Example sentences of "[subord] some [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is little to be seen of the former docks now , only depressions marked with stakes identifying the site , but the village remains , where some of the master shipwrights lived who built Nelson 's favourite ship , HMS Agamemnon , as well as many other men o' war for the British fleet . |
| 2 | There is apparently a storeroom , however , where some of the Government Commission 's old papers have been dumped to await recycling . |
| 3 | Although some of the West 's Arab partners have hinted that they might be able to live with this and that a settlement of the Arab-Israeli dispute and the Palestinian issue is no longer at the top of the Arab agenda , this is unlikely to hold true for long . |
| 4 | Erm being more serious , erm Marple is n't very far away and it only took me thirty minutes to get from my house in Marple to here , tonight , and although some of the constituency 's further away than this and that is actually one of the main considerations , and we 're local . |
| 5 | They have a black matt finish and are exceptionally durable , although some of the PVC ones are fairly comparable with their reinforcing welded terylene web . |
| 6 | For many months virtually everywhere in the Soviet Union stocks in state shops of even basic foodstuffs such as bread had been growing increasingly erratic , although some of the blame for this lay in the withholding of deliveries to the state supply network by farms and local authorities , in anticipation of prices rising or to meet local needs [ for indications of breakdown in the distribution system in May see p. 37538 ] . |
| 7 | Since then , a long spell of bad weather has helped to clean almost all the visible oil off the stones , although some of the building interiors remain contaminated . |
| 8 | Although some of the ballet music , we we actually some of |
| 9 | Before the decision on its abolition , the ILEA had already virtually abandoned the recommendations of The Fish Report , although some of the topic papers continued to support the idea of integration in general , unspecified ways . |
| 10 | The final pitch is straightforward ( although some of the rock is a little on the loose side , so a cautious approach is wise ) until the final solid corner is reached and bridged to the cliff top . |
| 11 | Although some of the house has been spoilt , I thoroughly enjoyed my visit , enhanced by a delightful guide who is still in love with the long-dead author . |
| 12 | A Touche Ross spokeswoman later confessed that , although some of the team had managed a practice run the week before , ‘ when it came to the day , a lot of people on the boat had never rowed before ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ Would you believe it 's no less than some of the company directors and their wives paying a visit to Family Day ? ’ |
| 14 | Hitachi has used a 320 watt motor in the FP 20SA , smaller than some of the competition . |
| 15 | I watched many hours of video films while at Highlander , and in various communities in the mountains with which Highlander is associated , and there can be few better examples of the power of video as an empowering and educational tool than some of the footage which the YCCC have taken . |
| 16 | It 's obviously more specialized than some of the education erm at comparable level in other countries , both in France and in Germany erm they take erm as their eighteen-plus exam erm an exam which covers a rather wider field , erm so in that sense , oddly , we specialize early , which is an interesting comparison . |
| 17 | The live organic yoghourt can be the basis of some home made — the bacteria/enzymes or whatever they are so much stronger in the good quality organic live yoghourts than some of the supermarket type ) . |
| 18 | Ah , then we do n't want some big ones , do we , cos some of the shrub roses do get quite er quite tall and quite wide as well . |
| 19 | She 'd erm was erm getting a pie out the oven and cos some of the juice went on the floor , she wiped it up thinking she 'd wiped it up properly and she did n't , she slipped , she 's broken a couple of bones in her foot . |
| 20 | Yes cos some of the butter is soft and |
| 21 | I joked and teased them all until some of the heaviness lifted . |
| 22 | It would be a nice idea if some of the money was donated to a children 's charity — after all , what can a 12-year-old do with £6 million ? |
| 23 | Before he left he wrote to Routh suggesting that if some of the money now wasted utterly in relief works were instead put into interest-free loans to the Irish railways , a great deal of employment would follow , not only on the lines but in the trade they would stimulate . |
| 24 | Now if some of the mathematics they had learnt had been relevant to them and interesting to them maybe they would have remembered it in the same way they 've remembered plenty of other things that are important to them . |
| 25 | If the law is to recognise the significance of the individual 's physical integrity , then it must provide for offences of this kind even if some of the conduct falling within the definition of the offence is properly kept out of the courts by prosecutorial discretion . |
| 26 | How much more useful if some of the country 's most distinguished writers , journalists and Shakespearean actors were to decide to involve themselves in community service by visiting schools on a regular basis . |
| 27 | For one thing she was very proud of her , for another when she talked about her lovely sister and her exciting life she felt as if some of the glamour rubbed off onto her . |
| 28 | If some of the mother 's natural young have been left in the litter these can be used for health screening . |
| 29 | If some of the germ lines that led from the primaeval soup had not been , to a first approximation , immortal then extant organisms would not exist . |
| 30 | It would be nice , for instance , if some of the cast went in in costume before the curtain went up — to wish them well , hope they enjoy it , that sort of thing . |