Example sentences of "and [noun sg] [prep] some [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , I had intervened in a wrangle which had been going on in the pages of Time and Tide over some articles Eliot had written . |
| 2 | In the twentieth century , the advent of a ‘ consumer culture ’ and of mass communications has given questions about self and identity a peculiar intensity and difficulty in some respects . |
| 3 | The Asda cash will be used to cut debts to about £100 million and allow the revamping and relocation of some stores . |
| 4 | Obviously , this kind of system allows opportunities for abuses and oppression of some prisoners by others . |
| 5 | It emerged that she had suffered from mild diarrhoea and wind for some years , but had not thought it worth bothering the doctor about these minor problems . |
| 6 | The president said he had decided to go public because criticism and disbelief from some countries and influential commentators had threatened the republic 's commercial nuclear programme . |
| 7 | Clearly , resource factors can influence the balance of theory and practice in some subjects , but other responses indicated that ‘ internal ’ subject factors and student preferences may be important also : |
| 8 | Your government did n't have any courage then to back up it 's own man , and force through some changes , and so I do n't know what your policy is , it seems to change every couple of years . |
| 9 | The recommended sites are : Guy's/St Thomas 's , Royal London , UCH/Middlesex , the Hammersmith ( with links to Charing Cross and maintenance of some services at St Mary 's ) , and St George 's . |
| 10 | When they are made , they are almost invariably subject to mistrust and misunderstanding by some sections of the community . |
| 11 | Now , as at all times , habitable dry land is being destroyed by subsidence and erosion in some regions , while it is being produced by sediment consolidation , lava eruption and elevationary earthquake action in others . |
| 12 | Increasing the focus and shortening the intervention certainly would improve practice and outcome for some clients as the Reid and Shyne ( 1969 ) experiments showed , but for others it would be ineffective and irrelevant to their needs . |
| 13 | Local residents have been pressing for action to curb the speed and behaviour of some drivers . |
| 14 | Time inevitably brought situations where a clear-cut distinction was not possible , and behaviour of some kinds would have no effect on the development of the Created God . |
| 15 | Competition can be a spur to some pupils and fun in some activities , but the individual 's improvement of his own levels of attainment should be seen to be what really matters and be the most evident cause of encouragement . |
| 16 | Although the initial allocation of function and content to some packages will be necessarily vague , their very existence nevertheless provides an invaluable framework for the many specialists working on the project . |
| 17 | The oceans cushion , too , against extremes of temperature , which on land range globally from -126°C ( recorded in Antarctica ) to +58°C ( one day in Libya ) ; and may vary between day and night in some deserts from little above 0°C , to more than 40 . |
| 18 | Add to this , expensive new headquarters developed as property prices tumbled , government intervention , a threat to its monopoly position and criticism from some customers and you have a difficult brew to drink . |
| 19 | I would suggest that , leaving aside permanence achieved by return home to the child 's natural parents , relatives or close friends , and permanence in some cases achieved by residential care ( and I think we should look very carefully at the work of the Children 's Family Trust and at the Ockenden Venture , where results are extremely promising ) , there are sixteen different routes to achieving permanent family placement with substitute families . |
| 20 | The incident provided excitement and argument for some weeks in Huaiwiri , and much work for Salah Muhammad , even though the girls of the first cohort were nearing the end of their course . |
| 21 | This paper approaches the topic by examining the motivations , functions , and impact of some aspects of commercial law in market economies , or at least economies moving in that direction . |
| 22 | He said that in spite of gloom and doom in some quarters about falling markets for offshore structures , a healthy number of projects were being proposed for approval and exploration success rates in the North Sea remained high . |
| 23 | Even after his death Roeder recorded that his Exhibitions were continued by his wife and daughter for some years , when , as Wilson remarks , his etching could be got almost paper-cheap . |
| 24 | As the project progressed , it was also harder to find schools which fitted the original criteria for Minors , e.g. one library division had been fortunate in finding Majors , but began to find it difficult to identify , for Minor recommendation , " schools which have had a degree of interest and success for some years " . |
| 25 | To ensure a good quality of life elderly people in residential care continue to need the opportunity to exercise autonomy , independence and choice in some areas . |
| 26 | The growing interest in German and Japanese in some parts of the world and the fact that the US looks likely to have more Spanish speakers than Anglophones some time in the next century may have an impact eventually . |
| 27 | It did for a time seem to explain the trajectories of development and underdevelopment in some countries of Latin America , but when it was applied to Africa and Asia it was much less successful . |
| 28 | In respect of the extent of enumeration and location of some topics , the sixteenth edition reverted to the fourteenth . |
| 29 | The advance and subsequent retreat of the ice sheets , through their concomitant fall and rise in sea level , must have caused extinction and recolonisation in some areas : separation and reunion of populations in others ( Cambridge and Kitching , 1982 ) . |
| 30 | views with concern the suggestions that there remains racial discrimination and anti-semitism in some areas of the administration of criminal justice ; and |