Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [adv] [prep] some " in BNC.

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1 In some early drafts Raskolnikov commits suicide , and the striking thing here is that it 's never suggested he does so out of remorse or because he thinks he 's going to get caught or even from some vaguer , larger self-loathing .
2 As a union we 've successfully argued albeit belatedly at some times , that TUPE protects public sector workers in all cases of contracting out .
3 The fact remains that men 's leisure-time activities are much more visible to history , more organized and perhaps to some extent seen as more legitimate .
4 In the case of the railways this included a power to revise fares where excessive profits were made and even in some circumstances an express right to take the undertaking into state ownership .
5 He argued that scientists have shown that even in some metals there is a vestige of the spark of life , and there are some metals of which it is difficult to say whether they are alive or not .
6 But violence unconnected with sex was still not caught by the Miller test , since obscenity was defined as necessarily including some ‘ patently offensive ’ representation of ‘ sexual conduct ’ which , being ‘ lewd and obscene ’ , could form ‘ no essential part of any exposition of ideas ’ .
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