Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] to some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now then , if the council could , could 've come to some agreement and put in there , it would of made it right for us , now , you see we 've done so before , this is what I do n't like about he , he applies for planning permission does er the notice was no bigger than six inches long and four |
| 2 | There 's a special job Preston 's engaged on and I want to come to some arrangement with him — there should be room for both of us — if you would be good enough to tell me when your husband is likely to be back — " |
| 3 | In the twentieth century , history has suffered to some extent in terms of its general significance in relation to people 's interpretations of life , because we now have a whole generation of politicians who , and statesmen , if you can call them such , who know very little history at all . |
| 4 | The frequency with which it is enjoyed varies to some extent from person to person ; it varies still more with age and familiarisation . |
| 5 | Indeed , as we shall see below , Lyons ' general arguments about language differences can be claimed to rest to some extent on implicit assumptions about literacy of the kind that they make . |
| 6 | I suppose everyone has to keep to some sort of rule . |
| 7 | What has emerged to some extent , especially in the more commercial climate of the 1980s , is an American-style , non-political , ‘ business trade unionism ’ . |
| 8 | Although this has led to some re-siting of base stations , Macklin says these problems have been resolved . |
| 9 | All this has led to some skill rubbing off . |
| 10 | This has led to some repatriation of the apparel industry from the Third World back to the First . |
| 11 | Subsequently , other authors have used the terms ‘ backwardation ’ , ‘ contango ’ and ‘ normal backwardation ’ in ways other than as defined by Keynes , which has led to some confusion . |
| 12 | The ruling has led to some confusion , as the barrier appears to contradict the EC principle of free movement of goods across Community borders . |
| 13 | Sadly , the reorganisation has led to some job losses — 22 out of 101 at Spondon , where the dyehouse has closed , and 75 out of 394 at Coventry , where workshop engineering , catering and cleaning services previously done in-house are now being contracted out . |
| 14 | So although he has gone to some trouble to leave tracks across his own land at Highgrove specially for the local hunt , the Beaufort , he hardly ever joins them . |
| 15 | The classification of Derry and Carrickfergus has worked to some extent . |
| 16 | This has happened to some extent with dyke , a disparaging word for lesbians , and with spinster , less disparaging but still pretty negative , which is Mary Daly 's term of choice for women who refuse to accept patriarchal society , preferring to ‘ spin' their own reality . |
| 17 | Teacher appraisal did appear to be part of the accountability process , but , as we shall see , this has changed to some extent . |
| 18 | While the situation has improved to some extent in recent years , especially in the field of education , nonetheless the basic pattern of inequality remains in all aspects of the social structure , from paid work to the household division of labour , from sexuality to violence . |
| 19 | The danger of our treacherous spring unleashing a killing frost , has receded to some extent , and although recent Aprils have done much damage , the early flowers are over by then and the bad spells are , every day , likely to be shorter . |
| 20 | It is true that extensive reviews of research in the United States ( Lipton et al. , 1975 ) and in Britain ( Brody , 1976 ) found it to be generally the case that different penal measures had similarly unimpressive outcomes in terms of re-offending , but they also found examples of reformative programmes which seemed to work to some extent with certain groups of offenders ( see Palmer , 1975 ) . |
| 21 | Edinburgh was totally different from London ; a royal burgh , it was built according to some sort of plan : long narrow streets with timbered and stone houses on either side , some joined together , others separated by narrow runnels or alleyways which led to a small garden or croft behind each tenement . |
| 22 | What actually happens depends to some extent on the strategies that classes pursue and on the unity with which they organise themselves and seize opportunities to strengthen their positions . |
| 23 | There ought to be a right to protest in public , it might be argued , and where the bona fide exercise of this right happens to lead to some form of disorder , it is wrong to visit the perpetrators with severe sanctions . |
| 24 | Respondents are selected according to some sampling procedure to be representative of some group , collectivity , attribute or process . |
| 25 | We have grown used to some kind of safety net , extended beneath us in Western countries , even if for some of us the holes seem to be getting bigger by the day . |
| 26 | It has been said that at the court of Poitiers " the gilded youth of Poitou and Aquitaine breathed an air that seemed to belong to some tale of chivalry " . |
| 27 | It is of interest to compare the positions of Brumfit and Krashen in this collection , positions which might be said to typify to some degree the attitudes to applied linguistics and language teaching on each side of the Atlantic . |
| 28 | ( 4 ) Included within the ‘ extraordinary ’ or ‘ special ’ category might be , for example , cases where the child is proposing to submit to a sterilisation , an abortion , the removal of an organ for donation , or some similar non-therapeutic procedure , or where the child is refusing to submit to some procedure necessary to prolong or save the child 's life or to protect the child from really serious and irreparable harm . |
| 29 | But mostly it was directed towards herself , and whatever it was in her that seemed to respond to some call given out by the least suitable of men ; despite what she 'd been through in the past couple of years she appeared to have learned precisely nothing . |
| 30 | I 'm the proud owner of a Series III SWB Petrol Land Rover , but I wonder if you could give some advice on a really effective alarm system that I could fit myself , also I did n't want to fit the hasp and staple type of bonnet lock , but the type that I have seen fitted to some County and Ninety models , is that possible . |