Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 've done more than you thought you 'd ever get away with and so in a sense it 's all gain from here , in fact it 's been all gain for some time and so you ca n't complain and you do n't intend to if fate deserts you now . |
| 2 | A practical outcome from this incident was a new pair of deck shoes for Marty who had been campaigning for a replacement from Stores Branch for some time . |
| 3 | I crept in beside him and lay for some time with throbbing head . |
| 4 | Fabia awoke on Friday with a smile on her face , and lay for some while with thoughts of Ven in her head . |
| 5 | Many good exercise programmes stop when life and the usual routine starts to get chaotic or change for some reason . |
| 6 | Investigation revealed the sale of at least 63 works in the past six months ; yesterday a source close to Charles Saatchi was prepared to concede that the volume of sales was higher than previously stated , and that the works disposed of account for some 10 to 12 per cent of the collection , which suggests a true figure of between 70 and 100 individual sales . |
| 7 | Abu Dhabi has major oil reserves which account for some 8% of |
| 8 | Introduced populations now feral in southern England probably account for some Sussex records , making the status of truly wild birds very difficult to assess . |
| 9 | The figures suggest that some 1200 excess cases of leukaemia may have been caused in Britain by the Windscale accident , since leukaemia deaths account for some 15 per cent of cancers attributable to nuclear accidents , the total toll of cancer deaths suggested is 8000 . |
| 10 | What the figures do n't show is the effect of the overall increase in labour turnover on standards : it ca n't have been good , and this helps account for some of the loss of business . |
| 11 | The differences in design account for some of the differences in safeguards . |
| 12 | Filter tip cigarettes , which account for some 97% of cigarettes sales in the UK , yield less tar than plain cigarettes although some filter brands yield more carbon monoxide . |
| 13 | ‘ Human capital ’ variables such as education and employment experience help account for some , but not all , of the variation within and between the sexes . |
| 14 | Patients with suspected iron deficiency anaemia account for some four per cent of the patients referred to our gastroenterology clinic . |
| 15 | Market loans account for some 26 per cent of banks ' sterling assets and are thus a major source of liquidity to individual banks . |
| 16 | All the major firms in the industry are members of the SWA , who consider they account for some 98% of the industry 's employment . |
| 17 | Critics of Balling 's work have suggested that , rather than showing that deserts account for some of the world temperature rise , the results may simply be demonstrating the fact that different types of land — notably desert — respond varyingly to the greenhouse effect . |
| 18 | First of all turn one 's back on the bloody war , then qualify for some career . |
| 19 | In the mind 's ear , one hears the patient cry : ‘ Send for some 66-year-old ambulance men and women : they 're the only ones certified as healthy . ’ |
| 20 | They should only be used on paths , etc , or to clear a derelict patch of ground that you want to clear a derelict patch of ground that you want to clear but not replant for some time . |
| 21 | The aim is to invest in a distance learning system and materials appropriate for some 70,000 NHS managers at the threshold of their managerial careers , with a take up of 3000 participants per year , at a cost somewhere between £ 100,000 to £300,000 for initial development . |
| 22 | Planning has been taking place on this restructure for some months now with close liaison between RAFM and the Aircraft Salvage and Transportation Flight at Abingdon , who will be responsible for all of the dismantling and moving of the airframes . |
| 23 | This was a complete departure from the pattern of the learned journal in which papers are refereed and polished , and then appear after some months ; it brought rapid publication of results , and Crookes also encouraged speculative papers which the staid , and Baconian , Chemical Society would not put into its Journal . |
| 24 | The 1931 B minor Sonata is also far superior to a later version from 1933 ( although the space between Cortot 's various recordings was often narrow , his performances , while retaining their essential outward characteristics , varied in detail , biased this way or that according to the heat and inspiration of the moment ) with a ravishing second subject in the opening Allegro maestoso and a central quaver flow in the Largo in which melody and counter-melody swell and recede like some magical sea . |
| 25 | Lastly , always sleep with some ventilation in bedrooms to prevent night-time condensation there ; if it 's too cold to have the window ajar , then leave the bedroom door open instead . |
| 26 | As against this view , however , Jensen and Murphy suggest with some plausibility that ‘ there are strong political and organizational forces that tend to define success in dimensions other than shareholder wealth and exert pressures for actions that reduce firm value . |
| 27 | After the Coniston mines were started , the miners , despite the convenience of a place of worship in Coniston itself used the Hawkshead church of St. Michael and All Angels , and as may be expected , their names appear with some frequency in the registers . |
| 28 | During the early 1840's the following girls appear with some regularity in the accounts : Mary Briggs 6d. a day , Hannah Cowper 6d , Hannah and Susannah Kempe 5d. & 6d. , Sarah Lawton 5d. , Hannah Smith 6d. , Sarah Tomlinson 6d. , Mary Thompson 6d. , Mary Ann Townson 6d. , and Agnes and Hannah Woodburn 6d. and 5d . |
| 29 | Do not merely stare at facts which you hope to remember , but see if you can devise a memory-jogger by arranging them so that the initials form another word which , perhaps , you associate with some experience in your life . |
| 30 | The assessment is like assembling a jigsaw into which pieces fit with some inevitability . |