Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children may find it easy to read a straightforward narrative text but may , for example , have difficulty with broken unity , with a mixture of everyday reality and magic , or with a text requiring some understanding of historical chronology . |
| 2 | Typically , you use an analysis or description of a text to claim some kind of connection between the features analysed and something else about the text , such as its meaning , its effect on a reader , how good it is , or its historical origins . |
| 3 | Gaybours everybody needs a gaybour get some money for petrol I 'll be round the town later on |
| 4 | Occasionally a horse starts some form of undesirable behaviour , such as putting its tongue over the bit , due to anxiety alone , and without it having been hurt ; but we still have to cure the anxiety to prevent the unwanted behaviour developing into a habit . |
| 5 | A trainer may frequently have to change a preconceived way of educating a horse to avoid some problem or bad habit that he or she ‘ senses ’ will arise . |
| 6 | What a prank to capture some upstart tech gang member , or some undercity riff-raff , and throw him into the heat sink itself to slide or tumble or simply fall free , down , down , tens of kilometres down into the inferno . |
| 7 | ‘ When a mathematician proves some proposition you had not known , he accomplishes no more than a man who discloses the contents of a casket … by opening it up . ’ |
| 8 | This brings some benefits through musical cross-fertilisation between the cathedral and the wider community , but the cathedral does not always get the full benefit of one who is employed to do what is commonly regarded as a full-time job , and this at a time when the Church needs from its organists not only the highest musical expertise but also liturgical knowledge and a readiness to take some part in the running of the cathedral . |
| 9 | Likewise , a command enjoining some action which was logically impossible , or which had already been carried out , or a lie that through ignorance on the part of the perpetrator turned out to be objectively true , can both be considered defective through the lack of a canonical trait . |
| 10 | He has been watching a number of wingers in the last three months in a bid to add some firepower to his team , who have scored only 31 goals in 31 League games this season . |
| 11 | The examination is a collection of questions and individually a question goes some way to satisfying the requirements of the examination . |
| 12 | In another area , he had long cherished a dream to provide some sort of community service for young people in this country . |
| 13 | Being a lesbian requires some shifting away from sexual conformity , but this does not mean we necessarily question other ‘ sexual norms ’ . |
| 14 | As Maggie became more settled , and ate and slept better , Phoebe 's own health and energy returned , and with it a determination to get some sort of job and pay for her own keep . |
| 15 | Consequently , relations between African countries and international companies were for twenty years characterized by a battle to take some degree of national control . |
| 16 | He seemed to be split into three clear elements , all of them aching with good intent and a longing to sound some clarion call not to hold back . |
| 17 | Indeed , one of the main factors leading to the demise of classical behaviourism was the discovery that animals can learn a motor behaviour — which way to run in a maze to get some food — without the need for either associative learning or overt trial-and-error experimentation . |
| 18 | The sooner she made a move to get some kind of official recognition , the better . |
| 19 | A PAC is a group representing some interest such as labour or more specifically abortion or gun control . |
| 20 | After being taken over by the Catuvellauni they had a right to expect some restoration of their territories . |
| 21 | We will have a different attitude , we 'll bear to watch what is happening in competitive tendering and to ask questions and to get the right the facts on competitive tendering because we found a lot of these round the competitive tendering do n't you , do n't you worry and we ai n't finished with it yet I can tell you and also we have ev , the people who are , the in house , walking in the house , have a right to have some protection from it , to see that when we dole out those contracts that it least they are genuine and they 've got a someone to see that that their interest is looked after . |
| 22 | I would expect the causes to be physical and psychological ; overwork , the ennui of middle age , or a need to find some meaning to existence . |
| 23 | None the less , the sense of a need to provide some kind of discourse on literary quality is evident from the earliest issues of the journal . |
| 24 | Born out of a need to have some form of remote means to neutralise a device , it has been developed throughout the present campaign to its current form , the Mark 8 . |
| 25 | Although the guidebook says it 's E2 5c , this is the kind of climb where a grade lacking some type of ‘ stomach shuffle component means it is n't that relevant . |
| 26 | In between Dance Energy series , he 's been making demo tapes , with the aim of securing a record deal some time in the future . |
| 27 | And she had a wa , hell of a job to get some money from them ! |
| 28 | Several publicly-controlled groups have already signalled a desire to unwind some state shareholdings , and the new prime minister is likely to raise fewer objections than the interventionist Cresson . |
| 29 | Telling the truth about something is an action , caused , like all actions , by a combination of desire and belief : in this case , of a desire to tell some truth and a belief about what the relevant truth is . |
| 30 | Not an easy tongue to master at such short notice , but she had always felt it was a basic courtesy for a tourist to make some attempt , however feeble , to communicate in the tongue of the host country . |