Example sentences of "some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just got razzed by some faggots . |
| 2 | Speich , for instance , was a genuine investigator with some coups behind him , and they had the scent of something hot now . |
| 3 | Ariana is the brainchild of Roger Haddad , who previously founded Metrologie , probably one of the most successful value added hardware and software distribution networks ever created in Europe , with sales worth some $1bn in 1990 . |
| 4 | UniSoft says it was crucial for the six MIPS architecture partners — who have already spent some $1bn collectively on development — to have a migration route to a standard version of Unix . |
| 5 | Mace claims that some $1bn of business has now been conducted on 88000-based system products , and claims , as the group often does , that there will be more converts to the cause — this time around there are five or six Intel Corp i860 manufacturers on its hitlist. 88open will open a European office this summer , either in the UK or Germany , which will use space rented in one of its members ' offices . |
| 6 | Indeed , some Keynesians went so far as to say that money is unimport-ant since it only exerts an influence on economic activity via interest rates , and then without much success . |
| 7 | Even some Keynesians argued that higher rates or local taxes could reduce the level of private savings , thus boosting demand above the expected levels . |
| 8 | Ready for the Christmas party , and some er some fiend broke in an nicked all the presents . |
| 9 | He kept babbling then about some fiend that had taken possession of him . |
| 10 | Some of these are full , some half-filled and some empty . |
| 11 | Some 63% of wives took part in decision making . |
| 12 | Here and there the line dividing them from the parish clergy may have become blurred , for some chantry certificates claimed , in 1545 , that the cantarist was the only minister available , and generally give the impression that they regularly shared the parish duties . |
| 13 | Advanced Micro Devices Inc is expected to be able to produce up to 600,000 Am486 chips this year , and it could produce some 4m — where Intel Corp is expected to produce some 26m 80486 chips this year and another 31m of the things in 1994 . |
| 14 | Aged about 25 ( macaws can live and breed up to 70 ) , she has n't mated yet , but like some gardeners are ‘ green-fingered ’ , some aviculturalists like Harry are ‘ blue-fingered ’ . |
| 15 | Some of the Naval survey parties may also have landed briefly on Krakatoa , because a hot spring is marked on some maps , but apart from this we know remarkably little about the islands or their volcanic history . |
| 16 | Please could somebody do some maps for Terminator 2 ? |
| 17 | Lastly I told him that there was supposed to be a plan for a British submarine which would take off escaped prisoners somewhere near La Spezia , and I produced some maps of the area which I had managed to get from a book seller friend of mine in Parma . |
| 18 | In one hand he carried a canvas satchel , some maps and a flashlight , which he added to the pile before eyeing her find . |
| 19 | Although this was an extreme case , it is by no means unique and practically every university teacher who has supervised an undergraduate dissertation will recognize the problem of trying to write a dissertation backwards ; that is to say , taking the data that have already been collected and then trying to find some hypothesis which they can be used to test . |
| 20 | No sociological research is likely to produce absolutely clear cut answers ; if it were to come out with all the results 100 per cent in support of some hypothesis it would rather suggest that the hypothesis was hardly worth bothering about in the first place . |
| 21 | The position can be illustrated simply by thinking of a study that is to take place of the social workings of a youth club to test out some hypothesis about the manifest and latent functions of this association . |
| 22 | Given that we have no privileged access to the minds of others we must proceed on some hypothesis about mental events or mental states . |
| 23 | Even on a crossed telephone line , listening at random to shortwave radio messages , or casting a note in a bottle on to the waves , humans always form some hypothesis about the sender or receiver . |
| 24 | Josh only gave him some whisky for his own good . |
| 25 | She sloshed some whisky into the cup . |
| 26 | He had hoped that by trying some whisky he 'd understand adults a bit better ; instead they made even less sense . |
| 27 | He murmured that he would have some whisky instead . |
| 28 | He accepted some whisky . |
| 29 | Here — have some whisky . |
| 30 | Presented with ( 32 ) , we therefore read it as a sequence of two events that occurred in that order : ( 32 ) Alfred went to the store and bought some whisky We now see how the semanticist armed with the notion of implicature can extricate himself from the dilemmas raised above in connection with examples ( 4 ) -(7) . |