Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The moreover , includes mention of a certain number of scholars of the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries who were known chiefly as muftis : for example , Molla Bahaeddin omer and the three following scholars , all listed under the ulema of the time of Bayezid I , about none of whom , however , is much more information given than that " he was consulted in matters [ involving ] fetvas in his time " ( Taskopruzade ) or " he became mufti " and , indeed , in the case of these scholars it is simply not deducible in what way they were recognized as muftis , whether simply by popular acclaim or rather by some sort of official recognition . |
| 2 | It is as though these translators were each construing the poem by supplying a vocabulary reflecting a personal perception of the poet 's intention — or perhaps in some cases caught from other translators . |
| 3 | It was a national union , but it was a crime more or less with some bosses to belong to a trade union . |
| 4 | Still in his pyjamas and with his foot in plaster , he would hobble 500 metres or so across some fields until he reached a track , then carry on for another 500 metres or so until he reached a proper road . |
| 5 | There are usually very many muscles — up to 2000 or so in some Lepidopteran larvae — and the system is bilaterally symmetrical . |
| 6 | We 're looking for about two big paragraphs or so plus some photographs , to go onto one of these . |
| 7 | We are concerned if we perform badly or dangerously at some times and the effects of poor performance will also be of interest to managers and the general public . |
| 8 | Taxis , limousines and chauffeur-driven Rolls Royces disgorged their occupants and luggage twenty trunks or more for some passengers — into a crowd of porters , stewards , sleek businessmen , tycoons , bright young things , would-bc debutantes , aristocrats , parvenus , celebrities , movie-stars , and all the families and friends who made up the send-off party . |
| 9 | There is now a considerable market value attaching to an accurate up-to-date and selective address list , and some of the largest collections of data in the private sector , running to thirty million entries or more in some cases , are amassed in this way . |
| 10 | ‘ What the hell did you think — that I was going to take you here on the ground — or up against some tree ? |
| 11 | What seems to the individual to be a free and spontaneous response can be seen from " outside " to be the product of social and ideological conditioning , or even in some instances of a concerted campaign to mould public opinion in such a way as to produce exactly the response which each individual feels and believes to be authentically his or hers alone . |
| 12 | The search for permanence , in our view , could be accomplished in many ways including custodianship , long-term fostering , or even in some circumstances a stay in a residential home or , of course , rehabilitation with a child 's natural family . |
| 13 | These understandable human reactions have to be channelled against the waffler , and the apple polisher : the man or woman who by verbal skills seeks to evade taking a position , or even in some cases actually saying anything at all . |
| 14 | There are three main kinds of hot water storage heating system : in the first two , the water is heated directly or indirectly by some kind of boiler ; in the third , it is heated by an electric immersion heater . |
| 15 | However it is not clear whether they should be applied to the complete list of allowable words , or to the list of candidate strings , or indeed to some subset of either . |
| 16 | The United Kingdom was an original party to the Convention but did not accept the compulsory jurisdiction of the Commission and Court until 1965 and then only for a three-year term which , however , has so far been regularly renewed although not without some hesitancy prompted by the embarrassment and ignominy of being condemned by the Court on a number of occasions . |
| 17 | In Hungary he got his first win — by almost a lap over the entire field — and in Belgium last week he did it again , although not without some drama . |
| 18 | This section should be an attempt to find a position which might be attained , albeit not without some difficulty , and neither only a slight improvement on the existing situation nor hopelessly out of reach . |
| 19 | Obviously , it would be difficult to prescribe in precise legal terms for universal application acceptable standards of pupil behaviour — although the law does , of course , define criminal behaviour ( albeit often with some difficulty ) . |
| 20 | He argued that scientists have shown that even in some metals there is a vestige of the spark of life , and there are some metals of which it is difficult to say whether they are alive or not . |
| 21 | As a union we 've successfully argued albeit belatedly at some times , that TUPE protects public sector workers in all cases of contracting out . |
| 22 | As more energy is put in at each dilution stage , the water polymer chains become longer and longer , and presumably at some stage break , forming a number of shorter lengths of water polymer . |
| 23 | Moving moving on from that point , it does seems to me that the policy clearly is more restrictive than P P G seven and arguably in some respects it 's more restrictive than greenbelt . |
| 24 | The scale of development that 's in Professor Lock 's contemplation is plainly not one that I I think that would directly er affect Richmondshire and so to some extent er I 'm speaking from that perspective . |
| 25 | When their children moved away , the house seemed empty and so with some trepidation Stephen and Marypen began to take in guests , their intention being that every guest should be ‘ entertained as a friend ’ . |
| 26 | Unfortunately , the JMP-1 has no input on the back and so in some ways it falls at the final fence , because I ca n't really see how you can set it up to work in a neat and user-friendly rack ; you 'd have to wire the thing up every time you gigged it . |
| 27 | Tallymen and check traders , and perhaps to some extent local moneylenders ( sometimes in practice the same individuals ) , exercise — on a very much smaller scale — an influence opposite to the one which will be described below under ‘ Banks ’ . |
| 28 | The fact remains that men 's leisure-time activities are much more visible to history , more organized and perhaps to some extent seen as more legitimate . |
| 29 | Er on the envi environmental aspect , I think it 's worth emphasizing because clearly this is the major concern of both Scotton and er the Residents ' Association and er that the County Council has and perhaps to some extent I think it 's certainly the public consultations or the exercises I 've been involved in at this stage in a major scheme has done far more work in trying to assess those effects than is normally the case at this stage in a ma major highway scheme . |
| 30 | These three women , it will readily and perhaps with some irritation be perceived , were amongst the crème de la crème of their generation . |