Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | The maker hand-cuts the kerfing ( the triangular-section strip around the inside edge that increases the gluing area of the sides for securing the front and back ) so that the saw-cuts are widely spaced in some areas and closely spaced around the tight curves of the cutaway . |
| 2 | Now you ca n't possibly test a medicine on ten thousand people before you start to sell it , so that sort of risk , as rare a risk as that , will only be picked up when the medicine has actually been in use and on the market and been properly prescribed for some years , and what we are doing now , and what is particularly interesting , is to start to use computers to pick up these adverse reactions so that we know much more quickly in future if a medicine is doing any harm and we can either stop prescribing it for the people who are going to suffer from it , and that 's the most likely thing , or else take it off the market altogether if it 's if we do n't if we ca n't pick out the people who might be at risk . |
| 3 | No single measure of public expenditure has met with universal agreement , and even when one has been widely used for some time , it can be subject to change for a variety of reasons . |
| 4 | Maybe , when Lisabeth had been forcibly retired to some maximum security retirement home in Frinton ( as the sign said : ‘ Harwich for the Continent ; Frinton for the Incontinent ’ ) then I 'd consider it . |
| 5 | Aden was at that time an RAF command , in which the operational policy of air control had been successfully applied for some years . |
| 6 | They 'd obviously been badly infected at some time . |
| 7 | But the case has been greatly overstated in some popular publications , and genuine psychological problems wrongly attributed to food sensitivity , both by patients and fringe practitioners . |
| 8 | In Russia , on the other hand , commanders such as Rumyantsev and Suvorov had developed to a high pitch of effectiveness by the end of this period the more aggressive method of attack in column with the bayonet ( though the contrast between Russian and West European tactics has been greatly exaggerated by some Soviet historians ) . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , a radical editorial reorganization called the Bradshaw shift , involving the moving of fragment VII as one large block back to the end of fragment II , with these fragments then relabelled groups B2 and B1 respectively , has been eagerly accepted by some editors and critics since the nineteenth century , wishing to solve thereby certain anomalies in the ordering of named places that the pilgrims would pass on their road to Canterbury . |
| 10 | ’ This part of the Health Secretary 's speech would have been better set to some wailing violins . |
| 11 | In our first few hours of membership we are highly attuned to some of the assumptions . |
| 12 | The report , undertaken by independent scientists at the request of the International Atomic Energy Agency and other UN bodies , has been fiercely criticized by some environmentalists and also by officials in the Ukraine and Belorussia — the regions worst affected by the accident . |
| 13 | In parts of Britain , particularly in parts of Wales , second home ownership has been fiercely contested by some locals , but it is hard to judge whether such opposition is justified . |
| 14 | A crucial assumption of the kinds of statistical calculations we have been referring to is that the sample has been randomly drawn from some population . |
| 15 | Descriptors are normally accompanied by some display of relationships between them and other words in the indexing language . |
| 16 | The numbers in each year are progressively multiplied by some survival ratio to forecast the number going on to the next year , with ancillary information added in as appropriate . |
| 17 | Instead , ways of doing the job are broadly guided by some vaguely interpreted principles about what the organization 's legal mandate is supposed to be and organized by the experience they acquire from their membership of an enforcement bureaucracy . |
| 18 | The fibre of beans and lentils are easily turned into some foul-smelling windy by this process . |
| 19 | We might hold that our beliefs about our sensory states are always justified to some degree just because of their subject matter ( non-inferentially , therefore ) , whereas most other beliefs are justified inferentially if at all ; one could suppose this in an attempt to make sense of the empiricist idea that our beliefs about our present experience have a stability which other beliefs lack , in virtue of which they are able to justify those other beliefs and thus meet the empiricist demand ( vaguely expressed here ) that all our knowledge be grounded in our experience . |
| 20 | Steady-state forecasts are always based on some assumptions about social system behaviour . |
| 21 | Your feelings of inadequacy are always triggered by some external event or happening . |
| 22 | Your feelings of inhibition are always triggered by some external event or happening . |
| 23 | The ambit of the Act has been further expanded by some of the decisions on it . |
| 24 | Increases in the volume of shipping are usually accommodated for some time by existing docks and harbours before the pressure on them leads to a heavy capital investment in fresh and usually lengthy building . |
| 25 | Intensional descriptions are usually invented by some sort of generalizing method . |
| 26 | Each of them is being pumped into the atmosphere in vast amounts : and the reason they are not found in vast amounts is that they are extremely reactive or soluble in water , and so are quickly converted into some other compound , or washed out by rain . |
| 27 | House to House and Flag Day collections will continue throughout the year in Scotland , and helpers are still needed in some areas . |
| 28 | But underneath the veil of whimsy , we are still left with some valuable evidence of the life and traditions of those people in that place at that time . |
| 29 | It is also possible that guls possessed some mystical or totemistic significance , but although symbols aimed at warding off the " evil eye " are still found in some tribal weaving , any deeper meaning attributed to them can now be little more than conjecture . |
| 30 | Weaver birds reared in an incubator still manage to weave when they become adult , so clearly the basic skill is inherited , but it nonetheless requires practice to bring it to perfection and at first young male weavers may make comically ham-fisted versions — nests that are insecurely tied and fall off , others that are unevenly woven with some strips pulled tight and others left slack so that the result is misshapen . |