Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [conj] some [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We think a bypass would rip the heart out of Scarisbrick , the village where we live and some farmers would be ruined . |
| 32 | We recognise that some homes are more expensive than others , and that some provide more facilities than others ; we must ensure , however , that no one falls through the net because basic income support is not available . |
| 33 | From a very early age we discover that some children are better at drawing , speaking or running than we are ; so much for the myth that we are born equal . |
| 34 | The idea of two particles so near in mass was troubling for some people and made them wonder if some misinterpretations had occurred ; in particular Patrick Blackett , another Nobel Laureate , raised a question as to whether there might be other explanations of the pion decay . |
| 35 | They argued that some groups can consciously or unconsciously put up barriers to the public discussion of issues . |
| 36 | Furthermore , they suggest that some researchers who have reported correlations between emotional support and health in the absence of life events might in fact be picking up a correlation between chronic strain and support . |
| 37 | To their surprise , they found that some schools had grown in number from one week to the next . |
| 38 | they say that some guys got skin heads , |
| 39 | Since they accept that some types of nuclear weapons can be used in this way , the argument is designed to legitimise the development and deployment of tactical or ‘ counterforce ’ nuclear weapons and other weaponry associated with a shift away from Mutual Assured Destruction towards Nuclear Utilisation Target Selection ( MAD versus NUTS : see Keeny and Panofsky , 1981 ) . |
| 40 | They know that some things happen after other things . |
| 41 | They note that some explanations of FDI appeal to the existence of market failures and imperfect competition , and hence imply the need for careful scrutiny by competition authorities . |
| 42 | They accepted that some regions had distinctive populations resulting from local evolution . |
| 43 | When the development was first announced in 1990 , senior Motorola managers spoke of the company 's policy of encouraging its global suppliers to establish local operations alongside its manufacturing plants , and said they hoped that some suppliers might be persuaded to set up in Scotland . |
| 44 | Thirdly , Gardner et al , in their case-control study of leukaemia and lymphoma diagnosed during 1950–85 among young people in West Cumbria , concluded that the excess occurred among children whose fathers had high levels of exposure to radiation before the child was conceived , and perhaps particularly in the preceding six months ; they suggested that some cases were the result of paternal germ cell mutations , and that this could explain the excess in this geographical area . |
| 45 | This led me to think that some students may equate the feeling of low ‘ g ’ with the glider being stalled . |
| 46 | According to an auction house representative the latter is the more likely outcome , because he doubts whether some countries , for example Italy , will be able to clamp down on smuggling . |
| 47 | It arose because some neighbours in my street effectively started behaving which was totally antisocial . |
| 48 | He supposes that some frogs are sitting on the coping stones of a circular lily pond . |
| 49 | He says that some definitions , such as that of ‘ place ’ , do not express the causes of what they define , for there are none . |
| 50 | He says that some members of Olympic committees will have to stay in hotels . |
| 51 | He says that some mines are picked up by children , they explode when the children play with them , causing terrible injuries . |
| 52 | He says that some children ask , but then find that their headmaster refuses ! |
| 53 | It allows that some definitions will be of greater ‘ priority and intensity ’ than others and this has been taken to imply that the definitions will differ in their subjective interpretation by those who receive them ( see Taylor , Walton and Young , 1973 ) . |
| 54 | A final point that has to be borne in mind is that in order to make generalizations based on the type of quantitative analysis pioneered by Labov , a large number of tokens must be analysed ( usually thousands ) ; however , it happens that some variables that are quite salient in the community occur relatively rarely , and so we can not make reliable quantitative statements about these covering the range of speaker variables , even though they may be involved in linguistic change and may be important for historical projections on to earlier English . |
| 55 | and I second agenda and erm we ask for your attention to para three point four er which is the financial part of this budget really and it says that some contingencies in nursery schools should be increased , erm that it is actually allowed for in the later budget erm the tax payer budget will be . |
| 56 | It claimed that some teachers in the primary school had allowed performance in the basic skills of reading , writing and arithmetic to be adversely affected by their inadequate understanding and hence uncritical application of child-centred , or informal , methods . |
| 57 | It claimed that some trees might have been listed as endangered through insufficient data , and decided that if the report were published , it could adversely affect efforts to sell species " mistakenly " included on the list . |
| 58 | He was educated in Paris , and when he heard that some Americans had been present at today 's ceremonies he expressed a wish to meet you . " |
| 59 | The Letter calls him king of all England and Denmark and the Norwegians and of some of the Swedes , which if genuine implies that he already claimed Olaf 's throne , and Florence of Worcester says that in 1027 he heard that some Norwegians were discontented , sent them large quantities of gold and silver , and secured an undertaking of future support . |
| 60 | It followed that some schools were more competitive and selective academically than others : those which had no fee-payers ( in the pre-1932 sense ) were startlingly similar in character and purpose to the type of post-war grammar school of which , very much later , I became a head . |