Example sentences of "to some [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Manufacturers can no longer charge according to some idea of ‘ value ’ but must compete on price and performance . |
| 2 | Thus , during treatment there are visits to some meetings of appropriate Anonymous Fellowships outside the treatment centre so that there is preparation for long-term commitment to recovery through the Anonymous Fellowships . |
| 3 | His success led to some intimacy with the Indians , who told him that a vast sea lay off to the west — a sea , and a land , infinitely rich in gold . |
| 4 | The indisposition of the 8F led to some speculation by passengers on the Cambrian Limited , last Sunday , that the Standard 4 No 75069 would fulfil the Red Rose roster in place of No 8233 . |
| 5 | The share of demand for natural gas should rise to some 17% by the year 2000 . |
| 6 | Often a priority given to some activity in this police hierarchy of meaning has been laid down from a constable 's first days as a probationer and now lies beneath the immediate consciousness , so that any calls for a change in direction of police response may well be defeated by an unspoken semantic value which the institution gives to that activity . |
| 7 | It 's been a good four years for me to lay low , because they 've changed the stuff so many times and they now seem to be getting down to some conclusions about MIDI and stuff . |
| 8 | Helen had gone to some lengths over the picnic ; the recipe book included a relevant section , she discovered . |
| 9 | The people who set the standards are no longer the older generation , the people who have lived their lives and come to some judgement on what life is all about . |
| 10 | Subsequent investigations have led to some revisions of Gilbert 's original findings and it is now thought by some researchers that the laccoliths radiate from central discordant intrusions known as stocks ( Fig. 5.17 ) . |
| 11 | Mr. Whitaker also referred me to some passages in the speeches of Viscount Finlay and Lord Dunedin in Weld-Blundell v. Stephens [ 1920 ] A.C. 956 , 966–968 , 976 . |
| 12 | Slipper of the Yard objected to some passages in Delano 's book but did not resort to litigation . |
| 13 | He was shown my television script and took objection to some passages in that also Some amendments were made , not entirely to his satisfaction but certainly to the satisfaction of the BBC 's legal department , since the thumbs-up was then given for the production to go ahead . |
| 14 | In Swedish manufacturing industry , workplace bargaining is conducted by the workplace union organisations ( 'works clubs ' ) which are sub-organisations of the branches of national unions ( in contrast to some industries in Britain especially during the 1950s and 1960s workplace unionism is incorporated into the formal union organisation , although the bargaining which it conducts has a somewhat more restricted range of subject matter ) . |
| 15 | In Swedish manufacturing industry , workplace bargaining is conducted by the workplace union organisations ( 'works clubs ' ) which are sub-organisations of the branches of national unions ( in contrast to some industries in Britain especially during the 1950s and 1960s workplace unionism is incorporated into the formal union organisation , although the bargaining which it conducts has a somewhat more restricted range of subject matter ) . |
| 16 | Along with the island 's hydro-electric scheme — bringing power to some houses for the first time — and the harbour improvements , the incident will probably go down in Shetland annals as another stage in Foula 's modernisation . |
| 17 | The collective community charge applies to some houses in multiple occupation , some lodging houses and some hostels . |
| 18 | Here Mike Brogden admits to some concern about the quality process being seen as the evolutionary , gradual improvement of everything . |
| 19 | Locke aroused considerable controversy with his suggestion that ‘ since we know not wherein thinking consists ’ , it may be , for all we know , that nothing more than matter is necessary for thought , and that God might have ‘ given to some systems of matter fitly disposed , a power to perceive and think ’ . |
| 20 | I think we must have both picked it up during a visit to some relatives in Piercebridge . |
| 21 | The first is that a human observer has more or less direct access to some properties of the external world insofar as those properties are recorded by the brain in the act of seeing . |
| 22 | Parents are more responsive to some characteristics of their children than to others , and also to some stages of their development than to others . |
| 23 | This idea has been applied to the African Plate which , according to some analyses of plate motions , appears to have been almost stationary with respect to the underlying asthenosphere for the past 25–35 Ma . |
| 24 | Later research by Sundborg ( 1956 ) on the river Klarälven , also in Sweden , led to some modification of the relationships produced by Hjulstrøm . |
| 25 | However , insofar as the theories that make up our scientific knowledge are fallible and incomplete , the guidance that theories offer as to what observations are relevant to some phenomenon under investigation may be misleading , and may result in some important factors being overlooked . |
| 26 | Wallace and Cross ( 1990 ) suggest that young people in the 1990s are no longer setters of trends but ‘ have become to some objects of pity and concern ’ ( Wallace and Cross 1990 : 7 ) , more vulnerable and dependent than in the recent past . |
| 27 | However , if health authorities differ in their priorities and make provision for that health care which they consider to be a priority , then Type I systems can mean that residents of different health authorities find access to some forms of health care even more unequal than at present . |
| 28 | While the News International ban and the consequent judicial review effectively closed the door to some forms of library censorship , Section 28 seems likely to push librarians towards censorship in several areas of service , including book displays , exhibitions , and reading lists . |
| 29 | Irrespective of the means provided to bring automatic roof vents and sprinkler systems into operations , automatic fire detection able to sense the presence of a smouldering fire may be important to reduce damage to some forms of goods if the premises are to be at any time unoccupied . |
| 30 | Certain schools of thought hold , for instance , that the ancient Greek art of ‘ pankration ’ , brought to China by the invading armies of Alexander the Great , along with the martial art of Graeco-Roman wrestling , gave birth to some forms of kung fu . |