Example sentences of "some [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Josh only gave him some whisky for his own good . |
| 2 | By the late 1980s no African government could afford to neglect the significance of the sector for the employment of the hundreds of thousands of primary and secondary school leavers who were joining the labour market each year , and most were making policy statements which indicated some support for it . |
| 3 | There is some support for this in that melatonin capsules can be taken in the evening to produce a consistent overnight rise in the blood concentration of this hormone and that this treatment appears to stabilize the sleep/wake rhythm of blind subjects . |
| 4 | Not only will Germany continue to provide some support for their exports , but neither of the two economies spent and borrowed with the abandon of the English-speaking world in the 1980s . |
| 5 | Some support for the link between offending and perceptions of the justice of unemployment is suggested by the research evidence on the connections of income inequality and crime . |
| 6 | Some support for it , however , can be gained from the legislation which came into effect on 1 January 1977 , in the State of California . |
| 7 | It is an opinion shared by ninety per cent of the population and there is some support for its reality in the criticisms of Scripture . |
| 8 | Some support for this is given by the nature of the pre-Permian encountered in the Wytch Farm well X14 ( Colter and Havard 1981 ) , which consists of phyllites with micas dated at 357–337 Ma . |
| 9 | Some support for this is the finding that leukaemia cells have unusually few plasmids ( Nature , vol 296 , p 219 ) . |
| 10 | The available statistics offer some support for the allegations that there was much perjury . |
| 11 | At least one study has found a positive and statistically significant relationship between maternal ratings of children 's command of specific vocabulary items and performance on a formal language test ( Cunningham and Sloper 1984 ) and this provides some support for the validity of checklist assessments . |
| 12 | What I have tried to do here , therefore , is to present a flexible and varied menu of approaches from which people can perhaps derive ideas that seem congenial , or at least find some support for their own home-made kit of idiosyncratic but effective methods . |
| 13 | Dore ( 1973 ) used this framework in a comparison of the contrasting employment systems in British and Japanese industry ; and Kobrin ( 1976 ) empirically tested the convergence thesis itself using cross-national research for more than 90 countries and found some support for it . |
| 14 | My own work on middle school teachers provides some support for this view . |
| 15 | In the data there is some support for the notion that certain matters such as child care and support for elderly people are regarded as women 's business in families , while men 's business is money ; but it would be too crude to assume that this simple division of responsibilities could explain all the gender differences which occur in kin support . |
| 16 | Men also provided some support for their relatives , usually minor property repairs or help with an allotment , but the volume of this was much less . |
| 17 | Some support for evolutionary theories comes from the comparative findings , which show that high maximum lifespans in optimal conditions ( cited in the introduction ) occur in creatures with a low risk of mortality in nature , and hence with strong selection maintaining late life . |
| 18 | The school found some support for their interpretation of Mrs Peel 's behaviour from a community nurse who tried to work with the family : ‘ She thinks there 's evidence of sexual abuse ; soiling , language and sexually overt behaviour . ’ |
| 19 | Rumours were racing through the industry last week that Hewlett-Packard Co and DEC — and perhaps even IBM , apparently the most laggard of the trio — might indeed muster some support for Unix System Labs Inc 's Destiny launch on Tuesday , June 16 . |
| 20 | The CPU is said to have some support for out-of-order execution of instructions , which requires very tricky circuitry to reassemble the stream in the right order and avoid dependency conflicts . |
| 21 | However during 1960–3 there was some support for a British Commonwealth non-military space programme . |
| 22 | Briefly , William Dement 's early experimental work which provided some support for this idea was subsequently found , both by himself and others , to be unrepeatable . |
| 23 | Some support for the notion that there are ways of marking the boundaries of ‘ speech paragraphs ’ can be found in a common practice of people who are asked to read pieces of written text aloud . |
| 24 | However , having said that , there is some support for the submission made on behalf of the appellants in this regard , and that is to be found in the letter of 10 October 1989 which was written to them , following that hearing , by their solicitor . |
| 25 | They also provide some support for the thesis proposed by earlier studies of temporary workers ( particularly Meager , 1985 ) , where it has been argued that there is a strong association between growing organisations and users of temporary labour . |
| 26 | He rejected stale prices as a cause , but found some support for arbitrage risk as an explanation of mispricing . |
| 27 | If , however , some support for the union 's policy can be mustered among the plaintiff employer 's workers the range of matters covered by section 29 is very wide . |
| 28 | Investigations conducted among more recent groups of émigrés suffer from the fact that such groups have been disproportionately Jewish ; there has nevertheless been some support for the view that nationality is not a ‘ primordial ’ attachment and that its political importance is likely to depend on situational factors such as the degree of competition for employment opportunities . |
| 29 | The dispute between Eardwulf and Eanbald , therefore , also concerned property and conflicts of landed interest and probably some support for rival aethelings . |
| 30 | Weaver ( 1989 ) also provides some support for this view . |