Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb -s] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her preference is for small charities where she feels she can do some good , and where she has some natural interest . |
| 2 | While the ombudsman has revealed the occasional bureaucratic horror story , he or she lacks some of the powers of his or her opposite number in other systems . |
| 3 | If the sociologist is present at the moment of speech-production , whether as observer or interviewer , then he or she plays some part in the creation of the dialogue . |
| 4 | She opens some forbidden door in true Bluebeard 's castle style , or she enters some forbidden or forbidding house , and eventually breaks free . |
| 5 | When a pupil leaves , with him or her goes some of that added value and its potential which the school has sought to generate . |
| 6 | And often , says Penny Mansfield , it 's not so much that he falls in love with another woman but he 's at a stage in life where he wants some diversion . |
| 7 | The idea has now reached dimensions where it requires some assistance by individuals with stature and/or money to legitimize its growth . |
| 8 | Elsag Bailey SpA has acquired Ferranti International Controls Inc of Houston , and according to the Financial Times , Ferranti International Plc is in process of getting out of the US , where it does some $100m a year , some 25% of the total , and employs about 1,000 people : it is winding up a Pennsylvania company , Ferranti International Simulation & Training and will sell the rest . |
| 9 | This suggests that the police are most likely to interpret an event as rape where it shares some of the characteristics of familiar and conspicuously criminal activity . |
| 10 | Secondly , there are a number of different types of situation where there is missing information : either the recogniser produces no candidates for a letter string , or it produces some candidates . |
| 11 | If judicial review is seen as going further and being concerned with the protection of groups as well as individuals , standing rules should only require that the applicant show that he , she or it shares some interest with others . |
| 12 | They simply tell us that someone has some very specific desires , aches and pains . |
| 13 | For example , a teacher who says that she thinks some of the dolls need bathing will soon have some willing helpers . |
| 14 | It is in peasant society that one sees some of the main gainers from the surplus of land . |
| 15 | However , although one has some sympathy with Fleischmann 's point , and with hindsight might wish that more explicit details had been known , in reality this was not so clear cut . |
| 16 | In practical terms , the school librarian or teacher may not have the authority to make a final decision on the purchase of a microcomputer but it is important that s/he has some knowledge of what microcomputers can do and what criteria should be used for selection , so that the decision made by the headteacher may be influenced by the person who will ultimately control and use the microcomputer . |
| 17 | … we may safely assume that there exists some universal semantics of literature , comprehending the themes which are to be met with always and everywhere and which are limited in number ; their transformations and combinations produce the apparent multitude of literary themes . |
| 18 | This is not to assert , certainly , that there exists some entity , outside an experience or episode , which experiences or possesses it . |
| 19 | ‘ Does it mean that everybody has some definite thing that moves him ? ’ |
| 20 | That does n't necessarily mean biggest , although it requires some critical mass in each country , and only in selected industries in each country ’ Carroll said . |
| 21 | Although it retains some features in common with the ‘ orthodox account ’ it also departs from it significantly , especially in its emphasis on the importance of ‘ justice ’ within prisons . |
| 22 | In recent years , however , the canine colon has become a standard model for colonic motility studies and , although it displays some kinds of contractile activity not seen in man , it has been useful for investigating neuropharmacological interactions . |
| 23 | What is perhaps most remarkable about this grassland is that it is only maintained under active management even rabbits were introduced by the Normans and , although it resembles some periglacial assemblages of plants , it must have been reconstituted after the forest maximum unless there were extensive grazed glades in that period . |
| 24 | This is not the same as assessing its impact on the value of the company , although it makes some attempt to do this , as will be described shortly . |
| 25 | Although he sees some decline in the numbers of the petty bourgeoisie ( the small property owners ) due to competition from large companies , he argues that they enter white-collar or skilled manual trades rather than being depressed into the ranks of unskilled manual workers . |
| 26 | language … gives structure to experience , and helps to determine our way of looking at things , so that it requires some intellectual effort to see them in any other way than that which our language suggests to us . |
| 27 | I must say that it sheds some light on the state of some of the aircraft that I had to fly in then . |
| 28 | We do not know how this activated state is subsequently maintained throughout the healing process , although the final overrun and pile-up suggest that it takes some time to switch off . |
| 29 | 2.2 Business secrets The particular importance of an express clause covering business secrets during employment is that it avoids some of the problems encountered in Bjorlow ( GB ) Ltd v Minter ( 1954 ) 71 RPC 321 . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , to some extent it can be said that it fulfils some of the functions of the preambles in Community texts to which I have just referred . |