Example sentences of "some [noun sg] of [noun sg] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is generally elicited only by stimuli that are both infrequent ( or improbable ) and significant in the sense that they require some kind of response by the subject . |
| 2 | The " smaller " systems of hypernumbers introduced were put into some kind of order by the American B Peirce in a paper published posthumously in 1881 . |
| 3 | ‘ Every evening , the living room gets converted into some kind of camp by the children and smeared in food and footprints , ’ she laughs , ‘ but what 's the point of a home if you have to be precious with it ? ’ |
| 4 | Active tenants ' and residents ' committees in your block or area are a good sign : they give you a point of contact with neighbours and usually mean that your environment is afforded some degree of protection by the efforts of these people . |
| 5 | The system survived the new depression of 1979–81 and succeeded in creating some degree of stability by the later 1980s , though not without many problems . |
| 6 | A doctor of medicine is in the same social class as a company director but is more likely than the director to be accorded some degree of deference by the local community . |
| 7 | Though the generals were brought to some sort of obedience by the Cortes and the Regency , in the provinces they used the ‘ egoism ’ of the Juntas and their endless disputes with the relics of the old administration in order to extend their own power . |
| 8 | It is interesting how many of the social workers who regard themselves as identified with their clients , sharing some sense of oppression by the ‘ bureaucracy ’ that weighs upon them both and working therefore to help the clients receive resources from the ‘ system ’ , have a view of social security field staff that is directly in contrast to their view of their own position . |
| 9 | This strongly implies the operation of some form of control by the physical environment , and some likely examples of an ultimate link with plate tectonics have been presented above . |
| 10 | However it was thought by its sponsors to represent a programme which had some possibility of acceptance by the bodies to which the petition would be presented . |
| 11 | After a fruitless meeting set up at Jeddah in the hope of reconciling their differences and some display of nervousness by the oil market , Iraqi troops crossed into Kuwait on 2 August , occupying the capital and prompting the Amir , Shaikh Jaber , to seek refuge in Saudi Arabia . |