Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since Europeans could obtain their diamonds only from India some technical interchange must have occurred . |
| 2 | So to test some of the wild and wonderful claims made about inkjets , I looked at five machines with widely differing prices and features — from portables to full colour output . |
| 3 | Here rusting metal is allowed to take the shapes of nature not man , creating perhaps by accident some Arthurian throne for a warrior king . |
| 4 | Through her mother 's staunch and indulgent love ( plus the fibbing extravagances of her wonderful imagination ) , but mainly because of Anwar 's indifference , Jamila had got away with things some of her white counterparts would n't dream of . |
| 5 | This will provide some guidelines for those readers unfamiliar with the area and also help to clear away in advance some misconceptions which , even among those knowledgeable of it , have sometimes obscured the debate . |
| 6 | Obviously , some councillors were more trusted than others ; equally obviously , when the King was away from Westminster some councillors attended him while others stayed behind . |
| 7 | Yes , I could tell from Aunt Nessy 's breathing that she would not recover consciousness ; nevertheless , before I crept out I did kiss her , just in case some little part of her , still aware , should feel it . |
| 8 | When you are chatting in a public place , be careful not to give away sensitive information about your personal movements , holiday plans , valuables or your house , just in case some unwelcome eavesdropper is enthusiastically tuning into your conversation . |
| 9 | Before much longer fellow professionals would be wanting to touch his clothing just in case some ‘ fluence ’ would rub off on them . |
| 10 | just in case some of you do n't have access to rec.sport.soccer , here 's something that 's just arrived : |
| 11 | To make a character worse than oneself it is only necessary to release imaginatively from control some of the bad passions which , in real life , are always straining at the leash ; the Satan , the Iago , the Becky Sharp , within each of us , is always there and only too ready , the moment the leash is slipped , to come out and have in our books that holiday we try to deny them in life . |
| 12 | He came home from school some days later and said he had been ‘ thinking very seriously about our situation ’ — he was already beginning to be pompous — and that it was quite obvious that some women were unsuited to a life which held nothing but home and children . |
| 13 | It is interesting to note that bullhead rail is still in evidence some forty years after the infant British Railways adopted flat-bottom rail as standard . |
| 14 | So you have a very particular view of the constitution , that given by the founding fathers and one which is still in force some seventy eighty years later as America headed towards its most momentous and divisive crisis in its history . |
| 15 | She would mention it tactfully to Mervyn some time . |
| 16 | Even in Poland some attempt to improve existing arrangements for the control of what foreign policy the country had becomes visible after 1775 . |
| 17 | The Dutch republic , the greatest economic and political success story of the age , had at least in form some of the most incoherent and inefficient arrangements of all for the conduct of foreign policy . |
| 18 | When an act or omission involving fault which might otherwise be regarded as founding an action occurs , there must , in order for such act or omission to be regarded as negligent , be then and there in existence some legal person to sue or be sued . |
| 19 | Departure of the return leg was delayed and the locomotive was over 15 minutes late at Borth some five or six miles out of Aberystwyth . |
| 20 | Furthermore , the 1986 Disabled Persons Act , arising from a private member 's Bill and now on the statute book , seeks to carry forward for adults some of the more positive features of the 1981 Education Act — for example , it provides for the rights of all people with disabilities to take part or be represented in discussion and decision-making concerning services provided for them . |
| 21 | STOCK market newcomer Drew Scientific made a promising debut as its shares raced ahead to 155p some 50p ahead of the placement price . |
| 22 | At sea the question of the salute allegedly owed by vessels , both merchant and naval , of one power to those of another , by firing a salvo , by lowering their colours , or more rarely by half-lowering some of their sails , was the equivalent of these struggles for precedence on land . |
| 23 | Certainly in England some judges appear to have been unaware of the shift in emphasis which had taken place in the law . |