Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] some [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ABD is not only about speed limits , absurd through some of them are . |
| 2 | I opened the Crow Road folder lying on my lap and leafed through some of the papers . |
| 3 | Is it possible for some of us and perhaps representative 's of organisations or a group of us and I know I can talk to the board but I 'm not necessarily speaking for anybody else if I natter to you other than myself . |
| 4 | ‘ He was very upset about some of the work he was doing . |
| 5 | I think Freud would say though however that these are more like the th the was talking about religion , now clearly if something is a outlawing it is n't gon na make much difference to it , or if anything it 's , it 's just gon na make it er , er make it more difficult , but there are certain types of religion and Judaism is one of them where th this very pattern you 're talking about did occur and here Freud is er probably standing on , on firm ground , for reasons which I 'll explain in my lectures I do n't wan na take up too much time , but I have done a bit of research on this myself and as you will see , erm there 's , there are good reasons for thinking that Freud was certainly right about some of those and we certainly know that a monotheistic and , and an absolutely rigidly monotheistic religion appeared in Ancient Egypt as erm Andrea said , just before erm the er reign of this heretic er heretic , heretic pharaoh one of whose er near descendants , I forget how he was related now , erm was originally called Tutamkhatan and then was forced to change his name to Tutankhamen and he was dug up by Howard Carter in nineteen twenty two or something er and er the Tutankhamen is called Tutankhamen and not Tutamkhatan is that there was a religious . |
| 6 | I feel quite sorry for some of the airbase families , in fact . |
| 7 | ‘ Look , I 'm sorry about some of the things I said . |
| 8 | On the other hand , we realise that professional clinicians coming to the book might remain unconvinced about some of our chosen examples , as indeed might those readers who only feel comfortable with terms like ‘ schizophrenia ’ when they are used in a sense that has been given medical approval . |
| 9 | Many hon. Members on both sides of the House must be embarrassed about some of the comments that they have made in the past . |
| 10 | Only a few days before an ITV programme had been far from complimentary about some of the Salvation Army hostels . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | The walk is waymarked for some of its length — look out for the MW symbol . |
| 13 | The expectations of what should be provided , in contrast with what is available , may be painful for some from minority groups . |
| 14 | He welcomed being ‘ free of some of the restraints of the Exchange Rate Mechanism . ’ |
| 15 | A sea passage of over 200 kilometres from mainland Asia and hostile terrain enabled her to develop more or less free of some of the pressures encouraged by closer geographical proximity — for example , population movements and territorial aggression — and fostered cultural and racial homogeneity . |
| 16 | Executive power is in the hands of a directly elected President ( bereft of some of the powers used by Marcos ) and an appointed Cabinet . |
| 17 | What began as a hobby took over his life and though Joan did n't have the same initial enthusiasm , she helped him set up Woodstock Exotics in 1983 and now she becomes so fond of some of the plants she wo n't be parted from them ! |
| 18 | Why did n't he just vomit in public like some of his colleagues ? |
| 19 | He 's not popular with some of the neighbours but Steve could n't sit back while the animals suffered . |
| 20 | The scheme , which is not popular with some of the group 's investors , includes tying in 40 of its top managers with the promise of an equity stake in the business . |
| 21 | She had lost her virginity when she was ten , so she told us , and she was popular with some of the Spanish men who would perch her on their knees and allow her to fondle their private parts as a joke . |
| 22 | But neither our Minister , nor his programme was very popular with some of the older folk , and our pews began to empty . |
| 23 | ‘ You 've got to be awfully careful with some of them . ’ |
| 24 | The staff are unfamiliar with some of the donated materials . |
| 25 | The pattern is very different in some of the minority cultures represented in the British Isles . |
| 26 | The one thing you are interested in right now is if the sound i question is the same in all the words or different in some of them . |
| 27 | This becomes quite clear in some of the significant details of Schleiermacher 's account . |
| 28 | Temperatures were so high in some of the deep mines that the ‘ tinners ’ had to be sprayed with cold water while they worked in the dark with candles fixed to their helmets . |
| 29 | Although it has since been modified and greater attention paid to radio , it is still manifest in some of the Government 's actions in the field of mass communication . |
| 30 | But Li Ka-shing , head of Cheung Kong , confirmed he is ‘ interested in some of Olympia 's assets , but has not come up with any solid plans ’ . |