Example sentences of "it [vb -s] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since history affects people 's decisions , it plays some part in producing future history . |
| 2 | Sir Kenneth Newman — then commandant — suggests that the book 's claim to attention is that its contents are contributed by insiders ; while in their introduction , the authors claim it goes some way to challenging Holdaway 's claim ( 1979 ) that ‘ research from the Police Staff College has not resulted in a major project on the police ’ . |
| 3 | If this is correct , it goes some way towards dealing with cases of ‘ cumulative provocation ’ , and towards a broader defence of emotional pressure . |
| 4 | Surely a forlorn ambition , but it goes some way to explain , what would otherwise be so difficult to understand , why eminent members of the nascent |
| 5 | Most of the old great Elf towns date from this period and it goes some way towards accounting for their remoteness . |
| 6 | All this formed a background to the first century of crusading ; and it goes some way to explaining the more secular aspects of the magnetism which drew French knights to take up the cross in their thousands . |
| 7 | It probably means that the average family is a much more relaxed affair than the traditional Scottish household used to be , but it goes some way towards explaining the numbers of children at risk in our society from adults outside the home , as well as from their own undisciplined emotions . |
| 8 | Research also suggests it discourages some people from re-offending . |
| 9 | In recent years , however , the canine colon has become a standard model for colonic motility studies and , although it displays some kinds of contractile activity not seen in man , it has been useful for investigating neuropharmacological interactions . |
| 10 | In the second place , it involves some intention to maintain that control on the part of the possessor . |
| 11 | However , it thinks some kind of contact will be forged over time and expects a port to the company 's DRS6000 Unix box to materialise in the not too distant future . |
| 12 | Although the valley looks an uncomfortable place to spend the night , it offers some protection from the wind . |
| 13 | This is a positive horizontal externality created by one retailer on others ; in attempting to gain a greater margin for itself , it drives some custom away . |
| 14 | An amino acid is a chemical sub-unit of a protein , and ultimately everything that happens in a cell it produces some kind of protein , so you can see that erm the triplet or produces erm which is one of the , one of the er amino acids and so on and there are also punctuation marks U A A or U A G means stop , as does U G A , so when , when a R N A template running through a gets to a sequence which reads , where was it now , U A A it stops reading because it knows it 's got to the end of the gene . |
| 15 | Secondly , there are a number of different types of situation where there is missing information : either the recogniser produces no candidates for a letter string , or it produces some candidates . |
| 16 | It incorporates some knowledge , to wit the algorithm itself , but no more . |
| 17 | But it needs some kind of explanation . |
| 18 | It needs some sort of collective arrangement on exchange rates . |
| 19 | But it needs some encouragement to port to Unix and substitute it for the server , rather than OS/2 . |
| 20 | But the company believes that it has some products it can sell new , notably software for diagnosing faults in computers . |
| 21 | Although this second method is the more complicated to administer and requires that we have at least a rough idea of the size of the primary sampling units , it has some advantages that become obvious when we recall that several primaries are generally sampled : |
| 22 | It has some bits from Case IH , some from David Brown . |
| 23 | While there are obviously problems in developing and using this type of notional scale it has some utility . |
| 24 | Involved in the idea is the injecting of emotion into the relationship so that it has some substance and the subject and object are linked by feeling . |
| 25 | It has some effects , not obviously related , on coughing ( for which it is a useful suppressant ) and on the bowels ( where it causes inconvenient constipation ) . |
| 26 | Insofar as municipal systems set limits to the use of force and punish at least some of those guilty of crimes of violence it has some success as law and an undisputed claim to be regarded as law for as long as the officials of the system pursue these objectives by taking steps against non-compliance ( Hart , 1961 , pp. 79–88 and 213ff . ) . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , IXI says it has some deals in its back pocket to put X.desktop on Destiny for some of the USL OEMs — ICL being a likely candidate — see page five . |
| 28 | By the time that you have battled against the wind to get there , you may find that it has some hazard that you could not see from a distance , and then there may be no other good field within reach . |
| 29 | It can provide a precis only where the topic is something that it knows about , so that it has some sense of what conceptual relationships to expect in the story . |
| 30 | In that it has some support from the International Monetary Fund , whose managing director has urged the G7 to come up with at least $5 billion or $6 billion in special funding for Russia this year for such projects , as well as for Russian companies restructuring their operations and for further reform in such key areas as energy . |