Example sentences of "of some [noun sg] of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most surgical patients , regardless of the extent of their operation , are at risk of some degree of problem with breathing . |
| 2 | Once the reality of some degree of uncompetitiveness in markets is acknowledged the consumer 's sovereign status is inevitably diminished . |
| 3 | The pace , however , was very much dictated by changing American attitudes towards the USSR and the creation of some measure of unanimity in Washington . |
| 4 | By what were to be the last years of the silent cinema quite a few critics had become aware of some sense of life in the feature film . |
| 5 | Sir Reginald told me that on the night before U Saw went to London in the hopes of getting a promise of some kind of independence for Burma from Winston Churchill in return for full co-operation in the war , he had warned U Saw that the hopes of success were very slender . |
| 6 | Her hair was pinned back , and she was shaking a blob of some kind of cream onto a ball of cotton wool . |
| 7 | Looking back , it is curious how long it took us to get rid of this idea of some kind of defect inside the body of the glass . |
| 8 | Throughout the century proposals for the creation of some kind of reserve of seamen were put forward , all of them without success . |
| 9 | ‘ It was … umm fun , ’ she said out of some kind of loyalty to Nelson 's masculine ego . |
| 10 | I can also report to congress that at last there are some signs at long last of some kind of recovery in the building materials industry very early days yet but some companies are actually beginning to go back to full-time working and in one or two cases are actually starting to take on additional , er , employees . |
| 11 | First , the new approach may make the teacher aware of some lack of understanding of X — the originator of the innovation may well have a more comprehensive understanding of the topic and possibly a more detailed map of children 's paths towards it but neither is in fact essential for the promotion of the feeling of insecurity in the teacher . |
| 12 | External frames are all but defunct in the UK because most have accepted that the ergonomically contoured internal frame sack is much more stable to carry than an external frame pack , even at the expense of some loss of ventilation to the back . |
| 13 | So far Soviet officials have failed to link the notion of some form of neutralisation of Afghanistan specifically with understandings on the neutrality of the states around it . |
| 14 | His work typically consists of some form of activity in the countryside , which is then recorded by a photograph or map . |
| 15 | The Economist of Dec. 23 noted that an opposition majority in the Diet 's Upper House and the prospect of some form of power-sharing with smaller opposition groups after the Lower House elections in mid-February , would undermine the traditionally close relationship between the LDP and the military . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The Palestinians , many of whom are desperate as a result of roots in the poverty of the refugee camps , hold few cards other than their determination not to be subdued and the ‘ armed struggle ’ through which this determination is sometimes expressed ; what they seek is recognition of some form of statehood on Palestinian soil . |
| 18 | Nonetheless it is possible that the general relationship between response criterion bias and normality ratings reflects the operation of some form of schema at retrieval . |
| 19 | Part I , with the inclusion of some form of commitment to a funding council , is an improvement , but we can not support the removal of further education from local authorities . |
| 20 | An important question in our interpretation of the moral structure of the tale must , however , be whether we regard the " swyving " of the two women as the visitation of some form of punishment upon them . |
| 21 | ‘ there must be something in the nature of a criminal intent of the kind which means that it is done with the idea of some form of hostility to the police with the intention of seeing that what is done is to obstruct , and that it is not enough merely to show that he intended to do what he did and that it did in fact have the result of the police being obstructed . ’ |
| 22 | Of course I knew he saw Otto , but not what those visits implied , and Helmut — whether from loyalty to his friend or on account of some sort of inhibition in relation to me — never hinted at anything improper . |
| 23 | Bryan Gould , to whom is owed an immense debt of gratitude for the injection of some sort of discussion of policy into the leadership contest , would be free to develop the flow of new ideas in the party . |
| 24 | There were hints before the local elections , rumours of some sort of relaunch of the Left . |
| 25 | The idea of some set of things including a cause , all of it somehow involved in the occurrence of the effect , is explicit or implicit in our ordinary thinking about the world . |