Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh det] [verb] [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | The majority of votes , however , were cast for parties which do want some form of accommodation , if only on different terms . |
| 2 | One area of driving research which has produced some serendipitous results bearing on drivers ’ memory in normal situations results from attempts to investigate drivers ’ perception of traffic signs ( e.g. Johansson & Backlund , 1970 ; Johansson & Rumar , 1966 ; Luoma , 1988 , 1991 ; MacDonald & Hoffmann , 1991 ; Milosevic & Gajic , 1986 ) . |
| 3 | You feel that you 're a bit of burden on your friends , perhaps , because you ca n't go to the pub and buy a round of drinks , because you 're bit of a drag on a lot of activities which involve spending some sort of money . |
| 4 | Principally , the ANC had asked for ( i ) the dismissal of the Law and Order and the Defence ministers ; ( ii ) decisive government action to halt violence in the townships ; and ( iii ) a ban on the carrying of the traditional weapons which Inkatha supporters allegedly used in township fights which had caused some 900 deaths since January , and approximately 10,000 deaths since September 1984 . |
| 5 | There is now nowhere on earth which is immune from man-made changes in the atmosphere or radioactive fall-out ; only a few remaining places where no humans have trod ; and in our own islands , only a handful of inaccessible sites which have escaped some deliberate interference with their ecology . |
| 6 | With all the criticism of standards of training and education flying around at present , it is heartening to see a tangible example of work which seems to refute some of it . |
| 7 | Choosing what to include took some time , though I wanted to give it an artistic flavour . ’ |
| 8 | It leads to death and a scandalous murder inquiry which threatens to expose some dark secrets . |
| 9 | There was a full page article announcing Darwinism is dead , which turned out as a matter of fact to be a reprint of an article which had appeared some months earlier in the Sunday Times of this country , erm which in fact was based very largely on some work by a young man called Steele , which none of us , I think , believed at the time , and which was since turned out clearly to have been mistaken . |
| 10 | Table 1.1 lists six items from the DBQ which appear to imply some form of memory failure . |
| 11 | This is true of the inhabitants of most of the developing Third World countries , in what might be described as ‘ normal ’ conditions , as opposed to the horrific periods of famine which have afflicted some African countries in recent years . |
| 12 | The Army had been deployed in Sind in late May to help quell the tension between ethnic Sindhis and Muhajirs which had left some 300 people dead . |
| 13 | Its LEA has been a forceful innovator of LMS which has allowed some early decisions to be taken and the results monitored and evaluated . |
| 14 | A good illustration of this principle is provided by the rules concerning ‘ statutory default powers ’ , that is , powers of ministers of central government to give directions to an authority which fails to perform some statutory duty ( or , sometimes , a statutory power ) as to what it must do in pursuance of its duty ( or in exercise of its power ) . |
| 15 | After a desultory start which had led some observers to hope that the intensity of the armed conflict might be declining , the " fighting season " got fully under way in January . |
| 16 | Many of the same theoretical issues arise in the study of the evolution of sex ration on group-structured populations , a topic which has spawned some of the most impressive fits between quantitative predictions of evolutionary theory and field data . |
| 17 | A different sort of exhibition which has had some success in attracting attention , and thus newspaper coverage , is the prize competition . |
| 18 | There are perhaps forty different local education authorities in Britain which have done some work with different community languages . |
| 19 | That 's why badgers which have spent some time recouperating need a home of their own . |
| 20 | If sulphur dioxide is giving rise to the principal health threat during a smog , then banning the use of petrol-powered vehicles ( which principally emit hydrocarbons , oxides of nitrogen and carbon monoxide as well as contributing to the formation of ozone ) will make little or no difference to sulphur dioxide levels compared with banning diesel-engine vehicles which do emit some sulphur dioxide . |
| 21 | Loftus Library is looking for old photographs of the area to replace its original file of old photos which went missing some months ago . |
| 22 | Prices are rising only slowly , and retail sales have begun to rise since Christmas , thanks to heavy price cuts which have produced some irresistible bargains . |
| 23 | Before proceeding to discuss quantitative analysis at this more general level , we shall look in 6.8.2 and 6.8.3 at two specific issues which have received some attention in the sociolinguistic literature . |
| 24 | There 's a cut on the album called Friday 's Walk which has got some of the fastest playing on the album , and yet it 's the slowest track on the album . |
| 25 | I finished painting when it was too dark to see and later , in the nearest pub , I asked myself why I find water the most satisfying of all foregrounds. what follows gives some of the answers . |
| 26 | The last graduates left an apprentice scheme which has produced some of the top airforce brass . |
| 27 | In general , too , rhythmic and temporal features of speech are ignored in transcriptions ; the rhythmic structure which appears to bind some groups of words more closely together than others , and the speeding up and slowing down of the overall pace of speech relative to the speaker 's normal pace in a given speech situation , are such complex variables that we have very little idea how they are exploited in speech and to what effect ( but , cf. |
| 28 | The authors identify the ideological constructs which have dichotomised some of the concepts . |
| 29 | The visitor enters the gateway of the Armenian patriarchate and first sees the chapel to the left of the cathedral , a small building of yellow stone which appears to contain some religious relics behind sheets of unwashed glass . |
| 30 | Here the mother is interpreting the child 's earliest noises as turns , a phenomenon which has led some researchers to wonder whether the turn-taking mechanisms of conversation , and ability to recognize the kind of turn that is in use , might be the initial framework into which the child gradually fills the details of the language , working top-down , from the largest structures to the smallest , as well as or perhaps instead of bottom-up , as has usually been assumed . |