Example sentences of "some [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have clean hair and some look a bit like Paul Newman . |
| 2 | Er at present I get sixty one pound a week old age pension , I 've a works pension of about twenty some pound a week , so that I live on eighty pound a week . |
| 3 | Politicians who hoped to secure the representation of a burgh district were unlikely to succeed , or , if by some aberration a victory could be obtained , to retain the seat , without satisfying the demands of the burgh oligarchies , whose ambitions were rarely modest . |
| 4 | Took some speed a friend turned up with so I ca n't get to sleep . |
| 5 | It is simply that the most plausible stories now available about that evolution , including its very recent date and also certain considerations about the physical characteristics of the species , suggests that human beings are to some degree a mess , and that the rapid and immense development of symbolic and cultural capacities has left man as a being for which no form of life is likely to prove entirely satisfactory , either individually or socially . |
| 6 | Contemporary bargaining structures are to some degree a reflection of bargaining patterns established at a fairly early stage of industrial development . |
| 7 | At some point a juke-box was also installed . |
| 8 | At some point a man in a neat suit materialized . |
| 9 | And I would suggest therefore , that what we ought to do , is to ask not only for erm , the service committees to have reports , but for there to be erm , a , a , at some point a round up report of policy and resources . |
| 10 | At some point a negotiation would take place . |
| 11 | Further , the Vienna Convention does not specify how long the obligations under Article 18 continue , although at some point a signatory State that does not ratify a treaty must surely be in the same position as non-signatories . |
| 12 | In particular , I studied for some while a figure chalked on a great blackboard which stood close to the bench bearing the sheeted body . |
| 13 | Of course , the truth about how he has done it will probably only emerge in a ghosted autobiography that will cost some newspaper a king 's ransom . |
| 14 | In winter they earn next to nothing , few of them having in their youth learnt to knit and spin ; and if in summer they are able to go to harvest work , they must pay some person a shilling a week out of their earnings for looking after their children . |
| 15 | I came on a train here today from London in South Africa if you are black and you got on a train it would n't be as comfortable and there would be crowds in it but you would n't know whether you reached the other end because at some station a group of people would get on and shoot you indiscriminately , and get off again leaving that scene of massacre . |
| 16 | Probably , for we later read that ‘ want of opportunity has been in some respect a prejudice to my business ’ , and , ‘ the noble act of embalming has been entirely ruined by the undertakers ’ . |
| 17 | This aunt is in some sense a kind of female-father figure , just as the maternal uncle is in a sense a male version of the mother . |
| 18 | It also seems likely that Wagner , thirty-one years Nietzsche 's senior and born in the same year as Nietzsche 's long dead father , was in some sense a father-figure and additionally attractive on this account . |
| 19 | War is in some sense a feature of life that loses its distinction as an element of malice . |
| 20 | A statue in the round was surely conceived as in some sense a being to be met face to face , so was designed primarily to be seen from in front . |
| 21 | It is not thought that the onset of turbulence represents in some sense a breakdown of these equations . |
| 22 | Even in them , however , the assumption that the monarch was in some sense a father of his people and that he should therefore be freely accessible to them died hard . |
| 23 | For Kelsen , the dynamic principle is characteristic of legal positivism which understands law to be in some sense a product of human acts and decisions rather than a deduction from timeless and immutable principles . |
| 24 | The impression is sometimes given by Ministers and judges that the size of the prison population is in some sense a product of forces of nature beyond political or judicial control . |
| 25 | Has the LDDC , in spite of all the hype and political prominence , been in some sense a failure ? |
| 26 | ‘ And then charge some townie a couple of quid for it . ’ |
| 27 | Certainly a visitor to rural schools in Kenya , Swaziland , Sierra Leone or parts of Nigeria notes with some amazement a community , homogeneous linguistically and culturally , which supports , often proudly , a school where the medium is English . |
| 28 | You can fine some information a bout each of these methods on pages 2–6 of this leaflet . |
| 29 | I will say Well can I send you some information a letter and that sort of thing ? |
| 30 | Actually , I was surprised when looking through some book a couple of years ago to find that players like Gray played relatively few game per season , often being injured . |