Example sentences of "[adv] with some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the achievement was always precarious and was maintained only with some difficulty . |
| 2 | Only with some knowledge of their history could he hope to deal with these singular people , who believed implicitly that their emperors were descended from Solomon and Sheba . |
| 3 | The significance of many particular facts or operations could be perceived only with some background knowledge , which the uninitiated would have little wish or reason to acquire . |
| 4 | There was little reason , certainly in primary schools , to identify some teachers only with some subjects . |
| 5 | They may well have had sexual intercourse regularly before the act in question and , because a sexual relationship may involve a degree of compromise , she may sometimes have agreed only with some reluctance to such intercourse . |
| 6 | ‘ Only with some people , Prince . ’ |
| 7 | A rapidly growing species was selected by Friedmann as a vaccine and therapeutic agent and was used between 1905 and 1930 , apparently with some success . |
| 8 | It would be dangerous enough with some space and several tablecloths between their nearly naked bodies , but if he touched her she knew she would be lost . |
| 9 | The ‘ Jungled Up To F— ’ mix brings in XTC ( ho ho ) of Manchester 's Mix Factory to remix and get down with some roughneck business . |
| 10 | Looking back , it seemed inevitable that Evelyn would go down with some sort of psychological trouble . |
| 11 | These three women , it will readily and perhaps with some irritation be perceived , were amongst the crème de la crème of their generation . |
| 12 | and I was very moved by the photograph and I ended up writing a poem to this little girl , and indeed one thing I can say , perhaps with some pride , is that Doctor Barnardos know about this poem , and somehow who was writing a history Barnardo children actually asked to use it in her book . |
| 13 | All I want to do is finish the London under 4:20 , perhaps with some help from your magazine . |
| 14 | Dr Runcie 's Pope would be , as it were , the speaker of the universal Church , perhaps with some power to rule members out of order . |
| 15 | Perhaps with some reluctance . |
| 16 | ‘ Here , have yours , ’ he said , ‘ perhaps with some food inside you you 'll feel better . |
| 17 | It is beyond dispute that advances in medicine and improvements in living conditions have enabled individuals who at previous times would not have survived severe illness or chronic handicaps to live on , perhaps with some disability , into their seventh , eighth , and ninth decades . |
| 18 | The presence of an open gable end , perhaps with some sort of arrangement to accommodate wooden shutters , indicates the commercial importance attached to such premises , as for example at Catterick . |
| 19 | ( This last was ignored by Iran , which perceived it — perhaps with some accuracy — as having been staged by Baghdad from the outset . ) |
| 20 | It added , perhaps with some irony , that there was always a situation of the world market in fuel and that it was natural for the Commission to receive bids in response to its invitations to tender . |
| 21 | In March 1171 the monks of St Martial 's , Limoges , though perhaps with some embarrassment , asked for , and were sent , aid in putting down a revolt of their townsmen at La Souterraine , a revolt which had the backing of Count Audebert of La Marche . |
| 22 | Indeed they would have argued — and perhaps with some justice — that theirs was a more refined branch of the art : for did it not demand to a quite exceptional degree a sense of the romance of the past and a feeling for an evocative relic ? |
| 23 | On this basis it is arguable , perhaps with some truth , that ministers need protection from their friends . |
| 24 | The crowd is told to go back home , and does so with some relief . |
| 25 | When their children moved away , the house seemed empty and so with some trepidation Stephen and Marypen began to take in guests , their intention being that every guest should be ‘ entertained as a friend ’ . |
| 26 | I have already done so with some success in a number of instances and I hope to continue doing so . |
| 27 | I support the intention of the Bill and its important deterrent aspects , and I shall support it for the same reason as the hon. Member for Oxford , East , but I must confess that I do so with some reluctance at this stage . |
| 28 | ‘ If I may say so with some dignity , sir , I 'm trying to set them an example . |
| 29 | It was a national union , but it was a crime more or less with some bosses to belong to a trade union . |
| 30 | This tallies with the figure which was quite widely quoted to us by lenders of something in the region of one per cent of credit transactions turning into bad debts ( less with some lenders , more with others ) . |