Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a small village , old-fashioned maybe , a bit feudal in some respects , but we like it . |
| 2 | I think that the use of the word ‘ language ’ can be a little bit confusing to some people that have never actually done any computing . |
| 3 | He 's a bit childlike in some ways . |
| 4 | Whether this is the result of oppressive criticism by his school-teachers or family , or whether it comes from a reaction to the finer-than-fine scholarship visible in some branches of Judaism ( which counts letters and finds significance in the smallest linguistic minutiae ) , is not certain . |
| 5 | The amounts of aid forthcoming from some member countries of the support group also proved less than at first anticipated . |
| 6 | Whether it was the wishes of the archdiocese ; or whether it was the inarticulate growls of air-marshals ; or whether it was the judgement that someone of 73 carries too many years to move to big new work ; or whether someone among Eden 's advisers thought scholarship important for some bishops — Eden rejected Fisher 's preference that Ramsey should go to London . |
| 7 | Now the hardware side , Sun Microsystems Computer Corp has responded to the waves of criticism by saying that it will make its silicon designs available to some semiconductor fabricators so that they can make , sell and support chips based on those designs worldwide . |
| 8 | This problem is compounded by the practice common with some United States carriers of issuing straight bills without stamping the words ‘ non negotiable ’ on the originals . |
| 9 | A collection of data relevant to some project/organization or enterprise . |
| 10 | Significantly , leading Japanese computer makers have adopted export strategies similar in some respects to those of the car industry . |
| 11 | They can minimize uncertainty about the future by converting savings ( possibly from current income ) into a stream of income payable at some time in the future . |
| 12 | It may be a bit tiresome for some people , but I think it 's better than getting loads of bounced mail bunging up everyone 's mailbox ( it does happen … ) |
| 13 | His suggestions can only reinforce the anti-male sexism inherent in some areas of child care work . |
| 14 | The practical task , then , for a water authority setting or modifying a consent based on criteria relating to the particular watercourse becomes one of persuading a discharger disadvantaged by some criterion which makes sense in utilitarian — but not moral — terms of the force of the agency 's position . |
| 15 | It is a process analogous in some ways to story-telling , where the point is made precisely through a sacrifice of the kind of literalness and explicitness which the logician , by the nature of his training , tends to regard as the ultimate requirement of clarity , and indeed an intrinsic feature of truth . |
| 16 | Eventually , we reach the council estate , which is shaped like a square C and ominous in the absence of lighting ( the bulbs having burnt themselves out of lamp-posts scrawny like some thing starved ) . |
| 17 | Further , he might by the same instrument grant a present estate , say for life , to A , followed by an estate for life or in tail to B , and , if he wished , as many further particular estates ( for life or in tail ) to other persons successively as he pleased , ending up , if he thought fit , with an estate in fee simple to some person named . |
| 18 | First , the new approach may make the teacher aware of some lack of understanding of X — the originator of the innovation may well have a more comprehensive understanding of the topic and possibly a more detailed map of children 's paths towards it but neither is in fact essential for the promotion of the feeling of insecurity in the teacher . |
| 19 | ‘ Security is created where a person ( ‘ the creditor ’ ) to whom an obligation is owed by another ( ‘ the debtor ’ ) by statute or contract , in addition to the personal promise of the debtor to discharge the obligation , obtains rights exercisable against some property in which the debtor has an interest in order to enforce the discharge of the debtor 's obligation to the creditor . ’ |
| 20 | NHS authorities were appointed rather than elected , with the exception of health committees responsible for some community and preventive services since 1974 . |
| 21 | There probably wo n't be a vaccine available for some years , so , as yet , there 's no specific treatment . |
| 22 | Wendt , a noted hardcore fan way back in the days when Nirvana were still a mod band , has been presenting the acts on Saturday Night Live for some years . |
| 23 | They 'd be full of stories about Wimbledon Common for some reason . |
| 24 | The most likely effects being gastro intestinal with some nausea . |
| 25 | first , the existing local authorities argued for the retention of the status quo ; second , some Conservative Members of Parliament sought to retain the existing system as far as possible in such areas as Surrey ; third , groups concerned with some services — particularly education — pointed out weaknesses in the proposals as far as their service was concerned ( Rhodes 1970 : 120 ) . |
| 26 | When I read out ‘ La Parure ’ to a writing class , I noticed that the penny dropped with some people just before the author disclosed the secret . |
| 27 | Ocenebra erinacea or Urosalpinx cinerea ( Fig. 35 ) may be found with N. lapillus on some shores . |
| 28 | This suggests that the overall effect of the intercalator is to alter the stereochemistry of the intrastrand coordination crosslink to permit the RNA polymerase to track more freely in the major groove for an additional one or two bp prior to some part of the polymerase being terminally blocked . |
| 29 | unsecured loans available in some circumstances |
| 30 | The work has been useful in 2 ways : firstly , it has yielded demonstrator programmes that can be used to convince more senior officers ; and it has increased the number of people available with some knowledge of expert systems . |