Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no particular method of structuring government which is logically compelling ; it is merely a matter of some methods being more efficient than others . |
| 2 | They know they must fill the empty space with movement , whether there is scenery in the background or where the costumes are at their simplest and the background merely a hint of some venue as , for example , in Symphonic Variations or Requiem , or even just shafts of light as in Monotones . |
| 3 | Although it is perhaps a cause of some concern that of the 8,000 trading member firms , some 4,000 have not yet received a compliance visit . |
| 4 | She was obviously a madame of some kind , not that this bothered me too much . |
| 5 | I had a close look at that table , obviously a matter of some interest and that 's the reason I return to this , as I read the table , there is a very substantial amount of double counting within it , for this reason , that all outstanding er planning permissions are included once , and there are then separate categories of allowance for all types of sites , namely large windfalls , conversions , small sites , and allocated sites , those are all put in , er or most of them are put in at thirteen years worth , that being the remainder of the plan period to two thousand and six , it will not have escaped you that if you include thirteen years worth all the existing commissions are part of that thirteen years , and so simplest approach to correct that table would simply to discount the outstanding commitments , because they 're all counted again as part of the thirteen years , I do have a secondary point that the allowance for conversions is very much higher than what seems to be happening , and in what is in the tables that er Mr Thomas drew it to your attention from the York City er appendix eight , so that er on on two counts , but mainly the double counting one there is a great deal of er erm optimism , if I can call it that , in that table . |
| 6 | It was obviously a scout of some sort . |
| 7 | She was sitting on a diagnostic bed in what was obviously a medlab of some kind . |
| 8 | So a dose of some 370 curies suggests a dose of some 850 000 man-rems . |
| 9 | His father was probably steward of the king of Scotland as earl of Northampton , and so a baron of some standing , but not a tenant-in-chief ; Gilbert 's brother or nephew rose by marriage into this rank . |
| 10 | It was less a matter of some technical revelation than the fact that , after a difficult first 18 months with Zachary , this once fiery soul learned to put things into perspective . |
| 11 | Only a fraction of some 450 pages are devoted to sex — though this was the section which attracted most attention in the popular press who really seem to have some quite comical ideas of what the Church is all about . |
| 12 | It is only a description of some working-class experiences of poverty and politics in cities visited by George Orwell in the 1930s . |
| 13 | An unwary reader might think that the book is a history of the changes in Western art , whereas it is in fact only a selection of some changes . |
| 14 | ‘ Only a disagreement about some scientific question , ’ he thought . |
| 15 | In a prison-camp the world you wanted to get to was visible all the time and , although you did not live in it , you knew that it was only a matter of some barbed wire and a few yards away . |
| 16 | The corner of his lips twitched a little with a solemnity which suggested only a matter of some gravity would persuade him to venture this close to the personal . |
| 17 | There is only a dressing-table with some bedclothes piled onto it . |
| 18 | It 's the mad month of march and we 've put together a selection of some of the wildest styles around . |
| 19 | Now , ambulance crews have put together a video of some accidents which they 'll be showing to young drivers . |
| 20 | ‘ The easiest thing to do would be to piecemeal together a career of some commentating , corporation outings , being a spokesperson , doing a little bit of the tennis politics , doing some coaching for the USTA . |
| 21 | There is thus a tendency for some engineers to say that drafting ( and therefore tertiary design ) is not really design ; that the mundane activities necessary to produce an artefact really belong solely to production engineering . |
| 22 | Whether shifts changed in place or at the surface was thus a matter of some importance . |
| 23 | Here 's just a selection of some of the attractions on offer . |
| 24 | Cup board cos it used to be just a just a shelf just a board with some hooks on it hang your cups on it . |
| 25 | Now that 's significant , that is n't just a this is n't just a debate about some vague ideological nicety , how many angels on the head of a pin ? |
| 26 | As no doubt you have gathered , the company was just a front for some people of dubious nature . ’ |
| 27 | performing a task — generally a calculation of some kind — using these data |
| 28 | perhaps the most enduring of these funded arrangements was the Cassell Fund 's support for Miss Green 's appointment in the Kettering district , which with Miss Stocks as personal guarantor and additional fund-raiser , support from employers , and modest contributions from the LEA , extended over a period of some twenty years . |
| 29 | Second Army was now extended over a front of some 97km/60mls , with its two wings separated from the centre . |
| 30 | She is , above all , Joyce 's central recognition , exultant recognition that yearning is not defeat and identification is not a proof of some fatal inner yielding to the pull of mediocrity . |