Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Guardian sought to invoke some sort of privilege , which they could not seriously have believed existed , to protect their publication of the Labour Party 's confidential information . |
| 2 | Sometimes , earthworks of ridge and furrow or narrow early enclosed strips remain to give some clue to the course , but elsewhere the boundary itself must be the clue to the former existence of such an arrangement . |
| 3 | When this last measure failed to force some authorities sufficiently into line , the Conservative government , in 1984 , introduced a measure called rate capping that made it illegal for authorities designated by the Secretary of State to levy more than a certain amount in rates , their only form of independent finance . |
| 4 | In order to make this decision , the retailer needs to do some market research into the socioeconomics of the area . |
| 5 | It could even put a question mark over the future of England captain and selector Graham Gooch , whose fitness and discipline regime have become a hallmark of the current side , and which Gower has had some difficulty fitting in with . |
| 6 | Jim has made some enquiries through Italian legal colleagues and by all accounts the man does come from a very good family — very good indeed — so at least he has n't told her a tissue of lies about his background . ’ |
| 7 | The failure to find broad patterns relating crime with social and economic change has led some scholars to examine in detail the possibility that government policy may have exercised an independent influence on patterns of crime . |
| 8 | The GCE and CSE examinations were conducted by a variety of Boards and , although subject experts tried to judge some standard of achievement , it was basically a normative assessment i.e. the same percentage pass the examination each year . |
| 9 | Students taking degree courses involving field work ( eg Architecture , Ecology , Geography , and Geology ) can incur expenses of £200 plus , spread over the three , four or five years of the course , but can in most cases expect to receive some help from University funds in meeting these . |
| 10 | If because risk had passed to him the buyer has to bear some loss , it follows that he is not excused from carrying out the contract . |
| 11 | It will , of course , seldom happen that after the buyer has had some benefit , the contract is avoided by section 7 because usually by the time the goods are delivered to the buyer risk will have passed to him ; section 7 applies only where the goods perish before the risk passes to the buyer . |
| 12 | This will occur if for example the buyer has had some use of the goods and subsequently they perished thereby frustrating the contract . |
| 13 | Linfield 's new strip has caused some controversy with certain fans complaining that there is n't enough ‘ blue ’ in it ; Lotto are planning a darker hue for next season . |
| 14 | Recession has hit some towns harder than others , and Bookland branches reflected this in sales over the Christmas period ranging from 20% up to declines of 15%l ‘ Overall takings will be up by a few points , but volume will be very slightly down . ’ |
| 15 | When the guardians proposed moving some families to Henfield , a few miles away , a fight broke out which could only be stopped by troops from Brighton . |
| 16 | But the ban has upset some workers , and union officials say it 's unnecessary . |
| 17 | Professor Wolfgang Wild , president of Munich 's Technical University has provided some pointers . |
| 18 | According to the Confession , God in his free and eternal counsel has predestined some men to everlasting life , some to everlasting death . |
| 19 | With regard to the second , as noted above , teaching study skills across the curriculum has had some impact on thinking but has not been typical of the action taken by project schools . |
| 20 | Coming in a week , when an American judge told a rape victim she ‘ deserved what she got ’ for wearing a lace mini-skirt , and an English judge dropped a rape charge because his 16-year-old alleged victim had the mental age of seven , yesterday 's case has gone some way to restore their faith in the justice system . |
| 21 | Where , and Financial Times has had some increase in , in sits vac too , which is a high yielding er , category of course . |
| 22 | However , K. G. Ridgewell has supplied some records for the years 1929 to 1939 for roughly 64,000 acres ( 256 sq . |
| 23 | The pawnshop also played an important role in enabling families to survive from week to week — setting their meagre possessions to work to provide some security . |
| 24 | Neither of the least strategic value and yet , wherever you go in Europe , there is no escape from the fact that every atom of the continent has played some part in an interminable saga of warfare and violence . |
| 25 | This kind of research about the treatment and academic performance of girls in mixed sex schools has led some feminists to argue in favour of single-sex schooling . |
| 26 | It will most frequently be used in situations where the defendant has employed some violence against the victim but there is no evidence of injury or where he has threatened her with violence without using a weapon . |
| 27 | ( Not that it 's anybody 's business , but even a dybbuk needs to have some downtime . |
| 28 | Nearer home , the LAFC has undertaken some self-examination regarding the unnecessary use of two Counsel and excessive claims for legal aid fees . |
| 29 | There is a promise , and strength of quality in their songwriting , but The Prayer Boat appear to have some way to paddle before they find a grasp of the studio techniques they will need to coax real spirit from their music . |
| 30 | Addressed here are the socially organized ways in which dirty water comes to be noticed and defined as a pollution , thereby creating a case about which an enforcement agent has to take some action . |