Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [verb] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conservative policy on the inner cities has diverged in some ways from the earlier policies of the 1970s , especially in shifting away from social and environmental programmes towards an emphasis on economic and enterprise-generating ones . |
| 2 | The search for such dating methods has continued for some time , but in the second half of this century several methods have been developed , which provide much better ways of dating some sites and finds . |
| 3 | It is essentially a private event without witnesses and often survivors feel implicated in some way . |
| 4 | It is for these reasons that his approach seems the more fruitful of the two in understanding the situation in advanced capitalist societies during the last twenty or thirty years , when Adorno 's conception of artistic totality , mirror image of an increasingly global , oppressive industrial totality , presents a theoretical cul-de-sac ; when , by contrast , we are actually bombarded by an increasingly heterogeneous mix of musical methods and messages , often seemingly cut free from traditions and sources , shifted around at random ; when listeners do seem to some extent to have learned , gradually , new perceptual skills , through several decades of habituation , enabling more active comparison of styles , a greater variety of uses and a more ‘ ironic ’ relationship to the stream of musical products ; and when the main opportunities for critique and subversion lie not in head-on ‘ romantic ’ protest but in exploiting temporary spaces , in the cracks and at the margins , within the monolith itself . |
| 5 | Foreign currency reserves had plunged to some US$2,300 million in early March , barely enough to cover three weeks ' imports . |
| 6 | Of course oil exporters , e.g. Nigeria and Algeria , have had to revise ambitious economic development programmes whilst some of the Persian Gulf oil exporters have disposed of some of their capital and money market investments . |
| 7 | The move has been criticized by environmental organizations , which argue that the cars could be fitted with a converter because the cost , around £300 per car , is not prohibitive and that in any case manufacturers have known for some time when the law would come into effect . |
| 8 | In New York , incursions on the National Endowment for the Arts have lead to some equally startling volte-faces . |
| 9 | Already , Community funds have led to some of Europe 's best wildlife habitats — for example , Lake Prespa in Greece , home to wolf , bears , otter and rare birds such as the Dalmatian pelican and pygmy cormorant . |
| 10 | Increasingly , as we 've been studying the problems of developing countries , two major changes have been occurring ; one in our own thinking that in many ways problems of developing countries are linked in extricably with things that are going on in Britain or Europe or other parts of the so-called industrial world , and secondly that as we 've been studying developing countries , we 've been finding that more and more problems in Britain and other industrial countries begin to look like some of the same problems that we 've been used to in developing countries . |
| 11 | By the 1870s matters had improved for some : a survey of Nonconformist ministers in the city of Oxford in 1875 showed stipends ranging from £60 p.a. plus house and allowances for a Primitive Methodist minister to about £300 p.a. for the Wesleyan Superintendent of the Oxford Circuit . |
| 12 | Some later public monuments also included portraits of children , and by the second century AD the notion of including portraits of children in public monuments had spread to some highly influential provincial families . |
| 13 | Maybe the weight itself of thousands of boys over the last couple of decades had led to some sort of subsidence . |
| 14 | Most Latin American countries have embarked on some sort of land reform programme , though these have varied considerably across the region in scope and depth . |
| 15 | Tim James , the council 's urban woodlands officer , said : ‘ Dutch elm disease has killed some of the trees and the high winds have accounted for some of the pine and larch . |
| 16 | It has taken an awful long time to come to fruition — and appears to have needed the departure of founder Ken Olsen to come to fruition , but Digital Equipment Corp is finally to start marketing Apple Computer Inc Macintoshes to major companies in the US , mirroring the arrangement the two companies have had for some time in Europe . |
| 17 | The old case authorities suggest that the nature of a share as property does not prevent such a course , but the more modern cases seem to incline towards some restrictions upon the use of votes where there is a conflict of interest involved . |
| 18 | Both the redundancies and widespread criticism of the accountancy profession after the recent series of huge corporate collapses has put off some would-be accountants . |
| 19 | Almost certainly textiles had fallen into some disarray by early 1524 . |
| 20 | As the official investigation got under way , there were allegations that senior US officials had known for some time of BNL 's dealings with Iraq . |
| 21 | The numbers waiting two years have fallen by some 31 per cent . |
| 22 | Organisations have known for some considerable time that the acquisition , distribution and effective use of information is a key factor in gaining a competitive advantage . |
| 23 | Berg worked out his proportions deliberately , by design , in the same way as other composers have done in some periods since the Middle Ages . |
| 24 | My hypothesis is that the conditions of work are such that one mode of relating is that of schizoid withdrawal which means that individuals have to take on some of the characteristics just described . |
| 25 | The possibility offered by rapid electronic communication across networks has led to some other new ways of collaborating in science , through bulletin boards and other e-mail techniques , some of which are direct analogues of personal communication and others resemble publication pathways . |
| 26 | We sense the alienation of the man who experiences his surroundings without participation : even his observations seem to come from some extrinsic impulse . |
| 27 | In George Mitchell Ltd. v. Finney Lock Seeds Ltd. some farmers contracted to buy from some seed merchants 30lbs of Finney 's ‘ Late Dutch Special ’ cabbage seed . |
| 28 | Though the areas with organized cattle stealing ranged from some of the least to most prosperous in Sri Lanka , they had in common an economy based largely on the production of rice and other grains for local consumption . |
| 29 | Of course , these conditions do exist in some schools and in some classrooms already . |
| 30 | But all managers have to negotiate at some time so it pays to learn about handling the process well . |