Example sentences of "some [vb base] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The duke and his close associates saw this small office as ‘ some mean to treat those folks who Club together and are disposed to believe that I 'm incompatible wt them ’ . |
| 2 | Some involve tapping one key , and the rest require one key to be held down while another is tapped . |
| 3 | Some hope to provide one kind of course with the intention of killing the two proverbial birds with one stone . |
| 4 | The phase-out has been brought forward , some believe to curb potential unrest prior to the 1992 elections . |
| 5 | Generally , companies can not do much to help , although some try to employ relocated employees ' spouses or inform them of job vacancies in other firms in the area . |
| 6 | Some try to keep some manna overnight early in the week . |
| 7 | No single world currency exists ( or is ever likely to exist ) to facilitate trade and financial flows although some do perform monetary functions outside their national boundaries . |
| 8 | Some come to study other societies . |
| 9 | Once an infection takes hold it is difficult for antibiotics to destroy all the bacteria , so some survive to start more trouble later . |
| 10 | Instead of lengthening their bodies , like the caecilians , they have shortened it , their vertebrae having become fused together , and far from losing their legs , they have developed them enormously , and some have become prodigious leapers . |
| 11 | ‘ After a longer period , donors and patients sometimes meet and some have become great friends . ’ |
| 12 | Some have become true friends , and I have spent several weekends away because of their thoughtfulness . |
| 13 | As a consequence some have suffered irreversible damage to their health . |
| 14 | Some have formulated flat-rate charges for certain services and many continue to do so . |
| 15 | No other country has pursued gas-cooled reactors so seriously , and though some have maintained indigenous designs , notably Canada and the Soviet Union , as many others have shifted to the most popular water-cooled model . |
| 16 | Some have received large capital grants to improve their buildings , while others have been able to put to good use the money which would normally be spent on local authority overheads . |
| 17 | Of sympatric species , those flowering together deposit pollen on different parts of the bat body , thus avoiding interspecific pollination , and some have staggered flowering times . |
| 18 | Although some have done this display before , the tension 's been building up all week . |
| 19 | Most reviews concern departmental activities , although some have examined cross-departmental work ( such as government forms and property management ) . |
| 20 | Some have developed lusty connections with industries of one sort or another , and some have developed special international relationships . |
| 21 | Some have proposed other reasons for Planet X , blaming it for causing periodic comet showers and mass extinctions on Earth , or for stealing Pluto from Neptune and reversing the motion of Neptune 's satellite Triton . |
| 22 | Many men buffeted by fortune will reach retirement prematurely ; some have had great success to be followed by even greater failure . |
| 23 | Some of us have found the jobs we sought ; some have found renewed enthusiasm and enhanced skills for the search ; others are even now joining to take advantage of an organisation that is getting into its stride for greater efforts : but all of us send our very sincere thanks to all who have helped us when we needed them . |
| 24 | Some have found considerable levels of cross-class marriage in the nineteenth century ( Penn , 1985 ) and we might speculate that the concentration of female employment in the office brings women from diverse backgrounds together and blurs class lines as people seek partners . |
| 25 | Though they lack a shell , they are not entirely defenceless , for some have acquired secondhand weapons . |