Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [prep] some " in BNC.

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1 The nationalist movements and the new nations which made their appearance after the Second World War thus displayed features which distinguish them in some ways from the earlier movements which led to the formation of nation states in Western Europe , because they arose in a very different international context — in a highly developed capitalist world economy , in the aftermath of a division of the world among powerful imperialist nations , and in the midst of political transformations resulting from the growth of the socialist movement .
2 In 89 , a poem of infidelity ( ‘ Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault ’ ) , the Poet abases himself , vowing to perform all kinds of penance in order to win the Friend back , including never mentioning his name again in case he ‘ haply of our old acquaintance tell ’ : it is over , in the past .
3 A truly usable recognition system would have to learn from whole word recognition techniques and combine them in some fashion with existing segmentation techniques ( Ho et al , 1991 ; Hull et al , 1991 ) .
4 Quarter figs , top them with some cinnamon-spiced ricotta and drizzle with clear honey .
5 While Marx rejects needs as the units in terms of which economic phenomena should be analysed , he could in principle simply replace them by some other property of individuals , and found a theory on this trait instead .
6 Nerves afflict everyone in some way , and without them acting would be the poorer .
7 We are a country which is very conscious indeed of history , or let's put it this way , of the past , and the job of the historian is to convert that interest in the past into something which is a little bit more critical , more profound , erm and which will genuinely , I think , provide you with some kind of perspective in which to understand the problems of the present .
8 You can remove poor Flora from that sink of a school and send her to some nice nuns . ’
9 When , after his assaults on her , she begs to be allowed to leave , her instinctive feeling for him makes her provide him with some hope of her return , or at least of their future communication .
10 Place it in some water in a saucer and it will soon grow new feathery leaves .
11 Logocentrism is the term he uses to describe all forms of thought which base themselves on some external point of reference , such as the notion of truth .
12 The huge conglomerates that assemble on such occasions provide us with some of the greatest spectacles in the animal world .
13 Inasmuch as the parables provide us with some indication of how Jesus saw the world , it must be said that women would appear .
14 Bourdieu 's work on the new middle classes ( what he calls the new petit bourgeoisie ) and Goldthorpe et al. 's study of the service class 's social mobility provide us with some clues .
15 In the main , however , they employ their temporary workers directly and issue them with some sort of employment contract .
16 On the northern coalfield the rejection of badly filled corves on the grounds that they had been deliberately underfilled — " they will sometimes be so roguish as to set these big coals hollow at the Corfe bottom , and cover them with some small coals at the top of the Corves , and make it look like a full Corfe " — was a long-running grievance which led to a strike at one mine in 1751 .
17 He bestrode me like some stalwart saint of old , defending my prone body with buckler and flaming sword .
18 If you need to teach people or compel them in some other way to repress their natural demand for acknowledgement as rational , competent , authoritative human beings then you have no answer to the charge of some malefaction between bad faith and dreadful wickedness .
19 They liquidize but you can liquidize things by heating them up that would liquidize them but in this particular case you just mix them with some water what 's the process called ?
20 One year , some ethologists caught and marked ( with rings around the birds ' legs ) a number of starlings as they were flying over Holland , put them in some aeroplanes , flew them to Switzerland , and released them .
21 So I 'm cutting them all off , put them in some fresh water again .
22 By the way those did I tell you they put me on some tablets to re to erm to erm
23 The guards and police took me completely outside the town and put me into some weird hotel that looked like a Holiday Inn , but it was in the middle of the woods .
24 Let me with some humility , therefore , describe the manner in which I and my colleagues have sought to try and create our own dream of where our company might fit into tomorrow 's world , and how this process of marrying the vision from the top with the visions from below has been carried out within ICI .
25 Your parents nag you and bribe you ( they call it loving you ) and bash you into some sort of shape that suits them .
26 ‘ I hold you in some affection , child , ’ came the reply .
27 but I put him on some medicine I got from the chemist and it seems to have calmed it down but his nose is more er hot and cold
28 There are chemical systems which mimic it in some ways .
29 They should bring along a crane and pick the whole thing up with me in it and call it Frozen Communications and put it in some art gallery .
30 I mean sh shame in the banks I mean we do n't get charges any charges from this bank , I mean if , if you er put it in some banks you get interest charge you on your cheques and all sorts of things , it , it 's as broad as it 's long usually but er I mean we are gon na accumulate money , I do n't think we should accumulate very much more now , we , we 've ample funds for everything we need er but it 's a question
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