Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlikely though it may sound it kicks with some ferocity . |
| 2 | Unlikely though it may sound it kicks with some ferocity . |
| 3 | It goes with some people wanting to kick my head in . |
| 4 | Henry Cobham , Sir Robert Cecil and Sir John Popham , who had ordered the report , further informed the two men " … it seemeth by some purport made unto us , that eight Kibles of God 's gift and Conistone Oares should make a quintall of Copper , and in matter of experiment in the worke , it appeareth that tenn Kibles or more doe but make a quintall of Copper , you are therefore to informe your Selves the best you can how many Kibles of the Oare now gotten at Gods gift , and Coniston will yield a Quintall of Copper , what the particular charges will amount unto , of making the said Quintall . |
| 5 | It looks as if it belongs in some fairy-tale . ’ |
| 6 | It lays down standards for the media programme within the school , in terms of the provision of skilled personnel and plentiful materials in appropriate surrounds ; it specifies in some detail the media programme for the " school district " ( the American equivalent of the local education authority ) in similar terms of personnel , materials and distribution . |
| 7 | The Ghost of Banquo is more than a figment of Macbeth 's imagination : it stands in some way in relation to his conscience . |
| 8 | It looks like some kind of mollusc , but no mollusc fits easily into this pattern of growth ; various people have suggested it might be some kind of snail , or perhaps a monoplacophoran ( see p. 76 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ It looks like some kind of begging-letter . |
| 10 | Normally , these bubbles ( or vesicles ) are only a few millimetres across and quite thinly scattered , but sometimes , if the lava has been particularly gas rich , the rock is so honeycombed with large bubbles that it looks like some kinds of Swiss cheese ; more holes than solid . |
| 11 | It looks like some people going into the park lately . |
| 12 | I , my interest lies particularly I think in the kind of erm popular fiction written in America between the wars , though it has to some extent carried on since World War Two . |
| 13 | It has for some time been considered a most urgent need to extricate mentally handicapped children from long-stay hospitals and stop their admission to them , and there has , as a result , been a sharp fall in the numbers of mentally handicapped children in hospitals . |
| 14 | By far the most popular location in recent years has been the Netherlands , for the very good reason that it has for some time offered by far the best deal . |
| 15 | The twentieth century has seen the growth of a considerable literature on management as an acquired skill and it has for some time been possible to obtain academic management qualifications . |
| 16 | The outcome of these changes is that the drug bill is rising faster than it has for some years and above the rate of inflation . |
| 17 | It has for some years been established beyond doubt that Elisabeth used her long period as custodian of her brother 's works and papers ( during which time she wrote and rewrote his biography , as well as overseeing the editing of his works ) to misrepresent important aspects of his life and thought and , in extreme cases , to falsify letters and unpublished writings . |
| 18 | The North Berwick line enjoys a spectacular claim to fame because it has at some time or other in its history been powered by every possible form of motive power ; horse , steam , diesel and electricity . |
| 19 | " Since it matters to some extent ( and perhaps a good deal ) which rule is chosen , we do best to use convention only to protect decisions that some responsible political institution has actually taken on the merits and to not include under that umbrella decisions by default , that is decisions no one has actually made . |
| 20 | It depends on some friends of mine . |
| 21 | As with shortsight , diabetes , epilepsy and many other diseases or conditions , it happens in some people but not in others . |
| 22 | It shows to some extent the City was tied up with the erm issue of whether or not the structure plan should include a major exception to or indeed a strategic exception to policy . |
| 23 | There are four essentially different things a process can do on its first step : ( i ) it diverges ; ( ii ) it communicates with its environment ( and goes on to its second step ) ; ( iii ) it stops because , even though it has not terminated , it can not agree with its environment on any communication ; ( iv ) it terminates in some state . |
| 24 | If it amounts to some sort of ‘ machine privacy ’ , is that at all suggestive for the question of consciousness ? |
| 25 | Although it grows to some 20cm in the wild it rarely achieves even half that size in the aquarium . |
| 26 | It responds to some stimuli by dynamic modification or ‘ plasticity ’ ; and once induced , this neuroplasticity may sustain and magnify the experience of pain . |
| 27 | By way of illustration , Table 7.2 shows how it applies to some brands in the men 's toiletry field . |
| 28 | Yeah perhaps , I , I know that it applies to some people . |
| 29 | Second , where there is a reference to time , for instance the past reference of former in ( 36 ) , it does not apply to the putative referent of the noun phrase , who still lives ; nor does it apply to the intensional entity , which is still available to any speaker of the sentence ; rather it applies in some way to the status of the property inherent in the noun ( king , in this example ) . |
| 30 | My argument here with Dennett is that if he intends interpretations ( a ) or ( b ) ( a textual quotation here would be beside the point , since these distinctions are not made in his paper in that form ) , then those are inferior explications of consciousness to a process one in terms of level : ( b ) because it lacks the ‘ unity ’ requirement , and ( a ) because , although it could meet all the necessary conditions set out earlier , it seems in some way arbitrary , just as did Minsky 's supreme organizing module . |