Example sentences of "[to-vb] to some [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have to come to some kind of deal with the trade unions in this complex interim period . |
| 2 | ‘ All the same , it makes sense to come to some kind of agreement about this . |
| 3 | What neuropsychologists are trying to do is to come to some understanding of the way in which damage to the brain impairs abilities such as memory , perception and the use of language . |
| 4 | However , any diet high in foods that contain few vitamins and minerals is likely to lead to some degree of illness . |
| 5 | There ought to be a right to protest in public , it might be argued , and where the bona fide exercise of this right happens to lead to some form of disorder , it is wrong to visit the perpetrators with severe sanctions . |
| 6 | It has been said that at the court of Poitiers " the gilded youth of Poitou and Aquitaine breathed an air that seemed to belong to some tale of chivalry " . |
| 7 | The tradition that stone circles and standing stones are human beings who have been turned to stone because of some misdemeanour is widespread and seems to point to some memory of the ritual use of these sites in ancient times . |
| 8 | However odd Stubbly 's behaviour had been just lately , I was relying on his basic northern canniness to keep to some vestige of normalcy when it came to money . |
| 9 | I suppose everyone has to keep to some sort of rule . |
| 10 | Discourse , or text , deixis concerns the use of expressions within some utterance to refer to some portion of the discourse that contains that utterance ( including the utterance itself ) . |
| 11 | Without it there could be a free for all and if abolition goes through the employers may well find themselves having to resort to some form of cooperative or wages club in its place . |
| 12 | I mean it may well be that we have to resort to some sort of er |
| 13 | We have both been trying to return to some semblance of normality . |
| 14 | Yet it was abundantly clear that only when she was away from the influence of the house was she able to return to some semblance of normality . |
| 15 | And are n't most mothers in the 90s planning to return to some form of work outside the home by the time their youngest child is at school full-time ? |
| 16 | The unwillingness to move to some form of more powerful and comprehensive agency in Britain along the lines of the Quality Commission proposed by the Labour Party ( Cook 1990 ) has left quality issues largely in the hands of the professionals . |
| 17 | Furthermore , it is said , as native speakers of a language seem able to recognize correct and incorrect sentences , the idea of there being language rules exemplified in such sentences does seem to correspond to some kind of reality , even if people do not always speak according to these abstracted rules . |
| 18 | Its partners had probably accepted that they would have to acquiesce to some kind of compromise within the package deal . |