Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] some " in BNC.

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1 Few cases are quite as confusing as the zebra 's stripes , but there is always the chance that in a year or so 's time new information will have been gathered that changes our views about some aspect of animal life .
2 Like my hon. Friend the Member for Bosworth ( Mr. Tredinnick ) , I have personal views about some of those matters , but we should await the report , when we will have a little more to go on about the circumstances and how this could have happened .
3 Britain does not have to rely solely on its own mines for some kinds of metals .
4 Von Stein had been checking the wall clock in the laboratory then looking back at his notes for some time .
5 The duo cycled roads between some of the peaks , and even swam Loch Lomond , but most of the time they were on foot .
6 It seems likely that practical work in subjects such as CDT has helped to develop these skills for some pupils .
7 ‘ Self-determination is the right of all people in the world , including Germans , but it only makes sense when one does not lose sight of the concerns of others … we are coming to the end of a century which has seen the special responsibility of Germans for some terrible things . ’
8 A few general notes about some of the remedies
9 I 've written fairly detailed notes about some of them .
10 Yes I am , yes I am , well they do they are quite bullish sometimes about some of the two year olds , there in the essays , in the longer essays about some of the better erm fancied horses from last year .
11 A site has yet to be secured — although the Mountain View , California-based company said it had been working on the plans for some 18 months — and a choice will be announced within 60 days , according to Sun 's chief financial officer , Kevin Melia .
12 The reason for the apparent lack of confidence was clearly the fact that Elsworth had suspended operations for some while because of coughing in his yard and had not had a winner for almost six weeks .
13 get all these programmes for some reason , somebody allowed for it when they put the system in , mind you still have to check it I suppose but checked through it , tested it , took me about five minutes , still a minimum charge of an hour
14 The latest moves led observers to speculate that the government might be seeking to encourage mergers between some of the bigger banks and some of those with large bad debt portfolios .
15 Mappin has been involved with Cliff Richard tennis projects for some nine years now , and this latest development , particularly the extravaganza ‘ family ’ idea , would appear to be a natural progression from her success of last year .
16 For heterosexuals up to 1991 , the peak of HIV infection had yet to be reached and so one can expect a continued rise in the annual incidence of AIDS cases for some time to come .
17 ‘ The Turning Point ’ is also one of the label 's strongest releases for some time and it 's the ever popular Terrace front of Stefan Robbers that once again leads Djax out into new regions .
18 With some 15,500 outlets for their business , solicitors are likely to remain for some time the principal providers of legal services even if there is considerable expansion of alternatives to the use of solicitors for some legal work ( The Law Society , 1990 ) .
19 From Gmünd eastwards to Horn and south to Krems was only a matter of a couple of hours through some lovely , fertile valleys , brilliantly green in their spring foliage .
20 I 'd lusted after these peaks for some time , but a decision has to be made about how to get at them .
21 It was not thickly populated or well defended , but it was much larger than the islands the English already held in the Caribbean , so it provided land for English emigrants for some years .
22 ‘ Madam , I too have been a wanderer in these woods for some time .
23 Britain 's Vivienne Westwood has been taking the historical fantasy tablets for some time .
24 Although it probably sounds odd that I am suggesting negotiating a written agreement with your teenager , psychologists have been using business-style contracts to resolve family conflicts for some years now .
25 Charlotte and Anne worked as governesses for some months , teaching rich children in big houses , and Branwell got a job like that too , for a while .
26 The objections that are raised against identity assumptions in respect of meanings in such a context are chiefly motivated by the fear that such assumptions might commit us to accepting meanings as some kind of entities .
27 The approaches made in 1759 by the Danish government to the United Provinces for the creation of a maritime union to defend neutral rights were only one of a series of proposals for some anti-British combination of this kind which culminated in the Armed Neutrality of 1780 .
28 We have been pursuing proposals for some time .
29 The British vigorously argued this case , and rejected proposals for some looser arrangement , such as a new version of Lend-Lease to help the Europeans rebuild their defences .
30 Coun Bob Brady , the council 's housing committee chairman , said : ‘ Financial restrictions have prevented us from building council houses for some time .
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