Example sentences of "some [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Glaxo Group Research runs a child minding service managed by the company to give some support to mothers returning to work . |
| 2 | Members of the Group , and others , can provide some support to users , but it is essential that each request for assistance should be noted centrally , so that a record of problems , and actions taken in response , can be built up . |
| 3 | This informal group was started up by an NCT member in 1986 to give some support to mums who were at work , or thinking about going back . |
| 4 | This can not be logical , and there is some support for landlords who feel justified in requiring the proceeds to be paid to them on the basis that a lease is for a limited duration but the freehold ( where applicable ) is for life . |
| 5 | She was told that there was slippage of some support among backbenchers ; that the 1922 Executive was divided , with some preferring a wider choice in the second round ; and that there was some disquiet in the Cabinet . |
| 6 | The Environmental Forum found some support amongst professionals in the water industry and in medicine , people who had known about the problems for years but kept quiet about them . |
| 7 | They had some support amongst officials at court , but they had not troubled to build up support amongst the magnates or the lesser landowners . |
| 8 | There was some support from respondents from all types of practice for applying the requirement to every firm , whilst others argued it should be limited to smaller firms and/or those in breach of the rules . |
| 9 | The British Youth Peace Assembly , a largely Communist gathering , was held in March 1936 , and attracted some support from branches of the Labour League of Youth and from the University Labour Federation . |
| 10 | However , relatively small size of the samples may account in some measure for inconsistencies in the findings . |
| 11 | He thought it fortunate that improvements in male characteristics were passed on in some measure to women , otherwise the man would have become as superior in mental endowment to women as the peacock is in plumage to the peahen . |
| 12 | The picture is complicated by the fact that national authorities may regard some discrimination between nationals and non-nationals as being necessary in order to ensure the protection of national interests such as the collection of taxes . |
| 13 | Heat-shock proteins mediate protein folding and some function as oligomers . |
| 14 | Above all , in the West warfare was increasingly governed by rules which gave some protection to prisoners and civilians . |
| 15 | The funds certainly provide some protection for savers . |
| 16 | I was pressed with an argument that the assignees were not customers of B.C.C.I. The purpose of the Act was to provide some protection for persons who had chosen to become customers of the bank and who were accepted by the bank as customers . |
| 17 | First one concerning A. In view of the level of con concern expressed on police funding , would the chairman of the Police authority agree that some f that some protection of Police funds locally and nationally may be necessary . |
| 18 | One species , perfectly good to eat , looks like another that is in some way nasty , and is assumed to derive some protection against predators thereby . |
| 19 | A percentage , known as retention ( which will be specified in the terms of the contract ) is deducted to provide the employer with some protection against defects in the works . |
| 20 | The reduction of alkaline phosphatase , pointing to healing of osteomalacia , is noteworthy and man offer some protection against fractures , which is a particular problem in later life . |
| 21 | This mantelpiece edging gives an extra Christmas look to your fireplace and provides some protection from scratches and dripping candle wax . |
| 22 | An innkeeper may demand payment prior to the provision of the service , e.g. food , drink or accommodation ; this in itself affords some protection from defaulters . |
| 23 | John Major and Albert Reynolds have said there has been some progress in talks on the future of Northern Ireland . |
| 24 | The younger age group have taken up conspicuous consumption , presumably as a means of recouping some esteem in terms of the apparently dominant and universalistic class criteria . |
| 25 | This plan was based on three major considerations : that in each of the new county areas stemming from the 1974 reorganization of local government boundaries , with the exception of Powys , there should be an institute of higher education incorporating colleges of education and major further education establishments , a proposal that was consistent with those submitted by the local authorities ; that , with the exception of St Mary 's College , Bangor , all the existing colleges of education should be incorporated into the proposed institutes , albeit with some change of functions ; and that in order to strengthen the proposed institutes in Dyfed , Gwynedd and West Glamorgan , there should be a marginal redistribution of teacher training and advanced further education courses , involving also the transfer of student places into these areas from other areas . |
| 26 | some watch like spiders for the other 's end . |
| 27 | True , there was some fragmentation of members on class issues . |
| 28 | Yet Appendix II ( section 3 ) shows that many people feel that bank loans would be cheaper for them than HP or finance company loans , and better with the manager ‘ a real person ’ they could go to if there was some difficulty over repayments . |
| 29 | This is clearly an area of some difficulty for translators working from or into a topic-prominent language such as Korean , Japanese , or Chinese . |
| 30 | There is some difficulty in Members getting to the House because a street has been closed . |