Example sentences of "some [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be clipped classical , random cottage , modern high-tech , or some intensely personal vision of Byzantium , that no one has ever imagined before , but which exists in your head and wants to get out . |
| 2 | In order to understand the extent and nature of that change one has to generate some analytically useful framework . |
| 3 | It is essentially peaceful and when some rather fussy penitent told his father confessor that he could find nowhere in London where he could meditate in quiet and peace , he was astonished to hear the caustic answer : ‘ Have you tried Marylebone , my son ? ’ |
| 4 | As we have had some rather rough news in the past few weeks , it is a real shot in the arm and the country will be grateful for the announcement . |
| 5 | ‘ I have some rather good jewellery ’ ( and it was as if somewhere among her assortment of boxes was a very special one — but there was not — a mysterious Ali Baba store of necklaces , bracelets , rings , even a tiara ) ; ‘ I do n't think my insurers would be very pleased to know that a window was left open at night . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ And the Tyrian has some rather good wine . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ The song would be a dance track with her and Richard doing some rather ridiculous duetting , and me and Rob being rather groovy in the background . ’ |
| 8 | No doubt he used some rather choice language about this hypothesis of his . |
| 9 | The grand old name of Burke 's Peerage could soon appear on some rather surprising household items . |
| 10 | Now I would say to you , without fear or favour , that the only people recruited in that period of my appointment that I would not of had in the Pathfinder Force were people that came in through some rather dubious trap-door . |
| 11 | And I was going to consult you , but really Algeria is a long way away , and you never seem to be in Paris … so , yes , I sold some rather boring stock that was as safe as Fort Knox and about as immobile , and invested in de Chavigny . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , I 've got some rather astounding news for you , Gilly . ’ |
| 13 | First of all there 's personal interest , secondly there 's class interest thirdly there 's rather amusingly some mean feeling in his own mind , so he has the idea that people might just be rather grumpy or something when they 're going to cast their , their vote and go to some rather destructive policy . |
| 14 | When the outcome of such influence is some rather high-spirited behaviour no great harm is done but unfortunately peer pressure has also led in many instances to experimentation with alcohol , drugs and glue-sniffing . |
| 15 | ‘ I know you t-told me not to p-propose again and I p-promised , but I h-had some rather b-bad news today . |
| 16 | Ian had some rather nice animal ones — ’ |
| 17 | More cups of coffee , and some rather satisfying talk about the state of Britain . |
| 18 | So Mains did gain the reputation of being some rather grim eminence locked in his southern castle and given to humourless comment about the rugby matters of the day . |
| 19 | When I quoted the study back at him , he resorted to some rather irrelevant quotation about the youth training scheme , in an attempt to fend off my criticisms . |
| 20 | My predecessor as librarian did , I admit , go in for some rather unpleasant stuff towards which I have no inclination , but being a libertarian I 'm certainly not going to act as censor . |
| 21 | This injured swan is about to receive some rather unorthodox treatment . |
| 22 | After he had separated from her mother and when she was away at boarding-school , he would drive down to visit her , often accompanied by some rather mature page-boy in jeans or a mini-skirt and Molly would sit with them in silence at an endless tea in the local Trusthouse Forte . |
| 23 | Thank you chair , erm many of you will perhaps know that the health authority did some pioneering work looking at different standard mortality ratios in different wards in Oxfordshire , and came up with some rather disturbing evidence that some of the wards had significantly higher incidents of death for people primarily in the forty-five to sixty-four age range than others , and Phil and myself wish to continue that work by targeting those wards with a range of measures designed to alleviate some of those health inequalities . |
| 24 | Penny almost forgot about poor Kelpie during Pow-wow , for Brownie Owl had some rather startling news for the Pack . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm afraid I 've just had some rather bad news . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've checked and rechecked , ’ the girl told her , almost apologetically , ‘ but I 'm afraid I have some rather bad news for you … ’ |
| 27 | Some rather fundamental reform of the international monetary system would have been inevitable even without the deterioration in the US balance of payments at the end of the 1960s . |
| 28 | The energy balance diagram , Fig. 21.16 , shows that over the region where the production is high the other important term is the dissipation ; the remaining terms in eqn ( 19.22 ) are much less significant ( apart from some rather complicated transfer processes very close the wall ) . |
| 29 | I get the impression he has had some rather unwelcome news . |
| 30 | If you do n't you will get some most peculiar error messages . |