Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [verb] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A core programme , coupled with an opportunity to spend some time in the patient area of their choice , is most likely to meet the needs of the individual . |
| 2 | Get the children to take their autograph book as there should be an opportunity to do some celebrity spotting . |
| 3 | Later you are going to have an opportunity to do some writing similar to the pieces you have heard , however , if you have been fidgeting and not concentrating , you wo n't know what to do big boys . |
| 4 | The course is broadly based on the disciplines relevant to business studies but also offers an opportunity to undertake some specialization in the final year . |
| 5 | In addition , most of the courses include a period of placement with employers , which enables students to relate their studies to real-world problems , as well as affording them an opportunity to gain some experience of dealing with these problems . |
| 6 | Work experience for teachers will help them to plan work experience for students as an integrated part of the curriculum rather than an add-on to provide some relief for the teacher but of little advantage to the student and an inconvenience for business . |
| 7 | In an attempt to generate some sort of political movement , Paisley led the DUP into a United Unionist Action Council with the remnant of Craig 's Vanguard ( now called the United Ulster Unionist Movement and led by Ernest Baird ) , the paramilitaries , and smaller groups such as the Down Orange Welfare and the Special Constabulary Association ; in effect , the 1974 strike leadership without the Official Unionists . |
| 8 | In this respect many commentators interpreted the President 's desire for immediate talks as an attempt to regain some control over the budgetary process by reaching a bipartisan agreement before further congressional action . |
| 9 | In an attempt to restore some threat on goal , the Portuguese have recalled to the squad Antonio Pacheco , billed as ‘ a speedy winger ’ , and Antonio Sousa , billed as ‘ a free-kick specialist ’ . |
| 10 | The SERC 's action , announced to 100 professors and heads of departments of physics at a meeting last Friday at Imperial College , London , is an attempt to stimulate some sense of direction among the majority of academic physicists who work in neither astronomy nor nuclear physics . |
| 11 | It is , perhaps , possible that the office was created in an attempt to impose some organization on the traditionally unorganized function of that the Mufti was one whose opinion was in some way considered superior to that of other muftis and who , perhaps , was responsible for the appointment of lesser muftis . |
| 12 | ‘ She traded with them in an attempt to bring some prosperity to the region — ‘ |
| 13 | In an attempt to bring some order to this crazy world , two consortiums have been formed . |
| 14 | At first Joshua took an interest in their route , peering into the gathering darkness in an attempt to identify some landmark . |
| 15 | Instead Taylor and his players must wait for 10 weeks to build on the foundations laid against the Turks — but , in an attempt to maintain some continuity , Taylor is planning an unscheduled pre-Christmas get-together . |
| 16 | Bryan Wilson ( 1970 ) has contributed some very useful sub-divisions of the sect category and various sociologists have tried to classify the new religions that have emerged during the second half of the present century in an attempt to find some order in the enormous variety of beliefs , practices and organisations that are manifested in these movements ( eg Beckford , 1985 ; Wallis , 1983 ) . |
| 17 | ‘ Do n't overestimate your … effect on me , ’ she muttered in an attempt to salvage some pride . |
| 18 | London is miserable , rain and boredom and I have been drinking steadily in an attempt to instil some gaiety into my apathetic mind … |
| 19 | The Women For Socialism Conference was an attempt to build some kind of an alliance or unity between left Labour women and women outside organising in Women 's groups across a fairly broad spectrum and it did n't succeed in the totality of its aims certainly . |
| 20 | Although there was an attempt to introduce some competition for BT , this has been limited due to the natural monopoly position of parts of the telecommunications industry . |
| 21 | Goodison Park manager Howard Kendall has turned to Elland Road 's surplus England international in an attempt to inject some goalscoring potential to his midfield . |
| 22 | I had taken to finishing off the flat beer left in cans by the members of Norris 's itinerant card school after its frequent visits chez nous , and was seriously considering starting to steal from bookshops in an attempt to raise some cash . |
| 23 | Visits to Hungary and Czechoslovakia by Soares in late 1989 indicated an intention to acquire some influence in the transformed Eastern Europe and to seize fresh economic opportunities . |
| 24 | All experience showed that an attack had some prospect of success only if it had numerical superiority in a ratio of at least 3 : 1 . |
| 25 | In an effort to restore some pride , and also to help pull their motor industry out of its depression , the Italians introduced the Mille Miglia . |
| 26 | Chiefs were debating the terms of the proposed treaty in an effort to reach some compromise , but neither group would yield . |
| 27 | In the taxi , while he was dropping her at her small house in Fulham , she made an effort to regain some inch of the indispensable contact she had squandered , but there seemed no way of doing it . |
| 28 | Following the Glanville Davies debacle , The Law Society completely revamped its complaints machinery in an effort to regain some credibility with the public . |
| 29 | The Bok selectors do , however , seem to have made an effort to add some pace to the back row in the form of Pretorius and Richter , both of whom showed well when Northern Transvaal produced comfortably the best provincial performance of the Antipodean tours to take the Wallabies to the wire . |
| 30 | We eventually went to the Austrian Police in an effort to get some assistance and , as good fortune would have it , we met it young Austrian called Thomas who worked at one of the Shipping Offices on the border . |