Example sentences of "[verb] to [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather , in most ordinary kinds of talk these principles are oriented to , such that when talk does not proceed according to their specifications , hearers assume that , contrary to appearances , the principles are nevertheless being adhered to at some deeper level . |
| 2 | Although there is much to support this view of the origin of our modern idea of time , it is now realized that it can only be adhered to with some reservations , as we shall see . |
| 3 | The Court was concerned to learn from counsel that these matters were not always adhered to in some courts . |
| 4 | ‘ I just do n't hear about it at all from the sales force , ’ he said , adding that he 's heard it referred to by some as Windows for Warehouses — ‘ because it sits on shelves . ’ |
| 5 | Another situation creating uncertainty as to party status is where reservations have been made to a treaty which have been objected to by some States but not by others . |
| 6 | Mr George Henry Quarry , a Belfast solicitor was then applied to for some land at the top of Carrickblacker Road but initially there was no response from him and other possible sites investigated were some ground opposite where James 's Street now stands and land behind where the little Roman Catholic church was later built ( now Pritchard 's Motors ) and near the site of Edenderry Orange Hall . |
| 7 | I understand from 's nephew that the electric convector in the sitting room is dead , and shall speak to about some kind of replacement , though there is of course the second convector in the bedroom which should suffice at this time of year . |
| 8 | Fire Service S S A , which we 've talked to at some length already . |
| 9 | Yes , I 'm not sure that I I 'm going to at some stage . |
| 10 | Now , could I , could I go through , cos I 'd like , I 'd like to at some stage ask you to do an exercise on this just to see first of all how complicated it is and then , at the end , how simple it is . |
| 11 | As a signal of its goodwill — reluctantly agreed to by some members , but a signal nevertheless — the party acceded to popular pressure to disband its own private army , the People 's Militia . |
| 12 | One such walk takes you from the village of Bosherston , down to the sands at Broad Haven and around to St Govan 's Head , where there 's a tiny chapel tucked into the cliff face which you get to down some steps . |
| 13 | This sector has also been referred to by some as a lumpenproletariat . |
| 14 | These are referred to by some of the local people as the ‘ funeral gate ’ and the ‘ wedding gate ’ , respectively . |
| 15 | David Clark 's committee of 25 years ago , irreverently referred to in some quarters as the ‘ Dave Clark Five ’ although it contained 13 people , took as its main brief the worsening financial position of the game consequent upon the postwar trend of falling attendances for first-class matches and declining membership of county clubs . |
| 16 | ( The argument that went on in Tanzania at this time is referred to in some detail in the next chapter . ) |
| 17 | His book , whose title The Moral Basis of a Backward Society speaks volumes even on its own , is still referred to in some quarters nearly thirty years after the research as an authoritative statement on this problem . |
| 18 | refers to as some contrived means such as a disagreement , ’ and if that duty can only be discharged by adjourning for rehearing by a bench of three then that is the just and proper course to take . |
| 19 | The idea is that properties of an object , such as the shape and colour of a thing , could , in principle , exist on their own ( ’ in time' — as opposed to in some more Platonic way ) apart from anything else , whereas good does not have the same possibility of existing as an independent object . |
| 20 | This was regarded and listened to with some incredulity by the majority of the airmen , whose main ambition regarding Waafs had much to do with getting them into dark corners , like behind the Naafi , and nothing whatever to do with playing the flute or any other instrument . |
| 21 | Graff also invokes the Bakhtinian concept of dialogue , where every utterance implies another utterance , which it answers , attacks , continues , or relates to in some way . |
| 22 | They have to for some journeys yes , but there are a lot of alternatives and I think if the councillors were actually to rely more on public transport they maybe would feel more comfortable about putting subsidies into buses instead of subsidies into car parks . |