Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] some [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an increasingly desperate search for peace some pacifists were even prepared to make overtures to Fascist organizations . |
| 2 | Sir , Your latest leader confirms that in a world of change some things never change . |
| 3 | Of course some horses have early morning coughs rather like humans and some have allergies to hay , straw and some hard feedstuffs . |
| 4 | Of course some things would change : the spirit of Homais was winning . |
| 5 | Of course some boys may be asked to perform some or all of these tasks , but I think that ( for historical rather than biological reasons ) the task of substitute-mothering is more likely to devolve upon a girl than upon a boy who is in a similar position within the family . |
| 6 | Erm so erm but of course I mean t to make the point because it does n't really contradict what you 're saying Heather because of course the rather more extreme kinds of Protestant Sects that do emphasise for example erm er narrow dogmatic teaching much more so you could say that erm and I think this would perhaps be the answer to , to Oliver 's point to some extent because it goes back to Dean 's original point that erm here we 're we we 're talking about a general theory of groups , but of course some groups can be more groupie than others . |
| 7 | There are of course some cases in which the treatment of civil-law and trust dispositions can not be parallel , since the civil law wholly fails to recognize dispositions of that type . |
| 8 | Of course some cases of self-regulation would be profitable because they increase trade ( an example might be the association of life insurance offices ) , but others might be socially desirable yet bedevilled by public good problems — who is to fund the regulatory body ? |
| 9 | It 'll give many people the chance to see toys no longer made and of course some others which are just ageless . |
| 10 | of course some companies do this and one or two manage to benefit from it by sending out a different type ) f product from their range each year . |
| 11 | Of course some managers drop out , giving reasons of personal ethics . |
| 12 | Of course some policemen and women , at the other extreme , welcomed the research as an opportunity to talk about issues which are so often taken for granted among colleagues and family that they are not topics of conversation . |
| 13 | Of course some jobs may actually require very casual clothes or special working clothes , in which case clearly you should not wear something similar for the interview . |
| 14 | ( 1986 ) and Borgman ( 1980 ) have found from their studies that older children especially are not willing to move to a new family if contact with their biological families is to be severed , though of course some children may be unable to voice their reluctance and tend to go along with the plans . |
| 15 | When people objected that The Green Book was ‘ just words ’ — a strong condemnation in Huaiwiri — Salah said that of course some parts of it were not as good as others , but it was foolish to condemn everything in it just because some parts of it were wrong . |
| 16 | And of course some points of law are very involved . |
| 17 | Of course some terms may be difficult to categorize as stop or non-stop . |
| 18 | Of course some parties will be adversely affected , but the overall effect takes this into account . |
| 19 | Asian ships did not go round the Cape of Good Hope to trade with Europe , and East Indiamen , as the Company 's ships were called , were so heavily armed and were so much safer from the risk of piracy that merchants found them useful carriers even though they did not sail as fast as local ships until the Company had its ships built of teak some decades later . |
| 20 | Both stations , manned by part-timers , were under threat of closure some years ago but massive campaigns secured their future . |
| 21 | For the purposes of law some actions must be regarded as voluntary , since only these can be justifiably punished . |
| 22 | This was how her illness had started in the beginning — with an outbreak of insomnia some months after her child had died . |
| 23 | And that was the kind of advice some years ago was being given by solicitors . |
| 24 | And then , too , he had been allowed three days of parole some weeks earlier . |
| 25 | When you are tired out and upset with yourself for not having taken that extra piece of lift some miles back , there can be a tendency to become apathetic and not even try to prevent an accident . |
| 26 | Technical experiments like stream-of-consciousness had died of inanition some years before , and they left few heirs ; and the poetic tradition of Eliot had been abandoned even by Eliot , who by the 1950s was writing little but plays . |
| 27 | Despite HRT some patients showed a reduction in bone density ( Figs 2 and 3 ) . |
| 28 | If one asks why the law should draw the line at threats of breach of contract and not include within the tort of intimidation some threats against B even though the acts threatened are not strictly unlawful , the answer can lie only in the structure of the law . |
| 29 | They ran out of petrol some miles from their destination , fortunately near to some houses whose occupants came to their rescue . |
| 30 | ‘ My own ‘ trade union ’ , the Historic Houses Association , realise that without this kind of relief some properties could be lost . ’ |