Example sentences of "some [noun pl] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was further felt that in some cases the lowest tender tended to gain the contract at the expense of better quality work because of the financial restrictions the Housing Executive Board have allowed to be placed on them . |
| 2 | However , this première recording , made before the ink was scarcely dry on the paper , strikes me as in some ways the best ever . |
| 3 | Growing herbs at random throughout a garden is in some ways the best arrangement — it is , after all , the way in which they would grow naturally — and species and varieties will be found that are happy on the rock garden , by the water , in bedding schemes , or as underplantings to tall perennials , shrubs and trees . |
| 4 | But Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction and in some ways the easiest to attack . |
| 5 | Upland moors , in some ways the wildest of all our habitats , are threatened as never before — over 30 square miles of heather moor has been lost from the North Yorkshire moors since the war ; on Dartmoor less than 3,500 acres of moorland remains ; in Galloway , The Borders and Northumberland vast tracts of land , once farmland and open moor , now grow solid , dense plantations of alien conifers — and every year much more is targeted for afforestation . |