Example sentences of "some [noun sg] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If colour is applied in a robust manner you may need some support to the canvas where it crosses the stretcher , or you could work on canvas mounted on board . |
| 2 | The evolutionary story , to the extent that it can now be understood ( and to the much more modest extent to which I understand it myself ) seems to me to give some support to the view that in this respect the historical story means very much what it seems to mean . |
| 3 | The results give some support to the advocates of comprehensive secondary schooling that the system will reduce class inequalities and lead to an improvement in overall educational achievement . |
| 4 | Rosenfeld 's study seems to lend some support to the functionalist view that social stratification , at least in terms of power and prestige , is inevitable in human society . |
| 5 | These views , which have undoubted attraction , give some support to the Woolwich principle but they are inconsistent with the reasoning in Slater v. Burnley Corporation , 59 L.T. 636 ; William Whiteley Ltd. v. The King , 101 L.T. 741 ; Twyford v. Manchester Corporation [ 1946 ] Ch. 236 and with that of Windeyer J. in Mason v. New South Wales , 102 C.L.R. 108 . |
| 6 | The omission of these words from the definition of theft lends some support to the argument that an act may amount to an appropriation although it is done with the consent of the owner . |
| 7 | These data do lend some support to the prevailing public opinion . |
| 8 | Work done in the USA has lent some support to the tendon splitting operation as a treatment for some tendon injuries . |
| 9 | But Smart may have owed his freedom in some measure to a House of Commons Committee of Enquiry into the problem that year . |
| 10 | So it was minuted in a sort of staff student consultative group last year , so I have been requested to confine it in some measure to a single text . |
| 11 | Autumn-sown wheat ( and other cereals ) should have a rough seed-bed to avoid soil capping , particularly on silty soils , and to provide some protection to the seedlings from icy winds . |
| 12 | On the other hand , dry pellets were stronger and afforded some protection to the bones , although even in these cases skulls were broken by the single trampling event , with the only recognizable pieces left being fragments of zygomatic bone and maxilla . |
| 13 | If rain can reach the solenoid valve , remember to provide some protection to the terminals so that corrosion and consequently poor contact can not occur . |
| 14 | In return for recognising the legality of the police practice of detaining suspects after arrest , but before charge , the Act attempts to give some protection to the suspect by imposing time limits on the period of detention , by introducing a system of review to ensure that detention remains necessary and by introducing a series of statutory rights supervised by the custody officer , and a Code of Practice on Detention and Questioning . |
| 15 | The British Government , seeing that this practice clearly violated the spirit of the agreement on fishing quotas which gave some protection to the British fishing industry , passed the Merchant Shipping Act of 1988 restricting British registration of fishing vessels to British individuals and companies . |
| 16 | There were different kinds of customary tenure , but they had in common the fact that they gave some protection to the unfree man against arbitrary expropriation . |
| 17 | The presence of United Nations troops seemed to provide some protection to the Hercules crews . |
| 18 | In clearly stating the terms of conditions of sale , SLAD has given some backbone to the dealers ' frequently invoked claim that they ‘ guarantee their goods ( unlike the auction houses ) ’ . |
| 19 | I dropped some change to a lone mandolin player doing a slow-tempo ‘ Sweet Georgia Brown ’ , partly because he was good and partly because he might do the same for me someday . |
| 20 | Robert McNamara 's measure for ‘ assured destruction ’ – 20 to 33 per cent loss of population , 50 to 70 per cent loss of industry — stand in some contrast to the USSR 's wartime losses — 12 to 15 per cent loss of population and 50 per cent loss of production — particularly when we consider the time over which these losses took place . |
| 21 | The frank accounts of two early love affairs , adding some notoriety to a political autobiography , make honest and sympathetic reading ; but of far greater substance is his analysis of British politics from Wilson to Major . |
| 22 | Pissing crap Sportsnight did nt have England highlights , so you thought they would give some coverage to the other ‘ UK ’ sides … nah . |
| 23 | Forms which are not attached to the coast or only attached at one end seem to orientate themselves , some at right angles to the resultant like attached forms and some parallel to the resultant for reasons which remain uncertain . |
| 24 | Where no such group existed , it implied that some addition to the organisation was needed ; in other cases , the new requirements indicated a change in the responsibilities of existing functional groups . |
| 25 | He had used a friend 's Nivea to restore some moisture to the scrubbed , parched skin on his fingers . |
| 26 | The fact that it is Chelmsford adds some spice to the game as local derbies are always more interesting . ’ |
| 27 | He has n't play in the 1st team since a long while and will be bring some enthusiasm to the team . |
| 28 | Cardiff could see that he had attached a microphone of some kind to the metal container which still rested on the chair and which had been giving the so-called mysterious ‘ readings ’ . |
| 29 | It is also likely that because of past changes a growing number of women will retire with some entitlement to a state pension . |
| 30 | She had either fallen or been pushed on to a spike on the plough ; the level of her blood alcohol gave some credence to the idea that she had fallen . |