Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , this definition does in practice cause some problems . |
| 2 | However , at a board meeting the Chairman has supported JR 's suggestion that , as a preliminary measure , the accounts department should in future have some control over the acceptance of sales orders . |
| 3 | The link was put in place to provide some stability at a time of political turbulence in the British colony . |
| 4 | This is because when there is an actionable nuisance the law provides a legal remedy by way of injunction or damages and this it is not prepared to do in respect of every odour found to be annoying or objectionable ; neither would it be practicable especially since odours are notoriously subjective in nature affecting some individuals and not others and causing a variety of symptoms . |
| 5 | He carried a bronze-bladed spear and a heavy Saxon long sword , which he had won in forest combat some years before . |
| 6 | Most managers in business spend some time learning communication skills , so that they and their staff can understand each other — and keep their customers happy . |
| 7 | Honesty and secrecy seldom go hand-in-hand , and it may be that the example of open discussion and fair play in education has some lessons for the world of sport . |
| 8 | Er but again y'know I could in theory provide some handouts for you which you could perhaps pick up at the end of the er of the lecture from the front or even have available in a general office for you , okay ? |
| 9 | I suppose this just goes to show that all treatment currently in use have some benefit but no one treatment is significantly better than all the others . |
| 10 | The next step up in size has some examples which are still going strong two centuries later . |
| 11 | That ordinary belief in turn gives some support , to say no more , to theories of determinism pertaining to our choices and actions : theories whose burden is that we in our lives are a matter of such connections . |
| 12 | The resulting figure will give the quantity of bullion minted , and this figure will in turn allow some attempt to quantify the cash element of state budgets and to approach questions of money supply ( and so , possibly , liquidity ) . |
| 13 | Palace 's recent turnaround in form gives some cause for optimism that their relegation fears will recede in the New Year , but if Howard Wilkinson 's men continue to falter they could find themselves being unthinkably dragged into the mire . |
| 14 | All of the boards actively involved in training practised some form of activity as a whole group , generally within a board meetings . |
| 15 | On Saturday there will be a Photographer 's Evening with suitably arranged exhibits and locos in steam to provide some atmosphere of the appropriate kind . |
| 16 | It follows that it is at least possible in principle to regard some versions of positivism and some versions of natural law as tending towards a middle position on my spectrum . |
| 17 | China has recently joined the NPT and agreed in principle to observe some limits on its missile sales . |
| 18 | Clearly , in order to save some money , the carousel has been set up in downtown Oslo , about ten kilometres away . |
| 19 | Then you dissect the results in order to draw some conclusions for taking countermeasures . |
| 20 | In order to give some structure to the discussion , each of the major social services will be examined under three headings : access , i.e. geographical distribution of social services ; use , i.e. the extent to which different groups make use of services ; and outcome , i.e. the benefit derived from the use of services . |
| 21 | After the meal , Drago told them that he had recently completed a new instrument and that at midnight he and his colleagues were planning to play together , in order to invoke some ghosts . |
| 22 | They are presented in order to illustrate some similarities and differences in the way the Cockcroft recommendations are being interpreted in relation to assessment and are not intended as a review of all the initiatives currently being undertaken . |
| 23 | Before you start trying to watch home movies on your PC , remember that although Microsoft is kind enough to include a very basic multi media player and recorder ( both illustrated ) as part of the standard Windows desktop , in order to go some way towards true multi media you need a few more things : a windows multi media extension , a CD-ROM drive , a sound card and probably a new monitor , not to mention that faster machine you 've been promising yourself . |
| 24 | In addition , in order to deduce some prediction the validity of which is to be experimentally tested it will be necessary to add initial conditions such as a description of the experimental set-up . |
| 25 | We also carried out a number of follow-up interviews with respondents and non-respondents in order to explore some issues further . |
| 26 | But for our purposes we can say that corporatism involves cooperative arrangements between government and non-governmental groups or institutions under which the latter , either in return for some benefit or in order to avoid some disadvantage , agree to act in a way which will further government policy . |
| 27 | With intended communication , the communicator wants to be that part of the environment to which the receiver is paying attention and also to design what is attended to — in order to produce some effect . |
| 28 | In order to gain some idea of the adequacy of the diet , I asked several people from poor families outside how much rice they ate and whether they would find the prison food acceptable . |
| 29 | Spreadsheets have typically adopted these commands in order to gain some foothold in the market . |
| 30 | It should develop the kind of informal evaluation that teachers normally engage in , in order to gain some feedback on their practice . |