Example sentences of "some [noun] [prep] [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've made some progress towards establishing the criteria which we should set out in our policy , and the mechanisms needed to control that policy . |
| 2 | ‘ Assuming some progress in resolving the debt crisis , ’ Mr Grant says , ‘ then even a 5 per cent or a 10 per cent diversion of military spending could provide the additional $50 billion or so each year which is needed to end absolute poverty on the planet within the next 10 years . ’ |
| 3 | When for once it is stated that Sir Raynold , the chaplain of Ridlington , Norfolk , owned a house and three acres , the reason must have been some difficulty over determining the value , which in this case is omitted . |
| 4 | For example , in writing the program outlined above , you would have some difficulty in telling the computer what an ‘ opening ’ is . |
| 5 | Tricon Foodservice Consultants has been brought in to give advice , but the Cassons have had some difficulty in accepting the drastic measures needed to ensure survival . |
| 6 | However , even with this distinction , there is some difficulty in capturing the imperatival force of the ‘ should ’ in an ethical system in which intrinsic value is the only basic ethical concept . |
| 7 | But it does put the court in some difficulty in considering the reliability of the evidence before us . |
| 8 | There has been some difficulty in producing a response panel sophisticated enough to allow for this range whilst still being easily understood and accessible to a child . |
| 9 | As a result he did a French translation of The Happy Hypocrite which was published in 1904 by the Mercure de France , illustrated with a caricature of Boulestin by Max ( Boulestin had some difficulty in convincing the Mercure 's editor that Max Beerbohm actually existed and was not an invention of his own ) . |
| 10 | ‘ The trial was generally successful apart from some difficulty in controlling the burner in its small flame setting . |
| 11 | However , when there had been some difficulty in getting the bidding started , the seller announced that there was nothing wrong with the heifer and he would absolutely guarantee her . |
| 12 | There is some difficulty in defining the disease and only patients with serious secondary diseases are included in the ‘ official ’ figures . |
| 13 | These result suggest that most elderly patients have some difficulty in making the best use of eye-drops . |
| 14 | Paul had had some difficulty in prising the really caked bits of spaghetti off the bottom of the pan but , with a light wristy action perfected on Wall 's sausages which burst their skin , he managed to get all but the blackest fragments out . |
| 15 | I find some difficulty in understanding the argument that 's coming from Leeds City Council , bearing in mind the emphasis you placed last week . |
| 16 | Perhaps the pilot had been delayed , or had experienced some difficulty in finding a taxi at the station . |
| 17 | But it became increasingly obvious that Britain , the mightiest Imperial power , was having some difficulty in defeating a relatively small number of Boer farmers . |
| 18 | In the next example , Christopher shows some difficulty in solving a practical problem . |
| 19 | It requires either a full repeat survey to identify the life style-groups again if any follow-up research is to be done , or else the creation of a sort of shorthand classification for research and analysis ; it seems that different products tend to be best looked at in terms of rather different life style groupings , so that , ideally , each requires its own major survey — which rather loses the point of the exercise — and researchers have had some difficulty in replicating the results . |
| 20 | In terms of er political views , or even those who have no political views , of ethnic make-up and everything of this kind and yet now it seems that at a time when our police forces above all , need to move into the present day and prepare themselves for the challenges of the crime and the criminals at the end of this century and into the next century , we seem to have some misgivings about giving the Home Secretary the powers which are placed in this Bill . |
| 21 | The next time you call at your local council offices to collect some forms for making a Building Regulations application , do n't be surprised if you are asked , ‘ What type of forms do you want — Full plans or Building Notice ? ’ |
| 22 | It goes without saying that a huge range of factors play some part in shaping the course of human affairs , and there are obvious advantages in a division of labour . |
| 23 | Instead of postulating a single link between CS and US we should perhaps imagine a whole collection of them ( the exact number depending on which attributes of the stimuli are noticed and encoded by the animal ) , all of which play some part in generating the CR . |
| 24 | Certainly , the habituation process described in Chapter 2 will be engaged during the first stage of a latent inhibition experiment and might be expected to play some part in determining the outcome . |
| 25 | Trauma at birth may also play some part in forming the newborn infant 's predisposition to develop the disorder . |
| 26 | And , since the King had played some part in securing the formation of the National Government in August , the election would , in a sense , validate the King 's action as well , ‘ Of course you are going to vote , ’ the King said to Sir Maurice Hankey , the Cabinet Secretary , on 2 October , before the Cabinet had alighted upon the doctor 's mandate formula which made the election possible . |
| 27 | Well , I mean , I think , er from , I mean certainly I do n't know how you feel chairman , but my view of this has changed if what Mr says is correct , then it seems that this seems , that this is the , the basic sort of day to day decision making erm , group , erm , and far more central to the purposes of W R A D than previously appeared , and there would seem to me therefore to be some case of paying an attendance allowance or else erm , deferring the decision erm , until we have even more information , but I think , if it really is the , the , the sort of decision making bit then attendance allowance ought to be paid . |
| 28 | Slightly different considerations show that some reasons for recognizing the authority of another are secondary . |
| 29 | Parliament has even laid down some rules for controlling the meetings of local authorities . |
| 30 | Attempts to have the libel damages overturned have failed , but he 's still holding out some hope of keeping the family home . |