Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] some [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In recent years it has become the practice in leases granted for more than five years or so to contain some machinery for enabling the rent to be reviewed , either continuously or at periodic intervals .
2 Having once negotiated the hurdle of the initial course it was not so difficult to persuade those who held the money bags to allow me to fly the aircraft every six months or so to maintain some sort of standard in flying up-to-date jet transports .
3 Occasionally teachers were allowed to fit into school hours or overtime courses some algebra , Euclid , French , Latin and Irish .
4 If you have a problem with your home or just need some expert advice , the organisations below are a good starting point
5 Or even write some sort of clue into the message . ’
6 SSRs generated as a result of responding to SPRs ( or simply notifying some item of interest to users ) may be linked to all types of modules .
7 The fly on top is on the contrary quite agitated , jerking tremendously , then convulsively , putting out its left foreleg to whip , or maybe to stroke some sort of reaction out of the fly beneath , which , however , remains so still that it seems dead .
8 Second , if the patient breathes , however weakly and albeit without the regularity or strength to sustain himself , or otherwise demonstrates some sign of brain-stem functioning , then the question arises as to whether or not to switch the machine on again .
9 In 23 patients ( group A ) biliary tract calculi were present either at the time of diagnosis ( 14 patients ) ( Fig 1 ) or subsequently developed some time after the diagnosis of sclerosing cholangitis had been made ( nine patients ) .
10 Even so , the power to predict and control the environment is enormously enhanced by a capacity to associate neutral events with those that already have some importance for the animal .
11 It is then more important than ever to include some topsoil to introduce the essential bacteria .
12 I enjoyed that drive , and when it ended was more anxious than ever to shake some sense into Margaret .
13 But they now had a great advantage because they knew that their viral DNA was in the gene and so they could use this knowledge to fish out the gene that clearly plays some role in limb development .
14 A nice idea that really needs some fishkeeping skill to get the best out of .
15 In areas of resistant rocks the wavecut platform ( Plate 27 ) , although often showing some degree of concavity , may be considerably flatter than the average sand and shingle beach .
16 The monopolist is normally considered to exploit consumers by charging a high price and thereby destroying some consumer surplus .
17 Appointed in 1987 , Webster ensured that the CIA kept a relatively low profile and thereby achieved some success in rehabilitating the tarnished image of the agency in the aftermath of the Iran-contra scandal .
18 However , since the private person has chosen to deal in commercial goods , ( and presumably has some expertise in relation to the subject matter of the contract ) such exclusion is more likely to be reasonable than if consumer goods were the subject matter of the contract , and hence the transaction were a consumer transaction governed by s 6(2) .
19 So , how can you work with your dreams in such a way as to make useful links between your conscious and your unconscious mind , and so gain some benefit in your everyday life ?
20 Only in one respect is a consideration of their characteristics illuminating , in emphasizing the fact that the state is not the only means by which the cohesion of a society is assured , and so giving some support to those liberal pluralist theories which treat the state as one association among others , and not always the most important .
21 He suggests , instead , that local government reorganization took place precisely because local government is not ‘ a simple instrument of either the central state or dominant interests ’ and so has some room for political manoeuvre ( 1979 , p. 221 ) .
22 Such terms are often found to be more-or-less transferable from one problem to another , and so have some claim to significance beyond the level of the particular problem in which they were derived .
23 You can imagine the population of th , of a nearby town , every now and again they would come down and perhaps throw some food over in this man 's direction a loaf of bread , a , a a a a a a , a hunk of meat or , some other food every now and again so he would keep alive .
24 It may be possible to read a listing of a computer program and perhaps make some sense of it but , certainly to many of us who have to use computer programs , they take on a quasi-mystical nature as they are , after all , intangible .
25 Men and women of great authority had walked in it , and perhaps left some ghost of themselves to calm him in extremis .
26 As we do this , we can encourage consistently those in whom this gift is developing , and perhaps see some move from prophesying to having a mature ministry as a prophet .
27 He could relieve Gaby and Charley of baby-watching Steve , and perhaps do some clue-hunting in the flat .
28 At its extreme among the small towns , this blurring of the rural-urban boundary extends over the whole settlement , as at Dragonby , and perhaps suggests some sort of link with the level of agricultural pre-occupation or functional specialization .
29 Some would say it would have been worth it if only to gain some insight into the arcane workings of SCOTVEC .
30 But the principle remains essentially the same : a mixture of 3-D reality and 2-D illusion coexisting on the 2-D plane of the film 's emulsion and apparently representing some aspect of the 3-D actual world , or some more or less realistic fantasy world .
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