Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] some " in BNC.

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1 In fact , this technique has led to some of my most successful parties where the parents join in and participate in the proceedings .
2 Conservative policy on the inner cities has diverged in some ways from the earlier policies of the 1970s , especially in shifting away from social and environmental programmes towards an emphasis on economic and enterprise-generating ones .
3 Sadly , the reorganisation has led to some job losses — 22 out of 101 at Spondon , where the dyehouse has closed , and 75 out of 394 at Coventry , where workshop engineering , catering and cleaning services previously done in-house are now being contracted out .
4 There are some unavoidable costs er on that account , particularly on the engine programme where delays to the aircraft programme which result in extra costs on the engine side , are the customer 's liability , erm but the main increase in cost is actually in the equipment area and results I think , from the fact that the equipment prices turned out to be higher than was originally estimated at the start of the programme and also the fact that U K industry won a higher work share on equipment that we had originally been entitled to and budgeted for and lastly the point you mentioned that Germany has withdrawn from some parts of the requirement and that made certain equipments non-common and we have had to take a larger share of the costs of those equipments than originally planned .
5 Erm , but the main increase in cost is actually in the equipment area and results I think from the fact that the equipment prices turned out to be higher than was originally estimated at the start of the programme and also the fact that U K industry won a higher work share on equipment than we had originally been entitled to and budgeted for and lastly the point you mentioned that Germany has withdrawn from some parts of the requirement and that made certain equipments non common and we have had to take a larger share of the cost of those equipments than originally planned .
6 The search for such dating methods has continued for some time , but in the second half of this century several methods have been developed , which provide much better ways of dating some sites and finds .
7 Chapple-Hyam has warned for some days that he is reluctant to risk Rodrigo de Triano , winner of the English and Irish 2,000 Guineas , on soft ground .
8 Jan Age Fjortoft — attacker with trouble at Swindon — did not score in 13 matches — Swindon bought Scott from some lower div. club — Scott has put in some goals — and Fjortoft is left out both from Swindon and the national team .
9 As Mr Ryan O'Neal , the thespian , approaches middle age , his weight has increased to some 15 stones .
10 Creditor business continues to be affected by the poor economic climate but rating action has resulted in some improvement in Q2 .
11 Increasingly , skilled counterfeiting has led to some high street stores selling goods they believed were the real thing , only to find they 'd been had .
12 He was one of their most brilliant scientists , his research having led to some of Algox' bestselling products .
13 It is essentially a private event without witnesses and often survivors feel implicated in some way .
14 It is a usual feature of such a comparison that there is a basic level of information which is common to most of the reviews , and it is the mark of a skilful critic to have worked in some personal assessment of works , or some individual response to the show as a whole .
15 But he was the adult involved , after all , he thought , eating a piece of chocolate hard on a particular tooth to get rid of some bitter aspirin lodged in a broken stopping .
16 Johnnie Spencer had called upon some of the highest names in the land as character witnesses , including his ex-wife 's own mother , Ruth , Lady Fermoy .
17 Ewan had heard of some research projects that made him very uncomfortable about these people 's future .
18 For example , during its mad dash his plunging horse had burst through some bushes and disturbed a she-bear with her cubs , but had gone on before the bear could react .
19 Foreign currency reserves had plunged to some US$2,300 million in early March , barely enough to cover three weeks ' imports .
20 The car had stopped at some traffic lights .
21 Even the family car had come from some Church-loan scheme .
22 ‘ I arrived at work one Monday to find the roof had collapsed following some heavy rain , ’ she explained .
23 Taiwan had lagged behind some of the other economic " tigers " of the region in terms of deregulation .
24 When the psychiatrist Jack Dominian wrote his influential book on marital breakdown in 1968 , that figure had soared to some 30,000 divorces every year .
25 The 1693 title-page calls attention to ‘ Alterations , Additions , and several new SONGS ’ , which is fair enough : Tonson had gone to some trouble to update it .
26 Of course oil exporters , e.g. Nigeria and Algeria , have had to revise ambitious economic development programmes whilst some of the Persian Gulf oil exporters have disposed of some of their capital and money market investments .
27 John Rolfe , conference chairman , said : ‘ People within the industry have known for some time there is a need for such a gathering .
28 In these circumstances , it is not surprising to find that population loss from inner areas has been running at a lower rate in the 1980s and that the government 's efforts at introducing more private investment have met with some measure of success .
29 The move has been criticized by environmental organizations , which argue that the cars could be fitted with a converter because the cost , around £300 per car , is not prohibitive and that in any case manufacturers have known for some time when the law would come into effect .
30 In New York , incursions on the National Endowment for the Arts have lead to some equally startling volte-faces .
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