Example sentences of "[prep] some [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it 's worth some enquiries Rose is n't it ? |
| 2 | Meeting in Luxembourg which required the attendance of both the Prime Minister and myself , and in an important improvement in Anglo-Soviet relations , Andrei Gromyko , the Soviet Foreign Minister , had accepted my invitation to pay an official visit to London-his first for some years-for discussions on East-West relations and bilateral affairs . |
| 3 | Erm I think for some reasons Trudy we so a rogue in there , bridge assessment records , I applies to P Way . |
| 4 | For some adults cohabitation before marriage is unthinkable ( in Asian families , for example ) ; for others the idea of marriage without first living together to get to know each other is equally unthinkable . |
| 5 | For some metals case 1 applies , and for others case 2 applies . |
| 6 | For some professionals price would be a secondary consideration . |
| 7 | The differing motives of collectors suggests that for some viewers content does takes precedence over form , and vice versa . |
| 8 | For some moments Harry gazes at them in silence , slowly plucking the lefthand strap of his braces away from the shoulder , and letting it snap back against the shirt . |
| 9 | Tessa had turned on the little light on the bedside table , but otherwise the room was in darkness , and for some moments Bob stood by the door , twisting his head backwards and forwards , trying to take the situation in . |
| 10 | If there is some consolation for bankers amidst all this destruction of value , it is that for some eagles practice makes better , if not perfect . |
| 11 | For some families breakfast can be a time when they are on a very short fuse and tensions abound , so if you can persuade her to have hers on a tray in bed , many problems may be avoided . |
| 12 | The Transport Minister , Mr Robert Atkins , said : ‘ Christmas is a family time of year , but for some families Christmas is going to be unbearable , because a loved one has been killed by a drink-driver . ’ |
| 13 | For some minutes Harry sat extremely still to leach the sting . |
| 14 | This can make the conventional approach perfectly adequate for some systems development work . |
| 15 | For some awards candidates who are nationals of a member state of the EC and are resident in Great Britain may also be eligible . |
| 16 | For some organisations objectives are rather more like a woman shopping than a man shopping . |
| 17 | An example of this kind is Dornford Lane , which runs parallel with the Banbury to Oxford road for some miles north of Woodstock . |
| 18 | For some authors perspective provides both the laws of perception and also the key to the true and rational representation of objects . |
| 19 | The police have come in for heavy criticism but Rosenthal 's following observation about distortion in behavioural science may be cited as an apologia for some police shortcomings : |
| 20 | For some men promotion was eagerly desired , but even a promotion in rank could be distinctly harmful , as John Main discovered when he was drawn into another political conflict in 1752 . |
| 21 | For some days Harriet kept her cubs within easy reach of the far bank of the river . |
| 22 | I just wan na see for some ideas Robert really , you know ? |
| 23 | For some years Pan Am had been selling some of its more profitable routes to rivals , in an effort to head off its mounting financial problems . |
| 24 | For some years schemes have existed to encourage teachers to set out like Victorian missionaries to explore the strange and wild territory of industry and to convert its leaders to an acceptance of the virtues of education . |
| 25 | The Minister will know that for some years London weighting has been frozen because the Minister 's policy is to pay just sufficient to recruit and retain civil servants . |
| 26 | For some years Joshua had nursed a gentle passion for collecting early Staffordshire pottery : not the Victorian mantelshelf dogs , or even the soldiers and sailors of the Crimean War , but the turn-of-the-nineteenth-century stuff , the square-based figures of gods and goddesses , busts of great men ( few women ) , and resist lustre jugs . |
| 27 | The move has been initiated in the US , where for some years customers have been removing the skin ( the fattiest part ) from the chicken before eating it . |
| 28 | Martin was for some years tutor to the MacLeods of Skye , and had also been at one time a scholar at Leiden University in the Netherlands . |
| 29 | For some years attempts had been made to prohibit the sale of firearms and a Pistols Bill had been presented to Parliament in 1893 . |
| 30 | For some years Emily had kept a number of English sheep dogs or ‘ bobtails ’ and her favourite was a small one which she called ‘ Bobbie ’ . |