Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is written after a trip of some five months to Pakistan , Northern India and Bangladesh . |
| 2 | This is the second of a set of two articles , written after a trip of some five months to Northern India , Pakistan and Bangladesh . |
| 3 | An increase of over 100 per cent in the price of maize meal on June 19 , as part of an economic recovery programme [ see pp. 37142-43 ; 37559 ] , provoked widespread discontent which culminated in violence after a demonstration by some 2,000 students in Lusaka on June 25 . |
| 4 | The waters described by Boswell flow powerfully beneath deep banks reached after a walk of some hundreds of yards from the B886 north of Fairy Bridge . |
| 5 | After a period of some 45min , the vat appeared full of blancmange . |
| 6 | After a period of some weeks without treatment , the rash and any other manifestations of secondary syphilis will regress and the disease enters the early latent stage . |
| 7 | On the other hand , after a period of some four to five years ' ( and after only two to three years of first speaking words ) exposure to the language of those around them , children seem to have mastered the underlying rule system which enables them to produce an infinite variety of relatively well-formed , complex sentences . |
| 8 | John followed Richard after a lapse of some six weeks , to be succeeded in turn by Henry III after a vacancy of a week , and Edward I succeeded him after a four-day interval . |
| 9 | These are people who have been restored to membership after a lapse of some years . |
| 10 | The two of them were walking by the Seine after a visit to some friends . |
| 11 | The situation was almost the same at Exeter , but 48 per cent of the subsidy assessments were at £1 , mostly on wages , while in Coventry these were only a handful out of a total of some 700 taxpayers , meaning that almost half the population literally ‘ possessed absolutely nothing but the rags they stood up in , a few sticks and boards for ‘ furniture ’ , and the tools of their trade , if any' , Exeter clearly enjoyed full employment — as full , that is , as was attainable in the conditions of the time — while Coventry languished in the grip of severe unemployment , and indeed in the early 1520s was undergoing a series of acute economic crises . |
| 12 | Consulting an astrologer on a Friday evening for a bit of a laugh with some of her friends was just about passable . |
| 13 | I am not sure whether John was aware of a tradition among some of his distant cousins that the family originated from Poland , possibly in a Count Cranko , romantically supposed to have been descended from the founder of the city of Krakow . |
| 14 | On the other hand , if parties use their own politicized technocrats to get more of a grip on some sectors of public policy , they must still defer to technocratic interests , and co-ordination across sectors is difficult to achieve . |
| 15 | Imagine , in some generation in the past , that a species contains N individuals , and hence 2 N copies of some particular gene , say the gene for cytochrome C. Let the total mutation rate per gene be m ( that is , the chance of a mutation of some kind occurring somewhere in the gene in a given sperm or egg ) . |
| 16 | For instance , because of a decision of some bureaucrat in Moscow , oil extracted in Sakhalin island in the Far East is transported through ten time-zones to the European part of Russia for consumption by local industry instead of being sold to Japan , located next door . |
| 17 | In this case flexing of the lithosphere leads to the development of a forebulge at some distance from the ice margin which experiences an increase in surface elevation . |
| 18 | Suddenly , out of the corner of its eye , it sees the red super-gape of a young cuckoo , in the nest of a bird of some quite different species . |
| 19 | If a material like glass does not fail owing to the spread of a crack from some local defect then how does it fail ? |
| 20 | Because there are children and therefore the woman has obviously been part of a couple at some point , there is an assumption that in her single state she is critical , cynical and undermining of couples around her . |
| 21 | Not only must one formulate a model of the entire economy , but one must be able to calculate the effect of a change in some parameter , say a tax rate , on the whole system . |
| 22 | A descriptive expression , it is argued , may help fix the reference of a name via some contingent characteristic of the object in question ( as is the case with " the author of Macbeth " ) , but it can not provide its " definition " . |
| 23 | His act was an unpremeditated matter and was the culmination of a weekend of some considerable frustration . |
| 24 | In practice , the issues may never be put to the test because it is very likely that other parties would succeed in preventing referenda , but it is still enough of a departure for some evangelical DUP activists to have been initially opposed to the change . |
| 25 | Such views have not received widespread acceptance , however , and as time goes by the chances of a reinstatement of some form of gold standard look more and more remote . |
| 26 | Were he equipped with nothing but his hereditary instincts , unaffected by the influence of the centuries of the civilising process , it is very probable that he would instinctively distribute the allocation of his abilities first to the ensurance of his own personal well-being , then to the provision of a home of some sort , next to the care of his mate , then to his children and finally to the community in which he exists . |
| 27 | A conversion task involving the formulation of a message for some defined purpose . |
| 28 | The occasional thrush flew across in front of the car ; once we had a glimpse of a woodpecker of some kind , and early one morning a badger trotted across the road . |
| 29 | Occasionally people from more than one lineage on each side had made peace , and people spoke then of a peace between some higher order entity than a small lineage : Ujdaid and Talib , Awlad Amira and Mannaia . |
| 30 | With noble , fine-boned features that have brought comparisons with Audrey Hepburn , she could have gone to Hollywood but has chosen British projects which she feels mean something — though she has routinely worked for the mere promise of a salary at some future point when the films make money . |