Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] in some " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Interest rate ceilings have persisted until now in some other countries , including Canada , the United States , Belgium and France . ) |
| 2 | We saw that the first , and most important , of these traumatic social changes was the transition from vegetarian foraging to big-game hunting which precipitated the murder of the primal father , and that subsequent totemic culture , still extant until recently in some parts of the world , was a consequence of this . |
| 3 | In general the " topping workmen " were rare enough in London and hardly existed elsewhere , except perhaps in some branches of the metal trades in Sheffield or Birmingham . |
| 4 | Even in so-called ‘ basic ’ or ‘ pure ’ science , direct attempts to replicate reported experimental findings are in practice very rare ( except possibly in some areas of physics ) . |
| 5 | This is usually the case for studies of human beings whose lifestyles can not generally be manipulated except possibly in some short psychological experiment or to further medical research . |
| 6 | The ministry of labour suspects that about half of the unemployed have indeed been laid off , but other evidence suggests that at least in some parts of the country the proportion is much lower . |
| 7 | Here , however , Christians could be found — at least in some areas — in greater concentration than in the West ; socially and culturally they were on a level not very different from their non-Christian peers . |
| 8 | The Report echoed some of the criticism advanced by witnesses that the WEA could not decide on its future and , at least in some Districts , had lost the pioneering spirit , but concluded nonetheless that ‘ voluntaryism as exemplified by the Workers ’ Educational Association is essential if the spirit of adult education is to be preserved' . |
| 9 | They sowed exotic grasses for their animals , built up the herds during the good years , when it rained , but then ( at least in some cases ) found that the grass was overgrazed in the drought years , when it failed to grow . |
| 10 | Even so , if you consider the pressures contingent on me that night , you may not think I delude myself unduly if I go so far as to suggest that I did perhaps display , in the face of everything , at least in some modest degree a ‘ dignity ’ worthy of someone like Mr Marshall — or come to that , my father . |
| 11 | Research ( Fagg , 1980 ) has indicated that at least in some cities , inner-urban areas provide ideal factors of production for newer companies : cheap premises and labour can be obtained , markets are close and niches in production or distribution can be carved out . |
| 12 | This required the acknowledgement that there would be the obligation to suppress , at least in some degree , many of man 's inherited instinctive urges and the need to introduce rules for all to observe . |
| 13 | So the pope ( so a contemporary claimed ) sent him a banner which gave the campaign of Hastings , at least in some eyes , the aura of a crusade . |
| 14 | It is not the purpose of this book to provide a complete medical directory of all the illnesses that are attributed , at least in some measure , to lack of natural fibre in the Western diet . |
| 15 | The visitor was often allowed to pull the press and , at least in some places , in return for watching the setting of the type and the privilege of carrying away the souvenir , was expected to buy beer for the workmen . |
| 16 | Many pupils in schools are bilingual and sometimes biliterate , and quite literally know more about language than their teachers , at least in some respects . |
| 17 | Once we turn to actual ethnographic cases , it is usually not very difficult to identify concepts which seem to overlap with our concept of ‘ aggression ’ , at least in some of its usages . |
| 18 | ‘ Yes , I 'm afraid you have been misinformed , at least in some parts , Mrs Winkowski . ’ |
| 19 | These cursory snippets frown past , for that alas is all there is space for here , at least show how the contemporary anthropological understanding of witchcraft throws new and ( at least in some quarters ) welcome light on what were until recently unusually dark and baffling corners of our history . |
| 20 | The same symbol is encompassing a wide range of conceptions which , at least in some respects , share a common , underlying theme . |
| 21 | However , the results show either a decrease in morbidity or no change , suggesting effects at least in some circumstances . |
| 22 | There seems no reason not to allow that monetary compensation may , at least in some cases , be a suitable remedy in public law . |
| 23 | Gloucester 's lordship was thus , at least in some cases , attractive enough to displace that of the crown . |
| 24 | It was not until Gloucester had seized the throne , and the Woodvilles could again claim to be acting in Edward V 's interests , that the family , at least in some circles , regained their political credibility . |
| 25 | If the harmonization process is to have any hope of acceleration it is essential for law schools to reduce their preoccupation with national law and their assumption of its superiority over other legal systems and to revert at least in some degree to the internationalism of medieval law teaching . |
| 26 | During the middle ages the most important records were at least in some degree legal instruments : whether they transferred land , appointed men to office , warranted expenditure , acquitted revenue officers of their charge , or summoned litigants to court , they conveyed some kind of legally valid authority . |
| 27 | Employees are therefore paid a fixed wage whatever the state of the world , boom or slump , and , at least in some models , compensated for being laid off , up to the point that they are indifferent between working and not . |
| 28 | The first is that an advertisement is , at least in some sense , an artistic creation : people 's judgements of art are virtually always subjective , and vary widely from person to person . |
| 29 | At first sight , the picture of word-meaning given by patterns of affinity and disaffinity is , at least in some respects , different from the picture given by semantic traits . |
| 30 | It has been argued up to now that although word-meaning is in a sense infinitely variable , nonetheless discrete units — ‘ atoms ’ or ‘ quanta ’ of sense — can be identified which at least in some respects are stable across contexts , and which are the appropriate basic units for lexical semantics . |