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

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1 It is interesting to see that some developments in reading instruction are stressing the need to help pupils cope with text organisational problems .
2 Some argued and some still argue that a low profile was more effective in meeting existing .
3 The Far Eastern Economic Review of Dec. 12 reported that some 80 former student leaders who were active in the pro-democracy movement in the 1970s had formed a new political party , Pracha Dhamma .
4 He suggested that this occurred because some of the early mammals took to the trees , and in that new environment smell became less important , while vision and neuromuscular control , and particularly the co-ordination of the two , became more important .
5 Some of the time one gets a good response from people willing to help and some interesting periodicals to read or browse through briefly before doing the coding and counting .
6 This makes them very unpleasant to use and some residents will prefer not to .
7 In connection with the location of the energy barrier separating the two states , it is interesting to remark that some crystallographic results have been interpreted as containing B II phosphates when in fact these conformations correspond to ε-ζ values of roughly +30° ( see , for example , 10 ) which in the light of our findings should be considered B I .
8 Another recorded that some held high positions in the Ministry of War : their arrest , the report added , would be ‘ a political embarrassment ’ .
9 Agencies like this find that some people want a complete change from previous work , others like to continue using the skills they have built up over the years .
10 On the other hand , many people are quite prepared to concede that some animal or group of animals has been seen in the loch .
11 This meant that some Christians followed Jesus as a Guru , others as a moral guerrilla leader and still others worshipped him as a perfect person .
12 This meant that some of the old despoblados , the deserted towns that had been the despair of the economists for two hundred years , came back under cultivation , just as in the town of Salamanca , centre of a great wheat region , the empty houses left untenanted by the recession of the seventeenth century were occupied once more .
13 This meant that some of those who qualified for money received literally nothing at all .
14 This meant that some of his own sons were already adult when he succeeded at the age of 35 : his eldest son Lothar was nearly 20 — old enough to provide an alternative focus of loyalty for aspiring nobles .
15 ‘ Piano , Aaron , piano ! ’ she called , and her middle stepson , with his mobile thin white clown 's face , emerged from the crowd and seated himself at the instrument , as Liz called to Deirdre and the butlers to fill glasses and then join the guests for a toast : Jonathan turned on the radio , the eagle-crowned clock over the marble mantelshelf struck , some joined hands and some did not , Aaron struck up Auld Lang Syne , Big Ben struck , some sang and some did not , voices rose straggling , pure and impure , strong and weak , tuneful and tuneless , there were cries and embraces .
16 This means that some quieter things can be done which are not possible if there are a great number of children around .
17 of defendants granted bail were convicted of an offence committed whilst on bail , this means that some 83 to 90 per cent .
18 Effectively this means that some students at least are initially anxious at the prospect of any language work with a grammatical focus which does not include a formalisation of the data and a description of the rules by the teacher .
19 This means that some of the energy which would otherwise escape to outer space is trapped within the atmosphere .
20 Sexual intercourse has to take place against the will of the complainant and in general this means that some force or the threat of it must be used .
21 This means that some of us are on an , ‘ executive committee . ’
22 Although in practice this means that some patients with chronic stable renal failure would have been referred for rapid investigation and diagnosis , we believe that this is preferable to taking a lower cut-off for carbamylated haemoglobin , such as 125 g VH/g Hb which would reduce sensitivity to 80% but increase specificity to 75% , since this would exclude some patients with a potentially reversible element to their renal failure that may not be so readily reversible if investigation and appropriate management were delayed .
23 This means that some attention to internal fatigue levels may also be of help in dealing with stress .
24 Perhaps inevitably , this means that some of the detail of particular research has been omitted , but the general clarity of the articles and their accompanying lists of references are such that intelligent readers are given a clear view of their particular interests and encouraged to delve deeper should they wish .
25 Sivapithecus combines some of these same characters of the distal humerus with primitive characters of the humeral shaft , and this confuses the issue still further if it is grouped in the orang-utan clade , for this indicates that some of the postcranial characters shared by the orang-utan and the African apes must have evolved independently .
26 This indicates that some of the previous reduction was a slowing in tempo : a postponement , rather than an absolute decline , in family size .
27 Erm I think some do but some are evergreen and these are evergreen .
28 But if you go abroad do you drink the water out the taps ? guess you d some do and some do n't .
29 ‘ It is not possible to draw a line between human and human and say some do and some do not have the right to life , ’ he said .
30 In other classes some did and some did not ; perhaps some rejected their use .
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