some firms were even trying to avoid bad publicity by cleaning up sites before they were put on the Superfund list . |
| 32 | The Yale and Michigan studies found that some searches initiated as known-item searches could in fact be subject searches or could develop into subject searches . |
| 33 | The study also found that some pollutants are far more damaging when released at higher altitudes . |
| 34 | The reverberations of the Super 8/Standard 8 controversy can still be detected ; institutions were encouraged to invest in the new film equipment , but found that some manufacturers persisted in producing material only in the earlier format ; the resultant collapse of confidence has not been easy to repair . |
| 35 | Dr Sharp and his colleagues from an Edinburgh hospital questioned nearly 300 doctors in southeast Scotland and found that some GPs get up to 50 requests a month for ear syringing . |
| 36 | To their surprise , they found that some schools had grown in number from one week to the next . |
| 37 | One of the hypotheses which will be tested is that comprehension of the logical character of ‘ mental state verbs ’ is necessary for understanding that some sentences are true in virtue of their form alone ( eg ‘ The father is a man ’ ) . |
| 38 | In the debate Lord Holland recognised the dread among the upper classes that the lower orders might be seduced by subversive principles , " particularly afloat at this moment " , but also considered that some masters were taking advantage of this moment to " enforce their views and render their workmen more dependent than they had hitherto been and than in all fairness and equity they ought to be " . |
| 39 | Some signals must be scrambled and some homes supplied with unscramblers to limit access , for instance to extra subscription services . |
| 40 | The post had n't come when he left , and he wanted to know if some proofs had arrived . ’ |
| 41 | And Bassett claimed : ‘ Brian 's union role is clearly a cross he has to bear because some managers simply do n't seem to want the PFA chairman on their books . |
| 42 | Neither Julia nor I had realised that some delegates would be registering on the Saturday morning for the first time — we had n't covered this . |
| 43 | The therapist realized that some changes in the couples ' situation would have to occur within a few days if another crisis were to be avoided . |
| 44 | Did you never think that some women may not only say it but feel it ? ’ |
| 45 | Next day , Sunday , walking through the town , I was amused to see hired buses ( no scheduled services ) and car loads of black clad churchgoers proving that some compromises have been made . |
| 46 | Later on we shall be suggesting that some CONFLICTS in marriage can be seen as an attempt to put right experiences which have gone wrong in the past . |
| 47 | So I 'm not a for a moment suggesting that some rules and regulations are n't needed and I think that er the trouble is that every rule and regulation that is passed in this house , there 's always an excuse for it and there 's usually a very good reason for it , but that is the problem that the government faces and it 's quite fairly er a problem the treasury face when they introduce these statutory instruments because er no one can disagree that fraud must be stamped out , all I 'm actually saying is that unfortunately upstairs we have a deregulation bill going ahead at all pace with hundreds of clauses and hundreds of new rules to try and red hundreds of new clauses to reduce the number of rules and here we are downstairs on the floor we have passing for very good reason perhaps , more rules and regulations and there are four more tonight and I believe that every government department Madam deputy speaker , has a minister specially appointed to keep an eye on deregulation and I just wondered although er my honourable friend on the front bench mentioned that er the even the D T I minister responsible for deregulation has looked at these , I wonder if there is a minister in the treasury , they 've actually put a minister in the treasury responsible for deregulation or is the ministry actually above deregulation because I think that er I got the impression that the that every ministry would have a deregulation minister and I think it would be rather useful to know who the deregulation minister is in the treasury . |
| 48 | Eventually he reached Kirwan and was assured that no South Africans would be involved and that the match has some sanctity as the proceeds were to go to child cancer research — not that that dissuaded some cynics from suggesting that some players may have taken their share . |
| 49 | These values highlight that some tissues are more susceptible to damage than others . |
| 50 | Through his work , Freud realised that some taboos of the time were much more commonly breached than was acknowledged by society . |
| 51 | The House of Lords , while accepting that some elements of natural justice could apply to investigations and preliminary determinations , held that an opportunity to see the counter-statement was not required : no final decision was being made and if the taxpayer could comment on the counter-statement the Commissioners would wish to comment on those comments , thereby producing an endless succession of exchanges , bringing the administration to a standstill . |
| 52 | It is interesting to see that some developments in reading instruction are stressing the need to help pupils cope with text organisational problems . |
| 53 | It is encouraging to see that some organisations are taking renewable energy seriously . |
| 54 | Surely the House appreciates that some problems go beyond national frontiers , particularly those affecting pollution and international trade . |
| 55 | If theme is whatever occurs in initial position we would have to acknowledge that some languages prefer to thematize participants ( expressed as subjects in SVO and SOV languages ) on a regular basis while other languages prefer to thematize processes ( expressed as verbs in VSO languages ) . |
| 56 | But DES Circular 11/87 exhorts schools to acknowledge that some parents have strong religious or cultural objections to the imparting of sex education by schools and to comply with a request to withdraw a child in such circumstances . |
| 57 | The educational background and training of chartered librarians in Britain has not been well understood by teachers , and in particular it has been noticeable how reluctant spokesmen of the School Library Association have been to acknowledge that some librarians have received a special training in work with children of school age , with materials for children of school age , and involving more than an acquaintance with the study of educational systems and methods and of child development . |
| 58 | The introduction of a scheme of financial devolution into a school guarantees that some changes will be made in the management and organisation of that school . |
| 59 | They are ‘ normal events ’ , arising almost naturally out of the circumstances of the employment relationship itself : ‘ A wildcat can break out in perfectly normal conditions , and the structure of the relations between employers , trade unions , governments and workers guarantees that some strikes will grow from small beginnings into mighty struggles ’ ( p.241 ) . |
| 60 | Between the sessions , Pope Paul had called for restraint on this topic , and on 28 October Cardinal Agagianian announced that some matters would not be brought to the Council floor in a move widely interpreted as favourable to the conservative forces in the curia . |