Example sentences of "it [vb -s] some [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 In recent years , however , the canine colon has become a standard model for colonic motility studies and , although it displays some kinds of contractile activity not seen in man , it has been useful for investigating neuropharmacological interactions .
2 However , it thinks some kind of contact will be forged over time and expects a port to the company 's DRS6000 Unix box to materialise in the not too distant future .
3 An amino acid is a chemical sub-unit of a protein , and ultimately everything that happens in a cell it produces some kind of protein , so you can see that erm the triplet or produces erm which is one of the , one of the er amino acids and so on and there are also punctuation marks U A A or U A G means stop , as does U G A , so when , when a R N A template running through a gets to a sequence which reads , where was it now , U A A it stops reading because it knows it 's got to the end of the gene .
4 But it needs some kind of explanation .
5 It needs some sort of collective arrangement on exchange rates .
6 It can provide a precis only where the topic is something that it knows about , so that it has some sense of what conceptual relationships to expect in the story .
7 ‘ The fact that it has some kind of playful relationship with Birmingham is something with which readers of my novels can easily cope .
8 The gardener wo n't like it , but I 'll say it has some kind of disease — ’
9 MANY people believe that the Royal Navy is referred to as the Senior Service because it has some sort of superiority to the Army , but the term was not even heard before the 17th Century .
10 It must be likely that in due course a parent company in the UK will be legally responsible for the debts of at least its wholly owned subsidiaries unless , perhaps , it files some sort of public disclaimer .
11 The present situation , therefore , even though it allows some fudging of extraordinary items , must be far from perfect from Mr Damant 's point of view .
12 If it possesses some sort of strength — physical , chemical or armoured — it can face up boldly to its enemies and defy them .
13 So the idea is you have some kind of token so that er , classic example in sort of junior schools , primary schools , that y'know if a child actually does what you want it to do , it gets a kind of star in a star chart and added up so many stars it gets some kind of present and basically the same kind of thing can be applied in clinical and in occupational settings as well .
14 it lacks some capabilities of Microsoft Works .
15 It takes some sort of public document for people to get you out of a rut . ‘
16 But it fastens some sort of cohabitation rule upon them .
17 Taboo is a Polynesian word , and it means some kind of supernatural law or prohibition which you infringe at your supernatural peril .
18 Secondly , it implies some notion of rationality and explicability ( Dearden et al .
19 Section 5.4 is more interesting , however , in that it gives some indication of the problem that false positives could cause even if LA succeeded in accessing all the intended words .
20 It suits some members of the multidisciplinary mental health team , including some doctors , to underplay the importance of these skills .
21 In the context of this chapter , however , it is particularly important to deal with the corporatist perspective on the politics of organised interests since it provides some kind of challenge to the pluralist perspective ( even though pluralism and corporatism share a number of basic assumptions ) , and it fleshes out elements of the left critique of pluralism ( even though much corporatist theory is hostile to a Marxist theory of the capitalist state ) .
22 With its direct start , it provides some 210m of varied climbing on perfect , blocky granite .
23 As he said , it makes some criticism of the European dimension , but in paragraph 8 headed ’ Europe ’ it also says : ’ While local government structure in the UK can not be determined by the nature of European structural funds and the case for regional authorities with power over service delivery has not been made out , the European dimension must nonetheless be considered in the longer term . ’
24 If music is like a language , if it communicates some kind of emotional or spiritual message , then noise is best defined as interference , something which blocks transmission , jams the code , prevents sense being made .
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