Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] some " in BNC.

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1 ‘ A number of invitations have been outstanding for some time , and people just chose to take them up at this stage , ’ one said .
2 Chameleon , for example , has been available in English , German , Danish , Portuguese and Spanish for some time , and has recently added Czech and Polish language versions .
3 He was due for some unpleasant surprises , she felt .
4 But is n't it due for some extensive reform ?
5 Then again , another election was not due for some time , the FDP remained loyal to the coalition and Brandt 's international reputation stood high .
6 If you have not bought any new appliances since you first moved into your home , or if your family has changed in numbers , you might be due for some updated versions .
7 However , in our experience the matter is less clear-cut and what is right for some is not the solution for others .
8 The ABD is not only about speed limits , absurd through some of them are .
9 I opened the Crow Road folder lying on my lap and leafed through some of the papers .
10 Hence , the increasing complexity of the flow can be interpreted as the result of a sequence of instabilities , each giving rise to a new pattern which is stable for some Rayleigh number range but which itself becomes unstable at higher Ra .
11 At the moment it is possible for some people to complain that because the policy is set and also administered centrally , teams for a major championship marathon are picked in the same way as sprint squads .
12 It is possible for some urethral discharge from the penis to be transferred to the seat if the male is sitting down ; and if a second male should accidentally touch the same part of the seat soon afterwards with his penis , then infection could be acquired .
13 It has been possible for some time to cruise down the Nile , or stay in some of the jewelled and painted palaces of Moghul India , or walk along the Great Wall of China .
14 Second , it 's possible for some explosive activity to take place in the summit crater , but for most of the lava to be erupted quietly from a vent or fissure on the flanks of the volcano .
15 The proviso whereby it was possible for some individuals to enjoy an enhanced accrual scale to qualify for full pension benefits after 10 years of service was altered in the 1987 Budget — with a new period of 20 years ' service being required .
16 We marvelled again at the scenery of West Spitsbergen , its sharply tipped mountains of dark rock , the glacier-filled valleys between and the tiny strips of life-giving vegetation which made it possible for some birds and animals to exist .
17 Is it possible for some of us and perhaps representative 's of organisations or a group of us and I know I can talk to the board but I 'm not necessarily speaking for anybody else if I natter to you other than myself .
18 ‘ That has been possible for some time .
19 In general we value goods with a price , and devalue the ‘ free lunch ’ , but it is possible for some institutions and professional and personal relationships to be viewed in different terms .
20 This split is n't perfect because it is possible for some complex types of software error to produce what looks like random failure because a particular set of rare events have to occur .
21 For National Certificate modules it has been possible for some time to approve alternative outcomes , under certain circumstances , for students with special needs of all kinds .
22 It should therefore be possible for some colleges , particularly those whose staff have played a substantial role in the development , to use the material produced and offer new courses based on HN Units in session 1989–90 .
23 I am often asked how , with Biros vanishing as often as they do , is it possible for some writers to get so much down on paper in a single lifetime ?
24 Needless to say she has to take life as quietly as possible for some time if she is to regain her health and everyone will be pleased to know she is making good progress along these lines .
25 Hilton says that the possibility of reformation thus open to man 's free choice has two aspects : first , reformation in faith which is based on the process of recognition and destruction of the image of sin which has occupied the greater part of Scale 1 ; and second , reformation in feeling which involves a development possible for some who can progress further to an inner freedom and joy which such discipline enables .
26 ‘ He wo n't be very mobile for some time , ’ she said .
27 ‘ He was very upset about some of the work he was doing .
28 My hon. Friend was also right about some Opposition Members talking down the economy .
29 I think Freud would say though however that these are more like the th the was talking about religion , now clearly if something is a outlawing it is n't gon na make much difference to it , or if anything it 's , it 's just gon na make it er , er make it more difficult , but there are certain types of religion and Judaism is one of them where th this very pattern you 're talking about did occur and here Freud is er probably standing on , on firm ground , for reasons which I 'll explain in my lectures I do n't wan na take up too much time , but I have done a bit of research on this myself and as you will see , erm there 's , there are good reasons for thinking that Freud was certainly right about some of those and we certainly know that a monotheistic and , and an absolutely rigidly monotheistic religion appeared in Ancient Egypt as erm Andrea said , just before erm the er reign of this heretic er heretic , heretic pharaoh one of whose er near descendants , I forget how he was related now , erm was originally called Tutamkhatan and then was forced to change his name to Tutankhamen and he was dug up by Howard Carter in nineteen twenty two or something er and er the Tutankhamen is called Tutankhamen and not Tutamkhatan is that there was a religious .
30 Surprisingly , it 's normal for some women to squirt out a fluid at the moment of orgasm .
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