Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] for some " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aim of this legislation , as the Supreme Court noted , is to facilitate economic development , although it is fair to add that lenders both from within and outside the country have been pressing for change for some time . |
| 2 | He was acting as courier for some of his family 's purchases earlier in the year . |
| 3 | Apart from the statutory exceptions made after Independence for some of the state banks , parate execution was not permitted . |
| 4 | They said that Dalglish was after Batty for some time but Wilko refused to sell him . |
| 5 | The strength of the aversion was then tested ; on the day after conditioning for some rats , and 21 days later for others . |
| 6 | He explained that the young puffin had been found wandering in the village with a damaged wing , probably having been mauled by one of the many cats in the neighbourhood ( most of whom , incidentally , have six toes on each foot ) and he said that he would look after Eyvør for some weeks until it was well enough to be released . |
| 7 | I feel genuinely hostile to an undergraduate ( supposedly one of the best educated people in the country ) who writes asking for sponsorship for some project and who does not know how to begin or end his letter or how to spell the name of the person to whom he is appealing . |
| 8 | Potassium iodide was a favoured treatment for syphilis for some time following the publication in the Lancet of a series of papers advocating its use . |
| 9 | With inverted files the records are held in a data area on disk , but there is also an index which contains values or a range of values for some of the data . |
| 10 | For M Delors , a Labour government held out the hope of support for some of his budget proposals , which are set to cost the British taxpayer an extra £1 billion per year . |
| 11 | On the one hand , there is now ample evidence of the existence of significant language patterns which have gone largely unrecorded in centuries of study ; on the other hand there is a dearth of support for some phenomena which are regularly put forward as normal patterns of English . |
| 12 | With some 15,500 outlets for their business , solicitors are likely to remain for some time the principal providers of legal services even if there is considerable expansion of alternatives to the use of solicitors for some legal work ( The Law Society , 1990 ) . |
| 13 | Altogether some 2,500 animal species and 35,000 plants were listed either in Appendix I or Appendix II ; the Kyoto meeting added a further 45 and approved the upgrading of protection for some 35 species transferred to the Appendix 1 list . |
| 14 | There is a tendency of course for some old people to expect to have long telephone calls of even an hour or more with their |
| 15 | And of course for some of the lads it was . |
| 16 | The approaches made in 1759 by the Danish government to the United Provinces for the creation of a maritime union to defend neutral rights were only one of a series of proposals for some anti-British combination of this kind which culminated in the Armed Neutrality of 1780 . |
| 17 | ‘ Self-determination is the right of all people in the world , including Germans , but it only makes sense when one does not lose sight of the concerns of others … we are coming to the end of a century which has seen the special responsibility of Germans for some terrible things . ’ |
| 18 | Craig had fielded twice as many candidates and won fewer seats ; a result which was probably a combination of public reaction to Vanguard 's lack of clear policy and a lack of enthusiasm for some of the Vanguard candidates . |
| 19 | It may happen that the optimal tableau of LPk for some k has for all in a row i containing a structural variable x r and is not integral . |
| 20 | At times he would pull me and Willie across the room by the ears , in way of reprimand for some demeanour — but he sure had printing-ink in his veins . |
| 21 | By then the Faulkner administration had been out of existence for some months and hostility to it no longer rallied the public . |
| 22 | Suppose you have just paid a lot of money for some hi-fi equipment . |
| 23 | A sort of sash for some lady to wear round her smooth , soft-skinned waist . |
| 24 | By 1906 Picasso had known the work of Gauguin for some time . |
| 25 | The complete data set consists of returns for some 400,000 individuals . |
| 26 | The originals were never formally withdrawn , but have been out of stock for some time . |
| 27 | The originals were never formally withdrawn , but have been out of stock for some time . |
| 28 | It was an advantage to have an even number of sails as , if one went out of action for some reason , the opposite one could be taken off with it and still the mill could work without being unbalanced . |
| 29 | This suggests that low prostacyclin production may be a consequence of arterial endothelial cell loss or damage and this requires restoration by normalisation of metabolism for some days before prostacyclin production returns to normal ( Harrison et al , 1980 ) . |
| 30 | ‘ It was a very demanding programme and very rewarding , but I 'm looking forward to keeping my head out of books for some time now , ’ he commented . |