Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh det] [verb] [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | One area of driving research which has produced some serendipitous results bearing on drivers ’ memory in normal situations results from attempts to investigate drivers ’ perception of traffic signs ( e.g. Johansson & Backlund , 1970 ; Johansson & Rumar , 1966 ; Luoma , 1988 , 1991 ; MacDonald & Hoffmann , 1991 ; Milosevic & Gajic , 1986 ) . |
| 2 | With all the criticism of standards of training and education flying around at present , it is heartening to see a tangible example of work which seems to refute some of it . |
| 3 | Choosing what to include took some time , though I wanted to give it an artistic flavour . ’ |
| 4 | It leads to death and a scandalous murder inquiry which threatens to expose some dark secrets . |
| 5 | There was a full page article announcing Darwinism is dead , which turned out as a matter of fact to be a reprint of an article which had appeared some months earlier in the Sunday Times of this country , erm which in fact was based very largely on some work by a young man called Steele , which none of us , I think , believed at the time , and which was since turned out clearly to have been mistaken . |
| 6 | This is true of the inhabitants of most of the developing Third World countries , in what might be described as ‘ normal ’ conditions , as opposed to the horrific periods of famine which have afflicted some African countries in recent years . |
| 7 | Its LEA has been a forceful innovator of LMS which has allowed some early decisions to be taken and the results monitored and evaluated . |
| 8 | A good illustration of this principle is provided by the rules concerning ‘ statutory default powers ’ , that is , powers of ministers of central government to give directions to an authority which fails to perform some statutory duty ( or , sometimes , a statutory power ) as to what it must do in pursuance of its duty ( or in exercise of its power ) . |
| 9 | After a desultory start which had led some observers to hope that the intensity of the armed conflict might be declining , the " fighting season " got fully under way in January . |
| 10 | Many of the same theoretical issues arise in the study of the evolution of sex ration on group-structured populations , a topic which has spawned some of the most impressive fits between quantitative predictions of evolutionary theory and field data . |
| 11 | A different sort of exhibition which has had some success in attracting attention , and thus newspaper coverage , is the prize competition . |
| 12 | There 's a cut on the album called Friday 's Walk which has got some of the fastest playing on the album , and yet it 's the slowest track on the album . |
| 13 | The last graduates left an apprentice scheme which has produced some of the top airforce brass . |
| 14 | In general , too , rhythmic and temporal features of speech are ignored in transcriptions ; the rhythmic structure which appears to bind some groups of words more closely together than others , and the speeding up and slowing down of the overall pace of speech relative to the speaker 's normal pace in a given speech situation , are such complex variables that we have very little idea how they are exploited in speech and to what effect ( but , cf. |
| 15 | The visitor enters the gateway of the Armenian patriarchate and first sees the chapel to the left of the cathedral , a small building of yellow stone which appears to contain some religious relics behind sheets of unwashed glass . |
| 16 | Here the mother is interpreting the child 's earliest noises as turns , a phenomenon which has led some researchers to wonder whether the turn-taking mechanisms of conversation , and ability to recognize the kind of turn that is in use , might be the initial framework into which the child gradually fills the details of the language , working top-down , from the largest structures to the smallest , as well as or perhaps instead of bottom-up , as has usually been assumed . |
| 17 | Mark Poster has recently suggested that ‘ historians and social scientists in general have gone astray by viewing the family as a unitary phenomenon which has undergone some type of linear transformation ’ . |
| 18 | The other officer was Gerhard Junack of the Bismarck 's engineering staff , who helped dispel a myth which had gained some credence in the Royal Navy that it was British torpedoes and shells exclusively that had sent the allegedly unsinkable Bismarck to the bottom . |
| 19 | Every now and again , without a word , he would point at some object , a chair perhaps , or a sideboard or a marquetry table which had graced some Krishnapur drawing-room , and his henchmen would dart forward , seize it , and carry it away . |
| 20 | It has been trialled with encouraging results : in an informal trial ending in the summer of 1984 the mixed ability class which had done some of the course came out ahead of parallel classes in all subjects . |