Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [prep] some [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Mr Crawley , one of the plaintiffs and ‘ moving spirit behind both groups of companies ’ , agreed to settle the bills either personally or with some associates .
2 At present , however , it still has limited availability so that for some patients sigmoidoscopy and barium enema examination provide an alternative .
3 The code in fact incorporates a degree of redundancy , so that in some cases as many as six different triplets code for the same amino acid .
4 The trouble was that it did not necessarily sell well so that in some cases , such as that of the Burgundian lord , Guillaume de Châteauvillain , both he and his family , who acted as guarantors for the payment of 20,000 saluts which he had agreed to pay when captured by the French in 1430 , faced financial ruin .
5 Waiting list initiatives have had exactly the same effect — because money was diverted to solve a politically sensitive problem , health care rationing priorities have been distorted so that in some cases cash rather than clinical need dictates who gets treated .
6 Interestingly , it cuts across several parishes , so that in some cases very small areas of parish land are isolated behind the massive earthworks of the dyke .
7 In both studies the patients were retested within a week of ending treatment , however , so that in some cases infection may have persisted .
8 As the cations are leached , the acidity rises and the phosphorus becomes re-locked with the iron and aluminium , so that in some cases at least , phosphorus is the first limiting nutrient .
9 The last syllable is usually quite prominent so that in some cases it could be said to have secondary stress .
10 In the birds , the brain has evolved so that in some groups it is comparable in size and complexity to that found in primates .
11 A further difficulty is that , within a particular culture or sub-culture , religion will have a socially defined image , so that in some circumstances respondents might feel they ought to say that they are more ‘ religious ’ than they really are , or , in other circumstances , that they are less so .
12 The proportions of individuals with these alternative life styles differ between populations , so that in some areas of the world all individuals change sex .
13 Their relation is far closer than the arbitrary link between signifier and signified so that in some contexts ( irony or double entendre for example ) connotative meanings are part and parcel of the denoted meaning .
14 The newcomers were not able to brush aside the native Carib population with quite the contemptuous ease with which the Spaniards had conquered the mainland ; attempts to settle in earlier years had been resisted successfully and in some islands the English settlers had to remain at least as careful about the risk of native attack as any community in North America .
15 The system should enable offenders with mental disorder to move quickly out of the courts and prison system to the most appropriate place for treatment , but in reality the system moves grudgingly slowly and in some parts is at a virtual standstill , leaving disturbed people in restrictive , unsuitable environments which are almost guaranteed to worsen their condition .
16 ‘ The result is : ( 1 ) That this Act does not necessarily require anything to be done under it which might not be done without causing a nuisance ; ( 2 ) That as to those things which may or may not be under it , there is no evidence on the face of the Act that the legislature supposed it to be impossible for any of them to be done ( if they were done at all ) somewhere and under some circumstances , without creating a nuisance ; and ( 3 ) That the legislature has manifested no intention that any of these optional powers , as to asylums , should be exercised at the expense of , or so as to interfere with , any man 's private rights .
17 C. oncophora and C. curticei are generally considered to be mild pathogens in calves and lambs respectively although in some studies they have been associated with inappetence and poor weight gains .
18 There is the simple , early but in some areas persistent situation of the independent producer who offers his own work for direct sale .
19 In the same product lines where foreign investors generally specialize , national firms do not necessarily behave differently and in some cases they might promote the direct use of less labor .
20 Regrettably , history suggests that people who are mentally vulnerable are consulted infrequently and in some cases are neglected , exploited and mistreated through either thoughtlessness or cruelty .
21 Teall 's aim was to publish the map and memoir of an area simultaneously and in some cases this was achieved .
22 It must be the theoretical aspects of a subject that are employed to encourage free , imaginative thought , speculation , and the conceptual connections between one subject and another , even if in some cases this leads to a breakdown of the divisions between traditional ‘ subjects ’ .
23 All the recordings are sharp and lively , even if in some cases forty years old .
24 However what does seem clear is that non-traditional students are capable of performing at least as well and in some cases better than traditionally qualified students throughout British higher education .
25 A variety of data bases are involved : transcripts of 40 open-ended interviews with middle-class Pakehas ; transcripts of 30 interviews with final year school students as well as with some teachers working in multi-ethnic classrooms ; parliamentary debates and media reports relating to the Springbok tour , Maori affairs and immigration issues .
26 President Zhelyu Zhelev had accordingly invited the remaining party represented in the National Assembly , the ( ethnic Turkish ) Movement for Rights and Freedoms ( MRF ) , to seek to put together a government , and the programme and Cabinet as eventually formed were backed by the MRF and the majority of the BSP , as well as by some elements of the broad UDF grouping .
27 They interviewed parents , specialist professionals and mainstream day-care workers and they designed a questionnaire which was completed by workers in a large proportion of mainstream council services and voluntary organisations , as well as by some child-minders .
28 ’ In practice these arrangements , like agency agreements , have given rise to confusion and friction , as well as in some cases to delay in determining applications .
29 Two full-time researchers at the RIIA will undertake a part of this research and coordinate a good deal of team work involving British academics and practitioners as well as in some cases scholars from Western Europe .
30 It is assumed that these increased cytokines can induce ADCC in colonic inflammation such as ulcerative colitis as well as in some malignancies .
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