Example sentences of "some [noun] of [noun] of [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Throughout the century proposals for the creation of some kind of reserve of seamen were put forward , all of them without success .
2 Well , having had to avail ourselves of the help of the officer who got rid of our gigantic wasp nest , I should like to say what a superb job they do , but I just wondered in view of the tremendous number , whether there is some kind of way of preventions .
3 There is some kind of epidemic of withdrawals going around Crystal Palace this year , and the Norwegians are not the only side to have suffered .
4 There is some kind of conspiracy of bureaucrats : they all have their fingers in the same profitable pie .
5 Like the wooden chancel rail on which countless hands awaiting the sacrament had laid a patina , and the memorial stones in the floor of the aisle worn smooth over the centuries , the very fabric of the building seemed to have distilled and preserved some essence of generations of worshippers .
6 These figures suggest that there was also some degree of undervaluation of exports and imports in terms of dinars in previous years , although the amount may well have varied with the rate of depreciation of the dinar .
7 ‘ No-o … these things are numbered and they 'll be cross-indexed to some sort of register of names .
8 David Mills , the erstwhile head of the Hazardous Chemical wing of Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution ( HMIP ) — and well known for his criticisms of the lack of effective policing of what he defends as largely sound rules — says that placing high-temperature incinerators in some sort of hierarchy of risks is ‘ a terribly subjective business . ’
9 I Branches without women rivals now sided with Glasgow in demanding a campaign to exclude women for good , while branches such as Edinburgh , who had to contend with the problem , tried to go on arguing for some form of recognition of women workers .
10 Whilst most writers resort to some form of categorization of responses , there is a general emphasis , underlined by Kaelin , that , whilst such structuring may be useful for learning or communication , its value is transitory and it should be readily discarded in favour of the unity of the aesthetic experience itself .
11 If the hypothesis that the glycoproteins are involved in some form of remodelling of synapses is correct , then maybe one could actually observe and measure these changes in the neurons of the IMHV ?
12 I was trying to find him some couple of pairs of socks but I could n't find anything I liked .
13 One is bound up with the fact that we do indeed suppose that there is some set of types of circumstances , each type related in the same way to startings-to-work of the wipers .
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