Example sentences of "[prep] some [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's about some kind of database structure thing . |
| 2 | I understand from 's nephew that the electric convector in the sitting room is dead , and shall speak to about some kind of replacement , though there is of course the second convector in the bedroom which should suffice at this time of year . |
| 3 | Yes , that would be quite interesting , would n't it , when we talked about some forms of address . |
| 4 | You 're talking about some forms of abuse which went on for a very very long time indeed to pull the average up like that . |
| 5 | What about some sort of sticker that she gets that can use the use of her period of time another idea to around . |
| 6 | aha , and we will have to think about some sort of contingency fund around to , for replacements whatever |
| 7 | A carers group might help , but what about some form of respite care for both the carer and the son ? |
| 8 | Locally , people began to talk about some form of recognition for the aircraft and how the town could help its tourist industry into the bargain . |
| 9 | The results might be surprising and you will certainly feel different about some aspects of life ! |
| 10 | Today , Tony McCaffery talks about some aspects of chemistry , becoming a chemistry student , and the importance of research in maintaining good chemistry teaching . |
| 11 | Write about some features of presentation which are used to achieve identifiable purposes , such as to inform , to regulate , to reassure or to persuade , in non-literary and media texts , showing some ability to form a considered opinion — eg when comparing two reports of the same event . |
| 12 | Few cases are quite as confusing as the zebra 's stripes , but there is always the chance that in a year or so 's time new information will have been gathered that changes our views about some aspect of animal life . |
| 13 | At the more routine end of the scale , studies of the relationship between mothers and daughters , from Young and Willmott onwards , document how daughters turn to their mothers when they are anxious about their children 's health , or unsure about some aspect of child rearing ( Young and Willmott , 1957 ) , despite the tendency of professional advisers to devalue ‘ old wives ’ tales ' . |
| 14 | Just to kind of get a feel of that importance , erm let's think about some categories of communication which we may not use verbal channels for very much , okay ? |
| 15 | A simple measure of the incidence of death during some period of time is given by the crude death rate ( CDR ) : |
| 16 | Presumably the replicators act as some kind of mould or template . |
| 17 | If the view through Williams ' window of history did not please everyone , it at least appears to have pleased many , especially those Negroes from the lower classes , and in particular Creole woman , who began to look upon him as some kind of messiah . |
| 18 | One could scarcely describe him as some kind of father-figure ! |
| 19 | Until you enlighten me , and perhaps even after that , I shall regard you as some kind of spirit . ’ |
| 20 | Maybe he 'd brought her here to act as some kind of pawn in a game he played with Marianne , she realised dully . |
| 21 | Pete had sacrificed him to save his own worthless skin , holding up his fat family as some kind of excuse . |
| 22 | The network of shires and hundreds brought royal government to all landowners of any substance , and must have acted as some kind of counter-weight to the influence of local lords and feelings of local separatism . |
| 23 | The Wolfqueen acting as some kind of lodestar ? |
| 24 | He said that it was obviously meant as some kind of warning . |
| 25 | Manolo took a couple of hits of coffee , and picked up a wrist-exerciser that probably doubled as some kind of sex aid . |
| 26 | Adele obviously uses it as some kind of defence . |
| 27 | Bednota was read very rarely in the villages and hardly ever subscribed to , because , as the peasants themselves recounted , it never printed real peasant articles but presented the countryside as some kind of fairyland . |
| 28 | Matthew Geffen , manager of New Age emporium Mysteries , sees World Party as the band of the moment and Wallinger as some kind of leader . |
| 29 | Whereas in Kant 's theory , in a sense , there still lingers the common sense conception of space and time as some kind of backcloth against which the positions of phenomenal objects can be uniquely charted and distinguished from each other , Leibniz regarded space and time as properties of entities . |
| 30 | She , in her turn , interprets this as some kind of hatred of her . |