Example sentences of "some of [adj] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The criticisms made are very similar to some of those made of the government 's programme for privatising nationalised industries , namely , the government may have a clear policy on transferring firms from the public sector to the private sector , but lacks a real industrial policy . |
| 2 | It is a connection not unlike some of those made in the fiction of both authors . |
| 3 | We do not have that penalty , but we have life imprisonment — which means between 20 to 30 years in the case of some of those convicted in the most serious cases . |
| 4 | Comments like ‘ if I was one of those parents , I 'd be so ashamed I 'd want to keep out of the limelight ’ were heard from some of those connected with the local authority . |
| 5 | It was an order totally alien to the most basic principles of the religion they were fighting to uphold , and showed that after 40 years of the struggle , some of those fighting under the flag of the Covenant had lost sight of the most important aspects of their Faith . |
| 6 | There can be no doubt that this course has heightened the management skills of some of those working in the voluntary sector , but an extra benefit is that it had widened the links between I B M and you , and widened the understanding between both of us . |
| 7 | The group decided to go back to other dreams , other schools like some of those discussed in the earlier chapters of this book . |
| 8 | I could , of course , have added that some of those crowded around the door were likely to end up like Conor unless they backed away from their relentless hedonism , from their incessant living for the moment . |
| 9 | Some of these relate to the inevitable limits on time and space , but a more important limitation is that of the fossils themselves . |
| 10 | Some of these came from the Duke of Buckingham 's important collection , bought at auction in 1648 by the archduke Leopold Vilém , brother of the emperor . |
| 11 | If one plots the sites of all the recently-active volcanoes in the world on a map , one finds that several distinct , narrow chains exist , some of these running along the edges of continental land masses , some along island arcs and some of them through the sea [ see Fig. 1 ] . |
| 12 | One sign of the importance they attached to this work is that turquoise covered masks featured in the tribute handed to Cortés and transmitted to the emperor Charles V. Some of these passed into the family collection of the Medici and following the dispersal of this the important examples now in the Museum of Mankind passed to the British Museum . |
| 13 | Some of these continued into the Middle Ages and beyond and have been well recorded . |
| 14 | Young people , especially school leavers aged 16 and 17 , also have a number of training schemes available to them under the auspices of the Department of Employment ( formerly the Manpower Services Commission ) — some of these operate within the schools and FE colleges described in Chapter 5 , others outside . |