Example sentences of "some [prep] [art] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And Hilary 's taking some off the top for himself … ’ |
| 2 | Obviously he 'd been doing some kind of a finance deal ; setting up a takeover ; and he 'd lifted some off the top for himself . ’ |
| 3 | In the absence of reliable evidence about their attitudes and behaviour , the trade union officials have been viewed by some as a force for moderation and conservatism , by others as faithfully reflecting the views of their members , and by others as industrially and politically more militant than the members . |
| 4 | Furthermore , a course in Britain may be regarded by some as a reward for senior staff , whilst a course in the south would attract only those appropriate for it . |
| 5 | Some of the consequences for this group include over 120 spontaneous leukaemias during the next 50 years and an increased risk of genetic disorders in future generations ( Anspaugh et al. , 1988 ) . |
| 6 | Talk about examples ( from their own experience or from their reading ) of changes in word use and meaning over time , and about some of the reasons for these changes , eg technological developments , euphemism , contact with other languages , fashion . |
| 7 | Some of the reasons for this — the difficulty of deciding on appropriate proxy variables and on economical yet non-biasing temporal and spatial sampling frameworks , taking account of the relative importance of aperiodic and rare events as compared to near-continuous processes , processing the vast volumes of data usually involved and organizing the multidisciplinary and ( often ) multinational researchers involved — are discussed briefly later . |
| 8 | Some of the reasons for the use of bank finance were provided , and how banks seek to secure their positions through guarantees or a project 's expected future income was considered . |
| 9 | The lesson was very strictly controlled although it began with lots of open questioning which stimulated the class to decide where Rome should be founded and some of the reasons for its being in that position . |
| 10 | Some of the reasons for this are : |
| 11 | Some of the reasons for the caring so often falling on the shoulders of a woman may be unavoidable . |
| 12 | I can see something of the sort as I look over my own published attempts to describe and account for the peaceful way of life followed by the Semai , and I think I can also see some of the reasons for it . |
| 13 | While the audience is n't completely shut out , with much material pre-programmed , some of the reasons for offering the songs live are redundant . |
| 14 | In this chapter I want , first of all , to outline some of the reasons for believing that different types of animal have different types of brain , and second , to discuss ways of getting round some of the difficulties created when we want to make extrapolations between species . |
| 15 | This chapter will attempt to determine some of the reasons for this state of affairs and then will go on to suggest ways in which teachers can overcome these problems . |
| 16 | Some of the reasons for these misconceptions will become apparent in a moment . |
| 17 | In what follows , I propose to examine some of the reasons for this , without going into a detailed exegetical discussion of the theories concerned , my purpose being merely to establish a sufficient platform for a phenomenological analysis , which is to follow . |
| 18 | In this chapter we will attempt to examine some of the reasons for the continued use of custodial sentences . |
| 19 | Some of the reasons for this have already been mentioned , but there are others as well and the whole lot may be summarised as follows : |
| 20 | Doubtless the slow ‘ stately ’ motion of Jupiter in its orbit and its brightness were some of the reasons for which the Romans gave to this planet the name Jupiter , the Roman king of the gods . |
| 21 | Listed below are some of the reasons for choosing a career as a solicitor in this area . |
| 22 | What I want to suggest is that far from representing a glorification of a golden age , confident and stable in its social organisation , The Faerie Queene exemplifies a very uneasy social and cultural fabric and I want to indicate some of the reasons for that unease . |
| 23 | English departments in secondary schools should take some of the responsibility for preparing pupils for such purposes of spoken language in public life by providing firm foundations on which they will be able to build as adults with increasing maturity and experience . |
| 24 | The thought of entering the disaster area of an elderly widow 's grief and shouldering some of the responsibility for helping her to bear it , and to rebuild what is left of her life , is enough to create feelings of anxiety in anyone ; and admittedly this can be a very difficult assignment , for not only will you be well aware that you are unable to give her the one thing she really wants — the return of her husband — but you will feel , as we all do when faced with the bereaved , that their personality seems suddenly to have been crushed like a flower under the heel of a vandal , showing it to be so fragile and vulnerable that almost any attempt to revive it would seem to be doomed to failure . |
| 25 | We also believe that Duncan should bear some of the responsibility for his wife 's death by being stripped of his army officer job . |
| 26 | Some of the responsibility for resolving these complications falls on the shoulders of the law 's chief sponsor , Ben Nighthorse Campbell , a northern Cheyenne Jeweller from Colorado and the only Indian member of the United States Congress . |
| 27 | Twenty four respondents stated that they delegated some of the responsibility for house officer teaching to other junior medical staff and to ward sisters . |
| 28 | Some people put some of the responsibility for the growing youth unemployment on educational inadequacies , giving sustenance to the Manpower Services Commission 's bid to control low-level post-school education . |
| 29 | In Darcy 's Utopia parents will have some reassurance in the fact that at least the neighbours thought they were fit to rear children : some of the responsibility for failure , should failure there be , will rest with the community . |
| 30 | They assessed that the BCP leadership was interested in opposition participation in government only in order to demonstrate Bulgaria 's commitment to democratic reform to Western bodies which might offer financial support , and to burden the opposition with some of the responsibility for tackling the current economic crisis , but that the BCP in practice would still retain control of all the levers of power . |