Example sentences of "[noun] of some of the " in BNC.

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1 The prohibition against churning is , in theory , no more applicable to futures transactions than any other type of investment although in practice the " churn and burn " and hard sell tactics of some of the more disreputable futures brokers have , in the past , given a misleading impression of the futures industry generally .
2 Indeed , characteristics of some of the extreme cases are :
3 In this paper , I have argued that , contrary to the thinking of some of the major representatives of the tradition which distinguishes the public world from the private one , the notion of autonomy ought to be extended to the private sphere .
4 In this way modern analytical techniques are providing the basis for greater appreciation of some of the world 's greatest painters .
5 However it is hoped that this has given the reader an appreciation of some of the issues involved .
6 Among the grievances of some of the rural rebels in the sixteenth century were complaints about the enclosure of lands by lords — this occurred in the north-west sector of the Pilgrimage of Grace , and the casting down of hedges marked the start of the Norfolk rising of 1549 .
7 The falsity of the impression that all private press books are expensive is demonstrated by the fact that fourteen examples from the Essex House ( 3 ) , Vale ( 1 ) , Shakespeare Head ( 1 ) , Riccardi ( 1 ) , Nonesuch ( 3 ) , Golden Cockerel ( 4 ) and Gregynog ( 1 ) presses fell in the price range £18-£40 , and the uniformity of some of the prices suggests that only protective reserves pushed them as high as that .
8 Incorporation of some of the linguistic information that humans employ is necessary to improve text recognition systems .
9 Closure of some of the oldest plants on Merseyside and Teeside could result in the loss of thousands of jobs .
10 Memories of boyhood days would not be complete without mention of some of the boys with whom we played , boys we grew up with , and who to this day remain our good friends — the life-long friends of Jerry and me .
11 1993 , 1994 and 1995 will mark the 50th anniversaries of some of the greatest , most notorious battles and victories of this century .
12 Even with this care , however , so great are the quantities of drift-net in use that the loss of some of the millions of kilometres of netting deployed each year is inevitable .
13 A consequence had been the loss of some of the not-so-bright children of local tradespeople or farmers ( who now looked to the independent schools ) , and some alleged decline in the social standing of the school within the town .
14 Thick peeling is not only wasteful but also results in a loss of some of the valuable nutrients which potatoes contain .
15 Early retirement and voluntary redundancy schemes often result in the loss of some of the best people .
16 According to Chief Executive Derek Langslow , the use of peat contributes to " the loss of some of the last remnants of Britain 's primeval landscape , and to the destruction of a habitat which required thousands of years to develop " .
17 The coastal group warned that " the combination of rigid sea walls now hemming in most of our low-lying or erodible coast , and land reclamation , is causing severe " coastal squeeze " " , which had resulted in the loss of some of the country 's most valuable coastal features , notably salt-marshes .
18 Yet despite being the most powerful man in the world , in command of some of the most deadly and sophisticated weaponry ever designed , there seemed to be nothing he could do .
19 Not that anyone was shooting up heroin at their desks or anything , but the glazed eyes of some of the dishevelled staff suggested that they were well acquainted with the teachings of Robert Nesta Marley and perhaps worse .
20 An half-hour programme of some of the team 's repertoire has been video recorded .
21 The opposition of some of the armed forces was a major reason for the failure of the coup .
22 Ellie also thrilled to hear it , for it sounded so glamorous , and put her in mind of some of the stories Madame had told her of her early days on the stage .
23 I ca n't get into the mind of some of the present batch of legislators , because they do n't seem to think thinks out logically , but what it 's actually done , or what it 's trying to do , is to make it very difficult to have an education system that is properly thought out , properly resourced and properly organized for the benefit of everybody and not just one or two people , and that 's one of the difficulties and that 's the difficulty that we any Local Authority is faced with .
24 In a study of some of the commonest abnormalities found in colorectal cancer , Vogelstein found that while over 90% of carcinomas contained two or more alterations , a minority , constituting less than 10% of the total , contained none .
25 Taking stock of some of the ideas discussed above , we can speculate that individuals , when they speak , adopt a particular posture or footing in relation to their interlocutor or audience ; and that each footing in turn is associated with a persona , a " someone " who that speaker is " being " at that particular moment .
26 We should be equally sensitive to the pervasive and often demeaning influences of some of the common images of old age on older men and women themselves .
27 Certainly Johnston , Wolpe and Eric Gill , the authors of some of the finest modern typefaces , possessed considerable writing or inscriptional skills .
28 As such , this would therefore suggest a predisposition of some of the Scottish judiciary towards the possession vaut titre continental concept and the logical concomitant here is the failure to give effect to ss17-19 of the 1979 Act .
29 The decree 's ostensible purpose was to suppress the growing dissidence of some of the minority tribes in the oil-producing eastern states , which claim that they have lost land and gained pollution without receiving royalties for the huge quantities of oil pumped out of their territory .
30 Later research has shown that some of the statements in that paper do not agree with records made at the time in the laboratory notebooks of some of the people concerned .
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