Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea has now reached dimensions where it requires some assistance by individuals with stature and/or money to legitimize its growth . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The library reference room was on the Fludyer Street side of the building and although it housed some to the 5,000 volumes in the manuscript library , some had to be distributed throughout the passages of the building . |
| 7 | When they were not , they switched to cockles ( although it took some time for them to learn the technique of shell penetration ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Fortunately , that family was able to put in extra money — although it meant some sacrifices , such as doing without holidays and so on — but I contend that if those two girls had come from a less fortunate background , they simply would not have been able to continue their courses in current circumstances . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The district council 's public relations manager Chris Trim said the District Commercial Services was separate from the council and run as a public company , although it used some of the council 's facilities such as payroll and computers . |
| 15 | The extent to which deliberate Acts of Parliament are able to contradict Community law is a more vexed question , although it found some answer in the case of the Spanish-owned fishing companies in 1991 . |
| 16 | She could tell by the feel of it that it had some papers inside , but she did not look at them . |
| 17 | Unfortunately this purely empirical observation was remarked on at length in several passages of the General Theory , giving the false impression that it had some wider theoretical significance . |
| 18 | The city used to claim that it had some of the cleanest air in Latin America . |
| 19 | But the trouble with the Garden of Eden , Lindsey found herself thinking , was that it had some rather disturbing connotations , not to mention the odd serpent ! |
| 20 | That , that 's , that And your other point was that it had some quite specific information about what the problem was . |
| 21 | Although this memorandum was immediately denounced and repudiated , there is no doubt that it touched some sensitive nerves . |
| 22 | It is difficult to accept this interpretation because there is no evidence to imply that the site was ever promoted to the rank of civitas capital , and it seems simplest to assume that it fulfilled some other official function . |
| 23 | He believed that communications was only different in that it offered some vocational skills . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ Thirty years ago Julian Huxley and Eliot Slater speculated that the reason why the disadvantageous schizophrenia gene was not progressively eliminated from the gene pool was that it conveyed some biological advantage such as resistance to infection . |
| 26 | The voice was so absent and tired that it took some of the chill from the words . |
| 27 | They would have married sooner but had to wait for her divorce ; Pamela Chrimes told me that it took some time to obtain the evidence of adultery which was then necessary . |
| 28 | The responsibility had lain so heavily that it took some time to readjust . |
| 29 | The thought of it had been impossible for so long that it took some getting used to . |
| 30 | Images of Nazism and the war appear so often on the screen that it took some effort to realise that these were real people inside those costumes ; that the peaked cap and leather boots were n't on hire from the wardrobe department . |