Example sentences of "a [noun sg] for some " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has n't been a prince for some years . |
| 2 | Is there indeed a case for some form of national track authority in place of six regions ? |
| 3 | What they each gained separately was a greater individual confidence and capacity for self-determination as women , and each of them fed that confidence back into a variety of struggles to change the position of women , and in the case of the majority of women in that particular group , to a struggle for some kind of socialism . |
| 4 | Since many parents were miserable at being separated from their offspring and it would be a struggle for some to pay money for their misery , they finally decided to have them home again . |
| 5 | They gave me a cheque for some stuff , but Keith just wanted to spend it and did n't really think about what he was buying . |
| 6 | I had a cheque for some thirteen hundred pounds raised by the local branch of National body , a body like Round Table , although it was n't Round Table , it was another body like that , and that will buy thirteen houses in Everland in Southern India . |
| 7 | I know she became somewhat lonely because her husband , although he was a very hard worker , would go off on a spree for some days at a time . |
| 8 | He pays £14 wages to a temp for some typing . |
| 9 | The scientists would tell them it actually lasted for three milli-seconds , but the human retina retains such a flash for some seconds afterwards . |
| 10 | ‘ My time was being taken up by people asking me either to find them a folly or a buyer for some extraordinary building , ’ says Gwyn . |
| 11 | Practical problems , such as the lack of exporting systems and expertise in the East will , however , continue to be a difficulty for some time to come . |
| 12 | I know , I think after Christmas I 'm gon na go and have a look for some dresses and you see when it was an ordinary colour I was gon na have ivory but now it 's this colour I think i 'll be better having having white , I do n't know . |
| 13 | It is a privilege enjoyed by everyone in this country but because the library profession has a responsibility for some considerable part of the provision of and access to literature and information , there is a heightened obligation for the library profession in the UK to resist censorship with a much greater collective and individual will than it has tended to show in the past . |
| 14 | In so far as this book is a plea for some measure of reform in the priority given to sexual considerations in social work cases , public attitudes must be seen as creating obstacles . |
| 15 | Yes , when I came to think of it , he 'd had a cough for some time . |
| 16 | Emily felt a flash of irritation , she had insisted that the shoemaker 's daughter take the boots away to be soled and heeled and at the same time she 'd had a fitting for some new slippers . |
| 17 | This building was totally destroyed , and the deaf of Weymouth were without a club for some months . |
| 18 | ‘ We have been involved in such a partnership for some years now and the fact that many governors have been accompanied by their head teachers today is an indication of how successful it has been , ’ he added . |
| 19 | Science Practical Skills ( × ½ ) or Introducing Science Investigation Skills ( × ½ ) could be achieved within a programme for some students , depending on their ability , without increasing the notional time of the programme . |
| 20 | There , Mortimer conducted a briefing for some fifty of his men , who had volunteered to go on that night 's operation . |
| 21 | There was not a herb or flowering plant of any sort to be met on our walks that he did not know , and hardly one that was not invaluable as a remedy for some complaint . |
| 22 | Dataquest Corp , which has been without a president for some months , has recruited Judith Hamilton for the job : she was formerly a senior vice president and general manager at Locus Computing Corp . |
| 23 | A considerable amount of police behaviour can best be understood as a search for some interest , excitement or sensation . |
| 24 | It could also ‘ justify a bid for some limited additional resources ’ from central government . |
| 25 | Each dealer dealt with the farmer who wanted to make a bid for some of his cattle . |
| 26 | The tercentenary of the first Bill , passed in 1688 , has provided a stimulus for some earnest reflection . |
| 27 | He even had a ready made foundation for the new bank — the Equivalent Company set up to administer the money and debentures paid to Scotland as a compensation for some pre-Union perfidy on the part on the English . |
| 28 | But equally , it provided a home for some of the darkest forms of distrust of and revulsion from sex and marriage . |
| 29 | But though New Cross is n't so good they had to name it twice , it 's still a place worth a song of its own , having once lent its name to New Cross Records , a Charly offshoot that provided a home for some Dillinger and Bob Marley releases . |
| 30 | I 've used a wheelchair for some time and I 'm grateful to town planners who provide special parking for the disabled to make shopping easier for us . |