Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [conj] some [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Now the United States is on the verge of bombing Iraq on the pretext that Iraq refuses to destroy its ‘ weapons of mass destruction ’ — when , in fact , Iraq has asked that some of its military industry be converted to civilian production laid waste by allied bombing . |
| 3 | Arguing on the basis of income , A. H. M. Jones has estimated that some of the more wealthy land-owners in the western provinces must have held ‘ several thousand square miles ’ . |
| 4 | PLO chair Yassir Arafat in an interview on July 28 said : Rabin " has admitted that some of the settlements are illegitimate . |
| 5 | The Home Secretary , Michael Howard , has confirmed that some of the changes recommended in the Sheehy Report on Britain 's police forces , are to be introduced . |
| 6 | The census office has warned that some of the information released could be misleading until it has been fully analysed . |
| 7 | But Mr Dixon has warned that some of the non-teaching work done at the unit might have to be scaled down . |
| 8 | Similarly , the Alsager team has discovered that some of the quickest bowlers , like Allan Donald of Warwickshire and South Africa , tend towards a hyper-extended knee as the front foot hits the ground . |
| 9 | Freeman ( 1984 ) has suggested that some of her research was not as thorough as it should have been if she was to make such claims , and even that her desire to reach the conclusions that she did made her see things as she wished to see them , rather than as they actually were ( see Shipman 1988 ) . |
| 10 | Peter Sawyer has suggested that some of the earliest surviving charters of the Anglo Saxon period refer to such estates and hence for some areas in the seventh century the early estate structure can be defined . |
| 11 | Journals which published it , and editors who included it , ceased to be fully respectable ; this message got through to Crookes , and he stopped his active propaganda , though apparently never ceasing to believe that some of the phenomena he had witnessed , often in distinguished and reliable company , were genuine . |
| 12 | He continued : ‘ Mick and I would like to think that some of the things we set out to achieve here have happened . |
| 13 | We are persuaded to think that some of these qualities must also have been shared by a wider spectrum of staff . |
| 14 | I 'm not going to say that some of these projects , such as Guernica , wo n't be fun to play around with , assuming that you can afford to buy all the necessary - and expensive — hardware to add to your already expensive system . |
| 15 | We could stop pretending that some of us have solutions which are vastly and obviously superior to others , when we all know really that our solutions are not good enough , and in this way you would come together in creative activity instead of fragmenting into ever more divisive and destructive activities which are technically called displacement from one another |
| 16 | ‘ You will be vexed to hear that some of the birds said to be in your last package from Sydney were missing : by what I can gather from your list they formed the whole of one of the smaller packages . |
| 17 | The bureau began to notice that some of their regular contributors were achieving higher-than-average success rates , and decided to investigate . |
| 18 | These criteria do not imply that other longer term influences are not at work and we would have to accept that some of these influences are historical , in that they are inherent to probable ‘ weak ’ parenting skills from John 's earliest life . |
| 19 | I mean I know there 's always an argument , especially here in Oxford , that people just come , look round the colleges and they 're gone again , but having said that some of them must spend some money . |
| 20 | If that happens , the logic behind the Deloitte strategy will have disappeared and some in the profession are predicting that Deloitte US may have to admit defeat and reconsider its position . |
| 21 | But by the late 1980s , conservationists in Indian reserves started to notice that some of the familiar old cats had disappeared , and began to question the official figures . |
| 22 | Malcolm Harris started to applaud and some of the others joined in . |
| 23 | And some of you younger boys may have discovered that some of the older boys have become attached to you . |
| 24 | But I mean , were led to believe that some of the people that you see sitting on the streets of Edinburgh begging are actually making a good living out of it ! |
| 25 | And I just want to repeat that I do think that some of the writing that 's come out of it has saved women 's lives . |
| 26 | If you go to see this football club to watch the football match , you are not allowed to park on the grass verge outside because the police do n't let you but if you go to a car boot sale at the football club the next day the cars , the grass verge is littered with cars cos it 's Sunday presumably and the police are not allowed to enforce on it so I do think that some of the traffic problems maybe need to be more carefully reinforced to stop this , you know , to stop the dealers you 're not going tyo these places but you know I think you do need to , you do need to , to regulate them but please , you know , do n't let's push them out altogether . |
| 27 | However this teacher did comment that some of his colleagues in other schools were less happy with the change in emphasis , largely because they had always taught music as the development of a range of performance and theoretical skills , and were frightened by the stress the new syllabuses were putting upon improvisation and composition : |
| 28 | I do know that some of my colleagues tried but you will not read about that in the newspaper clippings of the period . |
| 29 | I mean , come on , but I do understand that some of you were briefed or , or Do n't worry about this now , but we would like this briefing questionnaire back before you leave on Wednesday , er , if you were a late replacement , could you just make that plain on there , er , if you were n't briefed , you 've got the shortest questionnaire in the world to fill in . |
| 30 | Complete removal of weeds , including all the roots , is important , preferably by hand or while digging ; incidentally , do remember that some of them may be the very plants you are intending to grow , though if the area contains horsetail it is better not to try growing perennial plants in it until you have been clearing out this weed for some years . |