Example sentences of "[adj] [vb -s] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope that that goes some way to meeting my hon. Friend 's points . |
| 2 | These committees have some common features : membership includes representatives from the police , the police authority , constituent councils , and voluntary , statutory and community groups ; meetings are held regularly and records kept ; each has some sort of constitution ; and the proceedings are generally publicly available . |
| 3 | Translation of the longest open reading frame of the combined cDNA sequence indicates that there is a potential open reading frame of 428 amino acids , encoding a protein with a molecular weight of 44 kD that has some homology to the amino terminal region of Oct-2 but not Oct-1 ( Figure 2 ) . |
| 4 | Er there 's another book which is similar to the other one in the sense that it made up of some papers by Phillips , Steel and Tants and that has some information about Mexicano in it , er and you find that some people er were giving Mexican language a low a low prestige rate whereas other group in the community were doing the opposite and giving a high prestige rate or certainly a less low one , er in favour of spanish a lot of the Because it was in I think it 's in South America I guess , er you find that a lot of the locals were switching to spanish because it was coming the dominant language er because of societal pressures and constraints and so on . |
| 5 | Close inspection reveals that mean smoothing creates relatively large residuals in months adjacent to the strikingly atypical months , where perhaps common sense would suggest otherwise ; if the percentage in February 1985 represents some kind of error , for example , then the less resistant mean has spread this error over into the adjacent months . |
| 6 | He 's lost a dozen in a decade and this goes some way towards explaining his surprisingly philosophical attitude to his own bad luck . |
| 7 | If a common phenomenon , this goes some way towards accounting for the ingrained belief that such growth engendered serious economic and social problems , not least Carew 's conviction that the opening of tin workings impoverished a parish , whilst their discontinuance restored prosperity . |
| 8 | This goes some way to explaining why the complicated campaigns within Toulouse in the second half of the century were largely fought out under the banners of the Angevin , Aragonese , and French kings ; and why the revolts of Henry II 's sons had widespread ramifications . |
| 9 | This goes some way towards typing the organism causing the disease . |
| 10 | This involves some expenditure , but this can be avoided if staff awareness is raised and a ‘ switch off ’ attitude is developed . |
| 11 | The important thing seems to be that teachers should be aware of this conflict and take some steps to resolve it , and this involves some kind of negotiation between teacher and pupils . |
| 12 | I make no apology for reminding the House of the quotation from Sir Winston Churchill upon which I drew last year : ’ It is said with truth that this involves some sacrifice or merger of national sovereignty . |
| 13 | This offers some sound control ( assigning WAV files to Windows events or individual icons ) and will animate your cursor , and look after Windows wallpaper and screen savers . |
| 14 | So it , this has some things in the picture gain importance , although I still the black and white ones . |
| 15 | This has some advantages , as the rotational envelope results in a spreading of the intensity of a band over a wide range , and may lead to overlapping of bands due to different vibrations . |
| 16 | This has some affinity with the Marxist position . |
| 17 | Now thi this has some implications for decision making . |
| 18 | a cap-gun , another has some arrows — |
| 19 | Fine china sales have improved but the profit has n't and this needs some explanation . |
| 20 | This bears some resemblance to the definition communication referred to in Chapter 2 and seems to me to generalize the meaning of the term authenticity to the point where it ceases to have much significance . |
| 21 | The disqualification stage in this bears some resemblance to denunciation , which we found to be of limited value as a justification of punishment . |
| 22 | For this reason , more on-line measures of processing have also been used to study inferences since this allows some measure to be taken of when inferences are made . |
| 23 | An implication of this is that the contents of the operand field may be modified in accordance with the addressing mode field before being used as a literal value ; this allows some alteration of the value ( for example , by adding the contents of an index register ) without altering the instruction . |
| 24 | Chapter 2 describes some ways of doing this . |
| 25 | The success of this assay is dependent upon the choice of buccal cell donor ( Burke , personal communication ) and this casts some doubt on its usefulness and reproducibility ; it is clearly a difficult technique to standardise between laboratories . |
| 26 | This leads some adherents of psychoanalysis , especially those of a Lacanian disposition , to regard sexual difference — or rather hetero/sexual difference as it should really be called — as both tragic and heroic . |
| 27 | This includes some decrease in day pupils , who may have found places in ESN(M) schools , and in severely handicapped children attending schools within hospitals . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , we can conclude that many of the megalithic monuments had some sort of astronomical import ( and this includes some aspects of the Egyptian Pyramids ) ; as to their religious meaning we can only guess . |
| 29 | To do this requires some ability to acknowledge and manage one 's own infantile feelings rather than inflexibly to project them into the other . |
| 30 | Suitable arrangements for the instruments available have to be made and this requires some skill . |