Example sentences of "some [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Leapor could never have been published without some support of this kind , patronage introduced a new influence on Leapor 's writing . |
| 2 | Some support of the sectors involved in the administration of justice , for example , by serving on Advisory Committee , Compensation Boards , The Parole Board , Mental Health Act Tribunal and assisting in appointing magistrates [ voluntary ] . |
| 3 | So they acquire some freedom of choice as to the how , when and where of using the anger of which they have command . |
| 4 | Here Thomas Carnan obtained some freedom of exercise for him . |
| 5 | In the present case , however , we do have some freedom of choice . |
| 6 | Even these more sophisticated attempts to elaborate where power lies and to allow for some freedom of manoeuvre for the state in capitalism can between , however . |
| 7 | The king retained some freedom of manoeuvre : he could not choose his blood-relatives but when bestowing patronage , especially with more distant kin , he could choose between them . |
| 8 | The possibilities of choice are rather less in the most obviously vocationally oriented degrees , such as Architecture , Housing Studies and Nursing Studies , but some freedom of action is still possible . |
| 9 | As she said goodnight to them in turn she managed by some technique of charm or pure personality to convey to each of them that they were important to her in their own light . |
| 10 | If Marcus , usually to be found in his bedroom , was sitting upon an upright chair , his back straight , his hands on his knees , staring into space , in a posture presumably connected with some technique of meditation , Ludens would wait outside in the hall , or converse quietly with Irina in the kitchen . |
| 11 | The usual tactic was to march troops across the enemy 's territory , plundering and looting ; to take fortified places if the task was easy ; to obtain allies among the lords of the locality ; and to retreat without fighting a battle if at all possible — in effect an application to a wider canvas of the some technique of warfare which had earlier made castellans formidable in the immediate environs of their castles . |
| 12 | It will be easy enough to bleach them with some Milk of Magnesia the night before he comes home . |
| 13 | On the basis of privately commissioned opinion polls showing an increasing majority in favour of some measure of divorce legislation , FitzGerald agreed with his cabinet to proceed with a referendum on whether to change the constitution so as to allow divorce for marriages irretrievably broken down , though only after a period of five years ' actual breakdown and legal separation . |
| 14 | In the long run the centralist traditions were to win the race against all hopes for some measure of local autonomy . |
| 15 | For the first time , it appeared , Mrs Thatcher had some measure of command over her own Cabinet . |
| 16 | The more difficult situation is where you have to apply some measure of selectivity . |
| 17 | The serious business of gaining an Oxford scholarship and some measure of financial independence had begun and , for a time , gave Edward the drive necessary to matriculate easily as a non-collegiate student at Oxford , to live in lodgings there , and to attend a full course of lectures to prepare himself for an entrance scholarship to Balliol , Merton , or Lincoln . |
| 18 | The Labour Party subsequently achieved some measure of socialism under Attlee , despite the hostility of capitalism , and the Labour Party was well informed about the real strength of the fascist challenge . |
| 19 | It looked as though the repressive policy of James V had died with him , and that Scotland , presided over by Arran and the powerful Hamilton faction , was now moving with almost unbelievable ease towards alliance with England and some measure of Protestant reform . |
| 20 | It therefore moved towards them , and its commitment to Scottish home rule and to some measure of home rule for Wales became firmer . |
| 21 | A swarm of ghosts gyred around him in a multiple helix , allowed some measure of self-determination by his preoccupation , furtively snatching their existence from his body and his mind . |
| 22 | The difficulty in assessing this point is that in most cases the normal justification can not be established unless the putative authority enjoys some measure of recognition , and exercises power over its subjects . |
| 23 | In summary , the main points this chapter has attempted to make are the following : ( i ) In the European origins of the formation of modern States , nationalism was a means to establish the loyalty of populations and enforce some measure of homogeneity ( against the local particularisms of earlier times ) . |
| 24 | The most that could be offered would be autonomous areas within regional self-government ‘ towards which members of the respective nationalities , scattered all over the country or even all over the world , would gravitate and with which they could enter into relations and free associations ’ — some measure of accommodation to Bauerism . |
| 25 | Whatever their errors — and they had been considerable — the Bolsheviks did at last establish some measure of order that allowed some recovery from the attrition of the years . |
| 26 | The very fact that Adrian Vredeman de Vries 's series of bronzes were taken from the garden by the Swedes in 1648 to decorate Drottningholm is some measure of Wallenstein 's patronage . |
| 27 | A brain lesion or injury usually causes some measure of spasticity , which is an interference factor preventing normal movement . |
| 28 | Claim followed counter-claim until 1543 when , under circumstances not recorded , some measure of agreement seems to have been reached . |
| 29 | Many of its leading members have spoken in favour of some measure of electoral reform . |
| 30 | He looked around for some measure of comparison . |