Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [verb] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All listings for the final thesaurus must be converted to the format appropriate for typing , printing or input to a computer database , and each feature checked , edited and tested on some examples . |
| 2 | However , the research design was inevitably constrained and shaped to some extent by the requirements of the action project . |
| 3 | The protest had to be contained and drawn to some form of conclusion without any further loss of face or foreign investment . |
| 4 | Europe now produces more food than she needs and has for some years been supporting a section of industry that provides employment for less than 1% of our National workforce ; good for British agriculture , but how much better if the support had gone to those industries that took up a greater proportion of the work force , i.e. the engineers with 10% . |
| 5 | But it is a necessary price to pay , if we want students to emerge with minds of their own , who do not merely know but understand in some depth what they know , and who are able to form and develop their own ideas . |
| 6 | Voting was prevented or disrupted in some areas by military operations when soldiers took advantage of the truce . |
| 7 | Some fungi , bacteria and viruses are likely to be present in most ponds and aquaria , but that these do not cause problems until fish are injured or weakened in some way . |
| 8 | the task can be systematized or programmed in some way so that others can carry out the routines strictly to your requirements , thus reoccurring items are frequently delegated without undue risks being incurred |
| 9 | Paragraph ( e ) would be particularly relevant where the purchaser required the goods to be made or adapted from some use for which the seller did not normally supply goods . |
| 10 | Having plumped for Hewlett-Packard Co 's PA RISC over the Intel i860 — ‘ because of price/performance ’ — for its next generation of systems , Stratus plans no further computers using the i860 at this time , but says that depends to some extent on whether Intel manages another iteration of its RISC . |
| 11 | She needed strength : her and Bernard 's nightly love play would go on for hours , limbs lurching and surging in some kind of gladiatorial combat as if the one who weakened first lost . |
| 12 | And in all three , what is autonomous ( or authentic ) is what is seen as originating in some way from within the self ; what is in some way untainted by the conditioning or manipulation to which a woman has previously been subjected . |
| 13 | Both Rasta and Skin can be seen as bids for some kind of dignity , for what the late Pete Meadon , original mod and one-time manager of The Who once called ‘ clean living under difficult circumstances ’ : grace under pressure . |
| 14 | ‘ Perhaps John Knox relented and put in some money , ’ Morton suggested . |
| 15 | Er , I 've got er , I 've almost abso three quarters promised to go and call on some friends in on the way through |
| 16 | It pitches and bobbles on some roads , and bounces over the potholes driven fast . |
| 17 | I sit and stare for some time , wondering if he is sick . |
| 18 | A copyright owner can , of course , grant permission or issue a licence or contract for a work to be copied or reproduced in some way , either in part of whole . |
| 19 | Some document that erm was produced and lost at some point or . |
| 20 | This further split between train and station catering was rigidly enforced and led to some extremes of rivalry . |
| 21 | Admired and revered or loathed and seen by some bigots as an enemy of society , Priestley was an intellectual champion of many causes . |
| 22 | You need to consider those antecedent events that prompt you to break a diet , and then think about which of these things you can avoid or change in some way . |
| 23 | Its top lip begins to extend and grow like some sort of elephant-horse , and the corners of its mouth pull up higher and higher so that its mouth looks longer and longer , as if a heavy-handed rider is pulling mercilessly at it . |
| 24 | The man stared at her in stunned silence , his chest rising and falling with some kind of agitation . |
| 25 | This work seems to us to be truly depraving and corrupting unlike some sex films which offend solely on grounds of impropriety . |
| 26 | The general management approach of the second wave was recognised and practised by some managers some time before the appearance of the Griffiths recommendations , especially after the structural ‘ tidying up ’ of 1982 . |
| 27 | There are few physical symptoms that can be observed , apart from vomiting , fainting and sweating in some cases . |
| 28 | This behaviour , observed by many owners when their pets have been chastised or corrected in some way , is usually referred to as a dignified sulk . |
| 29 | Legitimate : ( a ) etymologically , the word expresses a status , which has been conferred or ratified by some authority ; ( b ) conformable to law or rule . |
| 30 | Allowed to choose her hairdresser , Carole Ann Ford plumped for an up-and-coming young stylist she had known and visited for some time named Vidal Sassoon . |