Example sentences of "[be] [noun] [prep] some [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are signs in some schools that the most successful activities have been those which mainly involve boys , and that home economics and other subjects taken mainly by girls have fared less well . |
| 2 | There are signs from some parts of the country that some authorities are already exploring , albeit gingerly , the possibilities of ‘ joint purchasing ’ and that this represents a good way forward . |
| 3 | There are units in some parts of the UK where you and your child can be cared for together when one or both of you are unwell . |
| 4 | There has been unhappiness in some quarters , occasional misunderstandings and ignorance , and a certain amount of unfortunate iconoclasm . |
| 5 | There are attractions to some anthropologists in thinking in a completely different way from Freud about totemism . |
| 6 | Thus , during treatment there are visits to some meetings of appropriate Anonymous Fellowships outside the treatment centre so that there is preparation for long-term commitment to recovery through the Anonymous Fellowships . |
| 7 | And then we 'll carry on er having had a stop and a little chat about different things , we then carry on , and if there are sort of some areas in the drive which we think might sort of erm Come in chaps . |
| 8 | There 's been criticism by some Euro-sceptics . |
| 9 | Whether in fact there are disadvantages for some men , whether in fact it 's very unusual for women to be the primary bread winner , when the man becomes the primary bread winner then the man holds the economic power . |
| 10 | But there are fears in some quarters that it could infringe personal liberties . |
| 11 | A senior Government source said last night : ‘ The report does show that there are problems with some banks not passing interest rates on quickly enough . |
| 12 | While C2 Certificate holders would normally proceed directly into employment , there should , however , be opportunities for some students to acquire credits allowing them eventually to obtain a C1 Certificate . |
| 13 | He says there could be problems on some courses . |
| 14 | He says there could be problems on some courses . |
| 15 | That is , people tend to forget either in a motivated way , or accidentally , people will tend to minimise or trivialise the abuse to which they 've been subject in some cases because maybe saying that you 've been sexually abused as a child and that is why you 're so screwed up at the moment um that 's not necessarily a very self-benefiting thing to say . |
| 16 | There are examples in some countries of such candidates being elected and of pressure-group members of parliament being sufficiently numerous and permanent to share in office and to be regarded as a permanent parliamentary group — in other words , to behave in many ways like a party . |
| 17 | There are mutterings in some quarters , however , about the legality of the bowling actions of Jayananda Warnaweera and Muttiah Muralidharan — who shared eight wickets in England 's first innings of 380 . |
| 18 | Its 1979 census population of about 162,000 was 75.9 per cent Armenian and only 22.9 per cent Azerbaijani , and there had been pressure for some years for its transfer back to Armenia and for a greater degree of autonomy for its predominantly Christian people . |
| 19 | Ever since the Second World War , there had been pressure in some circles for a move away from the secular aspects of the state created between the wars by Ataturk . |
| 20 | Certainly , there were texts of some plays printed and obviously plays were originally written in some sense . |
| 21 | There were indications of some changes in the characteristics of Wirral 's heroin users between 1984 and 1986 , such as the higher proportion of females . |
| 22 | Though there were complaints in some places that 1 January 1913 came and went with no settlement in sight and though seamen on weekly boats in Hull were aggrieved at receiving less than their colleagues elsewhere , 2s.6d increases on weekly wages and 10s on monthly were fairly readily conceded , more in some places . |
| 23 | There were reports of some units already having transferred allegiance to Ukraine , including the 48th division , withdrawn from Czechoslovakia in 1990 , which had disobeyed orders of Sept. 10 to move to the Caucasus . |
| 24 | There have also been complaints from some members of parliament about the high levels of educational expenditure in comparison with other services . |
| 25 | Not now , not next year but in the next twenty years so there are a problem with schools , there are problems , I think , with changing leisure habits er people , the way that people take their leisure has changed over the last twenty years and not always have clubs , organizations and sailing schools taken account of that in , in their programme , especially with youngsters and I have to say I also believe there is apathy in some clubs and other organizations , not every club has an active youth sailing scheme and I believe that any club that does n't either must be extremely popular because of its er prices of beer or , or some other reason or it may not exist perhaps in twenty years ' time , so I think it 's an ext extremely important topic brought about by the maybe , without being melodramatic , some of the stuff that we 're reading in the papers about youngsters these days but looking at it from a purely selfish sailing point of view if we 're to get more youngsters into the sport even if we 're to hold our ground we 've got to make a big effort over , over this year and , and it 's important make sure that it runs on for future years . |
| 26 | Not yet a month old and apparently there is concern in some quarters of the industry that Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp ( Sun Microsystems Inc to a lesser extent ) may kidnap the promised platform and twist it to their own advantage . |
| 27 | Not yet a month old and apparently there is concern in some quarters of the industry that Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp ( Sun Microsystems Inc to a lesser extent ) may kidnap the promised system and twist it to their own advantage . |
| 28 | It is time for some changes . ’ |
| 29 | Indeed , there are moans from some businessmen that his continued tenure in the post is axiomatically linked with the lack of confidence in the Government 's economic strategy . |
| 30 | The hut was home to some lizards and to the island 's one taxi driver who had sequestered it as his office and gasoline store . |