Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their generosity was appreciated being so willing to give some time explaining to a fellow enthusiast the intricacies of steaming a locomotive for the first time and the difficulties which had been experienced in the rebuilding process . |
| 2 | It is , therefore , only natural to experience some pain when two different people from different backgrounds , with a different make-up and personal history , get together . |
| 3 | However , while every effort will be made to found arguments on intuitively clear cases of semantic deviance , it is only prudent to have some notion of what is involved in distinguishing this from syntactic deviance . |
| 4 | Beyond about 1 km the costs of movement become sufficiently great to warrant some kind of response … |
| 5 | Today , such exemptions have been extended as governments understand more fully just how much of a deterrent ownership restriction is to certain types of investor , especially those pursuing some form of global strategy . |
| 6 | However , it is obviously essential to have some way of comparing the cost and reward of borrowing and lending in this way with other methods which pay interest . |
| 7 | The motor industry is thus able to invest some risk capital in experimental projects in order to increase its working data base . |
| 8 | The younger reader is thus able to get some kind of tentative vision of what his or her own life in science might be . |
| 9 | Whilst the experiment was limited to trainee engineers and by the type of microcomputer used , the results of this investigation indicated that : 1 ) the mode of man-machine interaction which was most popular and has the fewest dissenters , was one in which the user directed the course of action , as in the modular program ; 2 ) a fast design time was most likely to be achieved by the use of an optimization technique ; 3 ) an optimum design was most likely to be achieved by a preprogrammed optimization technique , but only where the problem , design parameters and constraints were understood ; 4 ) the technique thought most likely to allow some gaining of insight was one in which the user has control of the program , as in the modular program . |
| 10 | In recent times it is more usual to have some element of discussion , partly because of the increasingly democratic style of organisations and partly because the variety of relevant technology requires a correspondingly wide range of expertise . |
| 11 | It is , of course , desirable they should never be overworked or overstressed , and you can ensure that this does not happen by having a sufficient number so that it is always possible to rest some while using others . |
| 12 | Anyway , if such a well-bred person was unlucky enough to be afflicted with one of these ailments , he was more likely to consult some understanding physician privately ; and so it was largely the dirty and damned who attended the special clinics . |
| 13 | Supporters of a more means-tested approach are also much more likely to favour some type of negative income tax scheme and argue that within each contingent class there are some who need help and some who do not , so that the rich in ‘ needy-contingent ’ categories gain at the expense of the poor in less needy-contingent categories , e.g. the low-paid workers . |
| 14 | Once he was in power , this alternative view would argue , his policies were more consistent with a belief that it was still feasible to salvage some kind of organic link between France and Algeria than with a belief in the inevitability of complete rupture . |
| 15 | As I said , I 'm never often out , and if you 're a long way from home it 's always good to have some place to drop in to . |
| 16 | In a 1987 survey , though , 17% of those under 25 claimed some knowledge of Gaelic . |
| 17 | It may have been that Harvey enjoyed such seniority in the Church that in his case such deviation was permitted , but given that two or three other committed Free Presbyterians have been active in the Official Unionist Party ( in 1985 there were two Free Presbyterians in local government as Official Unionist councillors ) , it is more likely that the Church leadership was genuinely able to maintain some distance from Paisley 's politics . |
| 18 | The more active occupied some post offices and gave evidence to the House of Commons Select Committee , part of which is reproduced here ( Fleming , 1973 ) . |
| 19 | All human societies from the simplest to the most complex have some form of social inequality . |
| 20 | If you can understand Berlin then perhaps it is also possible to make some sense of what Europe may now become and of what it means to be a European . |
| 21 | The fact that these values were linked with a conspicuous material investment in the library premises clearly corresponded to one criterion which the Coordinating Team took into account ; namely , that a school is not only interested in developing heuristic pedagogies but also willing to put some money and energy into the library as the appropriate central facility . |
| 22 | It is also likely to take some time because of delays of up to eight weeks in obtaining replies to local authority searches . |
| 23 | It is also helpful to have some knowledge of trends in publishing . |
| 24 | The results of this trial were reasonably encouraging showing some improvement in efficiency , but nothing spectacular . |
| 25 | Decreasing productivity gains from mechanization , difficulties in obtaining more productive work organization and increased work intensity , the pressure of rising materials prices on costs , the pressure of international competition on prices , and especially fast increases in investment goods prices probably all played some part . |
| 26 | Some of BT 's activities in the Eastern bloc countries centre on consultancy or training , but it 's also able to provide some telecommunication links on its own account . |
| 27 | It is also essential to have some way of measuring distance from this boundary region . |
| 28 | But although Tit for Tat is strictly speaking not a true ESS , it is probably fair to treat some sort of mixture of basically nice but retaliatory ‘ Tit for Tat-like ’ strategies as roughly equivalent to an ESS in practice . |
| 29 | It is also wise to do some stretching and warm-up exercises before launching , especially in strong winds . |
| 30 | Erm and two , aware of this impossibility the C C P leaders saw that the impurity of the local Party as a problem while that though this played some part erm the C C P play was actually exaggerated according to . |