Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | In terms of medical as well as architectural history , these buildings are of enormous interest , but only recently have they begun to be recognized as buildings of some value . |
| 2 | For many ‘ A ’ stream children there was little place on the timetable for music , dance , art , craft , poetry , the humanities — subjects which were dismissed as window-dressing by some of my professional colleagues . |
| 3 | Peel told the NME : ‘ The Wedding Present 's virtues are that they make records which are direct and uncomplicated and it seems that these are now being regarded as vices in some quarters . ’ |
| 4 | The 1991 draft budget presented on Feb. 27 by Finance Minister Ferdinand Lacina provided for expenditure of some Sch600,000 million and revenue of Sch537,000 million ( US$1.00=Sch10.7933 as at March 4 , 1991 ) . |
| 5 | Last week , to reinforce its case , it brought the President of the European Commission , Gaston Thorn , to Baden-Wurttemberg , where acid rain is blamed for damage to some 64000 ha of firs and pines in the Black Forest . |
| 6 | The aim of this legislation , as the Supreme Court noted , is to facilitate economic development , although it is fair to add that lenders both from within and outside the country have been pressing for change for some time . |
| 7 | Making it clear that short-termism is not an affliction from which Siemens AG suffers , the company says that it expects its loss-making semiconductor division to show a profit in the 1995-96 business year , which starts October 1 1995 : it looks for sales of some $2,000m that year , compared with about $1,187m last fiscal year ; the company aims to achieve profitability via tight cost control , strategic cooperation with other companies and the moving of labour-intensive activities to south-east Asia ; the division 's workforce will be just under 12,000 in 1995-96 compared with some 13,200 at present . |
| 8 | The man who had raised Irish rally engineering to a higher plain and produced more winning cars than anyone before , headed for Europe with some regrets . |
| 9 | While there are many calculations and constructions which will allow mechanisms to be designed to pass through a set number of control points , they carry no guarantees that the mechanisms will not have to pass through infinity between some of them . |
| 10 | I was reminded of stories about some immigrant Irish who arrived in America in the aftermath of the Great Hunger , bereft of even the basic skills of domestic cookery . |
| 11 | Such strain could easily kindle the kind of staff attitudes that had led to neglect of patients in some of the other large hospitals . |
| 12 | If , after the aeons , what looks like progress towards some distant goal seems , with hindsight , to have been achieved , this is always an incidental consequence of many generations of short-term selection . |
| 13 | No doubt if A.O. Hume had never founded the Congress it would have come into existence in some other fashion . |
| 14 | The overall guiding role of the party was therefore likely to meet with resistance at some stage and there are signs that this indeed happened increasingly in the post-Stalinist period . |
| 15 | But if the physical violence that Dick Francis writes of so well , without glorying in it , without dismissing it in the way cruder writers do as they allow a hero to leap into action after some terrible beating-up if this does not fire your imagination you can still write suspense novels that will satisfy readers every bit as well . |
| 16 | A year or two later , expanding on her analysis , Iris Murdoch dubbed the journalistic novel ‘ loose and cheerful ’ , adding gaily that she was inclined to start writing a novel in the hope that ‘ a lot of people who are not me are going to come into existence in some wonderful way ’ — though frustrated , sometimes , by the prevailing theoretical power of her own philosophical mind . |
| 17 | Already Denmark , the Netherlands and others have responded with cuts in some rates . |
| 18 | This view has come under criticism from some commentators ( Navarro , 1976 ; Doyal 1979 ) since , they claim , it leads to treating the causes of ill-health as being individual , requiring individually orientated therapeutic responses or prevention through individuals changing their own way of life . |
| 19 | The panel did n't review supermodel Cindy Crawford 's new video which has already come under fire in some fitness circles but Mr Dickinson adds : ‘ It clearly contains some of the exercises the panel had elsewhere criticised as outdated ’ . |
| 20 | Bret , more determined than ever to get to Earth to warn the authorities that Chen is a traitor ( he has Marc Cory 's tape ) , has to work with Steven on some rapid repairs to the space vessel when it is forced down onto the prison planet Desperus . |
| 21 | This becomes evident if one considers the goods we encounter in terms of some fairly simple criteria . |
| 22 | Everybody else was in France , and she was afraid that if she stayed at home she might fall in love with some disabled veteran and marry him . |
| 23 | During the war , his entourage was frequently scandalised by his affairs with Frenchwomen in occupied France , and when , in 1923 , he was secretly smuggled back to Germany from exile in Holland , his friends hustled him through breakfast out of fear that he might fall in love with some hotel chambermaid and thus jeopardise the whole plot . |
| 24 | This aggressive cruelty usually lies in wait for some provocation . |
| 25 | In 1980 ( seven years later ) ‘ Pedler 's pew ’ was inspected and pronounced in need of some care ( and love ? ) . |
| 26 | For example , a business in the United States may wish to assign an engineer to work in Japan for some months . |
| 27 | Soon they become obsessed with Thursday night reserve games featuring their fave crap defender who was tragically dropped in preference to some bought-in journeyman , etc . |
| 28 | Gilroy , for example , has argued against catch-all terms like ‘ Black ’ , ‘ Asian ’ and ‘ Afro-Caribbean ’ which imply homogeneous groups of people whose culture and way of life stands in contrast to some white norm ( Gilroy , 1990 ) . |
| 29 | At the risk of being accused of being a pedlar of yet another quack remedy I wish to argue that a rights-based theory , derived in part from the influential rights thesis recently put forward by Ronald Dworkin ( Dworkin , 1978 ) , is also capable of addressing some of these difficulties confronted by our orthodox political and constitutional theories , in addition to its more immediate relevance with regard to the specific issue of tax diversion ( Dignan , 1983 ) , and other civil libertarian issues ; though to do so it stands in need of some revision . |
| 30 | High levels of mercury have been reported from Faroese for some years , and the Health Department there has advised islanders to cut down on the amount of whalemeat they eat . |