Example sentences of "some [noun] to [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was looking for some short-cut to getting a complete description of who you are . |
| 2 | Although many look forward with uncertainty and some apprehension to joining a battalion , all display a supreme contentment and relief that the rigours of basic training have been mastered . |
| 3 | This booklet goes some way to providing a resource . |
| 4 | While English law has gone some way to providing a reasons requirement there are still significant gaps . |
| 5 | In masochism the energy is directed on to the ego , not an object , where the ego is itself libidinized as in narcissism. rn this way Freud had moved some way to producing a new synthesis of the three dichotomies : ego instincts , and sexual instincts ; ego and object choices within one set of instincts only , the sexual instincts ; and , finally , the life instincts ( sexual ) and the death instincts . |
| 6 | The Great Detective , for all that he figures in mere detective stories , is a figure to parallel with the great poet and the great scientist because in solving the sort of genuinely baffling mystery that confronts him , in fact he goes some way to solving a yet greater mystery , the mystery of the human personality . |
| 7 | The report shows that the committee devoted some time to analysing a helpful report from the Health Education Authority , ’ Beating the Ban ’ , which was published in 1990 . |