Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 31 | There is a problem with gripping which has shown some improvement but which is apt to be most problematical when , for instance , she is concentrating hard at her computer . |
| 32 | You feel that you 're a bit of burden on your friends , perhaps , because you ca n't go to the pub and buy a round of drinks , because you 're bit of a drag on a lot of activities which involve spending some sort of money . |
| 33 | The first stage of the war , to 1343 , had produced more problems and doubts than profits and successes ; the second stage , from 1343 to 1356 , was punctuated by glittering triumphs and extensive conquests , both of which helped to redeem some of the debts and to quell some of the doubts . |
| 34 | With the blade in a vertical position , it interrupts the air flow , which seemed to cause some slight aerodynamic disturbance over the elevators . |
| 35 | So we made these tests more complex in order to increase their relevance , but in so doing we produced tests which were so sophisticated as not to be widely available due to cost and personnel requirements , and which began to show some of the problems found when we measured performance ‘ on-site ’ . |
| 36 | Even so , this is still largely an unmapped terrain , and the research strategy adopted here is one which aims to clarify some of the issues involved in inter-agency work and to identify areas of work in which it might be usefully advanced together with the limits and obstacles to its development . |
| 37 | If you allow this for each garment you will not be disappointed by lack of progress , which seems to cause some knitters to stop using the garter carriage altogether . |
| 38 | With all the criticism of standards of training and education flying around at present , it is heartening to see a tangible example of work which seems to refute some of it . |
| 39 | In general , too , rhythmic and temporal features of speech are ignored in transcriptions ; the rhythmic structure which appears to bind some groups of words more closely together than others , and the speeding up and slowing down of the overall pace of speech relative to the speaker 's normal pace in a given speech situation , are such complex variables that we have very little idea how they are exploited in speech and to what effect ( but , cf. |
| 40 | The visitor enters the gateway of the Armenian patriarchate and first sees the chapel to the left of the cathedral , a small building of yellow stone which appears to contain some religious relics behind sheets of unwashed glass . |
| 41 | Loftus Library is looking for old photographs of the area to replace its original file of old photos which went missing some months ago . |
| 42 | These include lignin , which helps to give some of the strength to wood , and compounds such as alkaloids , which plants produce for purposes that are largely unknown , but which include the ability to repel insect pests . |
| 43 | Since the late 1960s there has been a series of overlapping periods of local government reform , each of which helps to illustrate some key theoretical debates about the state . |
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| 45 | During the autumn and winter keep the compost from drying out completely , which means providing some kind of protection over the plant . |
| 46 | Buckminsterfullerene has often been thought of as the 3-D equivalent of benzene and so should be ‘ aromatic ’ , which means performing some of the chemical reactions for which benzene is noted . |
| 47 | In Africa , some of the nations which have emerged from colonial rule are socialist in diverse styles , but others , created by independence movements in which there was an important populist or socialist strain — as in Ghana — and which aimed to achieve some form of ‘ African socialism ’ , developed subsequently under military rule . |
| 48 | The resemblance here is to the great nineteenth century Reviews , the Edinburgh , the Quarterly , the Westminster , and others , which did include some scientific works among their criticism but were chiefly concerned with literature , history and politics . |
| 49 | The majority of votes , however , were cast for parties which do want some form of accommodation , if only on different terms . |
| 50 | This problem is highlighted by the studies of Linton and Wagenaar which do make some attempt to sample a range of autobiographical events , both of which while showing slight memory improvements for emotional items appear to show memory impairments if the items were regarded as unpleasant . |
| 51 | If sulphur dioxide is giving rise to the principal health threat during a smog , then banning the use of petrol-powered vehicles ( which principally emit hydrocarbons , oxides of nitrogen and carbon monoxide as well as contributing to the formation of ozone ) will make little or no difference to sulphur dioxide levels compared with banning diesel-engine vehicles which do emit some sulphur dioxide . |
| 52 | The two sides engaged in talks on Jan. 25 , which appeared to go some way towards healing any rift caused by the referendum . |
| 53 | It leads to death and a scandalous murder inquiry which threatens to expose some dark secrets . |
| 54 | At the same time , Italy , which had to import some 90 per cent of its coal needs , preferred to buy cheaper , mainly American , coal on the open market rather than deal with its ECSC partners . |
| 55 | She was at least the image of an injured Stealer , blackened and fused by fire , one which had lost some appendages , perhaps lasered off , perhaps in an explosion ; a Stealer which still remained very much alive and able to use its deadly main claws . |
| 56 | She left then , and Edouard , amused by her words , which had touched some chord in him , looked at the room with new eyes . |
| 57 | The other officer was Gerhard Junack of the Bismarck 's engineering staff , who helped dispel a myth which had gained some credence in the Royal Navy that it was British torpedoes and shells exclusively that had sent the allegedly unsinkable Bismarck to the bottom . |
| 58 | There was a full page article announcing Darwinism is dead , which turned out as a matter of fact to be a reprint of an article which had appeared some months earlier in the Sunday Times of this country , erm which in fact was based very largely on some work by a young man called Steele , which none of us , I think , believed at the time , and which was since turned out clearly to have been mistaken . |
| 59 | It has been trialled with encouraging results : in an informal trial ending in the summer of 1984 the mixed ability class which had done some of the course came out ahead of parallel classes in all subjects . |
| 60 | After a desultory start which had led some observers to hope that the intensity of the armed conflict might be declining , the " fighting season " got fully under way in January . |