Example sentences of "some [noun] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The optional units allow students some freedom to suit personal aptitude and particular career intentions . |
| 2 | There were constant discussions , and some attempts to produce new proposals , but all foundered upon the entrenched conservatism of the existing authorities with respect to their boundaries . |
| 3 | We 've got the kettle on , I brought in some milk to give soothing cups of coffee where necessary … ’ |
| 4 | if the return to Conservatism is to be something more than the transient apparition of a spectre from the past , and its voice in national affairs not merely to be a sepulchral warning against the dangers of rash courses , the Conservative leaders must bestir themselves to some purpose … [ the Conservative Party ] must be ready to meet the programme of the Labour Party not simply with a non-possumus but with an alternative which will in some measure satisfy certain of the needs which Labour is concerned to satisfy , and at the same time avoid the perils with which it insists Labour policy is beset . |
| 5 | Some mineralisation remains unworked ( Jones , 1922 ) . |
| 6 | Much more attention has also been paid to formal staff appraisal , and every university now has such a system , some institutions employing outside consultants to train the appraisers . |
| 7 | Maltote was exhausted and had some difficulty remembering certain minor details , but , at last , a full account was given . |
| 8 | From the outset , Joan Templeman had some difficulty growing accustomed to the fact that living with Richard Branson seldom meant actually being alone with him . |
| 9 | Yes ! some woods produce little heat and a lot of ash . ’ |
| 10 | Some satellites remain stationary relative to the Earth . |
| 11 | Accepting for a moment this kind of argument , the question is , is it possible to argue that there is some accepted component of grammar that is non-autonomous with respect to pragmatics ( i.e. some component requiring pragmatic input ) ? |
| 12 | Some forms have delicate exterior skeletons that are only preserved under exceptional circumstances ( see p. 16 ) . |
| 13 | Weaver birds reared in an incubator still manage to weave when they become adult , so clearly the basic skill is inherited , but it nonetheless requires practice to bring it to perfection and at first young male weavers may make comically ham-fisted versions — nests that are insecurely tied and fall off , others that are unevenly woven with some strips pulled tight and others left slack so that the result is misshapen . |
| 14 | Some employers became aware that the efficiency of the workforce could be increased not only by capital investment and technological improvement , but by ‘ increasing the efficiency of human capital ’ , i.e. by improving working conditions and providing welfare benefits for workers , so that they were both physically stronger and psychologically more secure and hence able to work harder . |
| 15 | In the banking and insurance sector , for instance , some employers give taxable transfer grants on top of the non-taxable disturbance allowances . |
| 16 | Some planets hug close , hot enough to melt lead . |
| 17 | Are some teaching styles inappropriate for individual children ? |
| 18 | I did n't know anything about the way some birds use warm air currents to help their flight . |
| 19 | Some birds fly incredible distances . |
| 20 | Some hairdressers charge extra for this but it 's well worth paying a few pounds for . |
| 21 | But while some reasons favour monthly payments and others favour quarterly ones , neither is sufficient to establish the superiority of doing it one way rather than the other . |
| 22 | Schmidt and Genscher could not repeat the dramatic advances in foreign policy made by Brandt , and some Germans remained disappointed by the lack of political change in the East , but Genscher 's reputation grew enormously as foreign minister , helping the FDP 's popularity . |
| 23 | Equally , some activities require considerable co-operation between ‘ peripheral ’ agencies while others require very little . |
| 24 | Show some competence in the structures of written Standard English and begin to use some sentence structures different from those which are characteristic of speech , eg a wider range of subordinate clauses , expanded noun phrases etc . |
| 25 | Ampullaria , unlike some snails have separate sexes . |
| 26 | When shall we have some policies to provide affordable homes for rent ? |
| 27 | Some clinics have special youth advisory sessions . |
| 28 | Some clinics have special youth advisory sessions . |
| 29 | I recognise that practitioners will in some cases incur fruitless costs in the search for such a vital clue where none exists . |
| 30 | It was they who bore the brunt of efforts by employers to restructure , shift to more intensive labour , subject them to closer supervision from above , and in some cases introduce new machinery which dispensed with their skills . |