Example sentences of "[to-vb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having pledged its support for the environment and the poor , there is mounting pressure for it to institutionalize some safeguards . |
| 2 | Chairman Antony Pilkington acknowledged concern that high interest rates were beginning to hit some UK customers . |
| 3 | Chairman Antony Pilkington acknowledged concern that high interest rates were beginning to hit some UK customers . |
| 4 | When he arrived with his parents for the interview the headmaster took him to a field where a few golf holes were laid out , handed him a wedge and a bucket of balls , and told Jack to hit some shots at one of the greens while he organised some tea for his parents . |
| 5 | It is asking creditors to forgive some debts and extend payments 24 to 48 months . |
| 6 | They are so strongly committed to their unionism that they are prepared to go some way towards moving some of their evangelical principles into the area of private life and personal choice , rather than alienate non-evangelical unionists . |
| 7 | We need help to go some way towards knowing ourselves and in turn to be able to understand and help others . |
| 8 | By listening to her children 's language ( which , to quote T S Eliot , ‘ is the fluid in which all else is suspended ’ ) the teacher is able to go some way in interpreting their individual levels of development and maturation . |
| 9 | Municipal autonomy in the regions of Italy and state autonomy in the USA seems to go some way to account for the ease of transfer of care . |
| 10 | In our opinion this is the main gap in the orthodox account , and one we hope to go some way towards rectifying . |
| 11 | They seemed to go some way towards encapsulating the challenges that the notion of a shift of power to students holds for those immediately Involved . |
| 12 | Before you start trying to watch home movies on your PC , remember that although Microsoft is kind enough to include a very basic multi media player and recorder ( both illustrated ) as part of the standard Windows desktop , in order to go some way towards true multi media you need a few more things : a windows multi media extension , a CD-ROM drive , a sound card and probably a new monitor , not to mention that faster machine you 've been promising yourself . |
| 13 | The two sides engaged in talks on Jan. 25 , which appeared to go some way towards healing any rift caused by the referendum . |
| 14 | Washington even seemed prepared to go some way towards meeting the desire of the USSR to revise the treaties relating to the rights of passage by warships through the Straits between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean — an issue with a long and complicated history reaching back into tsarist times . |
| 15 | And I thought you might want to go some time anyway er , not on a Sunday . |
| 16 | I watched as my veiled friends chatted busily to each other or rose to greet some relative , touching burgah to burgah , then fluttered down again like so many birds of paradise . |
| 17 | Pete Goss took a group up to the foredeck to demonstrate a spinnaker hoist , four were dispatched to the leeward rail to induce some heel and to those in the cockpit Nick commanded : ‘ Well , do n't just sit there , get tying knots . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been thinking , ’ he said , ‘ we ought to ask Ianthe Broome 's uncle to preach some time . |
| 19 | ‘ Then perhaps you do n't mind sharing , the way you once shared him with the little South African girl who was having such a miserable pregnancy when I was there trying to breathe some life into that Johannesburg radio station six years ago . ’ |
| 20 | ENGLAND are banking on their very own ‘ Mr Angry ’ to breathe some fire back into their Ashes attack . |
| 21 | The failure to include some provision for the welfare of students is also deeply regrettable . |
| 22 | It may be advisable ( Clause 22.02 ) to include some provision in this regard in the partnership agreement , though it should be recognised that enforcement through the courts is impossible , depending as it does on the consent of a client who is not privy to the agreement . |
| 23 | IBM Corp was scheduled to make an ‘ operational announcement ’ on its Adstar storage business in San Jose just after we closed on Friday , but we have to assume that it was not anything sufficiently dramatic that it would move the share price , otherwise the company would have had to announce it on the New York Stock Exchange before the market opened to prevent a false market operating in the shares ; the announcement was to be made by vice-chairman Jack Kuehler , and was also to include some personnel news ; IBM has been studying ways to separate Adstar from the rest of the company , Dow Jones & Co notes , and earlier this year , it hired Morgan Stanley & Co and the Boston Consulting Group to recommend ways to speed up the process , which could involve outside investors or a new class of IBM share — and those advisors were scheduled to be done with the preliminary work by now ; a first step would likely be the creation of Adstar as a wholly-owned subsidiary — it has kept separate books since last year ; but the IBM spokesman said some observers might be surprised by the announcement , which was to be concerned with Adstar 's ‘ operations as an IBM business unit and its future direction . ’ |
| 24 | The attraction of this approach is that most up-to-date and enlightened LEA centres , WEA branches and extra-mural departments can be relied upon to include some kind of women 's studies in their provision which is different in kind from domestic education and men 's education . |
| 25 | To be genuinely useful , it is essential to include some reference to the number of elements involved in any one ‘ object ’ described as a single item . |
| 26 | Now that anyone can buy speaking toys , such as Texas Instruments 's ‘ Speak 'n Spell ’ , it is essential to include some reference to talking computers in any undergraduate course . |
| 27 | So the Commission has thought it appropriate to include some consideration of these forms of communication in its Report . |
| 28 | Try to include some elements that are of a geometric type , such as a circle , diamond and so on . |
| 29 | It is then more important than ever to include some topsoil to introduce the essential bacteria . |
| 30 | Those given in the section ‘ Suggestion for further reading ’ should be enough for most readers ; the same is true for sociolinguistics , but I feel that any reading beyond basic introductory material ought to include some work by Labov , whose influence on the subject has been profound . |