Example sentences of "[vb mod] [prep] some [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Services from social workers should in some cases have an element of protection . |
| 2 | It would seem to follow from this that men who fail to have regard to this question should in some circumstances be criminally liable but it is not clear whether the Committee intends this or not . |
| 3 | Thus , though one might for some purposes characterise the human sciences as concerned with human behaviour in all its fullness this is to misrepresent what turn out to be very different ways of looking at or being interested in the world of human beings . |
| 4 | With fewer resources it might in some cases have been necessary , and would certainly have been lawful , to preserve the peace by preventing individual returning miners from attempting to pass through picket lines . |
| 5 | Recurrent problems of the imposition or privilege of certain styles and tendencies , of methods of selection and of publicity , and then of both general and commercial advantage , might in some cases ( usually unsuccessfully ) be individually negotiated . |
| 6 | We shall have to reconsider how Darwin 's theory should be applied to animal fighting , to see whether natural selection might in some circumstances favour animals that avoid aggressive conflict . |
| 7 | Aspects of postmodernist tendencies might in some contexts be dependent upon an anti-trade-union posture , such as the contemporary United States ( where unionization of the workforce is now as low as 17 per cent ) . |
| 8 | For instance , concern over a drama examination could for some candidates obliterate the possibility of second-order experiencing . |
| 9 | Batch processing in the case of the personnel system could in some areas lead to information being up to two months out of date . |
| 10 | To disclose whether or not a warrant has been issued in a particular case could establish means whereby those involved in serious crimes or espionage or subversion could learn the extent to which their activities had come to notice or — perhaps more damaging — could in some cases confirm whether their activities had come to notice at all . |
| 11 | The intended victim of sorcery could take counter-measures by appealing to a supernatural being , and these counter-measures could in some cases transfer the intended harm to the person who had initiated it . |
| 12 | Supply of a set of goods within a natural monopoly framework may under some circumstances require suppression of entry into closely related areas in order to prevent competitive entry undermining the natural monopoly properties . |
| 13 | As Hassan 's comment half-implies , it may in some areas be time for criticism to move on from the task of defining postmodernism in relation to its antecedents . |
| 14 | As compared with a ‘ profit maximisation within the law ’ regime , this may in some areas lead to outcomes which are more efficient from a social point of view , as where a company takes voluntary action to internalise external costs . |
| 15 | Because you know both parties were there to make sure that er there was going to be a mutual agreement or it may in some instances be referred back to domestic level for resolution , or alternately , the employers just said , no and that , that was the end of it at that stage . |
| 16 | Discourses of ‘ race ’ , sexuality , age , or class , may in some circumstances be more important influences on psychologists ' work than discourses of gender . |
| 17 | Quite clearly , though , the aims of Compact are consonant with the aims of the new generation of examinations and Compact will provide new resources and learning opportunities which can be used as a basis for course work and may in some circumstances be eligible for assessment and certification by the examining bodies , e.g. as a module in GCSE or CPVE or as the basis of an entire examination such as the AEB Basic Test " World of Work " . |
| 18 | Compacts may in some circumstances be eligible for assessment and certification by the examining bodies , for example as a module in GCSE or CPVE or as the basis of an entire examination such as the AEB Basic Test " World of Work " . |
| 19 | Not all child-beating amounts to deliberate cruelty ( although much which is pardoned has a suspicious streak in it ! ) and a parent may in some circumstances be excused for hitting out . |
| 20 | However , we have tended to overlook the fact that they may in some circumstances be met in other ways . |
| 21 | The fact that opposite directions of movement may in some circumstances be associated with different questions , considered a priori to encourage different types of cognitive activity , is not sufficient evidence to warrant the conclusion that opposite hemispheres are being engaged . |
| 22 | That is why the hon. Gentleman timidly teetered round the edge of this at the outset , saying that of course there may in some circumstances be benefits . |
| 23 | We now know much more about surviving hunters and gatherers than was known in Morgan 's day and , although sexual unions among them may in some cases be very unstable , in others they are not . |
| 24 | These and other examples suggest that engineering design may impose some rather loose constraints on structure , and may in some cases impose precise quantitative constraints on shape ( e.g. the shapes of bird 's wings are very accurately adapted to particular modes of flight ) . |
| 25 | The jury may in some cases put two and two together , but it seems to us that the effect of section 58 is such that the balance of fairness between prosecution and defence can not be maintained unless proper comment is permitted on the defendant 's silence in such circumstances . |
| 26 | At home it may in some cases be the parents who notice something ‘ odd ’ about their baby 's eyes or feel an unease about the baby 's visual behaviour . |
| 27 | The genotypic composition of the population may in some cases dimly reflect forces that operated twenty or thirty years ago . |
| 28 | As just mentioned , however , there may in some cases be an off-setting increased risk of take-over as a result of unprofitable growth causing a depression in share price . |
| 29 | The occupier of the land on which the chattel is found may in some cases have a title superior to that of the finder . |
| 30 | The very strength of some of the characteristics of bureaucracy may in some cases be turned into a cause of weakness . |