Example sentences of "some [noun pl] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some cities a relative plethora of doctors and rapid urbanisation have led to a boom in private medical practice , which now provides a substantial amount of curative care for the inhabitants , including the poor ( p 673 ) . |
| 2 | Some times a whole period is spent looking at a ladybird . |
| 3 | In some cases a pre-existing centre , which already possessed an economic role , will have been incorporated into the new system and perhaps attracted other functions as well . |
| 4 | In some cases a Stipendiary Magistrate sits . |
| 5 | Second , in many communities where it was treasured at the most sophisticated level it was an exotic , even in some cases a mysterious substance , only to be secured from a distance . |
| 6 | There is no future in raising subscriptions to a point where we are faced with a genuine reluctance , and in some cases a real inability , to pay . |
| 7 | Therefore one major trend in rural public transport studies has been a move away from ‘ behavioural ’ to ‘ need ’ studies and in some cases a joint approach . |
| 8 | They fear they could lay themselves open to prosecution for murder or manslaughter — or in some cases a civil action for damages — if they disconnect a feeding tube without court permission . |
| 9 | Neighbours who were unwary enough to let the Misses Lovelock look after the chickens in their absence rarely found any eggs awaiting them on their return , and in some cases a plump chicken had died . |
| 10 | It is now common for printers , particularly quick print outlets to employ an artist or in some cases a creative team . |
| 11 | Partly in response to these feelings , the planners generally showed great interest in , and in some cases a considerable amount of use of , the online information services . |
| 12 | In some cases a single aerial serves a block of flats or a valley area where off-air reception is poor . |
| 13 | I find that about 5 per cent of the students I teach are never able to overcome this difficulty ( even though they may have perfect hearing and in some cases a high level of linguistic and musical ability ) ; of the remainder , a few are especially gifted and can not understand how anyone could find the task difficult , and most others eventually learn after five or ten hours of practical classes . |
| 14 | ‘ Reading Primo Levi ’ is in some respects a strong essay . |
| 15 | Yet what had previously been an alternative tendency within the general social order , and in some respects a central tendency within the rising industrial bourgeoisie , was now , in this crisis , shifted into an oppositional tendency . |
| 16 | I am suggesting that within the one is the other — in some respects a Chinese Box would have provided a better diagram than a polarisation continuum , although it would have been difficult to decide which box should be on the outside . |
| 17 | Under Ordinance 12 of 1840 forest land was declared the property of the Crown , and in some districts a large proportion of it was sold for plantation development . |
| 18 | The matter of sexually abusive language in texts is in some senses a separate issue . |
| 19 | In some countries a large majority of the electorate do not even exercise the right to vote . |
| 20 | In some circumstances a better curve for countering an apparent concavity of form can be a very flat cycloid , like a five centred arch . |
| 21 | Under some circumstances a face-to-face interaction is preferred but , in others , for a variety of different reasons , the individual may prefer to conduct his transaction in writing . |
| 22 | ( a ) Specializing , as in the cases of sustaining or promoting work in a particular medium or branch of an art , and in some circumstances a particular style ; |
| 23 | In some circumstances a hand-held urinal or a commode may make life easier . |
| 24 | Firstly , they show that the pattern of villages and hamlets seen on the map today is incomplete and that , contrary to earlier ideas about medieval settlement , in some areas a large number of former sites has disappeared . |
| 25 | There has been for some years a basic agreement that the parliamentary salary should be sufficient to prevent MPs feeling the need to seek supplementary income . |
| 26 | In some years a high proportion of the birds involved are adult males . |
| 27 | In some insects a flexible plate or prostheca , fringed with hairs , is present on the inner border of the mandible . |
| 28 | Our forests also have some interesting trails , but in some places a strong person is needed to push the chair . |
| 29 | This is a marvellous example of how the new sociological dimension was giving some films a new prestige and a new relevance and thereby gaining Hollywood new friends . |
| 30 | ( There is in some machines a lower level called microcode but this need not concern us here . ) |