Example sentences of "and [vb -s] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Moynihan blamed his defeat on the ‘ collapse of the Liberal Democrat vote , which came from Labour some years ago and has to some extent returned there ’ . |
| 2 | Although the famous gallery owner is thinking of retiring and has for some time been searching for an institution to take on his private collection , the title of the event ‘ TransForm ’ is not a veiled reference to his forthcoming conversion from art dealer to museum collector . |
| 3 | Europe now produces more food than she needs and has for some years been supporting a section of industry that provides employment for less than 1% of our National workforce ; good for British agriculture , but how much better if the support had gone to those industries that took up a greater proportion of the work force , i.e. the engineers with 10% . |
| 4 | If so he wonders if the patient needs to cry and has for some reason stopped himself . |
| 5 | The two machines most affected by this issue are the PC and Macintosh so it seems appropriate to examine the pros and cons in some detail . |
| 6 | Although many solicitors offer fixed fee interviews they are given little publicity beyond referral lists and notices in some solicitors ' offices . |
| 7 | Their results can be seen in Demonstrating Successful Care in the Community which describes all twenty-eight projects and looks in some detail at five of them . |
| 8 | Don Bradbury recounts experiences and passes on some tips . |
| 9 | Whereas Taskopruzade , writing toward the end of Suleyman 's reign , is on the whole relatively vague about the facts of a scholar 's career , he delights in anecdotes which illustrate the scholar 's piety or learning and describes in some detail his writings and his his pious foundations . |
| 10 | It does not matter why a State has failed to become a party to a treaty , or whether it is eligible to become a party and intends at some time to do so . |
| 11 | The investigation covered import quotas and bans on some products , restrictive import licensing requirements , special technical standards and China 's refusal to publish regulations governing imports , and also sought to reduce Chinese tariffs of up to 170 per cent and other " unreasonable " fees . |
| 12 | Mrs. Leapor shows in her verses an acquaintance which surprises one with the characters of classical mythology , and depicts with some success scenes of fashionable life . |
| 13 | AH ! how the other half live , but if he works hard and pulls in some loot , all to the good . |
| 14 | It pitches and bobbles on some roads , and bounces over the potholes driven fast . |
| 15 | This scheme can also be used to classify the literature to which these labels apply ; if so , this ceases to be a strict subject classification and becomes to some extent a classification by the form in which the literature is written ; for example , its language and literary form . |
| 16 | Ratcliffe ( 1988 ) describes it as a technique used in rehabilitating people with memory loss , confusion and time-place-person disorientation which adds a humanistic element to care , and discusses in some detail how it affects communicating . |
| 17 | The person who receives the message as a phone call , a letter , a printed book , or a shout , receives the message perfectly or imperfectly , decodes it , and reacts in some way . |
| 18 | The alert and attentive reader , however , usually brings critical attention to what is being read and reacts in some way . |
| 19 | Then the first part is loaded , and begins with some bricks floating in midair — in time with the music they form ‘ ETE ’ ( short for Eternity ) , an excellent animation indeed . |
| 20 | Future teachers need , we believed , understanding of language that is not included in the assumptions transmitted by the culture , and runs in some ways counter to those assumptions . |