Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [verb] some [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I shook my head to dislodge some of the dead grey cells which were clogging things up . |
| 2 | ‘ We have to have some indication of a willingness on their part to take some of the tough decisions , ’ said the official . |
| 3 | My first book , When Sixpence Was A Fortune , has reached many corners of the world — a lady told me her sister read some of the poems to an audience of exiled Scots in New Zealand and half the folk there ‘ wiz greetin' ’ ! |
| 4 | It is part of their attempt to take some of the mystique out of scientific knowledge that ’ can be used , either intentionally or unintentionally , to prevent the public from questioning ’ ( The Sanitary Protection Scandal ) . |
| 5 | The sociology of religion does , however , present the researcher with an unusual variety of challenges at a number of different levels in its attempt to understand some of the most powerfully held beliefs and most powerfully motivated actions to be found in the social world throughout its history . |
| 6 | The success of the two movements was attributed to their association with the highly popular Havel and to the fact that their candidates included some of the most prominent ministers in the government of national understanding . |
| 7 | Insofar as this affected the ECSC negotiations , it gave West Germany a far stronger hand and enabled its negotiators to resist some of the French demands , especially those which were aimed at a deconcentration and decartelisation of West Germany 's heavy industries , and to pursue more urgently its own point of view on the future of the Saar . |
| 8 | Her cry galvanised some of the men into action . |
| 9 | For example , the tribunal may have been motivated by resentment at a particular member 's share of the market , or have suspended the member , not for bona fide reasons , but because of the opportunity it gave their firms to acquire some of the suspended member 's customers . |
| 10 | A delightfully frank account of its development shows some of the less scientific problems of discovery . |
| 11 | The Roman marmorarii ( marble-cutters , sculptors , mosaic workers ) next to the calcarii ( the lime-burners ) were the worst enemies of ancient Roman monuments , destroying them for materials , but the fund of material was plentiful and out of their pillaging emerged some of the great works of art of the thirteenth century . |
| 12 | Their slopes grow some of the finest tea in the world . |
| 13 | Its interior used some of the finest craftsmen of the day , not least the woodcarver Grinling Gibbons who decorated one room with a welter of natural images . |
| 14 | This may have played some role in the big decline in the profitability of Japanese industry over the same period as Japanese exporters were forced to accept lower profit margins , but there will have been some compensating improvement in the profitability of import-competing industries in the United States and Europe as Japanese exporters found themselves obliged to raise their prices to recoup some of the cost increases . |
| 15 | Having already made substantial structural changes to his garage to make room for the aeroplane 's assembly , and storage when complete , he spent the first days after its arrival using some of the surplus lumber from its packing crate to build a workbench , only to discover on completion that it all had to come apart again to extract the stepladder he 'd used to support it during assembly . |
| 16 | Her account has some of the qualities of myth in validating shared beliefs and providing a charter for social action . |
| 17 | His father drove some of the way , but was dropped off by Clarke before the accident happened on the A4095 at Curbridge . |
| 18 | While unpacking , he found a chess set ; his father explained some of the moves , and since then he has gone from strength to strength despite the fact that the family has no chess background . |
| 19 | The usual kind of mayhem followed Hopper , as was expected in Hollywood , who noted that his cast included some of the most conspicuous individualists in the business . |
| 20 | John walked down the hill , on his way to meet some of the lads in the town . |
| 21 | His remarks left some of the cricketing Establishment at last night 's dinner feeling distinctly uncomfortable . |
| 22 | Even if his colleagues ignored some of the good runs he made , City 's defenders certainly did not . |
| 23 | And he tried hard to get involved even if his colleagues ignored some of the good runs he made . |
| 24 | And now that I looked again at Mr White Face , I saw that beneath his paint his face had some of the configurations of a rat , with sharp little jaws and pointed nose , not at all like the inhabitants of Sarawak , a blunt-faced company , with which I was acquainted . |
| 25 | A new series in which Norma brings to your knitting machine some of the wonderful animals whose life in the wild is at risk of extinction and without which the world would be poorer . |
| 26 | Our photograph shows some of the members cheerfully tootling along the Antrim coast road on a recent 120-mile jaunt from Belfast and Ballycastle and back . |
| 27 | Bring a breath of country air into your home using some of the traditional pot pourri , herb and spice preparations from Gail Duff 's fascinating book . |
| 28 | Here 's your chance to see some of the best dairy cattle in the world while taking in the sights on our coast-to-coast autumn tour of the USA . |
| 29 | Now here 's your chance to win some of the best on the market . |
| 30 | Generally , our results confirm some of the findings from in vitro studies . |