Example sentences of "[adv] and some [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both achieved massive majorities , only four fathers voting against the liturgy document , but a significant number voted against that on communications — which hardly anyone rated highly and some thought an inappropriate subject for the Council . |
| 2 | Of the 300,000 women estimated to be doing home-work in Britain today 72 per cent receive less than the legal minimum hourly wage , three quarters of those get 1 ( $1.60 ) or less and some make as little as 20p ( 30 cents ) an hour . |
| 3 | More than 12,000 people have been treated in America and elsewhere and some have complained of glare , especially from car headlights when driving at night . |
| 4 | ‘ They live dangerously and some get caught and die by the law . |
| 5 | This means that a business can easily work out what would happen if its sales , purchases , wages etc were all to change at different rates , with some going up and some going down . |
| 6 | The company has not laid off any employees , but overtime has been cut out and some work that was given to outside contractors , e.g. final ‘ shearing ’ up of carpets , is now done in the company . |
| 7 | Well when you 're a waitress and you mix you know with all sorts and you hear different people talking and what they did and what they did n't do you now and some had Doctor pills at that time in the nineteen thirties and some used the Indian bark . |
| 8 | Some of the textured pavement and warning tiles did not function well and some caused difficulties for the non-handicapped , as when snagging high heels . |
| 9 | All of these metals were already in widespread use in their own right or in alloys over two thousand years ago and some have much earlier origins . |
| 10 | During the 1980s rural populations have grown more slowly then they did ten years earlier and some have declined ; in contrast not only has there been a substantial slowdown in the rate of London 's population decline ( Britton 1986 ) , but it has now gone into reverse in a small way . |
| 11 | In many of the Longhorns , however , the horns spread outwards and upwards instead and some have one horn growing in that fashion while the other curves down or one or both forwards rather than upwards or downwards . |