Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [verb] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the Trust , as a voluntary , charitable organisation receiving no direct government subsidies , is very dependent on the help it receives from some 20,000 volunteers annually , working on a great variety of projects . |
| 2 | For the entire period it accounts for some 70 per cent of the year-to-year variation in the rate of change of aggregate union membership . |
| 3 | It requires government to speak with one voice , to act in a principled and coherent manner to ward all its citizens , to extend to everyone the substantive standards of justice or fairness it uses for some . |
| 4 | A sign has meaning , not in virtue of something accompanying it , ‘ thinking ’ , but in virtue of the part it plays in some ‘ form of life ’ . |
| 5 | To such an end it had for some time been seeking to intensify contacts with both Tehran and Baghdad . |
| 6 | Pulling them together , we may see that in marriage in Britain today , while freedom of choice makes for great potential satisfaction in the marital relationship as such , at the same time it makes for some instability if the satisfactions are not up to expectations . |