Example sentences of "some [noun pl] [conj] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are some signs that the three patterns are becoming less distinct . |
| 2 | I will deal with three central issues : the desire for an English national tradition , the belief of Dr F. R. Leavis and his followers that the study of literature promotes moral sensitivity , and the claim by some post-structuralists that the privileged status accorded to ‘ great ’ literature reflects an unacceptable ideology . |
| 3 | Throughout the debate , shortfall has been defined as the gap between fees charged by some homes and the maximum level of income support which we will pay for different categories of persons in those homes . |
| 4 | The archbishop could delay and immensely complicate matters , but his appeal to Rome in August 1297 had been barred , his excommunication of violators was countered by a writ of prohibition , his resolution was isolated by the alarmist fears of some clergy and the divided loyalties of others , especially those who were the king 's servants ; above all , Boniface VIII 's temporizing in France suggested that no archbishop henceforth could rely on papal support . |
| 5 | A single order may not be sufficient for this latter aim , and it is advisable to go back to the shelves some months after the new stock has reached them and decide whether a further order is necessary . |
| 6 | Timman unleashed some tactics and the watching grandmasters switched their allegiance . |
| 7 | Additionally , his father 's side of the family were very enthusiastic adherents of the British Empire and in addition to their being ( as Leonard preferred to call them ) ‘ gentlemen of Hebrew persuasion , ’ they were perhaps more British in some respects than the British themselves , recalling what Hugh MacLennan said in his superb novel of the period , The Two Solitudes : ‘ The French are Frencher than France and the English are more British than England ever dared to be . ’ |
| 8 | It presupposes a reasonable belief in the existence of some other reasons for which consent is valid in some circumstances and the misled person 's mistaken belief that these reasons apply to his case . |
| 9 | Until recently this has been a rare occurrence , but increasingly local authorities are devising strategies to involve parents in case conferences , despite professional reluctance in some areas and the genuine problems that this poses . |
| 10 | Home working is a possibility in some areas and the successful applicant may be eligible for a company car . |
| 11 | However progress was made in some areas and the latter part of the year saw much effort to integrate the management contracting activity within WCUK regions which is now essentially complete . |
| 12 | Otherwise the London Boroughs are now multipurpose authorities , reviving hopes amongst some observers that the large towns of England and Wales might one day regain their ‘ county borough ’ status , leaving the county councils free to pursue their former traditional , more rural , role in collaboration with the small parish , town and community councils . |
| 13 | We have been aware for some years that the relational model and relational database systems have not been able to represent some real-world concepts and activities , and there have been many papers and conferences devoted to the study of extensions and refinements to the original model of Codd ( 1970 ) . |
| 14 | It was , however , to be some years before the broad outlines of his findings were accepted . |
| 15 | Where there were examples of co-residence , the joint household had been established some years before the elderly person needed physical care , and a number of these households had been created by the younger generation(s) moving in with the parent , not the other way round . |
| 16 | She had been a somewhat delicate woman for some years and the long and Perilous sea voyage to Australia had taken its toll . |
| 17 | There is a tradition , traceable only to some anecdotes published by the Rev. W. Coxe in 1799 that the Handel harpsichord was given , with some manuscripts and the Roubiliac bust , to that notable Handel enthusiast George III . |
| 18 | Some universities and the Labour party have expressed concern that the privatisation of BTG might damage the exploitation of UK technology and harm academics , trust in the company . |
| 19 | The need for the movies to preach was very evident in some films but the vast majority of films reflected the styles and themes that movies people were working out for themselves in alliance with their audience as a whole . |
| 20 | During the discussions of the draft Convention it was argued by some delegates that the Central Authority should have a double task , acting as a transmitting or forwarding agency as well as receiving requests from abroad , but their opinion did not prevail . |
| 21 | Even so , if there are two of you working together an ordinary garden spade or even a shovel can be used by one man to fill in some holes while the other man uses the graft or long spade on a new excavation . |
| 22 | Although texts devoted to the human impact ( e.g. Goudie , 1981b ; Gregory and Walling 1979 ) and those devoted to branches of physical geography have not yet emphasized urban physical geography , claims have been made by some writers that the urban environment is sufficiently distinctive to warrant attention as a specific milieu . |
| 23 | Increased rates of spinal bone loss have been reported in some patients and the average spinal bone loss was 3%/yr . |
| 24 | Therefore both courses could have induced a response in some patients and the double transaminase peak could thus be indicative of early and late responders . |
| 25 | When we came to the moat , we stopped near some trees and the six men hid there with the horses . |
| 26 | Monica , Tweed 's close associate for many years , sat at her desk , her head bent over some files while the two men talked . |
| 27 | No treatment will eliminate the organisms , but some therapies or the natural course of the infection can be associated with improvements in symptoms . |
| 28 | Feelings were being expressed freely in some quarters that the whole matter had been one of ‘ revenge ’ for support shown to the W family after eight children from the family of fifteen had been taken away three months before . |
| 29 | Ten years later , in 1935 , the year of McDougall 's retirement another attempt at explanation was made in that year 's annual report : In view of the fact that there appears to be a feeling in some quarters that the British Deaf and Dumb Association has outlived its usefulness the executive committee desires to make the position clear by the following statement : The British Deaf and Dumb Association is the oldest National Organisation for the Deaf in the country . |
| 30 | Time to move on , maybe , to search for some answers before the whole thing comes down around my ears . |