Example sentences of "some [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever they are , few women have successfully described the pain and this is , perhaps , the main reason why some expectant mums are afraid — fear of the unknown . |
| 2 | In places the trees do grow more thickly and pines occur in some hilly areas . |
| 3 | Some stratified hypersaline lakes are permanently warmer in their lower layers than at their surface , sometimes because of volcanic heating , more often due to solar warming through the ice and upper layers of water . |
| 4 | I 've been trying to get some indoor fireworks and I ca n't get any , I thought it 'll be just some . |
| 5 | Attendance was excellent , and there was a positive commitment to some formalised training sessions , especially for care assistants . |
| 6 | This includes a fee of Pounds 12,500 , a three-month lease on a van and some working capital . |
| 7 | Even more strikingly , some working mothers regard a period at work , particularly if it is part-time , as a welcome respite from the great variety of stresses arising in looking after a home and children . |
| 8 | The evidence is disjointed and sometimes even contradictory , but the essay is an attempt to make sense of aspects of human behaviour in industrial enterprises and to formulate some working hypotheses . |
| 9 | It began as a protest against the alleged peremptory nature of the decision by the NCB to close some working coal mines which were said to be uneconomic . |
| 10 | Instant Help gives an immediate and concise answer to your query and Expanded Help explores the chosen topic in more depth with step-by-step instructions and some working examples . |
| 11 | At that time , some working class youths in London adopted as their uniform the long ‘ Edwardian ’ coats and tight trousers which had previously been worn by young men-about-town at the time of the New Look . |
| 12 | A line is drawn under which the base category of the explanatory variable is noted ; the fact that some working class children attend selective secondary schools ( path a ) reminds us that there are some factors influencing attendance at such schools that this particular model does not set out to explain . |
| 13 | While the paths b 1 and b 2 are the focus of our attention , it is also important to remember the other causes which lead to people attending selective secondary schools : class membership is not a complete determinant of who goes to these schools , since some working class children do attend . |
| 14 | Anna Martin showed that some working class women also distrusted state intervention , not on principle , as was the case with middle class feminists , but because they feared its effects on their husbands ' incentives to work and on their own pivotal position in the family . |
| 15 | ‘ In those days seeing a comedian was the last thing you 'd do unless it was in some working men 's club . ’ |
| 16 | There is some varietal difference in the severity of the effects , but reports suggest this is localised and there is no apparent consistency . |
| 17 | The UK 's coal reserves are abundant at some 109 BTOE , the sixth largest in the world . |
| 18 | They include a dozen pre-Cubist works , half a dozen or so Cubist drawings and paintings , some Thirties landscapes , and end with three heads of cavaliers from the Sixties . |
| 19 | Some differential geometry and tensor analysis is needed in order to appreciate the full flavour of the theory . |
| 20 | This also has the effect of producing some differential contrast within the specimen . |
| 21 | In other words , over some differential range of prices for imports and domestically produced substitutes there was a low cross-price elasticity of demand . |
| 22 | So there you have it — we 'll be back next month with some terrific PD games . |
| 23 | You will undoubtedly see some terrific entertainment when this year 's show is screened on TV tonight — most notably from the Bolshoi Ballet , and Michael Crawford 's extraordinarily moving rendition of Gethsemane from Jesus Christ Superstar . |
| 24 | I feel lousy when I have some terrific game to review and there 's no space on my hard drive for it . |
| 25 | By some terrific fluke Richard came face to face with his future at the precise time he most needed to see it . |
| 26 | For that holiday look , Great Universal also have some terrific bermuda shorts and wacky tropical patterns and designs |
| 27 | Considered by many until last year 's Beauty and the Beast as Disney 's last true classic , The Jungle Book boasts some terrific songs and first-class animation . |
| 28 | They have also managed to persuade most of the England squad to join the campaign , which already has some 225,000 donors on record . |
| 29 | After his talks with Li , Maude said that he had been " encouraged " by the Chinese administration 's muted attitude to issues of contention between the UK and China , including the British Nationality ( Hong Kong ) Bill which provided for full British citizenship to be given to some 225,000 Hong Kong citizens . |
| 30 | The British Nationality ( Hong Kong ) Bill was introduced in the United Kingdom House of Commons on April 4 , and approved at its second reading on April 19 , following the announcement in December 1989 by Douglas Hurd , the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary , that full British citizenship would be given to some 225,000 people in the colony in order to restore confidence there in the wake of the military repression of pro-democracy demonstrations in China in May-June 1989 [ see pp. 36720-22 ; 37122 ] . |