Example sentences of "of some [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a consequence , the complexity of some teachers ' classroom organization appeared to greatly increase the proportion of the time during which children were distracted , awaiting attention or working only sporadically . |
| 2 | It was an exchange they had had a hundred times during childhood at the end of some day 's adventure in remote fields . |
| 3 | This tendency in their poetry is not far removed from the ‘ incarnational ’ quality of some women 's poetry in the century . |
| 4 | There also arrived a strong deputation from the DHSS : the Minister of State , now of much greater fame , Dr David Owen ; the Permanent Under-Secretary , Sir Patrick Nairne , and Barbara 's most trusted right-hand man , a beardless youth , then recently the president of some students ' association , named Jack Straw , with whom I had occasion to cross swords later . |
| 5 | Thus perhaps the fact that a number of legal cases have been brought is indicative of some parents ' resistance to the subservient , rather than partnership , role which some say they are forced to assume by the Act ( regardless of exhortations to LEAs to extend parental involvement ) . |
| 6 | Drake has whistling flight note , ‘ sostmieu ’ , not unlike sound of some ducks ' wing-beats ; duck has a laughing quack , ‘ ak-ak-ak … |
| 7 | There are statutory provisions as to civil liability in the case of children born disabled , in consequence of some person 's fault , in the Congenital Disabilities ( Civil Liability ) Act 1976 . |
| 8 | Alleymen , roaring boys , the dregs of some commissioner 's levy ! |
| 9 | I thought he had probably made an arrangement with a brothel-keeper , and sometimes I pictured him clinging to the branch of a tree peering in the darkness through the window of some schoolgirls ' dormitory . |
| 10 | Parsons recognizes that in Western industrial society ‘ There will be certain tendencies to arrogance on the part of some winners and to resentment and to a ‘ sour grapes ’ attitude on the part of some losers ' . |
| 11 | ‘ Jumping out of some tart 's bedroom window , I suppose . |
| 12 | I WAS impressed by Billy McKenna 's powerful article , ‘ Pushing up the daffodils in Brazil ’ and horrified — even as an Amnesty International member of some years ' standing — to read of the brutality meted out to Antonio Gilvan da Cruz and others . |
| 13 | My name is Mr , I am an ordinary shareholder of some years ' standing . |
| 14 | At the back of some people 's minds lurk fears that their region may one day become an island universe again . |
| 15 | Erm , I think at the back of some people 's minds there was this pressure , you know that 's why a few did return to work and I mean I can understand some of them returning to work but not necessarily for the reasons they 've stated . |
| 16 | You can very often er for instance at Cheshire very often I mean there were sort of some people 's wives would like to do it . |
| 17 | Sooner or later therefore the goodness of personal affection depends upon the existence of someone 's appreciation of some object 's beauty . |
| 18 | For example , you might want to take a country record and copy the inflections of some singer 's voice ; doing that will give you something completely new . |
| 19 | They will not get it into their heads that what the military wants is military information , not the phone number of some general 's girlfriend . |
| 20 | On stage , short sight is a positive advantage and many is the flowery eulogy some of our more sensitive critics have launched into , in praise of some actress 's misty gaze into the middle distance which could be more truthfully ascribed to her horn-rims being confined to the dressing-room table , having failed to match her farthingale . |