Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] [verb] some " in BNC.

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1 The growing interest in German and Japanese in some parts of the world and the fact that the US looks likely to have more Spanish speakers than Anglophones some time in the next century may have an impact eventually .
2 A bit of bother with walkers trudging through his land can soon be sorted out by nipping along to an agricultural auction and purchasing some huge stinking cows .
3 The same individual may suffer from both conditions at different times or have some features of both conditions at the same time .
4 On the second day of the UN-enforced air boycott , Tripoli radio said envoys from France , Germany , Italy , Sweden , Belgium , Czechoslovakia and Japan were summoned to the Foreign Ministry and told some of their number would be expelled .
5 To get a job with some other pernickety employers you might have to run a marathon , walk a dog , sprout some hair or shed some weight .
6 Shell UK was ordered on Feb. 23 , 1990 to pay a fine of £1,000,000 for polluting the Mersey river estuary on Aug. 19 , 1989 , when 156 tonnes of crude oil had escaped through a fractured underground pipeline causing a 10-mile oil slick which killed up to 300 seabirds and affected some 2,000 others .
7 I would love to go to someone like Scottish Widows and offload some but I ca n't . ’
8 In The Ruling Passion of John Gould ( Barrie & Jenkins , £16.99 ) Isabella Tree has documented the life of this unscrupulous genius and assembled some of ‘ his ’ magnificent illustrations ( these are culmenated toucans ) .
9 Yeah , I 'll nip this afternoon and get some .
10 Jean-Claude made some notes and sang some snatches and beat out percussion ideas on the ground with an alder switch .
11 This fourth unit , edited as the third stanza , is , in fact , borrowed from a current Middle English verse paraphrase of lines in a Latin meditation and provides some justification for printing out the whole piece in stanza form .
12 I 'll give you some money and have some shares , yes , one way or another we 'll finance it .
13 This is a free perk and endears some to DPR .
14 To date , LASMO has acquired and interpreted more than 530 kms of high quality seismic data and completed some four months of geological field work .
15 I did n't at first but since people have said I 've looked at some pictures and seen some sort of resemblence …
16 Ireland was already there with its litany of laments , not thinly preserved , like the cultural echo that accompanies some exiles and émigrés into a new country where time will absorb the native generation 's traces of foreign identity and dispel them .
17 She made herself some tea and took some aspirin and paced about the flat .
18 Back at the house Philip made himself some tea and ate some cereal .
19 And his self-despite was so strong that he knew reviving an old flame or chasing some young actress would only aggravate it .
20 He has expanded police powers , limited the formation of new parties , marginalised the old opposition and criminalised some types of political dissent .
21 I ask because I have been throwing out a raft of old notebooks and discovered some scrawled lines from years ago about the open air factor .
22 I 'm not gon na go over t what my colleague has said but what I do wan na know is when are the Labour Party gon na get hold of some issue and make some sort of mileage out of it , because we 've got a number of sponsored MPs and we ca n't get 'em off the doorstep at election time , but when it comes about doing summat for us and consider the fact that it affects many many people and we talk about the links that the Labour Party and the trade union has , I think the Labour Party 's already severed 'em , as far as I 'm concerned .
23 especially rural society , in medieval England and to answer some of the basic questions relating to it .
24 I know Mother traded with him from time to time , and once sent a quantity of wool away to another mill and had some back as grey blankets .
25 Although the legislation before us will provide some elements and go some way towards meeting the criticisms of Government policy outlined in the Woolf report , it is important to realise that there is still a great deal that needs to be done .
26 Electronic coursework is widely practised , and the purpose of this paper is not to expound any revolutionary new ideas , but to relate some experiences and to present some issues for discussion .
27 Three main developments should be noted : ( 1 ) the opening up overseas of branch offices of English or Welsh partnerships ; ( 2 ) the creation of new partnerships overseas carrying on business in the English firm-name and involving some , or all , of the English partners together with foreign lawyers ( the counterpart of the multi-national practices which will shortly be set up in the UK ) ; ( 3 ) associations between English and foreign ( typically from the USA ) firms to carry on business together in a third country or as a regional or transnational grouping .
28 As we shall see in Chapter 4 , it is the absence of this grounding that opens some methods to the charge of excessive individualism .
29 On 26 June he records shooting a wattle-cheeked honeyeater ‘ on the ranges near the Upper Torrens ’ ; he ‘ killed a Bittern on the 1st July near the Murray , above Gleeson 's Station ’ ; collected red throats ‘ about forty miles north of Lake Alexandrina ’ ; spotted a white-eyebrowed pomatorhinus ‘ near the bend of the river Murray ’ ( perhaps it was this remark that led some to guess that it was the great west bend to which Gould referred ) ; and shot a pink robin in ‘ a deep ravine under Mount Lofty ’ ( this was the last time an example of this species , Petroica rodinogaster was seen in South Australia , although one or two reliable observers said they had seen specimens in the area many years previously ) .
30 This latter is especially severe in its effects on women , but both boys and girls are stunted in their intellectual growth , both by religion forbidding some ideas and teaching some false ones , and by the restrictions on the sexual researches of children .
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