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

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1 First of all one can deflect it by denying that some forms of species solidarity are mere bias .
2 Furthermore , they suggest that some researchers who have reported correlations between emotional support and health in the absence of life events might in fact be picking up a correlation between chronic strain and support .
3 The maker 's marks on some English watchcases suggest that some manufacturers continued to make their cases from sterling silver and this has been confirmed by analysis .
4 Anyone who has drunk one of the bottles of Fred Leroux 1920 at Le Vigneron in Reims ( in the days when it was an unpretentious little bistro , not the big , brash restaurant it is now ) will know that some wines of Chigny are capable of maturing for great periods of time .
5 Mr Taylor says it would release six constables for other duties and told the committee : ‘ We do know that some forces have undergone civilianisation of these posts .
6 The idea is that we may know that some pleasures or pains have a generally high or low degree of purity or fecundity without its being practicable on a particular occasion to specify and evaluate specifically the precise further pleasures or pains which are likely to ensue from them .
7 An indifferent speller will know that some words cause him difficulty , and will ask for them ; but he will also think he is spelling some words correctly that he is , in fact , getting wrong .
8 Professor Tisdale , 47 , began the project at Aston University , Birmingham , after noticing that some cancers stopped sufferers from absorbing food .
9 She demonstrated that some women could make their voices heard on political as well as spiritual matters during the Interregnum .
10 He supposes that some frogs are sitting on the coping stones of a circular lily pond .
11 But most rock is false in one way or another : you have to accept that some bands fake it better than others , and Ugly Kid Joe fake it like champions .
12 It can be expected that some rabbits confined in short burrows will begin to bolt quite quickly , at times almost instantly .
13 At the same time , it should not be forgotten that some writers had been advocating the use of multiple methods for years :
14 However , it has been claimed that some doctors in the province will perform abortions in certain circumstances .
15 Popper has claimed that some versions at least of Marx 's theory of history , Freudian psychoanalysis and Adlerian psychology suffer from this fault .
16 Once you realise that some blocks need to be matched early , in order to gain access to others , things get tougher .
17 ‘ You realise that some men wo n't allow us to take their blood ? ’
18 The pop singer , Morrissey , was so astounded to discover that some girls ' breasts are bigger than others that he wrote a song about it .
19 ‘ And you say that some others protected you ? ’
20 And for those who say that some pubs are unsuitable for children because they might have some evil influence , then is n't it about time those pubs were cleaned up ?
21 they say that some guys got skin heads ,
22 Despite the higher profile audience attracted by C4 Daily 's news-based format , media observers say that some advertisers demand a larger absolute size of audience before they consider it commercially viable .
23 Anyway coach Olsen actually before this game mentioned that some players was knocking on the door for a place — Fjortoft and Sorloth has kind of been out of form recently .
24 Youthful offenders were also believed to be getting younger , and according to one magistrate parental authority was at such a low ebb that ‘ it is melancholy to find that some parents are not ashamed to confess that children of seven or eight years old are entirely beyond their control ’ , while another thought that ‘ in nine cases out of ten , children are entirely masters of the position ’ .
25 It is surprising to find that some practices , perhaps believing that the world will always grant them a living , manage their affairs without the elementary assistance of time recording .
26 It was reported that some delegates demanded the replacement of between 70 and 90 per cent of the 91-member central committee , but almost 80 per cent of the outgoing central committee members were estimated to have been re-elected .
27 It is relevant to note that the RSPB recently reported that some managers of grouse moors were deliberately killing one of Britain 's rarest birds of prey — the Hen Harrier .
28 The NAO report , however , found that some areas had been neglected , notably air , as the inspectorate concentrated its resources on those areas it considered to be priorities such as nuclear sites .
29 In her research into the effects of divorce on children , Mitchell ( 1985 ) found that some siblings had been divided between the two parents , though some were reunited after the divorce .
30 Reception We tuned in to all the broadcast channels with the loop aerial and found that some sets gave a far better picture than others .
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