Example sentences of "[noun pl] [Wh det] [verb] [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | The majority of votes , however , were cast for parties which do want some form of accommodation , if only on different terms . |
| 2 | You feel that you 're a bit of burden on your friends , perhaps , because you ca n't go to the pub and buy a round of drinks , because you 're bit of a drag on a lot of activities which involve spending some sort of money . |
| 3 | Principally , the ANC had asked for ( i ) the dismissal of the Law and Order and the Defence ministers ; ( ii ) decisive government action to halt violence in the townships ; and ( iii ) a ban on the carrying of the traditional weapons which Inkatha supporters allegedly used in township fights which had caused some 900 deaths since January , and approximately 10,000 deaths since September 1984 . |
| 4 | There is now nowhere on earth which is immune from man-made changes in the atmosphere or radioactive fall-out ; only a few remaining places where no humans have trod ; and in our own islands , only a handful of inaccessible sites which have escaped some deliberate interference with their ecology . |
| 5 | The Army had been deployed in Sind in late May to help quell the tension between ethnic Sindhis and Muhajirs which had left some 300 people dead . |
| 6 | That 's why badgers which have spent some time recouperating need a home of their own . |
| 7 | If sulphur dioxide is giving rise to the principal health threat during a smog , then banning the use of petrol-powered vehicles ( which principally emit hydrocarbons , oxides of nitrogen and carbon monoxide as well as contributing to the formation of ozone ) will make little or no difference to sulphur dioxide levels compared with banning diesel-engine vehicles which do emit some sulphur dioxide . |
| 8 | Loftus Library is looking for old photographs of the area to replace its original file of old photos which went missing some months ago . |
| 9 | Prices are rising only slowly , and retail sales have begun to rise since Christmas , thanks to heavy price cuts which have produced some irresistible bargains . |
| 10 | Before proceeding to discuss quantitative analysis at this more general level , we shall look in 6.8.2 and 6.8.3 at two specific issues which have received some attention in the sociolinguistic literature . |
| 11 | The authors identify the ideological constructs which have dichotomised some of the concepts . |