Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | These institutions are among some 200 ‘ unverified and lost ’ , and so excluded from the 11th edition of the Directory of British Associations , just out . |
| 2 | Most researchers are at some stage forced up against the inadequacy of the social class classification . |
| 3 | and what your views are on some of these settlements that have been made ? |
| 4 | These groups are to some extent welcome to the authorities , as they provide obvious and organized bodies with which negotiations and discussions can be held . |
| 5 | All these trapping methods are to some extent selective , but they are augmented by observation and hand-netting . |
| 6 | In other words , both parties are to some extent ‘ locked into ’ a transaction to which highly specific assets have been assigned . |
| 7 | These three aspects are to some extent interrelated in that , for example , at higher temperatures water quality may deteriorate more rapidly than at low temperatures and under conditions of crowding , the deterioration of water quality will also be accelerated . |
| 8 | Like Saussure 's Cours , The Meaning of Meaning starts from the proposition that there is an essential disjunction between language and reality , that it is a superstition to believe that ‘ words are in some way parts of things ’ ( Ogden and Richards 1936 : 14 ) . |
| 9 | Specific applications of multimedia in business and professional environments are to some extent determined by commercial ingenuity . |
| 10 | The repeated confirmation of the correlation between the physical characteristics of the stimulus and the characteristics of the neural activity it triggers , and between the characteristics of the stimulus and that of the subjective sensation , has encouraged the belief that our sensations are in some sense to be understood in terms of a set of stimulation levels ( spiking frequencies ) in the appropriate sensory pathways . |
| 11 | Johnson thought they ‘ remained convinced that the umpires were on some kind of personal mission to upset them ’ . |
| 12 | Against the backdrop of apparent economic stability and increasing affluence the idea that the major industrial nations were at some kind of break-point held considerable appeal . |
| 13 | With the exception of Paul Nilon 's delightfully zany Count Belfiore , the principal roles were in some danger of being upstaged by the slightly lesser ones ( Nilon is not to blame if it remains incredible that any woman , let alone two , should fall in love with such a bizarre creature ) . |
| 14 | Finally , the effort required of readers is to some extent always dependent on the amount of energy they are prepared to expend in any given situation . |
| 15 | Direct selling in customers ' homes is to some extent accepted practice for a number of consumer product groups such as perfumes , cosmetics and toiletries but remains an area of unexplored potential for a number of others . |
| 16 | For this reason the range of offices was in some ways wider than we would think normal in a modern bureaucracy ; and , since the winning of support was quite as important as the conduct of business , influential men were able to accumulate posts . |
| 17 | We find it difficult to know how to obtain samples of families with recent baptisms , so we enlist the help of some local clergy who are interested , and we find that it seems simpler to restrict ourselves to baptism within the Anglican Church , since other baptisms in nonconformist churches and chapels suggest that the parents are of some definite religious following . |
| 18 | The bibliographical services officer subsequently ensures that more specialized works not ordered by the areas are at some point put into the stock of the authority as a whole . |
| 19 | In the case of anaphor resolution , matters are in some ways simpler . |
| 20 | Miss Armstrong said the defendants were in some way prodding the woman from behind she swung round as if to hit the children with her bag and they ran off . |
| 21 | I 'm quite sure that the way forward for teachers and parents is within some kind of co-operative framework , and the only way that can work effectively is for each to be aware of other 's needs and difficulties , and the kind of barriers that have existed in the past for parents to get into schools I think are being lowered by the schools , but it takes almost a generation , I think , for parents to stop being frightened about what school is doing and the kind of parents who 've had bad experiences themselves in schools , I think , have enormous difficulties in approaching teachers and I 'm sure the answer is in terms of co-operative activity — children and schools , schools and parents , and all of them together with myriad of outside agencies that are available for children with severe problems . |
| 22 | It is not surprising therefore that the history of thought about the two policy areas is in some ways similar , although that of family planning is in many ways a decade ahead of conservation . |
| 23 | The matter of sexually abusive language in texts is in some senses a separate issue . |
| 24 | The effects of this on the bones is of some interest for comparison with the effects of gnawing of larger bone by larger predators ( for example , see Bonnichsen , 1973 ; Sutcliffe , 1970 ; Hill , 1975 , 1976 ; Binford , 1981 ; Haynes , 1980 , 1983 ) , for there is direct correspondence between , for instance hyaena gnawing on large antelope bones , wolf gnawing on smaller bovid bones , fox gnawing on small bovids and lagomorphs and shrew gnawing on rodent bones . |
| 25 | Crossing the worse danger zones was like some horrible game of ‘ Last Across ’ ; they told you that forty cuistots had got across safely since the last casualty ; you waited for the explosion , then staggered frantically over the open space , knowing that if you were No. 41 the next shell probably had your name on it . |
| 26 | The policy implications are to some extent summarised in the contribution of the Bundesbank President to the Delors report : within the monetary union , balance-of-payments policy is replaced by regional policy , with the latter helping to finance inter-regional differences in current account imbalances through transfer payments . |
| 27 | These ideas are in some ways similar to one of the psychoanalytical theories of schizophrenia , popular in the 1960s , Bateson 's ‘ doublebind ’ hypothesis . |
| 28 | All heroes are in some measure anti-heroes , after all , if the term means that they are opposed to some antiquated sense of heroism that their creators are eager to question or discredit . |
| 29 | A surprising number of accidents and incidents happen because pilots are in some way not 100% fit on the day in question . |
| 30 | yet , as Lancaster observes ‘ Librarians do not exist merely to acquire books or to maximise the work load at the circulation desk : presumably libraries are in some way concerned with certain uses of books and with certain desired outcomes of the reading process. , |