Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hoe many of us could 7 survive for long without some predictable pattern or regularity in our lives ? |
| 2 | Jill will be through directly with some goodies . ’ |
| 3 | So perhaps in some ways er we would deduce from this that the the motive of the revolutionaries in sixty eight was in perhaps to some extent to complete what had been started in seventeen eighty nine but not finished and somebody would , Clinton presumably he would say I 'm gon na complete the programme that John F Kennedy started , but was unable to finish because the tragic way in which his career was ended . |
| 4 | ( Interest rate ceilings have persisted until now in some other countries , including Canada , the United States , Belgium and France . ) |
| 5 | Hutt struck her from behind with some force , expecting the young woman to go down . |
| 6 | Their adversaries approached , having given Hoomey a hand , geeing his horse up from behind with some hearty arm-waving . |
| 7 | Martha had been far from well for some time and was in need of another operation . |
| 8 | The rest of the band , recruited from a newspaper ad , also blended in well with some nifty guitar work from Debbie Smith . |
| 9 | ‘ From here on some of it is guess-work . |
| 10 | Seems to be brighter in here for some reason . |
| 11 | She wondered then , since Ven was proving so elusive , whether she should take the opportunity on what she estimated would be just under a hundred-mile drive to Prague to get in there with some of Cara 's questions . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | So we were gon na move an office up to here with some natural light in it . |
| 17 | A mile along this road was Rocky Valley , which is also a good hunting ground for birds of prey — not necessarily for barn owls , with all the buzzards and kestrels competing , but no doubt our pair would venture over there at some time to see what they could pick up . |
| 18 | He could snatch a coffee and sandwich in the bar over there at some point . |
| 19 | The sum was arrived at only after some haggling , Newcastle at first offering £400 and Northampton asking £ 1,000 . |
| 20 | Nijkamp of the Netherlands spent the previous night in a Paris hospital as his wife gave birth to their first child , got back at 5am for some sleep and went on to paddle to last place . |
| 21 | If a match between the gender of the pronoun and the formal gender of the noun introducing its antecedent facilitates the interpretation of the pronoun , at least under some conditions — as we suspect it will — our hypothesis about the involvement of a superficial representation in the interpretation of deep anaphors will be supported . |
| 22 | But Charles the Bald also had a communications-network of his own : in his kingdom , many Roman roads had survived , with a system of public provision of food and transport at regular staging-posts at least along some routes . |
| 23 | If those other components are themselves of a kind that , for example , influences the Earth 's supply of radiation , then we see that positively minute additions , at least of some kinds of pollutants , could have profound consequences for living things . |
| 24 | " The Meeting having considered many Complaints from Caddelton and the other principle Drovers … from the want of a proper Fank for Cattle near the ferry place of Portaskaig , and Considering also that sixty or Eighty acres at least of some muir land near the Port will be necessary … appoint a Committee to draw up an application to Shawfield , praying he may allot and Inclose a piece of ground . " |
| 25 | That is not to say that there are no theories , at least of some stages of the transition of some types of flow . |
| 26 | Erm I I hope that is at least of some help erm in dealing with a resolution to this problem . |
| 27 | At least with some kind of trance it 's subtle and there 's a whole different atmosphere . |
| 28 | For ‘ prodigies ’ ( ‘ Mr Binyon 's young prodigies ’ ) surely we ought to read ‘ protégés ’ ; and then it becomes possible to wonder whether the jocularity about bulldogs does n't mark a wistful or resentful sense that Binyon and Sturge Moore ( ‘ old Neptune ’ ) might have done more with their respective protégés than merely set them to sniff and snarl at each other 's heels ; to question whether the two senior writers could not have established themselves — at least for some purposes — as masters of ateliers in which the two young hopefuls might have enrolled as apprentices . |
| 29 | Once an imbalance occurs between the number of males waiting to acquire units and the number of units that can be taken over or entered , the system could go into a series of oscillations which would be self-perpetuating , at least for some time . |
| 30 | The Edwardian era of peace , pomp and prosperity ( at least for some ) seemed destined to last forever . |