Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [verb] some [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Many local authorities are running some sort of shopmobility scheme , ’ said Mr Tapper . |
| 2 | It could be that the outer estates are approaching some kind of basic ‘ subsistence , level , where disposable income has reached such a low level that future increases in unemployment will begin to have a smaller effect in reducing local incomes per head , simply because so many people are already dependent on state benefits . |
| 3 | ‘ Getting away with it ’ , of course , means something only if the bats are adopting some kind of Tit for Tat strategy . |
| 4 | Through this facility , since ‘ base ’ might suggest the steady jobs associated with most camps behind a front line , men of 19 units were given some training in Independent Company 's skills . |
| 5 | For the first time local Labour parties were given some sense of common identity , which had been lacking on the political wing since the disaffiliation of the ILP . |
| 6 | ‘ Thing is , Barbs barged in at an inconvenient moment when my brothers were moving some stuff into my place , and they came over all paranoid and looked at her very old-fashioned , and while I know they would n't do anything to her , now she 's gone missing I ca n't help wondering . |
| 7 | Once again , it appears that the nature of the available remedies is having some effect on the character of the diagnosis . |
| 8 | Indeed a mill design developed during the 1950s was turned down by a local planning enquiry : one of the aims of the CEGB 's current wind programme is to gain some feedback on public attitudes to modern designs . |
| 9 | The purpose of this chapter is to give some hints on how to comment on tables such as might be found in government summary publications . |
| 10 | The purpose of this chapter is to provide some part of the conceptual clarification and social and historical background that is essential to an analysis of the nature of ‘ race ’ as an element in British education and society . |
| 11 | I spect Marie 's left some food in the cupboard . |
| 12 | The object of the study is to provide some answers to such questions and to identify specific measures which might assist in the achievement of certain national goals , such as preventing further loss of broadleaved woods . |
| 13 | Similarly , the painted jay , Cyanocorax dickeyi , in western Mexico is found some 4000km from the possibly conspecific white-tailed jay , C. mystacalis of Ecuador and Peru , and may thus be another pre-Columbian exotic introduction . |
| 14 | The object of this rather clumsy piece of administration is to place some check on the expenditure of local money on the arts — and also to provide a further checkpoint on students who have already received educational grants for other careers . |
| 15 | ‘ The murder was committed some time between twelve and three . |
| 16 | The intention was to gain some insight into ‘ the whole curriculum at operational level ’ . |
| 17 | My parents were discussing some incident in the past and , when I joined in the conversation to ask some question , they told me , as they often had on similar occasions , ‘ Of course , that was before you were born . ’ |
| 18 | No it were Monday when in here cos I was oh I were , Gavin were wanting some toast with jam on and I 'd only got a little bit like that , I says oh you 'll have to wait while your Aunty Margaret brings some more tomorrow . |
| 19 | As a codicil to this I should tell you that at the same time in another part of the camp , the National Union of Miners were holding some sort of conference themselves . |
| 20 | Now , perhaps if Mrs Crumwallis were to put some iodine on … ’ |
| 21 | The editing problem is that this particular group of shots ends with the boat 's abrupt departure — we go suddenly from shots of the men at work to one in which the boat is already in motion : in effect , we have a jump-cut , and your task as editor is to find some way of bridging the gap in the action . |
| 22 | This proposal is meeting some resistance at the UN 's headquarters in New York . |
| 23 | While noting that Parolles is given some kind of dignity in verse , we should also observe that Shakespeare seldom ends a scene with a soliloquy in prose — Thersites and Falstaff are the only characters who do so more than once . |
| 24 | When this behaviour is seen for the first time , the owners may become seriously concerned , imagining that the cat is having some kind of fit or seizure . |
| 25 | On many occasions assessments will be carried out because it is suspected that a child is experiencing some difficulty with linguistic communication , or because there are other areas of functioning in which the child is having difficulty which may have implications for language development . |
| 26 | That 's why er many authors insist on that aspect of child sex abuse , that erm apparent consent or even y'know when it seems that the child is expressing some curiosity about that these activities , nevertheless it 's abusive . |
| 27 | That organisations as diverse as shipbuilding , meat processors , training agencies and hotels saw fit to participate must be encouraging and some degree of recognition that marketing as a business philosophy is making some impact on the Scottish psyche . |
| 28 | The data suggests that the direct effect of the crash was to wipe some 10% off the sterling value of wealth in the last quarter ( this does not include indirect effects on assets other than equities ) . |
| 29 | On my way back from Ents Committee last week , erm the internal mail bloke was delivering some gear to computer services , and he left the back of the post van open . |
| 30 | I was pressed with an argument that the assignees were not customers of B.C.C.I. The purpose of the Act was to provide some protection for persons who had chosen to become customers of the bank and who were accepted by the bank as customers . |