Example sentences of "some [adj] [noun sg] [noun] in the " in BNC.

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1 That convinced him he was on the right track and within a few months some alert marketing men in the Wilson Sporting Goods Company were equally impressed .
2 To make certain Mary-Claude and the children would have enough money to live on if any such problem arose , he took out some short-term life insurance in the name of Thomas Leavy .
3 In the period that I mentioned there have been substantial further job losses in the coal industry and some further job losses in the steel industry .
4 Some old mine buildings in the distance , some gravel pits .
5 Fig 9 ) Vanishing has some interesting chord voicings in the intro/verse .
6 have pointed out that if it is feasible and believable for entrants to write firm ( but presumably secret ) contracts with customers for delivery over some fixed time period in the future , then the third and fourth conditions have been circumvented yet the result is the same .
7 A measurement involves the registration of the result by some macroscopic device operating in the world of everyday experience .
8 We have had some welcome summer days in the last fortnight .
9 Some 20,000 railway workers in the region around Iasi city in north-eastern Romania went on strike on Feb. 8 .
10 A significant decline in the numbers of some traditional bird species in the UK is due to modern farming methods , according to research published by the British Trust for Ornithology .
11 In 1891 the Society conducted a ‘ Census of Hallucinations ’ throughout the country and Mr W. T. Stead , the journalist , assisted by enclosing some 100,000 census papers in the Review of Reviews which he edited .
12 Speaking at the Expo Comm International exhibition , Sapsan , the only Russian manufacturer of Unix workstations , says it has sold some 1,500 Unix systems in the former Soviet Union since 1989 .
13 Of these the elder , William ( 1705–1747 ) — to whom he left ‘ all my stock of Marble and Timber … in my Marble Yard in Warwick ’ — continued in his father 's business and built some more country houses in the midlands .
14 The figures imply that up to 80% of Sun Microsystems Inc 's total revenue was derived from workstation sales alone in 1992 — though Sun claims to have sold some 10,000 server systems in the last year or so — while IBM Corp 's $668m share is only around a third of the business it claims to have done on the RS/6000 line over that period .
15 The figures imply that up to 80% of Sun Microsystems Inc 's total revenue was derived from workstation sales alone in 1992 — when Sun claims to have sold some 10,000 server systems in the last year or so — while IBM Corp 's $668m share is only around a third of the business it claims to have done on the RS/6000 line over that period .
16 Although librarians might not make the mistake of viewing selection as censorship , amongst the general public * might be difficult to make the distinction given the sensational and mischievous coverage given to some alleged library censorship in the media .
17 If the latter is not likely to be a permanent feature , machinery for achieving some long-term pay agreements in the public sector becomes important for achieving efficient control ( Heald , 1983 ) .
18 They were on Factory , they were churning out some debonair guitar pop in the form of ‘ Brighter ’ and ‘ A Gentle Sound ’ and they were liked .
19 In such cases , it is possible that the inclusion of some physicochemical unit operation in the process may allow the overall treatment scheme to remove the target contaminants more effectively .
20 More often it will be to establish some intermediate way point in the development path of a system ; in order to carry out a review , for example , or to provide a frozen issue for prototype system testing .
21 But work on these new buildings was suddenly interrupted , when some still-standing timber structures in the vicinity were also burnt .
22 That is , the reader will be forced to use these ‘ texts ’ to reconstruct , not just some relevant discourse subjects in the presupposition pool , following Venneman , but rather some of the elements of the topic framework existing when these discourse fragments were produced .
23 The spokeswoman added : ‘ We believe there was some third party involvement in the spill … the Grovesnor Estate says that vandals had tampered with the tank .
24 Thus many students would take a single , combined or ( more rarely ) a tripartite subject degree , with one or two ancillary or subsidiary subjects in the first two years , and some main subject options in the final year .
25 Although Botham 's sponsored Mercedes was the victim of a nocturnal break-in on Newcastle quayside within days of him taking delivery , both superstars were in great heart during the early weeks , Jones 's infectious enthusiasm extending to initiating some dumbfounded team mates in the incomprehensible fielding routines practised by the Australians .
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