Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] some [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the most positive aspects of Switchboard that I 've seen over the past seven years , apart from the callers , has been the way that many of its members have continuously struggled to put their politics and convictions about gay and other rights into practice ( though some of them might not care to put it that way ) and the strength that working on it has given some people to do so elsewhere . |
| 2 | Fortunately for owners of French homes , the pound 's devaluation has added some 10% to 15% to their value in sterling terms . |
| 3 | This has rated some fish species impossible to keep as in the case of a number of polyp-feeding butterflyfish species . |
| 4 | UK industry has saved some £4 billion in annual interest payments since sterling opted out of the exchange rate mechanism and devalued last September . |
| 5 | This is what has made some people think that in this work the distinction between good and bad is simply arbitrary , residing not in the nature of the characters but in the needs of the plot . |
| 6 | It has sold some $3 billion of junk bonds . |
| 7 | One of the interesting aspects of the executive search business is that it has enabled some people , who have not been truly successful at other careers they have undertaken , to be more than successful in executive search . |
| 8 | One firm that may have bucked that trend is Star Computers , which has raised some £770000 by selling shares on the Stock Exchange . |
| 9 | This idea has borne some fruit in temperate countries , where spoil-tips , gravel-pits and other industrial eyesores have been returned to some sort of semblance of native vegetation with its associated fauna . |
| 10 | Scheduled for launch in 1995 , Britain has contributed some £70 million . |
| 11 | John Gould 's Birds of Great Britain in five large volumes , 1862–73 , with every tiny iridescent feather almost as meticulously coloured as its Maker fashioned it , has reached some £14,000 and regularly fluctuates , according to condition , in the £6,000-£10,000 bracket . |
| 12 | The Strategic Defence Initative Organisation , which over the past decade has spent some $10 billion in answer to Ronald Reagan 's call for a defence that would make nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete , is no more . |
| 13 | So far , the Ship and Ocean Foundation has spent some ¥5 billion ( $36m ) on the Yamato-1 and its SEMP drives . |
| 14 | This has led some people to commit what may conveniently be called ‘ Sahlins ’ fallacy' ( Sahlins 1976 ) , and to suppose that the operation of kin selection requires that animals , or people , are able to perform the necessary calculations . |
| 15 | It has led some people to argue that the only sensible way to study learning is by examining it in the ecological conditions to which it is adapted ( Johnston , 1981 ) . |
| 16 | This kind of problem has worried some people interested in animals that gain protection from predators by " mimicry " . |
| 17 | The most aggressive of the bunch , Sumitomo Bank , has issued some ¥930 billion ( $6.6 billion ) in fresh equity and convertible bonds , and now has a capital-adequacy ratio of 10.6% . |
| 18 | The government plans to transfer some £100 million per year from the UFC to the Research Councils in support of indirect research costs , other than salaries and building costs , but as reported in October 1990 ( Ince ) , the Councils are delaying the implementation of the scheme until there is agreement on the methods by which such costs are assessed . |
| 19 | Qatar , which produced some 20 million tonnes of oil in 1984 , and exports steel , fertilizers and petrochemicals , plans to spend some $4–6 billion over the next seven years on a project to export liquefied gas from its vast North Field . |
| 20 | During Edward 's reign vacant sees added some £60,000 to royal income . |
| 21 | Perhaps for the sake of brevity , although not for precision and clarity , it is not unusual in some catalogues and lists to find some species roses included under the rambler heading , which like R. wichuraiana , have the same sprawling habit and are sufficiently vigorous to get up into trees . |
| 22 | Unfortunately in some ways , computers are capable of analysing and cross-tabulating vast amounts of data very quickly and this apparent ease of analysis seems to lead some people to extend their data collection . |
| 23 | As the most popular issues are likely to be quickly subscribed , rather than mention individual offers I include the names of some of the most active promoters of such schemes which will be pleased to keep readers informed : Johnson Fry ( 071-321 0220 ) which hopes to raise some £100m in 1993 ; Close Brothers ( 071-638 5500 ) ; Matrix Securities ( 071-734 8334 ) ; Neill Clerk ( 041-332 2055 ) ; Smith & Williamson ( 071-637 5377 ) ; Terrace Hill ( 071-734 4440 ) ; Sun Life ( 071-606 7788 ) , Hodgson Martin ( 031-226 7644 ) ; and Capital Ventures ( 0242 584380 ) . |
| 24 | Separately , Advanced Micro Devices Inc said it expects to sell some 8m to 10m Am386 chips in 1993 , on par with the 9.5m sold last year . |
| 25 | Intel Corp says it will ship 60 versions of the 80486 this year , with clock speeds ranging from 25MHz to 100MHz , senior vice-president Paul Otellini told the Hambrecht & Quist conference in San Francisco : ‘ We now have the capacity to build some 30m 80486s in 1993 , ’ Otellini said , and he expects Intel to sell some 100m 80486 chips after 1993 ; Intel expects to spend some $900m on research and development this year , up from $780m in 1992 , he declared , and would do 1m Pentiums in 1994 . |
| 26 | Nothing that the head could do would make religion pervade the life of the school but it had to be recognized , he believed , that religion does permeate some people 's whole private lives . |
| 27 | Despite subtitles which obviously struggle to get the profane poetry of Tarantino 's script , the film goes down a storm with the festival audience , though the torture does send some people scurrying for the door , among them one Wes Craven , director of the first Elm Street movie and much else . |
| 28 | But it does shift some people 's choices quite sharply in the direction of lower total cost or lower APR . |
| 29 | Well Carole 's next door neighbour he owns a bit of land and he 's got some sheep in his fields , and he 's got some pigs and you know ? |