Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [vb base] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The music of two short pastorales which have some claim to be considered the earliest true operas in French has been lost . |
| 2 | Selling in bear markets to clients who have some inkling of it can be hell . |
| 3 | Oh , there 's a few wild lads who do some poaching . |
| 4 | The ghinocerous part about it is the mega-big way that Citizen Kane have put the title single of their first and latest album on the doorsteps for milk drinkers who want some rhythm and blues with breakfast , in a tape on offer with extra pintas . |
| 5 | Indeed , we can probably find some kind of research in progress in each of the 200 or more institutions which offer some kind of higher education in the UK . |
| 6 | For objects which need some thickness of metal , like ingots or axes , casting is the obvious method , while others , like fine wire or thin sheet metal , need extensive working . |
| 7 | ON August 25 , 1992 , in a report about the large amount of divorce legal costs , we inadvertently stated , due to a typographical error , that average costs of cases which take some time amounted to £250,000 , when the correct figure should be £25,000 . |
| 8 | Another question is whether the criminal law ought not to be wider in its application to activities which carry some risk of causing death than in other spheres . |
| 9 | ‘ Industrial democracy ’ on the other hand is a term which is generally taken to refer to particular practices of management already operating in certain capitalist economies ( e.g. West Germany ) or specific proposals such as those of the Bullock Committee ( Bullock , 1977 ) , practices and proposals which give some role to workers or their representatives in enterprise decision-making , but which are not necessarily linked to the overall social planning of the economy in the interests of working people . |
| 10 | There are , for instance , mnemonic devices in oral cultures which offer some resistance to this process : ‘ formalised patterns of speech , recital under ritual conditions , the use of drums and other musical instruments , the employment of professional remembrancers — all such factors may shield at least part of the content of memory from the transmuting influence of the immediate pressures of the present ’ ( 1968 , p. 31 ) . |
| 11 | For some years now solicitors ' firms have perceived benefits to be gained by forming associations which fall some way short of partnership . |
| 12 | They said look , if males can have greater reproductive success than females can , then parents who have some way of knowing that their offspring are gon na be particularly reproductively successful should invest in males , whereas if they have some way of knowing that their offspring are not gon na be particularly reproductively successful , they should invest in females . |
| 13 | She is looking for applicants who have some experience in child care and can be contacted today at Belfast 629274 , or at the same number from May 29 to June 1 . |
| 14 | Preference will be given to applicants who have some proficiency in the Japanese language . |
| 15 | The ego ideal of young children is based on those closest to them , usually the parents , and later on other educators and youth workers who have some resemblance to the parents . |
| 16 | Leaving their nest-holes they have some way to go before the sea can provide them with a refuge . |
| 17 | To hide their clear outlines they need some kind of disruptive markings . |
| 18 | If we work extra hard for our employers we expect some kind of reward in return . |
| 19 | Consequently , the pattern of dividend payouts for firms which follow some target may resemble a ratchet effect which is only broken when the firm 's performance is bad for several consecutive periods . |
| 20 | In the present case , we all of us suffer from numerous false beliefs which have some role in our inferential processes , and so on this suggestion none of our present true justified beliefs would count as knowledge . |
| 21 | However , there are some cases decided since Fleet Street Casuals which throw some light on the issue . |
| 22 | As James Tobin pointed out in his comments on the Coen and Hickman paper , a feature of their approach which exposes it to criticism from those macroeconomists who accept some variant of the NAIRU hypothesis is that it lacks a coherent explanation of the relationship between unemployment , be it Keynesian , classical or some mixture of the two , and inflation . |
| 23 | If you just make random proteins a hundred amino acids they have some kind of catalytic activity — not much , but some . |
| 24 | Are there any of your objectives which require some action this side of marriage ? |
| 25 | A surprising number have tales which suggest some form of ‘ activity ’ , almost as if they were alive , a strange thing on the surface , as stones are the archetype of solid , unmoving form . |
| 26 | The evidence for the working of government is equally slight , but there are recurrent features which allow some insight into the organization of the kingdoms . |
| 27 | ‘ We want to generate a market from practitioners who see some value in going somewhere to learn something , ’ says John Warwick . |
| 28 | Whilst we recognise that planning guidance should not be too prescriptive in terms of retail floorspace limits , we think that local planning authorities should set guidance limits which reflect some estimate of the environmental capacity of the plan area . |
| 29 | These are taken-for-granted groupings which assume some form of unity within each category without ever clearly identifying the source of this unity . |
| 30 | For example , they may force the potentially inefficient firms either to join them in adopting cost-saving innovations which involve some disruption of current working practices , or to go to the wall . |