Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | The defence given by some of those who had authorised this unparalleled act of iconoclasm in modern England , while clearly sincere , points to the narrow perspectives that had allowed the events to occur . |
| 2 | And so I took the opportunity to describe in some detail conditions in the attic . |
| 3 | Acting , he told me , was ‘ a wonderful job that gives me the opportunity to drink with some really good friends in exotic places around the world ’ . |
| 4 | Having spent a night in accommodation which is the same as the recruits ' and having had the opportunity to talk to some of the recruits in the Sandes Coffee Shop last night , they have an excellent idea about their future career . |
| 5 | After a week in the country , Baxter 's health greatly improved and so he took the opportunity to preach in some of the needy country churches in Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire . |
| 6 | Colleagues , on composite motion thirty two , Toxic Shock Syndrome , I notice a number of colleagues went to the , the meeting that was held in the Conference Hall at lunchtime , and certainly for a few minutes , I had the opportunity to listen to some of the discussions that took place . |
| 7 | Is it the opportunity to slip in some data that are not strong enough to form a peer-reviewed paper or the liberty to digress and speculate which entices authors ? |
| 8 | Apart from the danger in such misconceptions , the terminology used by some colleagues when referring to anyone with a disability can be disturbing . |
| 9 | It has , however , been contained by an environment in which President Nyerere 's political leadership promoted a strong national ideology , and in which , for reasons which lie in Tanzania 's nineteenth-century history ( including both the replacement of traditional authority by trader barons and the unity achieved among some peoples in resisting German colonialism ) localism has been much less strong than among many African peoples . |
| 10 | The funding amounted to some US$60,000,000 annually , of which about half was intended for weapons acquisition . |
| 11 | The rainstorm had to some extent penetrated the tree-cover . |
| 12 | So the struggle became to some extent a contest between the German bishops and the pope , and the position of the German bishops in extending the conflict can only be understood if we understand their relationships with the political parties and the rival claimants . |
| 13 | It is sometimes obscure and the writer confesses with some shame that he possessed for some forty years a Tudor binding with the cunningly interwoven initials ‘ R.B. ’ — those of an unidentified London binder working c.1550–81 . |
| 14 | Then , the writer indulged in some lateral thinking . |
| 15 | The directorate searched for some method , other than a quick fix-it , which would draw the business into acceptable profitability and then develop that position . |
| 16 | Indeed , the reaction is frequently performed by passing the reacting gases over a bed of the catalyst supported on some inert material . |
| 17 | Is DCF as desirable a form of analysis as the theory of finance implies — especially given criticisms of the technique voiced by some academics in the corporate-strategy area ? |
| 18 | The afternoon started with some bold blows by Fleming , but he was spectacularly caught by Nicholas , leaping high at mid-off , and the last wickets fell for the addition of only 30 runs in four overs . |
| 19 | As far as the central grant is concerned , it has developed a technique that enables it to cut the money given to some authorities which it considers to be over-spenders by an amount equal to or more than any expenditure increase . |
| 20 | Because the widespread poverty of older women and the penury experienced by some groups among them derive to a considerable extent from the operation of social and economic policies within patriarchal capitalism , any major change in their status rests on the development of alternative policies . |
| 21 | ‘ Lukewarm toleration ’ is the description given by some New Zealand correspondents who believe that clergy sometimes feel that ‘ traditions are inhibiting parish development ’ . |
| 22 | However , formulae such as " adjectives precede their nouns " do not take us beyond a very shallow level of linguistic description ; nor is it an improvement to find phrases such as " an attributive adjective " unless the description proceeds in some way to give an account of how a term like attributive may mean something more than a simple statement about formal grouping . |
| 23 | Songqiao ( 1986 ) states that the silt amounts to some 1.6 × 10 9 per year and that the rate of erosion from the middle reaches of the Huanghe River basin is 100 t ha- per year . |
| 24 | Sometimes there will be partial reliance , the buyer relying in some respects upon the seller 's skill and judgment and in others upon his own . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , whenever we feel out of sorts , tired , sick of ourselves and others and in need of ‘ restoration ’ ( origin of the word restaurant ) , it 's more than likely we will head for the kitchen hoping for some well-known and trusted food from our past . |
| 26 | The uproar in the kitchen continued for some time while Nanny pressed his face against her coat and added her own voice to the tumult . |
| 27 | The warning here , however , is of the difficulty encountered by some enthusiasts for graded assessment tests in persuading other colleagues in their discipline of the practicality and value of the detailed record-keeping of various ‘ grade related criteria ’ within the subject area itself . |
| 28 | Addictive disease causes the sufferer to return at some time to the substance , process or relation-ship of addiction despite various disturbances of function and despite previous negative consequences . |
| 29 | The other one erm is within the university itself because we do have a support organisation here for teaching within the university , and it is possible for groups of teachers in any part of the university to ask for some help and support in looking at one of the courses they 're involved in teaching . |
| 30 | The thunder thumped from some nearer point , the glass vibrated in the window , and Cameron came out of his doze to find Menzies grinning quizzically at him and offering him some more claret . |