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

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1 or for some other specifically preferred purpose .
2 Further , no married woman could make a will without her husband 's consent , nor ( with trifling exceptions ) make any contract , except as agent either for her husband or for some other person : it would have been absurd to let her contract when she had no free property out of which she could pay .
3 He discovered that all his desires were related to the need we all have for God himself — not just for a mother 's love or for some other intense childhood need .
4 But in their Spitalfields Tartan Collection , the Stewarts have done the work for you ; silks , cottons , wools all match up so that it is possible to choose as much or as little tartan as you like , whether it 's for a few cushions or for some big and bold project .
5 If your customer becomes insolvent or for some other claimable reason does n't pay , what your insurance company settles with you when you claim is not 100 per cent of your loss but usually more like 80 per cent — the balance of the loss is still yours .
6 All these years then , or for some of them , Rufus had been living three or four miles from him .
7 They were often used for one or another of the Sheikh families , or for some accident victim who could not get to a specialist hospital in any other way .
8 An ‘ only ’ dream has little effect on us ; we may remember it in the morning because it was funny or for some other reason , but it does not disturb us in any way ; most often , we recollect it only in the moments after waking and have forgotten it by the time we get out of bed .
9 By abuse here 1 mean not only illegal uses of violence by those who are in defined circumstances entitled to use force , but the legal use of force where the objectives are antithetical to social order or for some other reasons morally objectionable .
10 Only if some people , ‘ because of their special circumstances — because they are crippled or lack talents prized in the market , or for some such reason — end up below the minimum standard of living required to lead a decent , self-fulfilling life at all ’ ( Dworkin , 1978a , pp. 244 , 258 ) would they have a right to ‘ a minimum standard ’ , even at the expense of the general welfare .
11 Perhaps he had been kidnapped or for some reason forced to adopt another identity , in which case he could be trusted to reappear , several reigns later , cover himself in glory and inherit the throne .
12 SucH communities might provide a basis for a neighbourhood approach to management , or for some development of the parish council concept ( Boaden et al .
13 This was usually a small chapel , in or next to a church , endowed with funds to maintain one or more priests who would chant masses for the soul of the founder ( or for some other person named by him ) .
14 If the baby 's fed on water or for some reason does not take food normally , you may not find the problem , but a few days after milk feed this substance will begin to rise and it can be protected so the diagnosis is made by a test , does anybody know how the Guffbry test is done ?
15 Sites suspected through documentary research or for some other reason may also need to be more precisely pinpointed before excavation can take place .
16 She was n't having things all her own way , now or for some little time to come .
17 The doctors can recommend treatment A in preference to treatment B. They can also refuse to adopt treatment C on the grounds that it is medically contra-indicated or for some other reason is a treatment which they could not conscientiously administer .
18 The doctors can recommend treatment A in preference to treatment B. They can also refuse to adopt treatment C on the grounds that it is medically contra-indicated or for some other reason is a treatment which they could not conscientiously administer .
19 were to have put his job in jeopardy , either because of the existence of a closed shop or for some other reason .
20 For some organisations specialising in catering for certain kinds of " event " , or for some operating in certain regions , these seasons are more pronounced than for others .
21 Clearly the most drastic punishment for a firm that has reneged on the collusive agreement would be for the other firms to force it to its security level , either forever or for some specified number of time periods .
22 But Lord Diplock suggested that different considerations might apply if the effect of Cheall 's expulsion from APEX were to have put his job in jeopardy because of the existence of a closed shop or for some other reason .
23 Similarly , where the defendant is charged under Category 2 with threatening the complainant with an offensive weapon or instrument with intent to have sexual intercourse , he may state that he brandished a knife to persuade the victim to hand over money or for some other purpose unconnected with sexual intercourse and that sexual intercourse in fact took place with consent .
24 It is even possible that you may have to leave your project before it is complete because of illness or assignment to other responsibilities or for some other reason .
25 Humanism considered the most powerful or most noble within society to be the best readers and directed writing at them not exclusively because writers looked to this class for generous rewards or for some snobbish appeal .
26 It is opposed to the occasion value ( true on or for some particular occasion ) which Bolinger sees in adjectives in the postnominal attributive position .
27 This may be the case in some industries , or for some products but as , for example , both Moran 's study of the Chilean copper industry ( 1974 ) and Girvan 's of the Caribbean bauxite industry ( 1976 ) demonstrate in rather different ways , the control that globally integrated corporations can exert on distribution and marketing may nullify what appears on the ground to be a better bargain for the host .
28 A single computer may be constantly available alongside other resources as a reference tool , or for some simulations .
29 Where it existed it was characteristic of states which , although they had long and proud cultural traditions , had suffered serious setbacks or for some reason lacked self-confidence .
30 Although British Coal pays compensation for damage resulting from mining subsidence there can be no adequate compensation for the emotional loss of one 's home or for some material loss .
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