Example sentences of "[adv] and [prep] some [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The newcomers were not able to brush aside the native Carib population with quite the contemptuous ease with which the Spaniards had conquered the mainland ; attempts to settle in earlier years had been resisted successfully and in some islands the English settlers had to remain at least as careful about the risk of native attack as any community in North America . |
| 2 | The system should enable offenders with mental disorder to move quickly out of the courts and prison system to the most appropriate place for treatment , but in reality the system moves grudgingly slowly and in some parts is at a virtual standstill , leaving disturbed people in restrictive , unsuitable environments which are almost guaranteed to worsen their condition . |
| 3 | ‘ The result is : ( 1 ) That this Act does not necessarily require anything to be done under it which might not be done without causing a nuisance ; ( 2 ) That as to those things which may or may not be under it , there is no evidence on the face of the Act that the legislature supposed it to be impossible for any of them to be done ( if they were done at all ) somewhere and under some circumstances , without creating a nuisance ; and ( 3 ) That the legislature has manifested no intention that any of these optional powers , as to asylums , should be exercised at the expense of , or so as to interfere with , any man 's private rights . |
| 4 | In the same product lines where foreign investors generally specialize , national firms do not necessarily behave differently and in some cases they might promote the direct use of less labor . |
| 5 | Regrettably , history suggests that people who are mentally vulnerable are consulted infrequently and in some cases are neglected , exploited and mistreated through either thoughtlessness or cruelty . |
| 6 | Teall 's aim was to publish the map and memoir of an area simultaneously and in some cases this was achieved . |
| 7 | However what does seem clear is that non-traditional students are capable of performing at least as well and in some cases better than traditionally qualified students throughout British higher education . |
| 8 | The political power which some women have exercised sometimes and in some places in the past and other societies has derived from their position in a familial or kinship group . |
| 9 | Sometimes and in some places , the labour is so time-consuming that even the most hard-working of parents can not manage it unaided . |
| 10 | From 1960 to 1980 , the percentage of blacks employed in professional , managerial and technical occupations rose steadily and in some cases doubled . |
| 11 | But we had the situation where seventy per cent of not just fathers who were unemployed but fathers that were well off were not adequately and in some cases not supporting . |
| 12 | But the imperative was common at that time , for some years beyond and in some quarters still today . |