Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [verb] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Where the two roads cross the procession is stopped by a column of prisoners guarded by some Uhlans , who wear the chapska perched on their ear , and ride with couched lances . |
| 2 | Nor has there been sufficiently critical evaluation of programmes to screen for some diseases , he believes . |
| 3 | This recalls the habitual remark of youngsters admitting to some misdemeanor performed under the influence of another : He made me do it ! , which would be significantly different from He forced me to do it which implies an action one was pushed into by means of force rather than one performed under coercion . |
| 4 | His mouth opened and closed while portraits of notables revolved on some sort of belt contraption behind him and my mind strayed to Phil Collins 's story about the time he went up and asked Steve Davis for an autograph : ‘ He did n't even glance at me , just sent me off to get a pen , and then signed his name , still without looking at me . |
| 5 | A myriad of associations campaigning for some form of political and economic union proliferated across all the democracies and across most political party persuasions : for example , the United Europe Movement in Britain , organised by Churchill ; the Catholic Nouvelles Équipes Internationales and the Socialist Movement for the United States of Europe in France , but both with some following in Belgium and Luxembourg ; and the Europa-Bund in Germany . |
| 6 | On the western coast , where extensive marshes are to be found in Cardigan Bay , the succession of plants differs in some respects from that of the east coast , but the general process of deposition encouraged by plants and leading to a sequence of changing plant communities is similar . |
| 7 | There were also pages of poems forced into some sort of rhyming structure so that they might conceivably have worked as songs , several paragraphs of references to critical works ( Barthes , especially ; Death of the Author ! shouted what looked like a headline over one entire page of notes devoted to ideas about a looseleaf novel/poem ? ? |
| 8 | In theory , guidelines for open systems are formulated when a committee of vendors come to some sort of agreement over architectural definitions and create a standard . |
| 9 | Because the length of the period is so short and can be measured in generations , considerable caution has been shown in the accuracy of dates given by some writers ( Avent 1975 , p. 56 ) . |
| 10 | It added : ‘ This explosion deepens the cracks in a monarchy which a number of Britons have for some time regarded with a mixture of indifference and contempt . ’ |
| 11 | The legal capacity of corporations differs in some respects from that of individuals , partly from the nature of the case , partly as a consequence of the fact that their personality is an artificial one . |
| 12 | In the election campaign , the Conservatives had made much of ‘ setting the people free ’ of the planners , and of making the nationalised industries more ‘ businesslike ’ and ‘ commercial ’ , but the reality of controls remained for some years , as indeed was inevitable given the physical limits of a national cake whose size was fixed in the short term . |
| 13 | If expectations of the general level of prices rose to some level between P and P 2 then there would be some stimulus to output and some rise in prices . |
| 14 | Here it would be wise to offer a set of modules limited to some aspect of EP rather than try to cover the whole in less depth . |
| 15 | Prices were slightly down on last year , despite the best crop of berries seen for some time . |
| 16 | Percentage of pupils absent at some time during the week in November was 30% . |
| 17 | Once on the walkway the gallant band of adventurers proceeded with some difficulty , since the hairiest one was feeling far from gallant or adventurous . |
| 18 | ‘ 87 per cent of women work at some time in your lives . ’ |