Example sentences of "[conj] some [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stuff relinquished its grip upon him readily enough , drifting away to join the main mass of the stuff as it clustered around the end of the Bridge , where some kind of subtle activity seemed to be taking place . |
| 2 | The term was originally used by Hader and Lindeman to refer to work done in industrial consultation committees where some members of the committee were trained to observe in detail what happened at meetings and were then questioned afterwards by research workers — rather like an intelligence officer might question the crew of an aircraft after a raid . |
| 3 | The courts , not surprisingly , have eschewed both such philosophies preferring an intermediate ground where some element of fairness is required but not the full vigour of natural justice . |
| 4 | She called for much more effort to be made to provide an aesthetic environment where some sense of personal identity and dignity is preserved . |
| 5 | There is a readily identified ‘ central government interest ’ within the state of destination where considerations of sovereignty may be seen to be involved and where some knowledge of the nature of the documents is necessary if the state of destination is to be sure that its public policy ( e.g. as to bank secrecy ) is not offended . |
| 6 | Internationally , where some remnants of the previous bilateral structure still exist , the situation is no better . |
| 7 | She identifies a ‘ golden age ’ of broadcasting , which was essentially contemporaneous with the ‘ Reithian ’ era at the BBC , where some sort of Christian moral absolutism held sway . |
| 8 | A power-duct gone crystalline where some fault in the rock had let in the awful cold of space . |
| 9 | It merely expresses the ambivalence which is a common human experience where some aspect of an entity pleases you and some other aspect fails to please . |
| 10 | The Tolson Memorial Museum is in Ravensknowle Park , where some parts of the town 's eighteenth-century Cloth Hall have been re-erected , after the historic building 's demolition in 1930 to make way for a cinema the local product was displaced by fantasies woven in Hollywood . |
| 11 | ‘ We have n't as a rule the problems of the petrochemical industry , where some parts of the industry in the past put in huge new additional capacity and got gross over-production . |
| 12 | In the parallelism of greater precision , line B specifies line A or some element of line A. |
| 13 | He argues that in the absence of diminishing returns to production of the intermediate or final good , or some element of product differentiation at intermediate or final levels , or the need for a firm 's intermediate product division to be held to being competitive , then vertically integrated firms will not participate in the intermediate good market . |
| 14 | ‘ Suppose I say I sent Puddephat something — an outline for a book , or some notes for it — and now I 'm worried about getting them back . |
| 15 | Everything seemed to indicate that it was our friend Argol , or some flunkey of his . |
| 16 | He 'd lie on his bed at three or four in the morning just looking at them with rapt concentration , not reading them , just laying them out , changing which one was next to which one , as if determining some sequence or some relationship between the writers . |
| 17 | to preserve standards of skill and knowledge by requiring training , experience or some qualification for membership , and by fostering the exchange of knowledge between members both for the ‘ honour ’ or social respect of the members , and in the public interest ; |
| 18 | Will it be the Minister , the Secretary of State , the employers , the trade unions or some quango in which failed Tory Members of Parliament serve on inflated salaries ? |
| 19 | Every bill of lading in the hands of a consignee or endorsee for valuable consideration representing goods to have been shipped on board a vessel shall be conclusive evidence of such shipment as against the master or other person signing the same , notwithstanding that such goods or some part thereof may not have been so shipped , unless such holder of the bill of lading shall have had actual notice at the time of receiving the same that the goods had not been in fact laden on board : Provided , that the master or other person … may exonerate himself … by showing that it was caused without any default on his part , and wholly by the fraud of the shipper or the holder , or some person under whom the holder claims . |
| 20 | 1 Where the person bringing an action to recover land , or some person through whom he claims , has been in possession of the land , and has while entitled to the land been dispossessed or discontinued his possession , the right of action shall be treated as having accrued on the date of the dispossession or discontinuance . |
| 21 | When the supply comes onto the market , right so this thing here is the expectation of price in P T , when the supply comes onto the market right and that expectation is formed at T minus one , right so at the beginning of the year farmers make some forecast or some expectation of prices when the crop will come onto the market in T , right and then they form that expectation or that prediction , right , at the beginning of the period , or at the end of the last one , T minus one . |
| 22 | Some victims of regulatory deviance may be made remote by time , as in the case of air pollution , radiation , or some forms of occupational disease . |
| 23 | In the case we are considering this would involve some increase in government spending or some increase in the quantity of money , or some combination of both . |
| 24 | The Anglican ‘ Service ’ as set by Tallis , Byrd , and the elder Mundy consists of Morning Prayers with responses , litany , ‘ Te Deum ’ and ‘ Benedictus ’ , Kyrie and Creed for the Communion , and the Evening canticles ‘ Magnificat ’ and ‘ Nunc dimittis ’ , or some portion of these ( e.g. Byrd 's second and third Services consist only of the evening canticles ) . |
| 25 | There have been many attempts to save the Humean account , or some development of it . |
| 26 | In general , then , a number of geometries are possible ; as a result the most prominent surface structures may occur above or some distance to either the north or south of the subcropping basement thrust plane . |
| 27 | This might reflect the individual 's lack of interest in normal social factors , some error in the pathway linking time-cues to the body clock or some abnormality in the clock itself — an insensitivity to normal time-cues , for example . |
| 28 | The greatest number of Contracting States have designated their Ministries of Justice ( or some organ of the Ministry , for example the French Ministry 's specialist bureau de l'entraide judiciaire internationale ) ; a substantial group of countries have placed the Central Authority within the courts service ( for example the Netherlands ' designation of the Officier van Justitie or public prosecutor attached to the District Court of The Hague ) ; and relatively few have retained the Foreign Ministry . |
| 29 | If you 'd worked out the correlation coefficient or some measure of correlation , you would expe you 'd say that they 're positively correlated . |
| 30 | Folk recipes to try : take a lukewarm bath with two cups of cider vinegar or some bicarbonate of soda added . |