Example sentences of "[noun sg] to some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Culley had n't pictured Mathers in the role — throwing a football to some kid with braces on his teeth , wearing a Snoopy apron at the barbecue , sleeping easily alongside the same woman each night . |
| 2 | That he had not destroyed the books , but merely locked them away , was testament to some ambiguity in him , however . |
| 3 | Another is ‘ sociological ’ , where we lodge the action in an institutional practice , like the vendetta , as ‘ intended by the average agent to some degree of approximation ( as in sociological studies of large groups ) ’ . |
| 4 | Pigeons taken from their home loft to some place , say one hundred miles to the east , which the pigeons have never visited before , and then released , are capable of finding their way home . |
| 5 | I agreed with him , even if Posh Porky had won a scholarship to some place called St Paul 's , which in any case was miles away in Hammersmith . |
| 6 | However , many animals utilize ultraviolet light to some extent . |
| 7 | Sir David feels there is no alternative to some form of forced repatriation , while the US is resolutely opposed to such a solution . |
| 8 | The alternative to some form of conversion system is to purchase a printer which has been modified to operate directly with the Spectrum , just as Sinclair 's own ZX Printer does . |
| 9 | Many , however , also pointed out that the organisations in which they were working had little alternative to some recourse to temporary working . |
| 10 | The former typically involve some sort of ‘ legitimating belief , i.e. ‘ a belief , attitude , grievance , ideology , or definition of the situation held by riot participants that directly ties the riot to some problem in the social structure and justifies or explains ( their ) behaviour , at least to themselves ( Smith , 1983:146 ) . |
| 11 | The fault element in section 20 has been further broadened by the decision in Mowatt ( 1968 ) : there is no need to prove recklessness as to wounding or grievous bodily harm , so long as the court is satisfied that D was reckless as to some physical harm to some person , albeit of a minor character . |
| 12 | Formal , and informal , taboos around menstruation to some extent continued , but the ritual of male circumcision was abandoned — a fascinating development given the significance and purpose of the ritual and one that looks , at first glance , like a clean break with the past to facilitate the future and the expansion of Christianity ( see , for example , Acts 10–11 , 15 ; Romans 4 ; Gal. |
| 13 | Goodman substantiates his view of reading as a ‘ psycholinguistic guessing game ’ ( 1972 ) with accounts of children who managed to battle their way through unfamiliar syntax and uncertain word recognition to some kind of understanding of the text . |
| 14 | Similar feelings were at work to some extent in the later decades of the century in the Scottish Highlands , both a cause and a result of the growing prominence of Scottish regiments in the British army . |
| 15 | However , the system of floating exchange rates was thought at the time to be a temporary feature of the international monetary system : it was hoped that a new framework would be found for a return to some kind of adjustable peg in which the burden of adjustment was clearly defined , both for deficit and surplus countries , and in which reserve assets were not based primarily on one currency . |
| 16 | I had studied certain aspects of the law to some purpose . |
| 17 | This is very unusual for a European wine region ( in most cases , vineyards generally face south to some degree ) and especially for one as northerly in latitude as Champagne . |
| 18 | Most philosophical systems of ethics , and most popular moralizing , are radically flawed because they recommend morality to us either as what it is in our own best ultimate interests to do , or alternatively try to promote it by appeal to our feelings , for example feelings of compassion , or ( like Hutcheson ) by reference to some kind of moral sentiment which just happens to be part of human nature . |
| 19 | A provision for the partners to draw in advance of final ascertainment of their profit sharethe limits of which might conveniently be defined by reference to some proportion of the previous year 's profits ( Clause 10.03 ) making sufficient allowance for the possibility that that year 's profit levels may not be repeated let alone exceeded . |
| 20 | The certainty of a lease as to its continuance must be ascertainable either by the express limitation of the parties at the time the lease is made , or by reference to some collateral act which may , with equal certainty , measure the continuance of it , otherwise it is void . ’ |
| 21 | A body of men and women ( a ) identifiable by reference to some register or record ; ( b ) recognised as having a special skill and learning in some field of activity in which the public needs protection against incompetence , the standards of skill and learning being prescribed by the profession itself ; ( c ) holding themselves out as being willing to serve the public ; ( d ) volun-tarily submitting themselves to standards of ethical conduct beyond those required of the ordinary citizen by law and ; ( e ) undertaking to accept personal responsibility to those whom they serve for their actions and to their profession for maintaining public confidence . |
| 22 | On the semantic level , thirdly , it has been observed that even though infinitives have no endings for person or number , they do have " a reference to some subject … ; though their grammatical dependence connects them frequently with some other term " ( Brown 1884 : 337 ) . |
| 23 | The presence of generalized person in the infinitive also explains how this verb form can be " without person or number " and yet have " a reference to some subject " ( Brown 1884 : 336 – 7 ) : the fact that the infinitive does contain a support gives rise to the impression that the event is referred to a " potential subject " , that is , to what would have been the subject had the verb been finite . |
| 24 | In particular , there is no limitation of the remedy by reference to some period of time during which defects will be remedied . |
| 25 | Your mobility to some extent governs the other two considerations . |
| 26 | At some stage in their development , expanding businesses have to change from omnipresent owner management to some form of delegated authority . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's all a farce to some extent . |
| 28 | It would be difficult to reduce the contents of the Review over this whole range to some kind of collective ideological manifesto , but for reasons different from those discussed above in relation to the Newbolt Report . |
| 29 | Uzuncarsili has published a kanun containing a detailed listing of the mevleviyet kadiliks and the ranks of medreses and showing the possible promotions within and between the two , facts which help to define this generalization to some degree . |
| 30 | An oscillator moulded under plastiskin to her throat vibrated her larynx to some official 's voice-pattern . |