Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.

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1 To achieve this end , however wide the variety of ways in which ill-health is dealt with , it is vital to establish a single focal point of faith for all that area of healing which involves some power of the mind , and this is probably , most of it .
2 The two poems could be thought to occupy a common ground which goes some way beyond topography , and includes a stretch of the common ground occupied by imitation .
3 Which goes some way towards explaining the relative stagnation of the British economy .
4 It is a humdrum enough explanation which goes some way to explaining why most public appointments are so dull .
5 However , the Commission has recently issued a notice which goes some way towards defining the elements of them .
6 Other than that last point ( which goes some way towards alienating the Champ 25SE from its natural ally , the Stratocaster ) this is a good , solidly made amplifier , which has had a lot of thought put into its design , is likely to maintain its resale value and deserves examination .
7 The second technical achievement which goes some way to explaining Ramsay 's success , is his superb draughtsmanship .
8 Of course clubs such as Neath and Pontypool are not really supposed to be at the head of the Welsh pecking-order , which goes some way to explaining why they become so unpopular when they do .
9 Indeed it is his support for Mosley , expressed on many occasions , which goes some way to account for the continuing neglect of his work by much of the literary establishment .
10 A basic page printer comes with a controller and not a RIP which goes some way to explaining the lack of control that can be achieved with printers like HP 's LaserJet and Ricoh 's 4080 .
11 Mr Campbell added : ‘ Anything which goes some way to alleviating this problem has to be a good thing . ’
12 Top-quality Scotch beef is replacing more expensive German beef in Italy and the price for the best and heaviest home-killed bullocks has been forced up to £1,000 a head — which goes some way to explaining why fresh meat is suddenly so much dearer in shops .
13 ‘ They have minimum interest rates which mean some people are paying four per cent more than they should , ’ he said yesterday .
14 But there are no hard and fast definitions of NFI ; the distinction between a sale by the investor which represents some sort of invisible investment and one which does not is not always easy to see , especially with turn-key contracts .
15 The Morgan case created a legal debate which produced some contortions of legal reasoning .
16 Direct responsibility for DMS policy in England and Wales was initially that of a panel ( a panel for Scotland remained separate for several years ) and this became a Board after the Committee for Arts and Social Studies was split in 1978 and a Committee for Business and Management Studies created — ; a decision which produced some controversy .
17 The sensitive nature of the case was further inflamed by the woman 's near-complete recovery — after an initial medical prognosis had suggested that she would remain brain-damaged for life — a development which led some members of the black community , including Rev. Sharpton , to suggest that aspects of the attack had been fabricated .
18 Garry Whannel traced four main themes in the analysis of football hooliganism in the popular press in the 1970s : fans were ‘ mindless/senseless ’ ; they were ‘ maniacs/lunatics ’ ; ‘ foul/subhuman ’ ( which led some fans to chant back at the police and the respectable public ‘ We hate humans ’ ) ; finally that they were ‘ so-called supporters ’ and in a small minority , i.e. they made up only a very small percentage of the crowd and they had little interest in the game itself .
19 No general geographical division of Sinhala Sri Lanka into regions can serve all purposes of analysis , but identifying districts which shared some attributes is a useful tool if not used indiscriminately .
20 That is carried to such an extreme that we will recognise dictatorships and ignore the coups which bring some despots to power .
21 But the seams dip steeply in places and there are many faults which bring some workings to an abrupt end .
22 It has been made clear from the outset that the Board 's remit extends over some 350 institutions ; in other words , it is concerned not just with the 90 or so establishments substantially engaged in public sector higher education that would have come within the aegis of the Green Paper 's Model B , but with virtually all those which make some provision for higher education .
23 The imprints were then smuggled out of London 's Belmarsh Prison , which holds some IRA suspects .
24 South West also faces a beach clean-up programme , which worries some analysts .
25 There is a further topic in connection with Locke 's complex ideas of substances which needs some discussion .
26 In a case which occurred some time between 1037 and 1054 , the abbot of Marmoutier complained in Geoffrey Martel 's court that a certain Bouchard had seized back a mill which his brother , with Bouchard 's consent , had earlier bestowed on the abbey .
27 It is the involvement of the ASW , and possibly the approved doctor , which rescues some women from possible compulsion .
28 A surprising number have tales which suggest some form of ‘ activity ’ , almost as if they were alive , a strange thing on the surface , as stones are the archetype of solid , unmoving form .
29 Each team has a suitcase which contains some clothes which are chosen to look funny .
30 And then you they ask you a number of questions , often pretty stupid questions , they go away and write a bit which contains some errors , or they broadcast a bit which does n't seem quite right , and then you feel cross and you say ‘ I 'm never going to speak to that lot again . ’
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