Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] [noun] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mathematics includes equations relating variables and allowing the values of some to be deduced , given the values of others . |
| 2 | The announcement ended a protracted controversy by allowing the release of some 200 former supporters of Joshua Nkomo 's ZAPU party ( now absorbed into Mugabe 's ruling ZANU-PF following the December 1987 reconciliation agreement — see pp. 35626 ; 36415 ) , many of whom had fought for ZAPU as guerrillas in Matabeleland during the 1980s . |
| 3 | The specimens you were so good as to send to me by Captain Lyon would have been a treasure had they arrived safe ; but his ship was taken by the French , so those were all lost , which is a great misfortune at this time , when they would have been of great service to me , in ascertaining the names of some plants which remain doubtful . |
| 4 | Using the excuse of some paper work , she settled down in the office and after following Helen 's advice implicitly , she put the letter into an envelope , addressing it ‘ Personal ’ . |
| 5 | Perhaps he was selling it all off a stall or using the condoms on some young woman . |
| 6 | You 've been helping the Vatican in some mysterious business or other , have n't you ? ’ |
| 7 | Our final report comes from Potosi in Bolivia , the world 's highest city , where Oxfam are helping the families of some of the twenty-five thousand miners who lost their jobs when the world tin market collapsed . |
| 8 | Soon we 'll be helping the environment in some new ways . |
| 9 | Fanny drives with his usual relish , turning the wheel with exaggerated movements and indulging one of his favourite habits , which involves him sporadically singing the chorus of some great Woodstockesque opus . |
| 10 | Another difficulty Glass faced was that Western notation , bar lines are used to divide the music , thus encouraging the emphasis of some notes at the expense of others . |
| 11 | Yet we find our leading members of the Labour Party accepting the argument for some form of workfare . |
| 12 | However , by handling the machine with some software , Comet Data could have come up with a real bargain . |
| 13 | Catherine II sharply increased the number , which reached about 38,000 by the end of the century , and in the nineteenth century steady expansion set in bringing the total to some 114,000 by Nicholas I 's death . |
| 14 | She could imagine the calculation in his eyes , like dull glass mirrors reflecting the action of some well-oiled clockwork . |
| 15 | A TRUE account of how ten young Uruguayan rugby players survived a plane crash high in the Andes — by eating the remains of some of the victims ( 15 ) — Cannon , Cineworld , Yorkgate . |
| 16 | Sir Keith Joseph , when Secretary of State for the Social Services , revived the controversy in 1972 by attributing the persistence of some social problems to the high fertility of least educated girls . |
| 17 | In particular the lay movement , seeing the ill-life of some priests and the increasing grandeur of the Church , sought to insist on chastity , abstention from luxury and avoidance of meat-eating , and aspired to renounce property , or at least to hold goods in common . |
| 18 | Now the Americans have fired a warning shot over Europe by tripling the duty on some EC imports . |
| 19 | After Desert Storm , many thought that the attackers should have shouldered the responsibility of occupying Iraq , restoring democracy and temporarily administering the country under some UN mandate . |
| 20 | I think it is essential to understand the key factors for success or failure in your type of business and I 'm not convinced you can do that without actually understanding the process in some detail . |
| 21 | It is rapidly becoming the playground for some of Europe 's most sophisticated and cosmopolitan young people . |
| 22 | Matters were not helped by the Sabina Park authorities providing one sightscreen that was too low to be of much use if the bowler was over six feet ( 1.8 metres ) tall , and when England complained after the game against Jamaica the reply was that it could not be raised without obscuring the view of some two hundred people who had already bought tickets . |
| 23 | Many parents use avoidance strategies either by alternating the environment in some way , for example removing ornaments from low shelving , or by setting rules like banning felt tips except when an adult is supervising . |
| 24 | Lack of rigorous endoscopic criteria defining variceal haemorrhage such as those described by Buset et al , lack of standardisation for the time of entry , non-uniform management of the variceal haemorrhage during the whole study period , analysis of either the first or the recurrent episodes of haemorrhage and differences in patient sampling or variables recorded may all have a part in explaining the contradictions among some of the studies published on this matter . |
| 25 | Possible tests would include testing the wheat from which the poisonous bread was made for the presence of the fungus , cultivating the fungus on some specially prepared wheat and testing the nourishing effect of the bread produced from it , chemically analysing the fungus for the presence of known poisons , and so on . |
| 26 | If this story is regarded as a plausible one , it illustrates how a theory can always be protected from falsification by deflecting the falsification to some other part of the complex web of assumptions . |
| 27 | The two parcels of vines belonging to Beaumont-sur-Vesle are located on a small patch of flat ground , west of the road leading out of the village towards Verzenay and , a kilometre further on , adjoining the edge of some of the poorest vineyards of Verzenay . |
| 28 | Held , dismissing the appeals , ( 1 ) that , on its true construction , section 6(3) ( a ) of the Act of 1980 had to be given a literal meaning ; that where a school was over-subscribed compliance with the preference of all the applicants would necessarily prejudice efficient education , and in such circumstances the school had to have an admissions policy , which would inevitably result in defeating the preference of some applicants , whatever criteria were adopted ; and that , accordingly , since the school was over-subscribed , there was no duty on the governors to give effect to the applicants ' preferences ( post , pp. 100H — 101B , 106H , 107G–H , 108A , G–H ) . |
| 29 | The plastic monsters look like ruling the planet for some time to come with the mammoth film and merchandise promotion that 's going on , selling everything from dinosaur lip balm to brontosaurus burgers . |
| 30 | The plastic monsters look like ruling the planet for some time to come with the mammoth film and merchandise promotion that 's going on , selling everything from dinosaur lip balm to brontosaurus burgers . |