Example sentences of "[prep] some [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Agnes put down her knife and fork and turned her head away from the table as she began to laugh ; Jessie was spluttering , too , as she said , ‘ You 've got no idea about some of the letters the girls make up , real naughty ones .
2 Editor , — I am concerned about some of the analyses in Professor Jarrett 's review of gestational diabetes .
3 Editor , — I wish to protest about some of the teaching in the latest edition of the First Aid Manual by the St John Ambulance , the St Andrew 's Ambulance Association , and the British Red Cross .
4 It is because of those reforms that it is right for us to be sceptical about some of the claims that the right hon. Gentleman has made today .
5 The quality of the publicity material in the research areas has been high , but has needed to be , for the public have initially been deeply sceptical about some of the proposals .
6 However , does the right hon. Gentleman recognise that profound disquiet has been expressed about some of the proposals in the Bill , particularly the fast-track ones ?
7 Identify in their reading , and talk and write about some of the changes in the grammar of English over time , eg in pronouns ( from thou and thee to you ) , in verb forms , in negatives , etc .
8 Last month , I wrote about some of the difficulties we have encountered in operating our Slater squad of young players .
9 He was aware that present-day zoos were no longer dedicated to this ideal , although he was n't so sure about some of the visitors .
10 Lord Tebbit tells me he has still to agree on his luxury — ‘ the BBC seem to be rather narrow-minded about some of the luxuries I 'd thought of . ’
11 She writes about some of the things that happened .
12 ‘ Look , I 'm sorry about some of the things I said .
13 I 've been on it for over three years and I 'm quite concerned about some of the things I 've heard tonight and I 'm going to make an appointment
14 ROS : ( Nervy , loud ) Well , I 'm not really the type of man who — no , but do n't hurry off — sit down an tell us about some of the things people ask you to do — ( The PLAYER turns away . )
15 And then if you want to read some literature and talk about some of the things which Once you 've said what questions you want to ask you 'll want to read some stuff You 've either read a lot of it already , the stuff you 've done today is useful , and do a bit of your essay saying , This is what the literature says , so we did an experiment to test this aspect and here 's the results we found , let's discuss this .
16 I welcome that assurance , but does my hon. Friend accept that there is already a tremendous amount of evidence about some of the things that are clearly wrong with maritime safety ?
17 But what I 'd like to do before we progress much farther , is just to , just to think , maybe about some of the things that I 've said there , some of the things that we 've already spoken about .
18 Please have a think you know have a think about some of the things have a look out if you get out anywhere tonight watching people when they 're together just watch them any ideas that you have tomorrow we 'll start off with the first ten minutes just going over some of the things we talked about this evening .
19 I 'm just y'know just thinking about some of the things that occur to me .
20 Talk about some of the factors that influence people 's attitudes to the way other people speak .
21 But there is still a certain English insouciance about some of the statistics .
22 This gives us information about some of the vibrations of the ground state ( see , for example , Fig. 5.6 ) .
23 I learned a lot about development and about myself and about some of the origins of racist thinking .
24 It makes me cough a bit because when I came on the scene he was the one academically everything and she was the one who was academically rather disadvantaged but she , she was , you know , no not having the greatest of , of , of success but erm it was said that she would n't be able to be a student nurse because she was n't bright enough but you know she clocked up the O levels and A levels like guide badges and she went off on this pre-nursing course in South Notts you know and she was in and out of the Queens on a course and people and , you know , and she said I do n't know all the answers but I 've a rough idea about some of the questions , I want to be a nurse and off she went to , to , to Walsall and I 'm not saying she 's a brilliant student nurse but erm absolutely clear that she 's better than some of the others .
25 Talk about some of the effects of sound patterning , eg rhyme , alliteration , and figures of speech , eg similes , metaphors , personification , in imaginative uses of English .
26 Well can you tell us about some of the effects that these traumas have on children .
27 Immediately after the first wave of evacuation had taken place there was a chorus of outrage from reception areas about some of the evacuees — evidently those from the poorest homes in inner-city areas — who were said to be filthy , verminous , incontinent , ungrateful and thoroughly ill-mannered .
28 He added : ‘ In common with many other directors of finance , I am concerned about some of the conclusions and calculations in the Touche Ross report .
29 It is I would suggest much easier to respond to the complaint in the line of service sir than it is in one round more complex technical services with contractors and sub contractors and the like , with whom we 've had to deal , so there is that to be borne in mind as well , erm I think I know about some of the response to be responded to that , but it does generally valuable this talk , this discussion cos it does show the degree of viability of exposing the service to , your making problems of this nature , it immediately challenges people to come back and say what about it , you promised this , you promised that and you 're not performing , this , this is discussion is a live example of the
30 Um I 've got some stuff on the handout about some of the stuff that 's been done about what 's what happens and how long it goes on for .
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