Example sentences of "[adv] some of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As certain areas of Great Britain , for example , take on some of the characteristics of divided societies , the focus of this study also has a relevance , of increasing proportion , outside the province and beyond what many residents in Northern Ireland might see as most directly pertinent to them . |
| 2 | Dealing with people came naturally and was in many ways the most important part of the job , but there was more that could come only with experience , and Charles was there to pass on some of the things he had learned over thirty-three years , some of them the hard way . |
| 3 | William Parker takes on some of the baritone material with unabashed lyricism and plangency , leaving Elly Ameling to bring refreshing charm and beauty of tone to the soprano Mélodies . |
| 4 | This urban base once distinguished these movements from such parties in Europe , although extreme-right phenomena there in the 1980s have ( with exceptions ) now taken on some of the distributional features of the British extreme right 's support . |
| 5 | After the collapse and division of the NF , the BNP began in late 1989 and early 1990 to take on some of the former 's street-presence . |
| 6 | ‘ After I win , I 'll take on some of the opponents Eubank has beaten , and do a better job , ’ said Piper . |
| 7 | The reason for this lies in a theory called secondary reinforcement which says that the praise will become associated with the more powerful extra reward and take on some of the strong reinforcing properties of that reward . |
| 8 | Whitehead Mann has taken on some of the highest salaried job searches in Britain , comparable with Russell Reynolds ' recruiting of Bob Bauman for Beecham ; an assignment on behalf of a major British company looking for a chief executive to run their operations in Australia earned the firm £333 000 , according to the popular press ( on the basis that the successful candidate was to be paid an annual salary approaching £1m . ) . |
| 9 | The aim is to ease the stress of house-buying by giving advice and taking on some of the workload . |
| 10 | Father even allows quite unrelated youngsters to join the family group if they will take on some of the work of baby-carrying . |
| 11 | The stations of the South African Boer Republics , themselves huge concessions to the modern world which the Boers would originally much rather have done without , took on some of the dour , flinty character of Dutch Reformed Calvinism . |
| 12 | Since some of the restrictions have been taken off , team members are beginning to take on some of the old supervisors tasks — requesting stores , requesting maintenance , in general , being more responsible . |
| 13 | The issuing house will underwrite the issue ( i.e. agree to buy up any unsold shares ) for a fee , and will generally pass on some of the risk to sub-underwriters , who are usually large institutional investors . |
| 14 | As the train slowed to a halt , he remembered other drivers , mostly some of the ‘ old hands ’ , talk about Bridge 173 and how some of them joked about the ‘ strange sightings ’ near it . |
| 15 | She punctuates her conversation with snatches of song , hummed through closed lips , then recites slowly some of the words she has written . |
| 16 | The purpose of this is to disapply some of the more onerous administrative procedures which would otherwise be required to be carried out . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | President Bush 's administration has revealed its plan to save the Pacific Northwest 's spotted owl , and thereby some of the " old growth " forests which are its homeland . |
| 19 | The Trust says the estate is botanically some of the richest land the National Trust owns with a variety of trees , natural grasses , orchids , marsh flowers , insects and bird life . |
| 20 | The surprising thing is how little some of the room schemes cost . |
| 21 | Right Some of the commoner types of fern-like foliage from the Carboniferous Such foliage often belongs to the seed ferns , rather than the true ferns |
| 22 | Without greater honesty , we shall not combat effectively some of the extreme and ugly negativism which is widespread and which is epitomised by the derogatory phrases which Isaacs ( 1981 ) describes as ‘ defamatory ’ like ‘ old Crumble ’ . |
| 23 | Perhaps some of the voice teaching was repetitive in the second term , but when there was a change in voice tutor who developed pieces of your own choice rather than just vocal exercises the whole thing came alive and interesting . |
| 24 | As he said in The Favourite Game : ‘ Seven to 11 is a huge chunk of life , full of dulling and forgetting , ’ though perhaps some of the ‘ forgetting ’ was deliberate . |
| 25 | The five bells of the cathedral ring out a weirdly charming peal : perhaps some of the bells come from the foundry next door to the nineteenth-century cathedral . |
| 26 | Perhaps some of the cooks who fought as infantry at Maleme , Crete , could drop us a line . |
| 27 | perhaps some of the real and practical problems of user education may not have been tackled , but some might argue that these might be better researched at single-institutional level , without the necessity of substantial , outside funding . |
| 28 | Perhaps some of the most encouraging experimental results started with the work carried out in Switzerland by W. Pelikan and G. Unger , and published in English in 1965 . |
| 29 | Even on a short section you can see many of the different birds which colonise nearby Ramsey , Skikholm and Skomer islands , and perhaps some of the gannets that breed further out on Grassholm . |
| 30 | However , Barry Davis also pointed out that while these players blatantly break WTA rules by playing exhibitions when tournaments with prize money exceeding $225,000 is also taking place , that , perhaps some of the blame should rest on governing body which allows this to happen , — the WTA themselves . |