Example sentences of "for some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would ask for some Kleenex , some razor blades and I would get to that word and I could n't do it . ’ |
| 2 | Evidently wise to this fact , vivisectionists refused the Natural Concern team access to all their experiments save for some brain operations on rats . |
| 3 | Waited for some kind of sign , a handclasp , a chaste kiss on the cheek , some sign that Lucy knew the meaning of this time and space . |
| 4 | Further , although this hypothesis has not yet resulted in an account incorporating consciousness , it has been remarkably successful in explaining many other mental phenomena which earlier generations saw as necessarily mysterious and as evidence for some kind of duality . |
| 5 | Chancellor Kohl will return to Bonn with the backing of his Community partners for some kind of confederal link between the two Germanys . |
| 6 | The Norman and Angevin kings established part of the local Forest administration on an hereditary and territorial basis ; the holding of land from the Crown in return for some kind of service was of course the basis of feudal society and government . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , ’ he said , ‘ it is clearly an application to the Patent Office , soliciting the grant of a patent for some kind of process … |
| 8 | Both Rasta and Skin can be seen as bids for some kind of dignity , for what the late Pete Meadon , original mod and one-time manager of The Who once called ‘ clean living under difficult circumstances ’ : grace under pressure . |
| 9 | Some of our final year students who were soon to be ordained , feeling the need for some kind of support system , especially during the first few years of ministry , decided to create their own cells . |
| 10 | What they each gained separately was a greater individual confidence and capacity for self-determination as women , and each of them fed that confidence back into a variety of struggles to change the position of women , and in the case of the majority of women in that particular group , to a struggle for some kind of socialism . |
| 11 | You take me for some kind of fool , do you ? |
| 12 | Then there was Aengus , the youngest : his owlish glasses made him look studious and he was the only Foley boy not to be chosen for some kind of team in the school . |
| 13 | She had brushed aside the congratulations of her gynaecologist when he said , ‘ Most women would have been screaming for some kind of relief long before now . ’ |
| 14 | Both sides appeared keen to work for some kind of reconciliation , although how much of their willingness to co-operate was purely political was never made clear . |
| 15 | ‘ They do things for the fell of it and not for some kind of career motive . |
| 16 | For light loads you may be comfortable with a simple padded back system , but many people will opt for some kind of frame at this stage . |
| 17 | The commercial terminal was closed for some kind of police operation . |
| 18 | When the adventurers enter , it is laid out ready for some kind of concert or performance . |
| 19 | Labour governments leant more sympathetically towards ideas ( of which there could be endless variations ) for some kind of ‘ Open Broadcasting Authority ’ to use the Annan Committee 's phrase . |
| 20 | They look to the museum for some kind of validation . |
| 21 | The guard traced his finger down the typed list of names attached to his clipboard , found the name , then asked Whitlock for some kind of identification . |
| 22 | The demand is for some kind of necessity , some sense in which an increase in the money supply must result in inflation . |
| 23 | One excuse always follows another for some kind of human management of the unpopulated regions of Scotland . |
| 24 | By the end of the book , " culture " has become a metaphor for some kind of Bradleyan unity to which we may aspire but which we can never reach ; idealism consorts oddly with Eliot 's sociology , however , and it is not at all clear if " culture " is a neutral term used to describe the whole way of life of a people or if it is being employed as a diagnostic tool to evaluate the various standards and aspirations of a society . |
| 25 | Informants in all the schools perceived the project as having provoked more general awareness of study skills as an issue , and as having stimulated the need for some kind of response . |
| 26 | There may also be possibilities for some kind of diagrammatic representation of selected information . |
| 27 | An uncomfortable pause while he sat forward on the sofa holding his coffee cup in both hands and gazing into it as if he was waiting for some kind of chemical reaction . |
| 28 | The need for some kind of frame of reference for thinking about the curriculum , and asking what is and should be taught is most obvious in the schools . |
| 29 | But I was feeling the need for some kind of action . |
| 30 | She paused , as though hoping for some kind of contradiction . |