Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] some [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He criticised the WEA for allowing some branches to be ‘ swallowed up by the vortex of gentility ’ , failing to engage in serious study and neglecting their mission to manual workers : he wanted such branches closed . |
| 2 | The reasons for using some form of external assistance in recruiting key people are often quite clear : the confidentiality , the know-how and the experience are all obvious factors ; why bring in a headhunter rather than use an advertising consultant is sometimes more difficult to explain . |
| 3 | In a report today , the lawyers , including representatives of the National Council for Civil Liberties and the Haldane Society , criticise Douglas Hogg , the former Home Office minister , and the RUC for accusing some solicitors of holding IRA sympathies . |
| 4 | But from this comes the need for the resupply or , less agreeably , for keeping some part of the underclass in continued and deferential subjection . |
| 5 | Thus , the dairymen who farmed the lush meadows of the Dove Valley geared their husbandry to a different system from that followed by the sheep-and-corn farmers on the Lincolnshire Wolds , and the range of opportunities for earning a living and for gaining some measure of independence from a lord or squire was much greater for a cottager living on the edge of a moor , forest or marsh than the scope available to his counterpart in one of the nucleated , corn-growing villages of the Midland Plain . |
| 6 | Although modern America and Western Europe , as well as Russia and Eastern Europe , are different in some respects from the type of society with which Freud was familiar before and after the First World War , there is still great value in Freud 's conceptualizations for understanding some problems in these societies . |
| 7 | He could have been right at that , when one considers the trips that hippies take after eating some types of mushroom . |
| 8 | They often study psychology after developing some expertise in it through education , community , health , or social services work , and they usually return to or take on such work , rather than becoming professional psychologists . |
| 9 | These were the findings of the Spanish Association of information technology companies , SEDISI , after questioning some 58% of all information technology companies in the country . |
| 10 | However , after spending some time amid the pandemonium of this noisy office , Anita had come to one definite conclusion : Laura might well earn an absolute fortune — reputedly a quarter of a million pounds a year — but , as far as Anita was concerned , she certainly deserved every penny ! |
| 11 | After spending some time at 's at Mundford , transferred to Eagle Mill in the early '70s and has been with us ever since . |
| 12 | After spending some time with the injured fan , Baggio said that if there was any violence during last Sunday 's game between the same two sides he would ask to be substituted . |
| 13 | The descriptions were perfect , even to George 's crooked thumb , but it was rumoured that they had fled north to Newcastle after spending some time in the Midlands . |
| 14 | After spending some time in an all-night diner on 42nd Street , a calculatedly unshaven Dustin just melted into the atmosphere . |
| 15 | Dermot says : ‘ My brother Ken was on a round the world trip and went to Nepal after spending some time in India . |
| 16 | Certainly , a bank , for example , would look more favourably on an application for an overdraft after having some insight into the future cash position of a firm . |
| 17 | After reading some articles about close-up and fish photography , I realised that I needed a single lens reflex ( sir ) camera , where the image seen through the viewfinder is actually produced by the lens . |
| 18 | It did not , however , stop them continuing with the innovation in the next school year , after making some modifications to the scheme of work . |
| 19 | With this in mind , it is often worth seeking some form of guarantee from the parent company . |
| 20 | The best reason for wanting some account of certainty in our analysis of knowledge is that people are rightly hesitant to claim knowledge when they are less than certain . |
| 21 | But we are concerned with a fundamentally different matter , the possible ways in which some entity ( or property ) , already accepted mentally , might be identified by a speaker , either for the purposes of his own thought or for communicating some idea to an audience ; in the latter case , there is no reason at all to object to the suggestion that the same item might be referred to either by ( 7 ) , or by ( 4 ) or ( 5 ) . |
| 22 | Thus , the Report refers to " English in the highest sense " as " the channel for formative culture for all English people , and the medium of the creative art by which all English writers of distinction , whether poets , historians , Philosopher , or men of science , have secured for us the power of realising some part of their own experience of life " . |
| 23 | Impressed by their officials ' strictures about the need for obeying government rules and directives as a means of maintaining some notion of good local government and the good opinion of Central Government , with a sense of loyalty and dependency towards their officials , and a feeling that their own integrity was at stake , they maintained the policy . |
| 24 | I was thinking of sticking some pages on the World Wide Web for this great team and was wondering if anyone has done this already . |
| 25 | There is general agreement about the principle of allowing some measure of independence to the province . |
| 26 | The younger age group have taken up conspicuous consumption , presumably as a means of recouping some esteem in terms of the apparently dominant and universalistic class criteria . |
| 27 | The reasonableness of bringing some element of quality into even a strictly hedonistic system may be brought out by the following thought experiment . |
| 28 | It is a way of bringing some kind of order to the many diverse things which the scriptures could be said to be about . |
| 29 | This would have the added advantage of bringing some employment to rural areas . |
| 30 | Try to swap too late , hold on too long and you get assassinated and that 's it ; that 's you back to the cave with twenty other flea-bitten reduced-statures and the bright idea of bringing some fire into the cave ! |