Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Sometimes , earthworks of ridge and furrow or narrow early enclosed strips remain to give some clue to the course , but elsewhere the boundary itself must be the clue to the former existence of such an arrangement .
2 Students taking degree courses involving field work ( eg Architecture , Ecology , Geography , and Geology ) can incur expenses of £200 plus , spread over the three , four or five years of the course , but can in most cases expect to receive some help from University funds in meeting these .
3 All animals appear to have some capacity to learn from experience .
4 There is no doubt that the reactions of the parties do have some effect on the leaders , though probably this is a little more true in the case of the Conservative Party .
5 Blunt ( 1989 ) has argued that all organizations have to find some way of achieving solutions to perennial problems .
6 Petrographic methods have provided some indications because the grain-size of the white marble from some quarries is very distinctive , but not all quarries can be distinguished in this way .
7 Most clergy have received some instruction in voice production and singing during their theological training .
8 display it on the top she saved on wrapping papers and the bows want to get some petrol , have to get some get some what did you ask in Guilford to what , why you asked for B H S about ?
9 Although bankers seem to have some optimism , even members of the Reichmann family say the debt restructuring will be a long haul .
10 It is assumed that the two defendants have committed some crime at a stated time — say between 10 and 11 p.m. last Wednesday — and have set up an alibi .
11 The fact that the new requirements relating to the upgrading of IDO permissions have placed some minerals operators at a disadvantage in relation to their competitors who may have equally poorly controlled post 1947 planning permissions , needs to be rectified .
12 Some areas have made some provision for sheltered housing , that is , specially built flats with some services provided by a warden .
13 On the other hand , nationalist movements within industrial countries have had some success when they have been able to establish strong party organizations , as in the case of the Scottish National Party or the Parti Quebecois , or more recently in the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia .
14 However , even buyers tend to adopt some form of force majeure clause ( often a mutual one benefiting both parties ) and this has been included in cl 10.1 of Precedent 2 .
15 Workers expect to have some control over the means by which they perform a set task , and they resent having means specified in too much detail .
16 Two early poems appear to shed some light on what happened .
17 Only if neutrinos do have some mass , however small , can they oscillate from one type to another .
18 Of course some bank supervision is essential : economies need functioning payments systems , and sturdy-looking banks do mobilise some savings that would otherwise be stuffed under mattresses .
19 Terminal moraines have blocked some rivers , producing long ribbon lakes .
20 Departmental libraries have had some degree of autonomy in the past , and copies of theses could be found in the departmental libraries in Geology ( for geology , geochemistry , palaeontology , mineralogy , and geophysics ) and Geography ( physical geography , geomorphology , soils , etc . ) .
21 The taxonomists have had some difficulty in placing tree shrews in the right zoological category .
22 All participants need to acquire some knowledge of the main features of language before moving on to examine its use in the classroom .
23 Although studies of children 's explanations have identified some weaknesses , the overall picture , as with many other aspects of cognitive and linguistic development , is of an extremely competent five-year-old who has the basic cognitive and linguistic abilities for giving and understanding explanations of events and actions .
24 Teachers of multi-ethnic classes need to develop some awareness of the backgrounds of their students .
25 Its attacks have left some areas without any civilian authorities : the latter have either fled or been killed .
26 On top of that , BA 's attempts to cut costs have hit some turbulence .
27 Though the row might flare up again , American and European trade officials have established some sort of rapport .
28 The figures do afford some comparability between years , and even a brief examination of them shows the great shift from wool to cloth as England 's main export commodity .
29 Although these have had a great deal of success in calculations of nuclear masses and shapes , recent laser experiments have produced some results that do not agree with them .
30 Amphibians , crustaceans and fish that live in such conditions have to evolve some method of holding on if they are not to be swept away and end up in the sea .
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