Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's no different than some blokes smoking fags . ’ |
| 2 | Leasing costs are high because some equipment purchased as part of the redevelopment was funded on leasing agreements . |
| 3 | Derelict land may be derelict because some form of husbandry slowly became unremunerative … or the dereliction may be the result of exploitation … the land being later abandoned . |
| 4 | It is not clear whether some schools did not have the instruments available as requested or whether pupils decided not to use them . |
| 5 | There is rarely any real interest in fashion now , but it is heartening when some individuality of style and presence remains , and the frumpish ‘ old lady ’ image is avoided . |
| 6 | She had often thought of it and each time she did Stephen 's face came before her eyes , as clear as some mystic 's vision , the most vulnerable face she had ever seen , the face of a brave child . |
| 7 | I tolled him i thort he was rong and that the jokes are abowt as funny as some jokes that are very funny . |
| 8 | However , we do have some occasional vacancies , maternity leave , building maintenance work , long term sick , where we have to make sure our labour force is protected , where we do involve temporary labour and even on those occasions we attempt to employ people direct as some regions know . |
| 9 | While not as light as some alternatives , it looks smart , is easy to wash and quick to dry and has very useful pockets . |
| 10 | THE good news yesterday was that the public sector borrowing requirement may not be growing as fast as the pessimists feared , and the need for tax increases in the Budget may not be as insistent as some analysts believe . |
| 11 | The nose is more subtle than some Cabernets , but search and you 'll find currants and an edge of tar . |
| 12 | She stood outside looking up at a creamy moon , fearful lest some bat might fly into her hair . |
| 13 | It is not as simple as some pundits suggest . |
| 14 | It 's even more confusing cos some systems of by thirds I think they go , they go on wards there 's some wards do n't have an election one year , when the neighbouring one does . |
| 15 | A power-duct gone crystalline where some fault in the rock had let in the awful cold of space . |
| 16 | I am sure that my hon. Friend is right , in that it makes sense to believe that if young people from both sides of the community are taught together in the same classrooms , they will value equally both traditions and will be more likely than some others to find common ground in later life . |
| 17 | But those that are added to Tesco Healthy Eating Bio Yogurt give it a special mild flavour — less acidic than some varieties . |
| 18 | Legal doctrine was in danger of appearing incoherent unless some reconciliation could be found between these two visions of the company . |
| 19 | Formal statistical tests seem inappropriate as some summary statistical measures should indicate the sizeable discrepancy between the actual values of the decision variables and the optimal values . |
| 20 | But the total effect on labour supply might not be as large as some proponents of tax cuts believe . |
| 21 | However , the frequent references to mathematics or numeracy in this connection suggest that the arts/science distinction may also to some extent be a maths/non-maths one , although no doubt some economists and psychologists are more numerate than some engineers and biologists , and numeracy tends nowadays to refer , however inaccurately , to computing as well as mathematics . |
| 22 | This suggests that law enforcement is more complex than some writers have assumed . |
| 23 | It has become clear that the process of Russian penetration into these far-flung regions was more complex than some writers have suggested . |
| 24 | But since the scheme is a good one , and since it is only viable if some people sacrifice a lot , it is a justified scheme , even though one may be called upon , according to fair procedures , to contribute much more than the antecedently expected sacrifice . |
| 25 | So you 're good at hey that 's good because some people ca n't go their F goes all over the place . |
| 26 | It 's not paid automatic because some people , well first of all we do n't know the precise dates when the proof is going to go out and also some people like to leave it there . |
| 27 | It is too late when some child is injured . |
| 28 | A sense of the incongruity of things is not so unimportant as some people think . |
| 29 | We shall not outline more particular models namely the " unit cell " and " short fibre " models which are applicable when some geometry is known . |
| 30 | But the musical public is not as gullible as some critics would have us believe . |