Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] [adv] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are concerned if we perform badly or dangerously at some times and the effects of poor performance will also be of interest to managers and the general public . |
| 2 | This may come more naturally and easily to some than to others , but it is possible that where a prolonged conscious effort has been made to tap this creative source , greater understanding and appreciation result than where only little work has been needed . |
| 3 | But she , or he , will be disappointed if your heroine simply plunges foolishly and thoughtlessly into some obvious danger when , with hardly any thought , some alternative line of action lies open to her . |
| 4 | Allusion to nature was never completely abandoned in his abstractions and his pioneering works in collage influenced a couple of generations of American artists ( Joseph Cornell , for instance , must have looked long and hard at some of his glass-fronted box constructions ) . |
| 5 | The Halifax said : ‘ Any recovery in the housing market remains dependent on recovery in the economy generally and particularly on some easing of the rate of growth of unemployment . |
| 6 | He put his head in his hands and rocked backwards and forward for some minutes . |
| 7 | And he always seemed to be campaigning vigorously and futilely for some boy or other who had been sent to borstal for a criminal offence . |
| 8 | In between were those heads who dealt much more effectively and constructively with some staff than with others . |
| 9 | There are three main kinds of hot water storage heating system : in the first two , the water is heated directly or indirectly by some kind of boiler ; in the third , it is heated by an electric immersion heater . |
| 10 | Next Jay told them he 'd step aside but only for some ridiculous sum of money . ’ |
| 11 | Sometimes it can be difficult to decide whether a statement relates only to the future and therefore can not infringe section 14 or whether on the other hand it relates partly or entirely to some past or present fact . |
| 12 | If you and your children have always talked together on all kinds of subjects , you may find it easier to sit down and talk reasonably and quietly about some of the hard decisions that have to be made . |
| 13 | Although such an incestuous fixation usually means genital inhibition for the individual in adult life , resulting either in perversion or neurosis or both and invariably in some unhappiness , incest in itself does not threaten the foundations of culture so much as the consequent erotic and aggressive antagonism to which it gives rise . |
| 14 | We paused now and again at some hostelry and , on one occasion , a Benedictine monastery , I forget its name . |
| 15 | He magnified the picture which swam lazily and grainily into some kind of focus . |
| 16 | The influence of Cézanne is seen strongly and consistently in some of the paintings Picasso brought back from La Rue-des-Bois in the autumn of 1908 . |
| 17 | These three women , it will readily and perhaps with some irritation be perceived , were amongst the crème de la crème of their generation . |
| 18 | Grand Isle is a precarious headland , little more than a sandy breakwater , a mile across and less in some places . |
| 19 | Naylor studied her silently and hostilely for some seconds , mutual enmity rife . |
| 20 | If Patrick was sent back to the hospital he might be temporarily revived , but only briefly and perhaps in some damaged state . |