Example sentences of "some [noun sg] of [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is a way of bringing some kind of order to the many diverse things which the scriptures could be said to be about . |
| 32 | The " smaller " systems of hypernumbers introduced were put into some kind of order by the American B Peirce in a paper published posthumously in 1881 . |
| 33 | Still clinging to the maxim that work , particularly physical labour , could eclipse mental turmoil , she had gone out , determined to wrest some kind of order from the chaos of neglect . |
| 34 | The network of shires and hundreds brought royal government to all landowners of any substance , and must have acted as some kind of counter-weight to the influence of local lords and feelings of local separatism . |
| 35 | ‘ Every evening , the living room gets converted into some kind of camp by the children and smeared in food and footprints , ’ she laughs , ‘ but what 's the point of a home if you have to be precious with it ? ’ |
| 36 | Party strategists believe that Labour will have to embrace proportional representation and form some kind of alliance with the Liberal Democrats to provide a credible challenge to the Conservatives . |
| 37 | Party strategists believe that Labour will have to embrace proportional representation and form some kind of alliance with the Liberal Democrats to provide a credible challenge to the Conservatives . |
| 38 | Perhaps it 's erm some kind of mistake in the way erm cells divide after they 've been fertilized , I do n't know , but this is not true of fraternal twinning . |
| 39 | I also played with the idea that what afflicted me was some kind of strabismus of the psyche . |
| 40 | The Karens were animists , feeling some kind of presence in the forest , the spring or the great banyan tree . |
| 41 | During the autumn and winter keep the compost from drying out completely , which means providing some kind of protection over the plant . |
| 42 | see like , see like some kind of spots for the past few |
| 43 | Have seen in Leo Maxse the epitome of the ‘ radical right ’ in Britain before 1914 — radical right' being taken to mean ‘ extreme ’ right or some kind of proto-Fascism on the continental model . |
| 44 | Many of them needed some kind of kick up the financial backside . |
| 45 | It is , of course , being assumed here that there is some kind of relationship between the qualification level and the nature of the work . |
| 46 | Well I just wonder you , there has got to be some kind of relationship between the fact that most people who take drugs live in really run down deprived areas . |
| 47 | If you 're in some kind of jam with the law , I might not get paid . |
| 48 | Some kind of assessment of the competence of teachers was seen as a way of weeding out those who were incompetent : a reaction to severe cuts in education ( along with the effects of falling rolls ) , and the need to thin out the teaching force . |
| 49 | From medieval times there must have been some kind of dwelling on the slight rise in the ground upon which the house stood . |
| 50 | I think he might have discovered some kind of organisation like The Hell Fire Club . |
| 51 | Looking back , it is curious how long it took us to get rid of this idea of some kind of defect inside the body of the glass . |
| 52 | Some of them indeed were under the impression that Sir Thomas 's disappearance from the scene was some kind of re-enactment of The Mystery of Edwin Drood . |
| 53 | He wanted to leave now too , but he had to make some kind of contact with the dead man first . |
| 54 | Do you have some kind of contact with the weather gods ? ’ she asked sourly . |
| 55 | He asked me if I was sure I was n't working up some kind of plot against the Threarah and he got awfully angry and suspicious . |
| 56 | Some kind of comparison outside the text or corpus is necessary , otherwise statements of frequency are vacuous . |
| 57 | Nearly 1,000 children die each year from accidents in the home which are avoidable and every single child will encounter some kind of accident before the age of fifteen . |
| 58 | One possibility propounded by a colleague is that there should be some kind of pay-back to the museums perhaps in the form of a levy for their help in identifying finds . |
| 59 | But a less obvious kind of evidence may , according to Labov , be provided by some kind of irregularity in the expected pattern of differentiation according to speech style , or sex or social class of speaker . |
| 60 | Perhaps er er another way of looking at this would be to see it in terms of rightist deviations and leftist deviations and one might see erm the er the moderate policies er of thirty seven to forty nine i in a sense as being erm a rightist deviation , one might see forty six forty seven as being leftist deviations and the left is seeking to overcome rightist deviations , the right seeking to overcome leftist deviations and you 've got some kind of oscillation between the two . |