Example sentences of "some [adj] [noun sg] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He noticed too that for the first time since he had arrived at the Cages there was a total silence , as if all the eagles , and all the imprisoned creatures thereabout had instinctively understood that this old eagle 's troubled painful words marked an end to a terrible life ; and perhaps in some strange way the beginning of something none dared hope might come to pass . |
| 2 | Yet in some strange way the bird seemed to have affected the easy relationship that had previously existed between them and , in trying to analyse her own feelings , Lucy knew that she now felt shy and rather embarrassed . |
| 3 | In some strange way the thought of her arrival had become an intangible shield which protected her from making an idiot of herself . |
| 4 | For some strange reason the image of the corpse of Nicola Sharpe floated up in his mind , and it brought with it a breath of foreboding , a sense that he was in the presence of evil . |
| 5 | But in some odd way the decision no longer seemed to be in his hands . |
| 6 | In the bottom of the bag place some pond-mud , some fine washed gravel or some washed sand- the layer should be about 2 cm deep . |
| 7 | It was in 1927 for example that Kenneth Macpherson speculated whether those early film audiences had not just been distracted and drawn mindlessly from the streets but rather it might have been a case of ‘ the people getting in some dim way the fact that there was something under their eyes , a sense of life and expectancy ’ . |
| 8 | As we have seen Kenneth Macpherson had felt that the earlier films had been awful but nevertheless he suspected that ‘ the people got in some dim way the fact that here was something growing under their eyes ’ , that the movies had ‘ a sense of life and expectancy ’ . |
| 9 | Well , in the nick of time they realized that all that Anna was wailing about was some French floozy the prince was n't even particularly attached to ( a crony of Anna 's , a censorious old toad who lived in hotels and got everything half wrong , had spilt the beans to her ) . |
| 10 | Evolution must surely have seen to it that a good proportion of our thoughts are true of the world , and so in some simple sense the mind must perform computations which record the world and direct our behaviour appropriately . |
| 11 | Threaten the old man and take the letter , or even the sack and the bicycle ; he would remember what deliveries he had yet to make , and after some simple detective-work the word would go out and Forester 's certificate would be useless . |
| 12 | Instead of writing a story in which , say , at some crucial point the detective realises that the gun beside the corpse is not the one that fired the fatal shot , you will be writing a story in which the detective will perhaps realise that the theory of the murder being motivated by greed can not be correct because the suspect has been found unexpectedly to be secretly most generous . |
| 13 | Due to some mechanical fault the driver did not think that the northbound unit would make it to Crewe and he would endeavour to coast it back to Swansea . |
| 14 | Ghandi , I think , in the early eighties epitomised , to a large degree , and attitude of concern about erm violence , and I think that in some large measure the sort of recognition that it gained , particularly in the awards and so on , had a lot to do with its subject matter as against it 's actual execution , and I think that if it had been at another time , or if the subject matter had n't been erm quite as powerful as that old genius 's life was , I do n't think it would have won the awards . |
| 15 | By some optical illusion the vapour appears always to flow towards the observer ; as one moves around the cube the flow rotates to follow one , like the eyes of the Gioconda . |
| 16 | In the July 1952 issue of Essays in Criticism a young academic , John Peter , offered " A New Interpretation of the Waste Land " , the gist of which he summarized thus : " At some previous time the speaker has fallen completely — perhaps the right word is irretrievably — in love . |
| 17 | Was it just electrical power — hence the staggering sight of all the massed Glories — or was it more to do with some human power the Worm had absorbed in its long sojourn under Monument Hill ? |
| 18 | These techniques can be considered to alter in some predetermined fashion the way in which the image is presented to the viewer . |
| 19 | According to Mrs Baldwin , whose account was more immediate , the words were : ‘ Sir , this is a very grave decision and I am deeply grieved ’ ; but the significant difference is that she adds : ‘ and he went on to tell him that according to some legal opinion the divorce ought not to have been granted , that there were certain aspects of it that in any ordinary case would not have gone through . ’ |
| 20 | Such anthropological theories are linked to the catharsis theory , whereby it is held that through some dramatic experience the individual ( or group ) sheds itself of pent-up , potentially destructive , emotions to emerge cleansed and ready to deal with daily life in a harmonious manner . |
| 21 | The tribunal is not restricted to evidence acceptable in a court of law ; provided that it has some probative value the court will not reassess its weight . |
| 22 | For some considerable time the stone provided a ceremonial seat for the inauguration of High Kings of Ireland until one of them , Fergus MacErc , became ruler of the new kingdom of Dalriada in Argyll , and took the stone with him to the fortress of Dunadd . |
| 23 | I failed to realise for some considerable time the importance of commitment from the top down . |
| 24 | Of course , if by some atmospheric freak the wind and its turbulence should fail , it will simply revert to a normal parachute , delivering its burden safely back to the ground . |
| 25 | If — and it was a megalithic if , but I supposed we should consider every possible option now we were at it — if , in some weird way the Ghost and her voice really did exist , then as soon as she 'd got over her disappointment , she would have to admit she 'd been defeated fair and square , and would just have to honour the deal and flit off back to heaven or wherever it was she lived now . |
| 26 | The big news of the day , he said , though for some inexplicable reason the Guardian ignored it , concerned the lovers who had bonked in a British Rail platform photo booth . |
| 27 | For some unfathomable reason the Haute Police had been displeased , pointing out that his orders had simply been to keep the men under observation and report on their activities . |
| 28 | And in the most final sense of all , to be arrested while fighting opposing supporters may be felt as a way of conveying to the management by means of some psychic process the nature of the ‘ really genuine supporter ’ , and the character of his identification . |
| 29 | In some Christian doctrine the flesh is the source of evil and the soul or mind is elevated as the moral agent with behavioural choice . |
| 30 | Having already been through some significant change the company is therefore well placed to face the likely ‘ upheaval ’ of the following year or so . |