Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [vb pp] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Russia English merchants had gone some way south of Moscow , and trade was also being carried on in the Eastern Mediterranean or Levant . |
| 2 | While English law has gone some way to providing a reasons requirement there are still significant gaps . |
| 3 | This question has achieved some notoriety in two cases concerning telephone tapping . |
| 4 | Some areas have made some provision for sheltered housing , that is , specially built flats with some services provided by a warden . |
| 5 | The last was set up in the seventies when apparently some defector had cast some doubt on Mills . |
| 6 | This overlap has raised some difficulty about the extent to which a client should be expected to contribute to the cost of the services received . |
| 7 | This method has had some success in speech recognition and its application to script recognition is described by Tappert ( 1982 ; see also Wong and Fallside , 1985 ) . |
| 8 | There were also hints that the West German government had paid some sort of ransom for Cordes . |
| 9 | This approach has experienced some degree of success [ Erman , 1980 ] . |
| 10 | I could swear this calf has eaten some irritant or corrosive poison . " |
| 11 | The Foreign Office has moved some way towards the French idea that the Western European Union ( WEU ) should become the Community 's forum for defence policy . |
| 12 | The back is a delicate instrument , and so finely tuned that nearly everyone of us at some time has experienced some sort of back problem . |
| 13 | The gangling , boyish 28-year-old Canadian actor had made some impression as an innocent in The Flim Flam Man ( 1967 ) and as a Malibu beach bum in The Sweet Ride ( 1968 ) , and seemed to have promise . |
| 14 | Canadian scientists have performed some epidemiology on the alleged victims of attacks who are streaming into refugee camps in Thailand . |
| 15 | Such corruption has played some part in building up the funds held in international bank accounts or other forms of investment by African citizens , recently estimated to total $20 billion between 1974 and 1985 . |
| 16 | Too thinly spread to have much impact on the structure of wealth , so many were subsidiary to farming that , far from being divided into industrial and agrarian regions , England consisted of various farming regions of which certain pastoral ones had attained some degree of industrial development , in some few cases to the extent of substantially modifyng their fundamental characteristics . |
| 17 | His doubts about the relentlessness of Singapore 's Westernization and his relative sensitivity towards the concerns of the city state 's ethnic components had attracted some support . |
| 18 | He also got on well with the justices of the Jews and may for a brief period have enjoyed some sort of official position in the Exchequer of the Jews . |
| 19 | Previous studies have indicated some immunocrossreactivity between the 240K ROS protein and the α -subunit of red blood cell spectrin and brain fodrin . |
| 20 | These moves have had some success and adult education is probably now more open , more flexible and more responsive to the needs of the whole community than it was then . |
| 21 | All human societies have used some form of intoxicating drug ( except eskimos , apparently ) . |
| 22 | These interpretations have met some opposition on two main counts : very few of the presumed terraces have beach material on them and they are so fragmentary as to rouse the criticism that their interpretation is at times subjective rather than objective . |
| 23 | The black eyes had recovered some spark of life , a question in them , as the old woman lay looking at her . |
| 24 | The great office blocks of the 1890s had taken over that role , and the office-block stations had made some attempt to match them . |
| 25 | While the logic of Black 's view has been widely accepted , in practice many empirical studies have used some form of rate of return , although they may have given it another name . |
| 26 | Hungarians understand perfectly well that this may be due to internal Romanian reasons — the Romanian army had played some part in the initial repression in Timisoara , but since it joined the rebellion this fact has been conveniently forgotten . |
| 27 | Some time that same day , or the following one , the new Prime Minister has entrusted some study of strategy , or some strategic study of something else , to an outside expert — and by the 7th , as we know from Summerchild 's first letter , Wilson has somehow been persuaded to staff and service this new operation through the Government Commission . |
| 28 | Hiv tae git you roon tae wir new flat in Wilton Street , listen to a few albums , smoke a few joints , Fat Freddy 's got some Moroccan in , really good stuff … toodle-oo ! ’ he gabbled . |
| 29 | Experimental evidence has provided some support for attitudinal and perceptual disturbances ; however , the current methodologies have failed to define adequately the body-image construct or to prove that disturbances are unique to anorexia nervosa . |
| 30 | Bradshaw and Millar found that about 85 per cent of all lone mothers had spent some time on income support since becoming a lone parent with 72 per cent still in receipt at the time of the interview . |