Example sentences of "[prep] some [noun] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | After some moments ' thought , Henry selected the Sex Row . |
| 2 | After some minutes ' browsing , Bragg threw a document over to Morton . |
| 3 | As a consequence , the complexity of some teachers ' classroom organization appeared to greatly increase the proportion of the time during which children were distracted , awaiting attention or working only sporadically . |
| 4 | There also arrived a strong deputation from the DHSS : the Minister of State , now of much greater fame , Dr David Owen ; the Permanent Under-Secretary , Sir Patrick Nairne , and Barbara 's most trusted right-hand man , a beardless youth , then recently the president of some students ' association , named Jack Straw , with whom I had occasion to cross swords later . |
| 5 | Thus perhaps the fact that a number of legal cases have been brought is indicative of some parents ' resistance to the subservient , rather than partnership , role which some say they are forced to assume by the Act ( regardless of exhortations to LEAs to extend parental involvement ) . |
| 6 | I thought he had probably made an arrangement with a brothel-keeper , and sometimes I pictured him clinging to the branch of a tree peering in the darkness through the window of some schoolgirls ' dormitory . |
| 7 | I WAS impressed by Billy McKenna 's powerful article , ‘ Pushing up the daffodils in Brazil ’ and horrified — even as an Amnesty International member of some years ' standing — to read of the brutality meted out to Antonio Gilvan da Cruz and others . |
| 8 | My name is Mr , I am an ordinary shareholder of some years ' standing . |
| 9 | The top right-hand corner was decorated with small rose leaves interspersed with some ladies ' bedstraw , on which I arranged some geums and cow parsley centres . |
| 10 | I was merely a naval officer , with some years ' experience in intelligence , and two languages . |
| 11 | The decision is made harder by the knowledge that almost all terminally ill patients are receiving medication and may be suffering pain and distress , all of which could affect their mental competence , quite apart from some doctors ' reluctance to ‘ give up . ’ |
| 12 | These are seen in the repetitions , checks , and expansions which are noted as so prominent in some parents ' speech by Brown ( Brown , Cazden and Bellugi , 1969 ) and Cross ( 1977 ) . |
| 13 | The election 's last-minute switch to Labour probably reflected a genuine desire on some voters ' part to get the Tories out . |
| 14 | It might seem obvious that all good design has to be ‘ editorially led ’ by a full understanding of the relative importance of different sections of the data , and by a full appreciation of the needs of the readers — but a critical look at some companies ' material makes it woefully apparent that things by no means always work like that . |
| 15 | Atlas Converting Equipment jumped 60 to 585p , buoyed by some directors ' share purchases . |
| 16 | The cylinder index and any higher-level indexes : it is unlikely that any but the largest files will require more than one cylinder for these indexes , although a complete cylinder has often to be set aside for them , as is required by some manufacturers ' software . |