Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [noun prp] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd prefer a proper fire , of course , but we made them illegal in this part of London some years ago . ’ |
| 2 | First , in some cities like Frankfurt some huge new office developments are nearing completion . |
| 3 | There are a couple of the procedures now that in the light of this morning 's discussion that I think I can certainly circulate what are done , but they wo n't in , by any means now be final , and I also received this morning from Richard some discussions . |
| 4 | I could n't help contrast the boredom with United 's exhilarating 4–3 encounter with Liverpool some years back , also in Belfast . |
| 5 | I want to put to the hon. Member for Sedgefield some important and fundamental questions relating to his party 's attitude to training and I hope that he will do the House the honour of answering them . |
| 6 | Rowntree made a similar discovery in York some ten years later and also showed how poverty dogged the course of the individual life cycle , being most acute in infancy , at the point of family formation and again in old age . |
| 7 | I bought a little farm near Oakville some years ago at four thousand an acre … sold it two years ago at fifteen thousand an acre … was n't that lucky ! … after all the hard-up years I lived through … almost starving at times … it was Mr Workman who gave me your address for this letter … poor old Fred … he 's getting old like the rest of us … |
| 8 | Two years after David Puttnam 's forced exit from Hollywood some film-makers — and former associates — persist in achieving mainstream films that surprise and inform . |
| 9 | Trainees at the centre at Menro House , Colmore Avenue , won a commission from City Challenge to produce a portfolio of 400 photographs of the eastern area of Middlesbrough some of which were used in the documents and information backing up the successful bid . |
| 10 | On opening , it revealed the accompanying dogeared relics of my happy spell in Nottingham some 40 years ago . |
| 11 | Alan Sefton , The Health and Safety Executive 's area director for North and West Yorkshire , said : ‘ The Executive is very concerned about recent major agricultural accidents in Yorkshire some of which were fatal . |
| 12 | In the first week of May some 30,000 more Somali refugees were reported to have crossed the border into Kenya , fleeing further fighting in the south [ for February UN report on Somali refugees in Kenya see p. 38755 ] . |
| 13 | No-one else on the course was harmed or hindered , unlike in the infamous case in California some 10 years ago , when one Jim Brown was convicted of beating , then choking , an opponent following an argument over where a ball should be marked on the green . |
| 14 | At the Chemical Society of London there were great debates about the status of atoms in 1867 and 1869 , with Professors at Oxford and at London Universities on opposite sides ; and at the same time in France some of the most distinguished chemists were sceptical of atoms , among them P. E. M. Berthelot , who went on to become Minister of Public Instruction in 1886 , having done distinguished work on synthesis and on calorimetry . |
| 15 | Beyond was a bank , farther still some houses , ribbed with black beams , whitewashed , crooked and ancient , and then the Black Lion , and shops , the heterogeneous collection of buildings which composed a town which had been a hamlet in the time of the Tudors , a flourishing and prosperous market town in the eighteenth century , and was now , in the twentieth , settling comfortably into another phase of its existence , off the main traffic route , a backwater serving the big houses around , a dormitory for the more successful managers and executives in the prosperous light-manufacturing town of Bridgeborough some thirty miles away . |
| 16 | As a young professional with Fulham some 30 and more years ago , he prospered hugely from advice offered in no uncertain terms by Joe Bacuzzi , a redoubtable professional of the old school and a firm believer in the unassailable principle that full-backs who can not defend should seek alternative employment . |
| 17 | These did not look French and , despite the royal livery of France some of them sported , they were not regular troops . |