Example sentences of "[adv] some [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Altogether some 10,000ft of ascent and descent are needed , often steep , rocky and energetic , so only fit , capable and committed walkers should attempt this route . |
| 2 | The very next year ( 1590 ) he provided music for the pastoral interludes of Tasso 's Aminta and two other pastorals which was in an ‘ altro modo di cantare che l'ordinario ’ , presumably some kind of recitative . |
| 3 | For some reason 17E did not follow until 12 June 1935 and 19E presumably some time in 1937 . |
| 4 | But Melville 's claim that James was ‘ vexed by some unkindly medicine ’ sounds more like a comment on sixteenth-century doctors than poisoners ; and his other explanation , that he died ‘ for displeasure ’ — presumably some form of extreme nervous exhaustion — is probably as close as we can get to what happened . |
| 5 | The witness was subsequently recalled and it was established that her particular work ( presumably some form of basting or binding ) could not be accomplished by machine . |
| 6 | While we maintained pressure on the company , CCW published the results of a three-year study showing how badly some parts of Wales had already been damaged by acid rain . |
| 7 | I 'll never even dare to be successful , because when I 'm dead some clod with a thesis to write will put me down as a wild-eyed harridan who jumped on her lover in the street and pulled all his hair out because he 'd gone off with a person with webbed feet . |
| 8 | Then of course there were Jimi Hendrix and Charlie Christian , both sadly dead some years before their thirtieth birthdays . |
| 9 | Luckily some friends of mine , who are in Georgia at the moment , have said I can stay in their flat for a couple of nights . |
| 10 | Members are clear what Mr spotted which is that in addition to the from budget review , we also need to agree some er , effectively some delegations in c , d and e , of the recommendation laid out in pages two and three of the main agenda . |
| 11 | Then perhaps some joints of meat , or a fowl . |
| 12 | Perhaps some component of Pascal 's restless questioning was due to his displacement through recurrent ill-health , but what makes his questionings still worth reading , is that they confront the foundations of our existence and that despite the fact that he is sometimes seen merely as a Catholic apologist . |
| 13 | ‘ As I said , Sir John , logic and a little evidence , some speculation , and perhaps some help from Mistress Fortune . |
| 14 | panel seeks to make that two million pounds , subject to the appropriate level of grants and borrow approvals and perhaps some assistance from within our own resources and elsewhere being budget , this is a , a firm intention to increase that figure , but we can not say it has been increased yet , to do so will be premature , but that I ask the committee to accept it this morning as a recommendation from the |
| 15 | There is perhaps some support for something like this earlier date in the story related by Taskopruzade that Molla Fenari went to Egypt in company with Seyyid Serif . |
| 16 | Was there perhaps some route by which it could be circumvented ? |
| 17 | But then he was also inclined — on the eve of ‘ Quit India ’ — to believe that there was ‘ perhaps some tendency in England to exaggerate the strength of the forces now opposed to the Government in British India ’ . |
| 18 | Perhaps some kind of spell was broken . |
| 19 | Then perhaps some work in Munich before returning to Vienna and the Staatsoper . ’ |
| 20 | That they have managed to cope with it at all is perhaps some credit to at least a reasonable level of fairness within the system . |
| 21 | Nor had he wished to descend to the level of bureaucracy : he had hoped to succeed as a violinist , but lack of money ( and perhaps some want of talent , to which he did not admit ) had stood in his way . |
| 22 | This having been done the whole program is in x — IF/ALT , as required , after perhaps some renaming of bound variables . |
| 23 | The Hellenic ideal — or ideals — that German intellectuals and writers hoped to live by could hardly command full allegiance without some support from the professionals in the field and perhaps some modification from their new ideas . |
| 24 | Perhaps some parts of the civil rights movement were genuinely , rather than tactically , assimilationist … |
| 25 | The areas beyond these terminal reaves contain burial and religious monuments which in some cases must be earlier ; so perhaps some respect of older features is implied , an aspect which can be seen elsewhere where barrows and barrow cemeteries seem to have been avoided rather than ignored when the later fields were laid out . |
| 26 | So will sterling continue to fall , bringing more gloom to homeowners but perhaps some pleasure to those who have hedged their sterling savings into foreign currencies ? |
| 27 | At this stage the selector should note down as much information as possible against each title , including the reason it was marked as a possible purchase — because recommended in a select bibliography , for instance , or as a replacement for a much-used copy on the shelves — and perhaps some form of starring system to identify titles thought to be outstanding of their kind . |
| 28 | Whatever type of communication system we use , we can break it down into the following parts : ( a ) a source of information ( b ) a device which converts the information into a suitable form for transmission ( c ) the means of communication ( channel of communication ) itself ( d ) perhaps some form of processing circuit(s) at intervals along the way ( e ) a destination for the signal and its conversion into a suitable form ( which is normally that of the original ) and , finally , ( f ) the receiver of the information . |
| 29 | William was only 34 when his last child was born , while his father had been 43 ; perhaps some form of contraception did account for William and Mary Ann stopping short at those four children ? |
| 30 | Instead , courts would in practice normally set a new payments schedule , allowing repossession ( or perhaps some form of money sanction instead ) if the new schedule was not kept up . |