Example sentences of "some [prep] [art] [noun pl] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the speculations have been extremely silly — and this is not to talk solely of the outpourings of the more sensationalist flying-saucer fans and their ‘ little green men ’ . |
| 2 | It was dark and some of the merchants had lit the lantern-horns outside their doors , whilst Athelstan glimpsed the beacon light shining red and full in the steeple of St Mary Le Bow . |
| 3 | We can conjecture that some of the slaves had bought themselves to serfdom ; that penury had compelled the free to sell their freedom for bread . |
| 4 | It seems franchising has a garland of white heather and four-leaved clover but some of the operations have rabbits feet wearing horseshoes as well . |
| 5 | Some of the consequences have been absurd . |
| 6 | ‘ The scientists of the Empire who were responsible for examining your world from space concluded that some of the races had been altered , either deliberately or as a result of the radiation which poisoned every continent . ’ |
| 7 | Some of the stallholders had made an effort for the carnival . |
| 8 | By now some of the cousins had children of their own — the pullulating Hepplewhite swarm had leapt to another branch . |
| 9 | " Surrrrlllyee-noloan ! " might have been the echo 's echo but an extremely-dirty-white-coloured Con-dis-corde melted through the flesh of my left ear lobe on its path to a tasty dish of stewed pound notes , and some of the cooks had chartered it to make sure it got there so I did n't receive the echo 's echo . |
| 10 | Some of the doormen had criminal convictions and a history of violence . |
| 11 | Some of the landlords had reduced or cancelled the rents this year ; but his , a near-bankrupt squireen in a mouldering mansion with half its roof gone , could afford no abatement . |
| 12 | Some of the farms have been split up into smallholdings . |
| 13 | After the first clash , when the crowd was halted in front of the police cordon , some of the women had argued with the police and told them that they too were victims of the ‘ system ’ . |
| 14 | Oh yes I enjoyed it very much but erm we had American visitors around and we had one a Captain and I 'm afraid we all fell for him cos he seemed such a handsome man and he 'd been a hero in the war , and he was engaged to , then to the then president of America 's daughter , so they informed us but erm I do n't know whether it was the truth , that 's what they , they said but of course some of the , some of the things had to be cast , the bodies had to be cast and they were , they were I do n't know whether you 'd have heard of the Orritor |
| 15 | Please have a think you know have a think about some of the things have a look out if you get out anywhere tonight watching people when they 're together just watch them any ideas that you have tomorrow we 'll start off with the first ten minutes just going over some of the things we talked about this evening . |
| 16 | Some of the things have got famous names some have n't . |
| 17 | Some kind of realism is important whether the movie itself is ‘ realistic ’ in reflecting the real world more or less as we perceive it or believe that other people do , or whether it is clearly a fantasy of some kind , set in the future or the distant past or another galaxy or in a present where some of the rules have been changed or abolished , eg time travel is possible , robot androids pass for human , most of the population are zombies , animals speak English , people mix with cartoon characters , or what you will . |
| 18 | Her adherence to some of the beliefs has been inspired by and is to that extent under some pressure not amounting to undue pressure from her mother . |
| 19 | Secondly , some of the faunas have not yet been dated accurately , and we must allow a tolerance of +-l — 5 million years for each one that is known , although we can work on the assumption that two faunas that have several animals in common are of about the same antiquity . |
| 20 | This time some of the constants have a different sign and the analysis suggests that each such homoclinic orbit will remove a strange invariant set of periodic orbits and trajectories from the system . |
| 21 | There is no doubt that in earlier years Clarkson 's relations with some of the Claphamites had occasionally been strained . |
| 22 | Some of the prisoners had been to parties in the German Kommandantur . |
| 23 | The next day Signor Merli came to the bank , ostensibly on business , and whispered to me that some of the prisoners had decided to leave their hiding places and strike out across the Via Emilia towards the high Apennines . |
| 24 | Some of the treatments have dramatic side-effects . |
| 25 | But some of the headmasters have a deliberate multi-denominational policy in terms of ethos and curriculum and the schools do provide multi-denominational settings which , if researched , could throw light on debates about denominational and shared schools . |
| 26 | Instead of waiting to be salvaged , some of the inhabitants had got together in an effort to cheer things up , and , so far as I could gather from the film , they were busying themselves pasting pieces of brightly coloured plastic over broken windows . |
| 27 | Swimming : Some of the hotels have their own pools ; the lake is excellent for bathing . |
| 28 | Some of the favelas have been knocked down , but there still remains the problem of shelter for their inhabitants . |
| 29 | Fifteen-year-olds are playing against lads a year older , the under 16s play in the under 19s , while some of the 17-year-olds have been playing in the Midland League for our reserves . |
| 30 | As it happens we got that shipment delivered eventually though some of the perishables had gone off . |