Example sentences of "[prep] some [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jackson is the first to admit that the numbers of people having a thing about some of the later material have taken a dip . |
| 2 | And we have talked about some of the extra-curricular activities that pretty young girls sometimes get invited to try . |
| 3 | The local management of schools policy appears to threaten the basis of much of what we have known ; and there is undoubtedly much concern about some of the ‘ new ’ skills which will be needed . |
| 4 | Endill led the way through the corridors , talking about some of the rooms he had visited nearby and in other parts of the school . |
| 5 | Talk about some of the factors that influence people 's attitudes to the way other people speak . |
| 6 | Talk about examples ( from their own experience or from their reading ) of changes in word use and meaning over time , and about some of the reasons for these changes , eg technological developments , euphemism , contact with other languages , fashion . |
| 7 | Talk about some of the effects of sound patterning , eg rhyme , alliteration , and figures of speech , eg similes , metaphors , personification , in imaginative uses of English . |
| 8 | Identify in their reading , and talk and write about some of the changes in the grammar of English over time , eg in pronouns ( from thou and thee to you ) , in verb forms , in negatives , etc . |
| 9 | Recognise and write about some of the techniques and conventions of presentation in non-literary and media texts , and the effectiveness of their use in specific instances — eg structure of news stories , or the way television programmes and newspapers match style and content to targeted audiences . |
| 10 | 17.21 Teachers should both create and respond to opportunities to focus on aspects of knowledge about written language and about some of the differences between speech and writing . |
| 11 | ( iii ) In the context of their own writing and reading , they should learn about some of the frequently occurring words and roots that have been absorbed into English from other languages , so that they become familiar with the common word-building processes and spelling patterns that derive from them . |
| 12 | Agnes put down her knife and fork and turned her head away from the table as she began to laugh ; Jessie was spluttering , too , as she said , ‘ You 've got no idea about some of the letters the girls make up , real naughty ones . |
| 13 | And when you sat there saying ‘ But what about some of the women 's issues ? ’ , they sat there saying , ‘ Why , why does it matter … ? ’ |
| 14 | ( In the next chapter you will find information about some of the therapies which may be helpful to you . ) |
| 15 | It may be convenient here to say something briefly about some of the other religious denominations which came to the town in the nineteenth century . |
| 16 | A few general notes about some of the remedies |
| 17 | If you and your children have always talked together on all kinds of subjects , you may find it easier to sit down and talk reasonably and quietly about some of the hard decisions that have to be made . |
| 18 | She writes about some of the things that happened . |
| 19 | The quality of the publicity material in the research areas has been high , but has needed to be , for the public have initially been deeply sceptical about some of the proposals . |
| 20 | On his visit to London we were able to get together for a bit of a jam and a chat about some of the parts he played on the ‘ new ’ album … |
| 21 | I need to write another book to tell you about some of the astonishing ways in which skills can be redirected . |
| 22 | Lord Tebbit tells me he has still to agree on his luxury — ‘ the BBC seem to be rather narrow-minded about some of the luxuries I 'd thought of . ’ |
| 23 | Last month , I wrote about some of the difficulties we have encountered in operating our Slater squad of young players . |
| 24 | Sun Microsystems Inc chief executive Scott McNealy is never at a loss for something to say , and has been sounding off about some of the current bees in his bonnet . |
| 25 | But there is still a certain English insouciance about some of the statistics . |
| 26 | ‘ Look , I 'm sorry about some of the things I said . |
| 27 | The European critics feel that the results of the latest trials justify their initial scepticism about some of the early claims made as a result of the US studies . |
| 28 | The exhibition and the accompanying symposia in London and Amsterdam raised a number of questions , not least about some of the pictures included in the exhibition . |
| 29 | Now Holt and Harris both have many wise , enlightened and humane observations to make about some of the injustices which we inflict upon children , but as these remarks show , putting them right without inflicting equally grave injustice is no easy matter . |
| 30 | Since this last point can also be made about some of the ‘ billiard-ball ’ , ‘ cobweb ’ , and ‘ layer-cake ’ approaches now current , for instance where the demands of ‘ capitalist accumulation ’ are taken to be impersonal and determining , it is fair to describe the mainstream story as one from outside . |