Example sentences of "some [noun sg] of [noun] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further steps can follow only when there is at least some measure of agreement on the question of what is right and what is wrong . |
| 2 | Just because she 's read some trashy paperback she thinks she 's some kind of expert on the modus operandi . |
| 3 | Have seen in Leo Maxse the epitome of the ‘ radical right ’ in Britain before 1914 — radical right' being taken to mean ‘ extreme ’ right or some kind of proto-Fascism on the continental model . |
| 4 | From medieval times there must have been some kind of dwelling on the slight rise in the ground upon which the house stood . |
| 5 | To hear him talk , anyone would think she was some kind of Jezebel on the make . |
| 6 | Apart from the difficulty of chambers , the ordinary person who has no special connections normally finds it easier to get some kind of start on the common law side , where there is a great deal of small work , in county courts and the criminal courts ; on the Chancery side there is no criminal work and all the civil work tends to be fairly important . |
| 7 | The attempt of the Communist Party to implement Comintern decisions naturally gave rise to the most widely publicized of the movements for some kind of co-operation on the Left . |
| 8 | To give or receive help , perhaps over a long period , which inevitably involves some self-sacrifice on the one hand and some loss of independence on the other , is a very big step . |
| 9 | Held , allowing the appeal , that , where a creditor knew that security was being taken for the benefit of a debtor from a surety who was likely to be influenced by and to have some degree of reliance on the debtor , the creditor should seek to ensure that unfair advantage was not taken of the surety ; that , if the creditor failed to do so and the surety 's consent to the transaction was procured by the debtor 's undue influence or material misrepresentation or the surety lacked an adequate understanding of the nature and effect of the transaction , the security would be unenforceable ; that the bank knew that the defendants were husband and wife and that the wife was being asked to provide security for the husband 's business and was likely to rely on his judgment , and they should have ensured that she understood the nature and effect of the document which she was asked to sign ; and that , since the bank had failed to do so and had left it to the husband to explain the transaction , so that as a result of the husband 's misrepresentation the wife entered into the charge on the misunderstanding that her liability was limited to £60,000 , they could not enforce the charge against the wife save to the extent of £60,000 ( post , pp. 620C–G , 622F — 623C , D–F , 635G — 636F ) . |
| 10 | The background to all of this is knowledge on the part of the creditor that security is being taken from the surety for the benefit of the debtor and that the surety is a person who is likely to be influenced by and to have some degree of reliance on the debtor . |
| 11 | It was quite a new thing er in itself er you know it 's , you , like I say , you 've implied that er there was at least some degree of unrest on the shop floor . |
| 12 | Melissa asked , but before anyone could give a coherent answer Monsieur Gauthier managed to impose some sort of order on the chaos and shooed his family , like so many cackling hens , towards the private quarters at the rear of the hotel . |
| 13 | On a point of library housekeeping , the simple stratagem of date stamping items left upon tables is a useful way of keeping some sort of check on the use of reference books . |
| 14 | I include them because his statement that his days on the Western Front — in spite of the horror and the squalor — were the happiest of his life seems to be some sort of commentary on the greater part of a lifetime spent in what is often regarded as the idyllic English countryside . |
| 15 | There has obviously been some continuity of habitation on the site but , quite honestly , there is no way I could classify it other than , perhaps , Romo-Stuart-Georgian ! |
| 16 | There is some suggestion of violence on the part of the mother 's current and very , so far , short-lived relationship with the man she is now with and , if that is so — and one has to accept , for the purposes of this application , the untested evidence of the father — it would not be in the interests of these children for the original order to be made after an inter partes hearing . |
| 17 | Santa Cruz and IXI remain confident that some form of agreement on the Common Desktop Environment can be reached by then . |
| 18 | Some form of marker on the ground is a great help here . |