Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] some [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having said that , it is possible to plant some in groups , and it is true to say that some thrive in soil which would normally be considered unsatisfactory . |
| 2 | So controversial has some of the advertising become that not long ago , a commercial for New England 's Ice Cream based on a spoof scene from the film When Harry Met Sally was thought too blatant for normal TV viewing . |
| 3 | The pelargoniums we grow are derived from wild species native to South Africa , and it 's interesting to see some of these plants in Hazel 's collection . |
| 4 | Informal investors or ‘ business angels ’ tend to be wealthy individuals ( often successful entrepreneurs ) who are willing to invest some of their personal wealth in small businesses . |
| 5 | The Nationwide Building Society felt that they could not increase their investment because it was linked to unchanged valuations and therefore the new ratio of public to private funds had to be higher than before , even though the housing association was prepared to invest some of its own resources . |
| 6 | Some personal needs will be more important than others and an individual will be prepared to sacrifice some of his objectives for his own greater benefit ( eg. an individual may be prepared to sacrifice some of his time in order to do a job which earns extra money ) . |
| 7 | Some personal needs will be more important than others and an individual will be prepared to sacrifice some of his objectives for his own greater benefit ( eg. an individual may be prepared to sacrifice some of his time in order to do a job which earns extra money ) . |
| 8 | I thought you would be interested to see some of the questions raised by Members so far , and I am enclosing these and the responses to them at this current stage of our thinking . |
| 9 | The silver cylinder and cone worked wonders , and I 'd be interested to try some of the other shapes . |
| 10 | The vendor may be prepared to accept some of the risk of not having the retention placed into a dedicated account or simply facing deferred instalments rather than a retention . |
| 11 | Since the interviewer is looking for a reliable , self-confident , honest individual who knows how to be friendly without being irritatingly overfamiliar it is sensible to know some of the basic body language that will work against you as well as what will cause a favourable reaction . |
| 12 | G. Lightheart will place the matter before the Region stating that we are willing to bear some of the cost . |
| 13 | In the place of the marble fantasies they tore down , the British erected some of the most crushingly ugly buildings ever thrown up by the British Empire — a set of barracks that look as if they have been modelled on Wormwood Scrubs . |
| 14 | The pleasure can be even more enhanced if you are prepared to forego some of the geometry accuracy of urban structures and allow your watercolour paper to pay a substantial role in the formation of your image . |
| 15 | The pleasure can be even more enhanced if you are prepared to forego some of the geometry accuracy of urban structures and allow your watercolour paper to pay a substantial role in the formation of your image . |
| 16 | To put it another way , the English have always been prepared to let some of their old live alone . |
| 17 | Pipe is a different kind of trainer , one who is prepared to use some of the recent discoveries of human sports medicine to improve his equine athletes . |
| 18 | Constitutional expert Harold Brooks-Baker , of Burke 's Peerage , said : ‘ I feel that Buckingham Palace should be prepared to deny some of these stories which are potentially threatening to the monarchy . ’ |
| 19 | erm until some of the people who are putting a lot of pressures on schools to do different things are prepared to resolve some of these contradictions , I think the teachers feel that they 're being continually criticised by different groups for not doing different things , many of which are mutually contradictory , erm and not surprisingly they feel a little defensive in this situation . |
| 20 | We are prepared to question some of the cult phrases of the sixties and seventies and the level of involvement they advocated . |
| 21 | ‘ There should be a period of calm to allow some of the earlier changes , most of which I support , to bed in , ’ he added . |
| 22 | Because I would be very interested to photograph some of them if I may ? |
| 23 | There would clearly be great value in building further networks of local education authorities and teacher training institutions which have expressed an interest in particular languages , and which are prepared to exchange some of their insights and resources . |
| 24 | One of the German pilots saw the state of their clothes and offered to fly over to Mudros with a message for the British to bring some of their personal belongings over to the camp . |
| 25 | He was prepared to forgo some of his rights , but I contend that the state is required to defend those rights for the benefit of its citizens . |
| 26 | It may be possible to reach some of this group if and when they attend health centres for antenatal care or child health check-ups . |
| 27 | The Western powers and Japan , who had long been attempting to secure rights and interests in China , were now faced with a series of regimes too weak to resist some of their demands , or to see that any concessions were adhered to . |
| 28 | Your learned friend very fairly set the sort of orders one would expect in the case of this sort , erm , can I only add one thing which erm there is still a , failing erm his right there should have been an adjournment this morning that the question of a structured settlement could be investigated , all these people who have indeed , it must be from the plaintiff 's point of view as well , desirable that those investigations be erm carried out , with the greatest , greatest speed possible , obviously it takes time to er instruct the and so on and erm , it seemed er to me that it would be appropriate to include some of the I happen to discuss with my friend , erm providing for the matter to be brought back not later than a certain time |
| 29 | Although it is good to see the number of such facilities increasing in Scotland , it is sad to see some of these falling far short of the standards required . |
| 30 | It is , however , appropriate to explore some of the key steps in international selling and to examine some of the issues and problems which stem from these . |