Example sentences of "some [noun] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | However during 1960–3 there was some support for a British Commonwealth non-military space programme . |
| 2 | When he returned to the room , having left the child in the kitchen , Aggie was pouring some milk into a mug , and she said to him , ‘ Look at that ! |
| 3 | She boiled some milk for a cup of cocoa , resolving to steer clear of the brandy and hot milk : all that talk of pookas in the car had made her sound neurotic ! |
| 4 | There was some milk on a plate on top of the box . |
| 5 | She got William some milk in a ladle from the kitchen . |
| 6 | But Smart may have owed his freedom in some measure to a House of Commons Committee of Enquiry into the problem that year . |
| 7 | So it was minuted in a sort of staff student consultative group last year , so I have been requested to confine it in some measure to a single text . |
| 8 | While advocating the Work Society , Handy is enough of a realist to suggest that the most likely outcome , if his assumption turns out to be correct , is some kind of muddled compromise between all four possibilities , with considerable unemployment , some measure of a divide between the haves in work and the ‘ leisured ’ have-lesses without jobs , some attempt at the maintenance of full employment as a policy goal , and an increase in the amount of ‘ work ’ done on a ‘ voluntary ’ basis . |
| 9 | If I am correct — and the statement is also seen in some measure as a form of protection of the parents ' and child 's rights in this matter — it is surely anomalous that this statement appears largely to have become a passport to special schooling . |
| 10 | Ignoring attempts on his life , and constant threats , Wallenberg used every means possible to outwit the executioners , bribing Hungarian and German officials , threatening the Gestapo and issuing Swedish passports which , surprisingly , offered some protection in a period hardly renowned for respect for the law . |
| 11 | At Khartoum North there were two platforms in an overall shed affording some protection from a fierce sun . |
| 12 | Briefly in the winter of 1966 – 67 it seemed as if the British might be making some progress towards a cease-fire agreement in conjunction with the USSR . |
| 13 | However we 're beginning to make some progress and we 're making some progress for a number of reasons . |
| 14 | It has recently been recognised that there have been considerable liquidity problems both before and after Big Bang for some of the smaller companies listed on the ISE , prompting some calls for a two-tier market . |
| 15 | I dropped some change to a lone mandolin player doing a slow-tempo ‘ Sweet Georgia Brown ’ , partly because he was good and partly because he might do the same for me someday . |
| 16 | When Norman gave him some canvases as a birthday present , Minton was astonished for he was unused to having his generosity returned . |
| 17 | Between the legs some hair of a sort and this stupid flabby thing . |
| 18 | This rumour may have been based on someone having witnessed some signs of a growing affection between Richard and Margaret , but we can not be sure . |
| 19 | She stood with it in her hand , looking about for some signs of a waiting servant . |
| 20 | If we return , for example , to the case of student protesters , we have already noted that they show some signs of a need for parental surrogates , and certainly they are seldom complete anarchists . |
| 21 | Women 's work in sweated trades ( defined with some difficulty by a Select Committee on the subject in 1890 as work carried on for inadequate wages and for excessive hours in insanitary conditions ) , was also opposed because of the threat it posed to motherhood and the rearing of an imperial race . |
| 22 | The frank accounts of two early love affairs , adding some notoriety to a political autobiography , make honest and sympathetic reading ; but of far greater substance is his analysis of British politics from Wilson to Major . |
| 23 | said at a press conference in May that he had some misgivings about a formal sentence bargain , but thought it would be possible to devise a procedure which would be acceptable . |
| 24 | She waited for some minutes on a platform , a train came and she would have got into it if that had been possible . |
| 25 | They have no means of assessing the reliability of automatic control systems but they can make some assessment of a skilled individual and without knowing very much about his working procedures they will trust his actions if he seems calm , competent and mature . |
| 26 | Well I would have thought that if there was to be some assessment of a reasonable expectation of development proceeding , then there ought to be some assessment of demand , and I have n't seen that yet . |
| 27 | For committees ( except those on private or hybrid bills ) , their public proceedings are covered only when one or other of the broadcasters , independent producers or other organisations wishes to film some part of a committee 's work for use in a programme . |
| 28 | Stimulation involves feeding a signal into some part of a circuit and measuring its consequences at some other point . |
| 29 | He has been caught in a machine , or some part of a machine has suddenly broken , with fatal results . |
| 30 | This shows that as soon as some part of a further track ( over and above two or three respectively ) is necessary for I 2 , a higher-level index I 1 should be created . |