Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Conservative policy on the inner cities has diverged in some ways from the earlier policies of the 1970s , especially in shifting away from social and environmental programmes towards an emphasis on economic and enterprise-generating ones . |
| 32 | In the twentieth century , history has suffered to some extent in terms of its general significance in relation to people 's interpretations of life , because we now have a whole generation of politicians who , and statesmen , if you can call them such , who know very little history at all . |
| 33 | The Chair is obviously referring to the fact recently in the courts , there was consideration of the closure of old persons ' homes , and you know that you are under a legal requirement to consult in respect of those otherwise any decision , to close without consultation can held to be invalid , and that has impinged on some authorities who were going down that route , so there is a duty there . |
| 34 | Whether society has the right to determine its own morality is a debate which has raged for some time . |
| 35 | Angling for the deal that it has sought for some time now , UK firm IXI Ltd , Cambridge , is starting to cast groundbait all over the water in an attempt to land its catch . |
| 36 | Torrance almost had to pull out of the Lancome Trophy at St Nom La Bretesche when a foot disorder he has had for some time flared up during the final round . |
| 37 | Now I want to look at some properties . |
| 38 | Here I want to focus on some examples from recent textbooks for O level and CSE courses . |
| 39 | Our society too still has recognized ways of marking the change in status that has occurred for some people . |
| 40 | Avoid specimens that are swimming off the aquarium bottom as this is a sign of distress and usually means an imbalance of water has occurred at some stage of the export/importation process . |
| 41 | Because star formation and hence the formation of neutron stars by supernova collapse in NGC6342 ceased long ago , the apparent youth of the pulsar suggests that a major event has occurred at some time during the last 10Myr . |
| 42 | In swimming — the single most popular physical recreation after walking — the importance of teaching children to swim has drawn in some women and competitive swimming is a very important sport for girls . |
| 43 | The recent introduction of genetically engineered insulin has lead to some problems for diabetics who have changed from animal-derived insulin . |
| 44 | ‘ I want to put in some shells and seaweed first . ’ |
| 45 | The frequency with which it is enjoyed varies to some extent from person to person ; it varies still more with age and familiarisation . |
| 46 | It 's what everyone has to do at some time — it 's called taking responsibility for yourself . |
| 47 | On this occasion , devising a pretext for attacking the auditors has called for some ingenuity . |
| 48 | It states that sex is not appropriate in every situation where a couple are mutually attracted , or even within a relationship that is expected to last for some months or even years . |
| 49 | He too , dies the early death of romance — en poète , as the poet Burns put it with reference to his own fate — and his end is enveloped in the consequences of his supposing that he has lit upon some Chatterton manuscripts . |
| 50 | It is noted here because it indicates the increasing dissatisfaction of many Edwardian novelists with the high Victorian ideal of the exclusive ‘ home ’ , despite ( or because of ) the fact that in that period , as Walter Crane observed , ‘ the beautifying of houses , to those to whom it is possible , has become in some cases almost a religion ’ . |
| 51 | Pick Systems Inc has recognised for some time that it will have to concentrate on the database side of Pick 's personality in order to survive , but currently only around 40% of sales comes from Pick for Unix , with a few percent going to the MD-DOS implementation and the native Intel Corp iAPX-86 implementation accounting for the biggest part of the business . |
| 52 | Indeed , as we shall see below , Lyons ' general arguments about language differences can be claimed to rest to some extent on implicit assumptions about literacy of the kind that they make . |
| 53 | I suppose everyone has to keep to some sort of rule . |
| 54 | In a report for the Greater London Association of Community Health Councils , Naomi Pfeffer and Allison Quick wrote , ’ We gained a strong impression that … the quality of treatment that the majority of the infertile men and women receive within the NHS has deteriorated in some areas although , or even because , in vitro fertilisation and embryo transfer have been introduced ’ . |
| 55 | Neither has spoken for some time . |
| 56 | I went , until I sank exhausted on some steps opposite a church . |
| 57 | In short , the MDC has presided over some successes , but not over what might be termed the regeneration of Liverpool 's docks . |
| 58 | What has emerged to some extent , especially in the more commercial climate of the 1980s , is an American-style , non-political , ‘ business trade unionism ’ . |
| 59 | Hourly work effort in the latter part of the 1980s has increased by some 5% compared with the average between 1973–79 , and by more than 7% when set against the recessionary years of 1980/81 . |
| 60 | The shag population has plummeted in some areas and many divers have failed to raise young . |