Example sentences of "[adj] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Kinnock has drawn Labour some way from its old follies , but he has manifestly not cured its obsession with the distribution of wealth , as opposed to its creation . |
| 2 | Mr Moynihan blamed his defeat on the ‘ collapse of the Liberal Democrat vote , which came from Labour some years ago and has to some extent returned there ’ . |
| 3 | I bought the DesignaKnit 4 Professional some months back and I feel I have to give it nothing but praise . |
| 4 | Such policies offer the rich some protection as they weaken the resolve of potential revolutionaries . |
| 5 | It 's so loud some nights I 've got to go downstairs and sleep on the sofa . |
| 6 | Decide how controversial some subjects might be and then try to plan how you will deal with these difficult areas . |
| 7 | Although if you are redundant or long-term unemployed you feel you have heard all of this before , the truth is that if you manage to keep alive some enthusiasm and initiative you have more chance of getting an interview than if you do not . |
| 8 | Pacifists struggled to keep alive some remnant of the pre-war networks , and their modest successes laid a basis for the eventual revival of internationalism as the passions of war cooled . |
| 9 | A fall in the market rate of interest should make profitable some investments in the economy which were previously unprofitable , so that aggregate investment should increase . |
| 10 | CSM says it did not ‘ officially ’ receive a copy of this booklet , though it is possible some DHSS officials may have seen it . |
| 11 | This is a working distinction , to make possible some variety of approach to the question of the effective social relations of culture . |
| 12 | In some cases these are taken directly from the text , and where this is not directly possible some suggestions are made . |
| 13 | I hope that it may be possible some time in the future to share our experience in this area with the SAP . ’ |
| 14 | I 'm due some holiday time . ’ |
| 15 | Warships , pleasure boats , container ships — Britain 's royal yacht Britannia was due some days later — all saving themselves 8,000 miles and three weeks of sailing round the Horn . |
| 16 | In some of the seated some play is made with clinging and hanging stuff , but the principal vehicle for this interest is the standing figure . |
| 17 | It is amazing how resilient some yarns can be . |
| 18 | I mean you 've spoken about how resilient some tenants are . |
| 19 | It 's because we 're investing a lot of capital expenditure to put right some years of neglect I might say . |
| 20 | Oliver gained a lot of experience in a short time , and was interested to see how brave some people were after a death in the family . |
| 21 | Although many values were too small for the chi-test to be applied , it is clear some doctors are more involved in treatment decisions than others , although it is not clear why . |
| 22 | It is clear some workers and ex-workers who do develop cancer will question whether their work with SSEB/SNL was in any way responsible . |
| 23 | Conditions were appalling and winds were so high some rafts were brought to a halt . |
| 24 | Her face is pretty bloody and that , so what I do is wet some paper tissues under the tap , and real careful like , I rub the blood off of her mouth and chin . |
| 25 | Well , oh yes , I 'm sure I 'm not saying that 's the only thing that controls people 's food intake I mean clearly there are things cultural some cultures , the Japanese seem to love eating raw fish , I mean how they can bring themselves to do it I do now know , I mean the raw is I do n't think I 'd want to eat again , but er erm not always if they were cooked either , but erm the , the er and certainly if you look at the Australian Aborigines even though we take the Australian Aborigines as our kind of primeval people , they have astonishing food taboos , I mean their attitudes to food are very very culturally er effective to , to a quite extraordinary extent , some so that somebody somebody discovered that eating a tabooed food by accident , they 'll get very ill , a kind of psychosomatic illness . |
| 26 | That is why speedy eaters , who eat their fill in perhaps ten or fifteen minutes , often feel overfull some minutes after the meal . |
| 27 | What was interesting about that was that at the time John Brown got into financial difficulties the banks and institutional shareholders took a tough but very constructive view that it was worth helping the company through a reconstruction rather than forcing it into liquidation , which had been an attitude prevalent some years earlier . |
| 28 | The first reported expression of dissent occurred in Balston Ltd v Headline Filters [ 1987 ] FSR 330 where Scott J at pp347 and 348 said , having quoted from the judgment of Neill LJ in Faccenda , both counsel before me express some reservations about that passage insofar as it suggests that confidential information can not be protected by a suitably worded restrictive convenant binding on an ex-employee unless the information can be regarded as trade secret in the third of the categories described by Goulding J. I am bound to say that I share these reservations . |
| 29 | The slow version has the most depth , and maybe it 'll turn up on a 12-inch some day , but I really opted for the fast one , because it seemed a really nice way to start the album . ’ |
| 30 | The slow version has the most depth , and maybe it 'll turn up on a 12-inch some day , but I really opted for the fast one , because it seemed a really nice way to start the album . ’ |