Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [conj] some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In believing this we believe that some causal circumstance necessitated the temperature of his knee . |
| 32 | Adventure we suppose but some elaborate |
| 33 | Admittedly , the weather was worse , English fortunes were at a low ebb , and the higher charges may well have deterred many people , especially the Caribbean fans ; but one suspects that some thousands of people simply could not face the prospect of yet another day almost entirely given over to fast bowling . |
| 34 | Thus we must not , if we think that some other procedure than that adopted by the Secretary of State would be better or fairer , therefore conclude that the procedure he did adopt is necessarily unfair . |
| 35 | And even if it was n't too personal , did she really want him to know that some wee devil of tenderness pulled at her heart at the grey lines of weariness etched into his face ? |
| 36 | These injuries disturb me , for they indicate that some unorthodox methods were being tried . |
| 37 | The two tiny suits of armour still stood where they belonged since some remote knight had given them up ( sent them to the attic of the day , like old hunting boots ) . |
| 38 | Erm y'know that that sort of thing when they when they y'know when they might be , when they feel when they feel that some some other bloke 's making an approach to them , when they feel that er y'know erm somebody finds them attractive , when they think that some other bloke has made a pass at them or something like that y'know they sort of react in a hostile way but y'know there 's that suspicion that mm er y'know kind of er it 's because they 're insecure about their masculinity , it 's because they feel threatened or something like that . |
| 39 | They claim that some 2,000 acres has been subsumed into the Park . |
| 40 | Erm y'know that that sort of thing when they when they y'know when they might be , when they feel when they feel that some some other bloke 's making an approach to them , when they feel that er y'know erm somebody finds them attractive , when they think that some other bloke has made a pass at them or something like that y'know they sort of react in a hostile way but y'know there 's that suspicion that mm er y'know kind of er it 's because they 're insecure about their masculinity , it 's because they feel threatened or something like that . |
| 41 | It argued that some extra form of local taxation was needed if local government was to preserve its separate identity . |
| 42 | Although the wording of the Act suggests that it could be used in cases of abuse , it seems that there is such a general sense of unease about the law as it stands that some new and especially designed statute will be necessary for effective provision . |
| 43 | He says that some contained mustard gas , which choked and burnt . |
| 44 | Responding to the Amnesty report in a BBC interview on April 19 , the then Minister for Planning , Salman Abdul Razek as Mutawa , denied that human rights violations were continuing unchecked , although he acknowledged that some human rights violations may have occurred immediately after the liberation of the country . |
| 45 | It speculated that some 20,000 deaths might have come about during the forced evacuations from Moslem villages , and estimated that the Bosnian Serbs had already largely completed their plans for the creation of homogenous Serb-populated areas . |
| 46 | It claimed that some 300 people had been detained and tortured in 1990-91 and many had been tortured . |
| 47 | It concedes that some actual judicial decisions and practices are very different from those a conventionalist would make or approve : these it is prepared to count as mistakes . |
| 48 | Evelyn Goldsmith ( 1984 , p.407 ) comments that ‘ Although it appears that some six year olds can understand conventional devices such as speed lines for depicting movement , the most reliable cue is posture , as when people or animals are shown with their limbs in active positions , . |
| 49 | ‘ Sadly , it seems that some young people find it difficult to adjust when they leave home for the first time . ’ |
| 50 | However , it seems that some additional finance will have to be raised to finance the proposed purchase of property . |
| 51 | To sum up , it seems that some adolescent black boys are readily identified as such by features of their voice , both by other members of the black community and by outsiders . |
| 52 | It seems that some unwise governments , desperate to build their own atom bombs , have been willing to trust the dealers . |
| 53 | ‘ Be it known , ’ declared the paraplegic , who had been paralysed irreparably in some nerve-eating attack by aliens , ‘ Õbe it known that some precious organs of the Venerable Dorn have been lost to us utterly during the vast lapse of time . |
| 54 | Kosa sees this charismatic character as peculiar to medicine and clergy , although he notes that some Protestant denominations have weakened or eliminated the charismatic authority of the clergyman . |
| 55 | If a small party is under-represented , it follows that some bigger party or parties will be over-represented . |
| 56 | If these intuitions are justified it follows that some exhaustive analyses of the concepts of excuse misconceive the social function and thereby distort the nature and operation of the criminal law . |
| 57 | He explains that some cutting oil has been noticed in a culverted drain under the shop floor . |
| 58 | At eighteen , he decides that some freakish wind must have mistakenly transplanted him to France : he was born , he declares , to be Emperor of Cochin-China , to smoke 36-fathom pipes , to have 6,000 wives and 1,400 catamites ; but instead , displaced by this meteorological hazard , he is left with immense , insatiable desires , fierce boredom , and an attack of the yawns . |
| 59 | A vice-principal of a teachers ' university probably spoke on behalf of many party members in positions of responsibility when he said that some young comrades lacked the ‘ backbone of Marxism-Leninism ’ , especially those studying liberal arts subjects . |
| 60 | In a covering letter he said that some further amendments would be needed : |