Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hampshire director Terry Butler and former NHS deputy chief executive Andrew Foster led the group to assist authorities struggling with some aspects of implementation . |
| 2 | In the United Kingdom in 1988 , there were 1298 publicly maintained nursery schools catering for some 98,000 children , 82% of them on a part-time basis . |
| 3 | Maybe there was a mystery train of sorts deriving from some forgotten tale in an area served early by rail linking with wild and remote sea shores . |
| 4 | We should perhaps remember that , before the advent of television , the five-day week and DIY superstores , crowds , even for the smallest clubs , often exceeded 3,000 and for an important derby match during the 1930s Whaddon could easily pull in 120,000 fans according to some of the club 's more senior supporters . |
| 5 | The female still lay there , watery eyes staring at some remote distance from which she waited to be recalled . |
| 6 | The most commonly prescribed drugs were hypnotics to make young children sleep and anti-depressants for treating bedwetting , plus tranquillizers for teenagers suffering from some kind of psychological disturbance . |
| 7 | " Well , Indonesia chickens fly — look ! " he said , accelerating towards a group of hens pecking at some minor accident on the road ahead . |
| 8 | Very often in the evening one could hear mysterious melodies issuing from some hidden corner of a hangar or a deserted office — Sheila and Matthew having a flute practice . |
| 9 | So I was surprised when at last she started to draw me , her hand moving lightly over the page once more , her eyes flickering with some interest at last . |
| 10 | In both cases there 's a facility for storing data , for performing operations according to some sort of program , and for telling the operator the results . |
| 11 | By contrast , rules operating in some courts , particularly in the small claims jurisdiction of the county courts , have become less complex . |
| 12 | While our music has become thick with harmony , theirs twists and weaves the solo voice or instrument into intricate patterns searching for some impossible horizon of sound . |
| 13 | Those who spend their lives looking for some practical escape from the ordinary world eventually have to accept the fact that there is no escape except through death or the imagination . |
| 14 | There is also evidence of increased family tensions leading in some cases to violence , divorce and family break-ups . |
| 15 | And his thinking is indeed knowingly premised on the assumption that in the complete absence of change in conditions there would be no changes in organization ; so that whatever different changes in organization have occurred in the many lines descending from some common stock are due to differences in the conditions in those lines . |
| 16 | A myriad of associations campaigning for some form of political and economic union proliferated across all the democracies and across most political party persuasions : for example , the United Europe Movement in Britain , organised by Churchill ; the Catholic Nouvelles Équipes Internationales and the Socialist Movement for the United States of Europe in France , but both with some following in Belgium and Luxembourg ; and the Europa-Bund in Germany . |
| 17 | This recalls the habitual remark of youngsters admitting to some misdemeanor performed under the influence of another : He made me do it ! , which would be significantly different from He forced me to do it which implies an action one was pushed into by means of force rather than one performed under coercion . |
| 18 | TASK 6 required children to write instructions and explanations relating to some game familiar to them . |
| 19 | An integral part of any theory of personhood concerns inner states of all kinds , and I shall be centring my discussion on indigenous ideas relating to some inner states important to the Chewong , an understanding of which , I shall argue , is necessary in order to understand their interpersonal behaviour and associated values . |
| 20 | The KIDLINK network connects children aged from 10 to 15 years living in some 40 countries , including Argentina , Brazil , France , Israel , Japan , Norway , Russia , South Africa and the UK . |
| 21 | The club paid him the princely sum of £8 , a fee that has not risen much over the years according to some of Celtic 's more dour stars . |
| 22 | What is required is a fresh start in Europe , a new vision of a confident , outward-looking , interlocking commonwealth of democracies , the very opposite of a continent of people sullenly subservient to unelected and anonymous officials operating from some distant and foreign city — the future lot of the citizens of Europe unless the process is consciously and rapidly redirected . |
| 23 | These costs amounting to some , seventy thousand pounds in nineteen ninety-three , ninety- four . |
| 24 | The other main group in the public sector which adopts accruals accounting in some form is local authorities . |
| 25 | Shapes of naked half-men half-beasts writhing in some hideous dance were carved on to the mahogany chair . |
| 26 | THIRTEEN Northern Ireland graduates have landed in Denmark to spend six weeks working with some of the world 's most respected names in craft and design . |
| 27 | A year ago Japan held an international meeting on aid for Mongolia , which produced pledges amounting to some $120m in credits and aid , some of it emergency assistance to keep Mongolia 's lights on ( literally ) . |
| 28 | But look at individuals , rather than averages , and you see interesting things happening to some of the peasants ' lives . |
| 29 | The new ramp at Bracknell draws away any half-way decent vert skaters that were still skating Farnborough except the Fleet skaters , in particular Mike Bews who was keeping some old Farnborough traditions going with some hard core skating . |
| 30 | A number of authorities had reorganised before the reforms leading to some difficulties , according to John Findlay , social services officer of NALGO . |