Example sentences of "of some [noun pl] ['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 | This tendency in their poetry is not far removed from the ‘ incarnational ’ quality of some women 's poetry in the century . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | Drake has whistling flight note , ‘ sostmieu ’ , not unlike sound of some ducks ' wing-beats ; duck has a laughing quack , ‘ ak-ak-ak … |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ' . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | My name is Mr , I am an ordinary shareholder of some years ' standing . |