Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lonely place , though the porter caused some light comedy with his staggering and drunken curses , stopping every so often to wave Ranulf on , urging him to hold the lantern horn higher . |
| 2 | ‘ At the same time , the midfield was overrun in the second half and the defence made some horrendous errors . |
| 3 | But the defence accused some of the teenagers of conspiring against foster parents , Norman and Evelyn Roberts , of Gwalchmai , Anglesey , and of planning to share any compensation Mr Jones might receive . |
| 4 | At the TUC conference , which was intended by its chairman , David Basnett , to be a pre-election rally , the premier displayed some unwonted frivolity , singing an old music-hall song about ‘ There she was , waiting at the church ’ . |
| 5 | Suppose we are interested in deafness defined as the inability to hear some standard sound through headphones . |
| 6 | Others — pilgrims , itinerants , beggars , hawkers — used the station because they could find there light , water , security from robbers , as well as the opportunity to earn some money . |
| 7 | A once-weekly trip gave them the opportunity to earn some ‘ pin money ’ and secure a change of scene from their relatively monotonous round . |
| 8 | The presentations of the results followed the same format as last year and journalists invited to Blackfriars were given the opportunity to sample some of the own brand products introduced into stores in 1992/93 . |
| 9 | The Exhibition celebrated Museums Year and also gave the opportunity to display some of the County 's resources . |
| 10 | When Christine Osborne travelled 4,348 kilometers across Australia on the Indian-Pacific she met some down-to-earth characters and had the opportunity to see some of the country 's most remote mining centres . |
| 11 | We decided we ought to give people the opportunity to see some of the water meadow . |
| 12 | After explaining his love of art , he gave the police the opportunity to see some classic paintings for themselves by directing them to his parent 's house in Lyons where they recovered the Renoir and several other works . |
| 13 | from 's Group Information Services department at Ipswich took the opportunity to spend some time in the USA 18 months ago , when he went to in Kansas to set up an Information Technology department . |
| 14 | The bar was quiet and he was taking the opportunity to do some washing up . |
| 15 | Each item he retrieved was examined with great care , and he took the opportunity to do some elementary housekeeping by discarding unwanted minutiae of his life . |
| 16 | I recently visited my relatives in Morecambe and took the opportunity to do some fell walking in the Lakes . |
| 17 | Having the opportunity to do some work from home is of great assistance providing me with extra flexibility to help balance and organise my professional and domestic commitments . ’ |
| 18 | During the war Britain had provided the European lead and because of its wartime role was believed to have the reasons and the opportunity to effect some kind of unity . |
| 19 | ‘ I received a fairly general grounding in articles , including the opportunity to undertake some commercial work . |
| 20 | A debate might allow the Opposition the opportunity to withdraw some of their more outrageous allegations about those reforms . |
| 21 | In particular , they should give pupils the opportunity to gain some experience of the works of Shakespeare . |
| 22 | In particular , they should give pupils the opportunity to gain some experience of the works of Shakespeare . |
| 23 | It was to be a very full weekend of well organised and highly enlightening meetings ; the opportunity to hear some excellent speakers : and the chance to renew old friendships and make new ones . |
| 24 | You may yet have the opportunity to find some incontrovertible evidence that will crack the case . ’ |
| 25 | The most important incentives for Field Chairs are thus the opportunity to exercise some control over the educational context within which their subject is taught ; the challenge of defending the interests of their discipline ; the opportunity to develop expert knowledge of the course structure and regulations through participation in debate ; and the advantage of administrative experience for career development . |
| 26 | There are great dangers in the royal family speaking out because I have a memory of the nineteen seventy nine , just prior to the devolution bill in the referendum in Scotland , when the Queen spoke out against devolution , now she in , in effect denied a large number of Scots the opportunity to have some sort of Scottish Parliament based here , and we probably would n't , I think , be debating this subject today , if in fact we 'd got that eleven years ago . |
| 27 | There 's a moment before the traffic and travel news now for me to remind you that erm if you 're the chairman or the secretary or whatever it happens to be of a particular group whether it be erm the local amateur dramatics society or er a North Yorkshire charity and you 'd like the opportunity to have some prime time publicity for what you 're doing , particularly in the run-up to the Christmas period |
| 28 | Once in the hides , sentries had been posted to protect the company positions , and many of the men took the opportunity to get some rest , if only for a few minutes . |
| 29 | I very much appreciated the opportunity to meet some of the hon. Gentleman 's constituents in a delegation . |
| 30 | I hope , then , that this report on those who matriculated in 1966 will give some of us the opportunity to renew some of those special friendships — formed at a peculiarly impressionable time of our lives — with those with whom we have failed to keep in touch . |