Example sentences of "[verb] to some of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The group , which hopes to raise £10,000 , plans to write to some of Darlington 's major employers in an attempt to secure sponsorship . |
| 2 | A public relations executive , Subba Row was a skilful diplomat accustomed to getting his own way and his methods did not always appeal to some of the county clubs or to the elder statesmen of MCC . |
| 3 | The indexing part of the project might appeal to some of the Friends who have interests in the Garden 's history . |
| 4 | In the middle years of the 1790s Wordsworth observed what was happening to some of the cottagers and cared about it ; like a good journalist , he called attention to outstanding cases in The Female Vagrant and The Ruined Cottage . |
| 5 | But look at individuals , rather than averages , and you see interesting things happening to some of the peasants ' lives . |
| 6 | When the fish were ready to spawn , the same chemicals were added to some of the streams feeding the lake . |
| 7 | The plain fact is that some elements of the social charter would run the risk — indeed , would make it a real possibility — of this country returning to some of the trade union practices that did so much damage during the 1970s . |
| 8 | I have made no secret of the fact that I consider you to be a boy with potential , a boy I might introduce to some of the wonderful things of this world . |
| 9 | References have been confined to some of the more significant primary sources and to secondary sources that readers may find particularly interesting or readable . |
| 10 | We also hoped to obtain a specimen of the cuberow , the so-called Abyssinian wolf , an animal like a large fox which was confined to some of the higher mountains in Abyssinia . |
| 11 | But I suppose really it was for supplies that came by ship to be carried to some of the houses on the hill , the Ranger 's House , or the Observatory . ’ |
| 12 | We 've seen what happens to some of them . |
| 13 | ‘ Up ’ ( and I think we 're talking more than the one level of ambiguity in that solitary two-letter word ) is a record that actually makes you feel happy , in that all of it is uplifting ( oi ! spiritually , not trouserly ) , you can dance to some of it and sing along to the rest , the words are rude and witty and always smart , and Richard Fairbrass is a fantastic pop singer , all post-Bowie and Ferry and languid , a sort of brightly-coloured Neil Tennant . |
| 14 | Yeah , I 'm going to ring them up in a moment and tell them I object to some of the advertisements , particularly for drugs that they 're advertising . |
| 15 | I grew up with the balance and sound of the Vienna Philharmonic in the Grosse Musikvereinsaal , and I must say , listening to some of Furtwängler 's performances recorded there , it still sounds good to me . |
| 16 | There seemed no stopping her and he felt as if he were listening to some of the most important information he had ever heard . |
| 17 | But the Chancellor did show he had been listening to some of industry 's gripes . |
| 18 | Why have I decided to attack the fair sex ( that 's another joke when applied to some of the gross matrons and thin-lipped minxes I have in mind ) . |
| 19 | In this text , which is aimed at senior undergraduate students of engineering , the subject of matrices is described and developed before being applied to some of the problems of engineering dynamics . |
| 20 | Marco Polo 's glowing report of the beautiful , densely knotted rugs he witnessed during his visit to Turkestan in 1280 , could equally be applied to some of the finer items being made there today . |
| 21 | For similar reasons , forms of current cost accounting are being applied to some of the newly-privatized ( regulated ) industries , such as the water industry . |
| 22 | Perhaps Mr. Shelford should speak to some of the players in our sport who have been seriously injured by high tackles and then see how tough he feels ? |
| 23 | The Hon. Gentleman should perhaps speak to some of his own colleagues who gave me that advice . |
| 24 | And they were wanting to Some of them anyway wanted to join the Portobello branch . |
| 25 | You may see a guy wandering in and out groups and that 's a guy called Geoff who works for the British National Corpus and these are the people who are trying to have or produce ten million words of the written word and a hundred million erm spoken words , which is a corpus whereby , er come and look at the English language at some time in the future and identify and listen to some of your and your dialects and what you said so make sure you have lots of input as we 've got quite a broad spectrum of different dialects today but he 'll be wandering in and out er throughout today . |
| 26 | The stance most widely adopted by politicians , demographers , and economists was closely related to some of the eugenist arguments of the inter-war years : namely that the ageing of the population would create an unbalanced ratio of workers to dependents , with severe social and economic consequences . |
| 27 | Awkwardly for the government , however , the most sensible measures are the gloomiest : according to some of them , inflation is still rising . |
| 28 | The club paid him the princely sum of £8 , a fee that has not risen much over the years according to some of Celtic 's more dour stars . |
| 29 | Thousands of others died each year without telling relatives of their savings , according to some of Britain 's leading financial institutions and businesses . |
| 30 | For example , the first issue of the first edition of Dickens 's A Christmas Carol , according to some of the pundits , has green endpapers , while the second issue has yellow . |