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

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1 He does not expect the effects of the Budget to be felt locally for some time .
2 If the birth of her child was to take place in London as had been arranged , then presumably for some weeks beforehand she would have to remain in the Harley Street flat , kicking her heels or at least suffering the kicks inside her , which she had greatly come to resent .
3 Nine pilots competed , the most for some years .
4 All right for some , Nutty thought despondently , thinking of the others in the warehouse feeding the horses , nothing to worry about any more .
5 All right for some on their autumn inter-city breaks .
6 All right for some !
7 But all he said was , ‘ Oh it 's all right for some , is n't it ?
8 ‘ It 's all right for some , ’ the tea-lady said . ’
9 I thought : It 's all right for some .
10 ‘ All right for some . ’
11 Maisie , from deep inside her black linen bag , was muttering about how it was all right for some people .
12 All right for some . ’
13 LUCKILY for some of us , there are politics we can all understand .
14 He had been following the narrow forest path downhill for some leagues , the trees soaring ever taller overhead , so that the sunlight came down in muted bars between the leaves .
15 Once you are familiar with the program , selections from the current menu can be made more quickly by pressing the key for the initial letter of the option you require , or you can bypass the menus altogether for some of the most frequently used options by using the predefined HOTKEYS .
16 Although cylinder manufacturers countered effectively for some decades , first with moulding techniques and later with finer grooves , the overwhelming simplicity of being able to press thousands of copies of disc records and play them on a simple machine eventually told in the disc 's favour .
17 and eventually after some searching they nominated someone who then resigned from her post not Clare
18 Now my Lord as is er then made clear in a statement of claim paragraph three fifteen erm between the twenty third of October and about the twenty second of November the plaintiff then acting upon the advice of Peter that it was not possible to withdraw on this contract , did endeavour to complete upon the deal as soon as possible , very much with the timing in his mind and eventually after some toing and froing which er will be demonstrated in the course of the evidence , agreement was reached with the landlord for his consent to the assignment to be given er on condition that there was payment of some advance rent by the plaintiff .
19 Even such an exalted pedigree as this , though , has not been enough for some of Britain 's big stores .
20 Psychological warfare is n't enough for some people .
21 At the last the weather has been descent enough for some of the crags to dry out long enough for the new routers to get busy .
22 It seemed that Britain was wealthy enough for some redistribution to be possible , as , arguably , it had not been in the 1830s , and that voluntary effort had achieved little in this respect .
23 It worked well enough for some , but it ca n't work for all .
24 That is not good enough for some of us .
25 Like Christopher Gray [ q.v. ] , he bought some of the plants collected at Fulham Palace by Henry Compton , bishop of London [ q.v. ] , after the bishop 's death in 1713 , and by 1724 his stock was rich enough for some of his exotic trees and shrubs , including the moss rose , to be listed by Philip Miller [ q.v. ] in his Gardeners and Florists Dictionary ( 1724 ) .
26 But though this hope might be enough for some who were actually to lift themselves out of the working class , and perhaps also for a greater number who never got beyond dreaming of success as they read Samuel Smiles 's Self-Help ( 1859 ) or similar handbooks , it was perfectly evident that most workers would remain workers all their lives , and indeed that the economic system required them to do so .
27 But it 's all so ironic — if my little tinkering with her inhaler had n't led to her death nobody would have known that Doreen guessed — that I 'd been helping myself to the firm 's cash now and then — only piffling amounts over the years I 'd been with them , a few thousand here and there , just enough for some designer clothes and jewellery .
28 But they 're not going fast enough for some residents of nearby welland , last night at a private meeting there was suggestions that a vigilante group should take the law into their own hands and forcibly evict the remaining travellers .
29 There you are , there 's enough for some Coke .
30 There wo n't be much wind but it will be cool with a temperature near eight Celsius , forty six Fahrenheit , and possibly cold enough for some sleet on the Cotswolds .
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