Example sentences of "[vb pp] some [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did , they say they got water hammer we went into the ladies toilets and one door , one cubicle was shut and there was this loud drumming noise and I said to Brenda perhaps it 's an alarm signal perhaps somebody on the other side of that door has been taken ill and has pressed some sort of alarm signal , anyway we went out and they said oh no it 's always making that noise ! |
| 2 | If I had developed some measure of showmanship over the years , I felt it was not much use to me or anyone else while I sat in my office and let junior producers have all the fun . |
| 3 | Of the 10 patients with indeterminate colitis — three developed pelvic sepsis one because of a leak from the pouch and six have developed some form of pouch related fistula ( p=0.01 v ulcerative colitis group ) . |
| 4 | So by that weekend of 18–19 March Pons knew that not only was the DOE happy to fund the proposed research programme , but that the preliminary note had now received some measure of approval , which gave confidence in the fusion hypothesis . |
| 5 | A Department of Employment survey in 1988 of individuals attending courses or receiving job-related training , found that just 4.5 per cent of economically active men aged 50–59 and 1.9 per cent of those aged 60–64 had received some form of course or training in the four weeks prior to the interview . |
| 6 | The provisions made by his executors to establish loan chests at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge after his death suggest that Gilbert may have received some sort of university education . |
| 7 | ‘ Those things must have implanted some sort of image in their mind , stimulated the right emotions to make them do it . ’ |
| 8 | Presumably Miss Philimore had placed some sort of order before she left , forgetting that she would no longer be around to take delivery . |
| 9 | As far as possible , students will be given some choice of location . |
| 10 | From the time of James 's second Indulgence , most Whigs and Nonconformists had come out against the suspending power , on the promise that if they stuck by the Church , they would be given some measure of toleration . |
| 11 | While noting that Parolles is given some kind of dignity in verse , we should also observe that Shakespeare seldom ends a scene with a soliloquy in prose — Thersites and Falstaff are the only characters who do so more than once . |
| 12 | Do you see yourself as being given some sort of payment , eh ? |
| 13 | The inclusion of ‘ subsidiarity ’ in the Maastricht Treaty on European Union has been presented as a great victory for those who wanted to see the centralising , Federalist and irrevocable proposals of the Treaty given some sort of counterbalance for the rights of the nation state . |
| 14 | gone to their GP 's , and often have been given some sort of medicine for their depression but have n't had the counselling side of things dealt with and they 've just been given re-prescriptions , not necessarily seen every time for a re-prescription . |
| 15 | Then we were confined to our rooms as the Corporals organised some sort of excuse for the Sergeants and Sergeant-Major . |
| 16 | Vitor might not have been aware that she occupied the house , yet he had amassed some items of information about her . |
| 17 | When she 'd regained some degree of composure , she asked , ‘ Have you had any further thoughts as to where Mamma 's ‘ appropriate ’ place might be ? ’ |
| 18 | Committed some sort of crime against America ? |
| 19 | He had expected some kind of tart from Les Halles and found a respectable Jewish matron in an unbecoming colour . |
| 20 | Being right in line with the posts we had expected some sort of obstacle to look round but not a moving one ! |
| 21 | In our main 1979 survey , 11 per cent of credit buyers said that their contracts had included some form of insurance against being unable to pay , while 19 per cent did not know ( Appendix I , Table 35 ) . |
| 22 | There has been considerable pressure to incorporate a measure of social deprivation in resource allocation formulas , and several regions have already included some form of deprivation weighting in their subregional allocation . |
| 23 | ICAM-1 expression is only seen , however , in cells that have already undergone some degree of activation and therefore the actual initial adhesion event supporting antigen presentation to the antigen receptor may be between LFA-1 and ICAM-3 . |
| 24 | It horrified her to think how foolish she had been and she could only excuse herself on the grounds that she had suffered some kind of fit . |
| 25 | Susan , believing her friend had suffered some form of miscarriage , shouted to her returning husband to fetch medical help . |
| 26 | In the summer of 1953 he had suffered some sort of breakdown , or nervous crisis , which had been caused ( one view ) or exacerbated ( a more informed view ) by his bizarre relations with the ex-biology teacher at Blesford Ride , the public school where his father , and Stephanie 's father , taught . |
| 27 | Mr O'Connor added : ‘ All our competitors may have suffered some sort of disability but the standard of competition was phenomenal . ’ |
| 28 | Gandhi seems to have felt some flicker of remorse about his treatment of the Sarabhai family ; at any rate , without confessing error , he preoccupied himself with working out rules for what might be termed the just fast . |
| 29 | A reason why a number of companies that have adopted some form of matrix management have declared it a failure is to be found in inadequate preparation and briefing of those involved . |
| 30 | Nonni should have answered , of course , that they stayed cleaner longer , which would have made some kind of sense to my aunts . |