Example sentences of "[adv prt] some [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As certain areas of Great Britain , for example , take on some of the characteristics of divided societies , the focus of this study also has a relevance , of increasing proportion , outside the province and beyond what many residents in Northern Ireland might see as most directly pertinent to them . |
| 2 | Dealing with people came naturally and was in many ways the most important part of the job , but there was more that could come only with experience , and Charles was there to pass on some of the things he had learned over thirty-three years , some of them the hard way . |
| 3 | William Parker takes on some of the baritone material with unabashed lyricism and plangency , leaving Elly Ameling to bring refreshing charm and beauty of tone to the soprano Mélodies . |
| 4 | This urban base once distinguished these movements from such parties in Europe , although extreme-right phenomena there in the 1980s have ( with exceptions ) now taken on some of the distributional features of the British extreme right 's support . |
| 5 | After the collapse and division of the NF , the BNP began in late 1989 and early 1990 to take on some of the former 's street-presence . |
| 6 | ‘ After I win , I 'll take on some of the opponents Eubank has beaten , and do a better job , ’ said Piper . |
| 7 | The reason for this lies in a theory called secondary reinforcement which says that the praise will become associated with the more powerful extra reward and take on some of the strong reinforcing properties of that reward . |
| 8 | Whitehead Mann has taken on some of the highest salaried job searches in Britain , comparable with Russell Reynolds ' recruiting of Bob Bauman for Beecham ; an assignment on behalf of a major British company looking for a chief executive to run their operations in Australia earned the firm £333 000 , according to the popular press ( on the basis that the successful candidate was to be paid an annual salary approaching £1m . ) . |
| 9 | The aim is to ease the stress of house-buying by giving advice and taking on some of the workload . |
| 10 | Father even allows quite unrelated youngsters to join the family group if they will take on some of the work of baby-carrying . |
| 11 | The stations of the South African Boer Republics , themselves huge concessions to the modern world which the Boers would originally much rather have done without , took on some of the dour , flinty character of Dutch Reformed Calvinism . |
| 12 | Since some of the restrictions have been taken off , team members are beginning to take on some of the old supervisors tasks — requesting stores , requesting maintenance , in general , being more responsible . |
| 13 | The issuing house will underwrite the issue ( i.e. agree to buy up any unsold shares ) for a fee , and will generally pass on some of the risk to sub-underwriters , who are usually large institutional investors . |
| 14 | At the time of her arrest , Dai Qing was working on a series of studies entitled Modern Chinese Intellectuals : From Liang Qichao to Fang Lizhi , in order , as she put it , to fill in some of the ‘ memory holes ’ of the history of the Chinese Communist Party . |
| 15 | ‘ A botanical illustrator who 's retired here is filling in some of the gaps in our plant and tree records . |
| 16 | Russians are filling in some of the gaps in their lives by seeking out anything that was forbidden or hard to get in Soviet times . |
| 17 | A second year of practical experience on another mixed farm , together with concentrated reading , will confirm and consolidate the earlier lessons ; local day-release courses in special aspects of practical farming can fill in some of the gaps . |
| 18 | Mr Vinct brought in some of the ‘ Daily Service ’ folk to see me and to tell me about their work . |
| 19 | I am making the assumption that Kirov will be able to fill in some of the blanks once we come up with a workable number … probably no more than three . |
| 20 | I 'll bring in some of the kids who were there and Jonesy can imitate the preacher . ’ |
| 21 | Without even trespassing into any of these more perilous aspects of pre-war street life , the Mass Observation study The Pub and the People ( 1943 ) filled in some of the detail of the rowdy bonhomie of the working-class weekend , and the ‘ high point of mass drunkenness ’ during the exodus from the northern towns to Blackpool . |
| 22 | Right before I fill in some of the details on this again an important point to grasp coming up . |
| 23 | Words for strong stemming might be filtered through a table of exceptions which are not to be stemmed ( " organism " , " organist " etc ) Strong stemming is an economical but crude way of automatically bringing in some of the halo of see also terms which surround many search words . |
| 24 | ‘ I think Guy might fill in some of the background , ’ Scott-Scobie agreed . |
| 25 | Jessamy pushed them irritably to one side and began to work on one of the dragons , filling in some of the more intricate details . |
| 26 | She wondered how she could fill in some of the gaps . |
| 27 | We passed along some of the corridors and slammed some of the doors . |
| 28 | If you start writing down some of the responses to that question , you will find you have along the way acquired a ragbag of elements that will have an important bearing on the design . |
| 29 | ONE OF the doughty pack leaders to emerge in the late 1940's from the Manchester scrum of ‘ palaeomagnetists ’ was S , Keith Runcorn — a former Cambridge engineer with an almost unhealthy liking for the rough and tumble of the rugby field , Keith Runcorn is now professor of physics , and geophysics supremo , at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne — and incidentally the president of the university 's rugby club , To honour Runcorn 's reaching the age of 60 , the university organised earlier this month a three-day conference on ‘ Magnetism , planetary rotation and convection in the Solar System ’ , Since the Second World War , geology has undergone conceptual upheavals as never before , The apparently ludicrous ideas proposed by Alfred Wegener in the 1920s , that the Earth 's continents were drifting around , have found solid ground , The evidence came from physicists inspired by wartime work on radar , by cosmic-ray research and the discovery that some rotating stars have a magnetic field , The physicists set themselves the task of measuring whether rotating bodies on Earth also produce magnetic fields , The eminent Patrick Maynard Blackett devised a highly sensitive magnetometer for this work , but finding that a spinning gold cylinder produced no magnetic field , turned his machine to measuring rock magnetism , A school of expertise concerned with ‘ fossilised magnetism ’ developed around him at Manchester and later at Imperial College , London , The fruits of such work inspired a reappraisal of continental drift and new theories to explain the mechanisms responsible for moving the continents , and later produced the foundations on which were forged the unifying concepts of plate tectonics and seafloor spreading , Runcorn applies an enormous enthusiasm to all that he takes on — as many past students and editors of various science journals can testify , His first notoriety came with his attempts to determine whether the Earth 's general magnetic field was related to the planet 's rotation , or related to some deep-seated phenomenon , To determine this he took his magnetometer down some of the deep Lancashire coal pits . |
| 30 | Determined to delve deeper into the matter , the DFG , one of the major channels for state funds for research which distributes DM 900 million ( £200 million ) annually for all subjects , has asked some of Germany 's top researchers to review their own areas and try to pin down some of the problems . |