Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] some [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All foundations suffer some degree of settlement , since the sub-soil itself is elastic or compressible . |
| 2 | The leader writer depicted the Minister of Education Florence Horsbrugh as having been ‘ hoist with her own petard ’ : if she had hoped that her Committee of Enquiry would recommend financial cuts she had been disappointed , for if anything the proposals made some increase in expenditure likely . |
| 3 | If at least some people and states obey some laws for other reasons , such as moral conviction or non-coerced self-interest , then it is possible that all persons and states might do so . |
| 4 | However , the diplomacy which really mattered had always been that of sovereign states ; this final withering away of the claims of other entities to conduct some sort of foreign relations of their own was merely a kind of necessary tidying-up , the clearing of an undergrowth of quasi-diplomacy . |
| 5 | The language apart , Leonard also seems to have been drawn towards the scandal-provoking propensities of the social catalysts as well as their revolutionary emphases ; drawn towards them , at times suggesting some involvement with them , but always as an outsider to their cause ; never a fully committed revolutionary himself . |
| 6 | But getting the institutions to support some sort of restructuring has become difficult if not impossible . |
| 7 | This article attempts to provide some explanations for how readers of the play text or the audience of the dramatic performance are able to recognise character traits , and how these traits are themselves affected by the action of the play . |
| 8 | Principal developments in Somalia from mid-1989 [ see p. 36757 for events to that date ] continued to be dominated by the civil war , the regime 's attempts to establish some dialogue with opposition forces on its own terms , and allegations of human rights abuses [ see pp. 36806 ; 37113-14 ; 37174 ] . |
| 9 | Stonehenge is incomprehensible until we realize that the builders used some kind of scaffolding , or perhaps ramps of earth , which are no longer there . |
| 10 | And this is one of the reasons for a fundamental element in the Benedictine tradition : the independence of each abbey from every other : an independence only mitigated in early days by the right of the bishop to visit — where the monastery had not asserted a right to be exempt from the bishop — and , from the thirteenth century on , by the formation of congregations of houses to establish some kind of common action , control and system of visitation . |
| 11 | Proponents of the view that Keynesian stabilization policies are futile have been quick to point out the key role that wage and price rigidity play in justifying such policies , and the need for advocates of such policies to provide some theory of why prices should be rigid in the way they claim they are . |
| 12 | It is usually beneficial for organisations whose activities involve some degree of risk to the public to establish two–way communication on the issues . |
| 13 | And she could use these groups to provide some forms of education for parenthood . |
| 14 | We were counting on her coming with us today but she 'd already made plans to meet some friends in Times Square . ’ |
| 15 | First , there is the early Marxist approach of Ian Taylor which emphasises that hooligan behaviour is a symbolic attempt by working-class fans to restore some control over a game which they feel increasingly alienated from . |
| 16 | A number of states took steps to implement some form of gun control in 1989 following the shooting in Stockton , California , in January of five school children by a deranged gunman , Patrick Purdy , using an AK-47 semi-automatic rifle [ see p. 36520 ] . |
| 17 | In other vicinities , clusters of schools shared some part of their staff in pursuit of a common curriculum entitlement for all those pupils who would transfer from , for instance , distant and isolated primary schools to a single country-town secondary school . |
| 18 | It was a heroic effort to try to evaluate business units using some notion of market valuation . |
| 19 | But even if the relative lack of profitable investment opportunities goes some way to explaining the poor investment rate , then if US business had felt itself under more pressure , it might have made greater efforts to improve technology . |
| 20 | A huge amount of mail poured into Rough Trade 's offices demanding some form of release of the legendary Smiths radio sessions . |
| 21 | Kieman , Reid and Jones ( 1982 ) , in a survey of special schools using some form of signing , claim 34 per cent of schools responding have a PGSS programme and 33 per cent of children had some PGSS in their education . |
| 22 | Although individual schools reported some degree of increased activity in this area , facilitated by extra staff , it was clear that except in certain well-known cases , home-school links was not a PNP priority . |
| 23 | Jungle English was the title given by A. P. Herbert to writing so confused that one has to read each sentence several times , struggling with the words to find some sense like someone caught in a jungle . |
| 24 | According to a British study published in 1984 , at least three-quarters of all dog owners look to their pets to provide some security around the home , but proper training is required to ensure that your dog does not become a dominant tyrant at home . |
| 25 | Either way , however , politicians of both rebellious and conservative sorts say some kind of reform is likely to be enacted . |
| 26 | This latest incident , involving the sixth IAEA team which arrived in Iraq on Sept. 22 , occurred when armed guards prevented some inspectors from leaving the premises of an office block in the centre of Baghdad , the capital , where , on Sept. 24 , they claimed to have discovered evidence of an Iraqi uranium enrichment programme based on sophisticated centrifuge technology . |
| 27 | Most teachers and headteachers welcome some sort of value added comparison i.e. the value added to a pupil 's educational achievements after entering the school . |
| 28 | Sequencing is at its most important in the interview situation where the respondent can not ‘ look ahead ’ ; but , whatever the method of data collection , it is sound policy for questionnaire designers to give some thought to this aspect both to clarify their own thinking and to simplify the respondent 's task . |
| 29 | Alternatively , other methods assume some variability about a boundary between mastery and non-mastery . |
| 30 | Indeed , a soft conventionalist would be able to deny that there were gaps even if lawyers disagreed about these abstract conventions , even if many lawyers denied that statutes make law or that precedents exert some influence over later decisions . |