Example sentences of "some [prep] [Wh det] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We now know that some of what must have been his ‘ hopes and wishes ’ and ‘ dreams of fame ’ have been fulfilled ; his worth as a novelist and his work in Canada have been acknowledged by succeeding generations . |
| 2 | The paucity of available evidence concerning the foundation of the institution and the activities of the early Muftis means that one can hope to do no more than to draw reasonable inferences from the little evidence that does exist ; and some of what can be said about these problems involves a projection backward from the activities of later Muftis and will therefore be considered in greater detail in later sections . |
| 3 | In his Directions for Taking up Plants and Shrubs and Conveying Them by Sea , John Fothergill suggested placing seeds among specimens in boxes , some of which might succeed if the plants failed . |
| 4 | The advantages of such a mechanism are clear , it is possible to manipulate the model and thus understand the outside world in the sense of predicting what will happen without the potential costs of attempting to manipulate the real world and allowing things to happen , some of which might be considered to be unfortunate . |
| 5 | Erm , and then we get requests for things from the leader of the Council directly , that he wants us to respond to , the chair of that committee to erm will , will do the same thing , we 'll get requests from other departments relating to our work , some of which might of been you , we erm , the Council has a group for the finance advisory group , which is a small group of Councillor 's and officer 's that meet to discuss not in , in public session , key erm financial and other major policy erm issues that , and the reason why that group was set up , erm was that it felt like with the introduction of Poll Tax and the Local Government Housing and Finance Tax , that it needed outside the committee cycle to erm review the impact of those legislation to look at it 's finances more closely and what , and we as a policy team report into that group and get request from work from that group as well . |
| 6 | If being monitored for exposure to external penetrating radiation can be a marker of other exposures in the workplace , some of which might be hazardous , studies of the relation between men 's exposure to external radiation and leukaemia in their children could yield apparently inconsistent results . |
| 7 | We know from experience that many factors — some of which may never be apparent to outside observers — determine whether a prisoner of conscience is released . |
| 8 | Plants from the Physic Garden were copied by the gifted collage artist , Mrs Delaney , and fourteen were faithfully reproduced in her delicate paper mosaic work , some of which may be seen in the British Museum today . |
| 9 | A good hunch is heuristic , productive of preliminary explanatory propositions and capable of analysis into a priori axioms that can be reformulated into hypotheses , some of which may be practically testable . |
| 10 | In cleaning and disinfection there are six basic steps , some of which may be combined or omitted , to evolve a particular method . |
| 11 | Prepare a brief report or booklet about the area — its history and any interesting information about the buildings it contains , some of which may already be listed . |
| 12 | The respondents , in a normal population , will contain much larger numbers of unsophisticated , poorly educated , inarticulate and non-jargon-using people whose task it will be to try to answer questions , some of which may be quite baffling to them . |
| 13 | The relevant questions should not concern how local ‘ culture ’ forms local politics , but how this ‘ culture ’ itself is formed , how it is sustained or transformed , and how it affects local political activity in conjunction with a host of other structures and practices , some of which may be locally based and some of which may not . |
| 14 | The relevant questions should not concern how local ‘ culture ’ forms local politics , but how this ‘ culture ’ itself is formed , how it is sustained or transformed , and how it affects local political activity in conjunction with a host of other structures and practices , some of which may be locally based and some of which may not . |
| 15 | Records relate to coasting movements , which are difficult to evaluate and some of which may refer only to local movements , and both immigration and emigration in in spring and autumn . |
| 16 | It is also important that national authorities administer Community rules in a coherent fashion and that companies are aware of their Community rights , some of which may be newly acquired , to ensure that they benefit fully from them . |
| 17 | Aches and pains of various kinds may occur , some of which may mimic the symptoms of her husband 's last illness , and her general health may deteriorate , because at first she will be so absorbed in grieving and a kind of mental ‘ searching ’ for what she has lost that she may tend to neglect her bodily needs . |
| 18 | It is unfortunately very easy sometimes to let the eyes wander — and the mind as well — if an elderly person is running the gamut of a whole list of troubles , some of which may seem more like minor irritations . |
| 19 | A large retail organisation owns m sites , some of which may be warehouses and some may be shops . |
| 20 | The central argument in the book is that there are a variety of ways of organising work , some of which may be more efficient than others , some of which will be preferred by workers , and others which may be preferred by managers . |
| 21 | This may have come about as a result of a phase of shifting settlement gradually giving way to greater stability , so that when land boundaries ( some of which may have also become parish boundaries ) were formed the earlier settlements may , purely by chance , occur at a distance to later ones and are therefore more likely to lie near boundaries ( see also , Welch 1985 , pp. 18–21 ) . |
| 22 | In pursuit of this , wide powers are given to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , some of which may , and indeed have been , transferred to a ‘ designated agency ’ , known as the Securities and Investments Board ( SIB ) . |
| 23 | There is no simple kind of sexual liberation possible which will eradicate the neuroses caused by sexual repression without , at the same time , producing social changes , only some of which may be controllable in rational ways . |
| 24 | Even within the Home Office , one of the most heavyweight of all Whitehall Departments , the Secretary of State will have to set his own priorities between immigration and nationality , criminal justice , national security , gambling , the fire service , Sunday trading , dangerous dogs , and many other topics for legislation , some of which may be urgent , and most of which will be controversial . |
| 25 | If you have several galls , more adults should emerge in the course of the next week or two , some of which may be the adults of inquiline insects . |
| 26 | Studies of pronuclear division in fertilized eggs are useful for assessing the primary level of chromosome abnormalities , some of which may act as zygotic lethals or become disguised in subsequent cleavages . |
| 27 | Indeed , multiproduct companies will normally have a variety of means open to them for breaking even on their operation , some of which may be approximately equally efficient , so that governmental intervention to choose one amongst them , something facilitated by state ownership , is not necessarily inefficient . |
| 28 | The goal here is to illustrate the general contention set out in this book that in order to use regions in geography ( as against practising regional geography ) it is necessary to appreciate what the salient features of a region ( or place ) are — some of which may be more important to particular research tasks than others . |
| 29 | Thus every individual needs to be regarded as having a unique set of problems , some of which may have encouraged him or her to drink too much , and some of which may be the outcome of the drinking , rather than being thought of as an ‘ alcoholic ’ or an ‘ addict ’ . |
| 30 | Thus every individual needs to be regarded as having a unique set of problems , some of which may have encouraged him or her to drink too much , and some of which may be the outcome of the drinking , rather than being thought of as an ‘ alcoholic ’ or an ‘ addict ’ . |