Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The real singer of that name was indisposed , and was likely to remain so for some time . |
| 2 | ‘ Cider is a good area at the moment , ’ says co-author Philip Shaw , ‘ and is likely to remain so for some time . |
| 3 | It concluded that the Simonian concept of state medicine was far in advance of public opinion and was likely to remain so for some time to come . |
| 4 | With their creation , the institutional pattern is settled and seems likely to remain so for some years to come . |
| 5 | ONE allowance which looks almost certain to disappear altogether at some point in the not-too-distant future , judging from its treatment in the Budget , is the married couple 's allowance , or MCA . |
| 6 | However , if one shift performs better ( and ‘ better ’ might refer to the quality or quantity — or both — of product that is made ) is it because it consists of more conscientious workers ; their conditions of working are better , or they have less distraction ; they are supervised more closely and the conveyor belt moves faster ; or their body clock enables them to work better at some times of the day than others ? |
| 7 | Only the day before , those noble , horned beasts had been filing unsuspectingly through the long grass of the plain , intending to wallow harmlessly in some cool place through the heat of the day . |
| 8 | You can have a lot of fun shooting city lights , but there are one or two points to watch out for if you are going to come away with some really effective shots . |
| 9 | Herbert Read , in a conversation with Stephen Spender during this period , suggested that Eliot was lacking in affection for " perhaps everyone " and that he wished " to slink away into some corner and die " . |
| 10 | They had had to pass straight through some of the villages which were completely full and did not know where they would go next , but would stop at the first village in which they could park their coach . |
| 11 | This is vintage Biffen on 19 December 1990 in a speech in which he was kind enough to comment favourably on some remarks I had made in Parliament the previous week on the same subject : |
| 12 | It does not seem to work well with some 16 bit computers as they have quite complex keyboard electronics , and rather indirect means of reading the keys . |
| 13 | The fact that drivers — unlike , say , factory workers — have to work independently to some extent , so that their schedules can not be fixed in advance , is one reason why employment law is particularly hard to grapple with in the haulage industry . |
| 14 | Well Tony Primmer 's an Australian and has been riding at Eastbourne and we were looking at him prior to this erm sort of amalgamation that came in because erm with our friendship with Bob Dugard , and looking for younger riders , he was sort of earmarked to come here at some stage . |
| 15 | My father had proceeded to stand there for some moments , saying nothing , merely holding open the door . |
| 16 | In addition , there may be too few children in each age group for them to benefit fully from some of the recommended classroom activities . |
| 17 | I do n't want here to get mired in issues of personality and priority , some of which have been brought into the public domain by Susan Allport in her book Explorers of the Black Box , but to concentrate instead on some of the more problematic theoretical issues . |
| 18 | FOOTBALL : PSV Eindhoven coach Bobby Robson has had part of his large intestine removed in an operation and is not expected to work again for some weeks . |
| 19 | The chance to wander freely through some of Britian 's most beautiful forests . |
| 20 | The child care initiative launched by my predecessor involving expenditure of over forty million pounds over the period is giving training and enterprise councils the opportunity to come forward with some very imaginative and innovative schemes . |
| 21 | I have to put him into kennels tomorrow as I have to go away for some time and they insist that he be fully vaccinated . ’ |
| 22 | Building a stock exclusively upon the results of this kind of study is bound to lead eventually to some distortion between requirements and provision . |
| 23 | I ran the tape back , wanting to listen again to some of Surkov 's improvisation ; but when I pressed to start it there was only a crackling silence . |
| 24 | And so in this chapter I want to look analytically at some of the ways Christianity has unwittingly capitulated to the forces of modernity . |
| 25 | Such people are going to be disappointed with what follows , for I shall merely continue to look critically at some of the concepts to which she has given prominence . |
| 26 | However , if one feels that they are too strange one will wish to look carefully at some of the assumptions behind it , such as the denial of organic wholes . |
| 27 | I used to fish there with some friends several years ago and we rarely caught less than 100lbs in a session . |
| 28 | Not necessarily idle , casual whim , for we can resolve to select consistently for some quality such as " resemblance to a weeping willow " . |
| 29 | To appreciate the significance of this idea it is necessary to look briefly at some general features of the lateral arrangement of the brain as it relates to psychological function . |
| 30 | Before resigning ourselves to permanent depression and a feeling that special needs have slipped from the political agenda , it may be useful to look again at some of the implications for change for the better … |