Example sentences of "some [noun sg] of [noun] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we speak of control , we are speaking of empowerment , a now much abused word , but one which still conveys the sense of movement from situations of experienced powerlessness , both individual and collective , to one where people acquire some measure of determination in the course of events and policies . |
| 2 | In so far as this book is a plea for some measure of reform in the priority given to sexual considerations in social work cases , public attitudes must be seen as creating obstacles . |
| 3 | In most liberal democratic countries there is some measure of agreement in the news media on political facts . |
| 4 | Seagulls swooped and planed overhead laying raucous claim to some scrap of food in the possession of one of them . |
| 5 | Perhaps it 's erm some kind of mistake in the way erm cells divide after they 've been fertilized , I do n't know , but this is not true of fraternal twinning . |
| 6 | The Karens were animists , feeling some kind of presence in the forest , the spring or the great banyan tree . |
| 7 | But a less obvious kind of evidence may , according to Labov , be provided by some kind of irregularity in the expected pattern of differentiation according to speech style , or sex or social class of speaker . |
| 8 | Usually to be defined as child sex abuse I think w for most authors there 'd need to be some kind of discrepancy in the ages in some way , that is y'know if somebody was about thirteen and the other person was about eighteen it might be ah starting to get er a big enough discrepancy to be outside the realm of of y'know kind of normal y'know sort of boyfriend and girlfriend to use those saccarinous terms erm relationships and maybe might be considered to be er to be something like child abuse . |
| 9 | I 'd a lump on my head the size of a goose egg ; I 'd been through some kind of hell in the spaces ; I 'd prayed for … it was not what I 'd prayed for at all . |
| 10 | I can also report to congress that at last there are some signs at long last of some kind of recovery in the building materials industry very early days yet but some companies are actually beginning to go back to full-time working and in one or two cases are actually starting to take on additional , er , employees . |
| 11 | On the basis of these figures , there has clearly been some kind of shift in the axis of the economy from manufacturing to services . |
| 12 | Then there was Aengus , the youngest : his owlish glasses made him look studious and he was the only Foley boy not to be chosen for some kind of team in the school . |
| 13 | He 's in some kind of rooms in the north-east of London somewhere . " |
| 14 | It sounded like some kind of ritual in the way the Oak said it and the other Trees bowed their heads in acknowledgement . |
| 15 | In my mind , the object of doing an evaluation is to create some kind of improvement in the situation that is being evaluated . |
| 16 | I think this absolutely vital because in my mind the object of doing an evaluation is to create some kind of improvement in the situation that is being evaluated . |
| 17 | Like most works that are felt to mark some kind of watershed in the history of music , Peter Grimes has been heavily probed for , among other things , debts to and possible borrowings from the works of other composers . |
| 18 | ‘ And you 've definitely ruled out some kind of poison in the food ? ’ |
| 19 | The feedback model ( i.e. TRACE II ) is closer to the weak interaction type in that it is primarily data driven , rather than hypothesis driven , but it does allow some top-down filling in of gaps , and some correction of errors in the input data . |
| 20 | The data seems to support the first belief : of those who had had some experience of unemployment in the previous five years , 0.480 said they would be prepared to break the law , whereas only 0.300 of those who had no such experience were ( a difference of +0.180 ) . |
| 21 | She certainly did n't want his sympathy ; in all probability she could n't even have coped with it — but still , it would have been reassuring to detect some trace of humanity in the man . |
| 22 | It would be unreasonable to expect easy co-operative motion along the entire polymer chain , but as there is normally some degree of flexibility in the chain , local segmental motion can take place more readily . |
| 23 | In the countryside the timing of feasts , festivals , fairs and wakes was determined largely by the farming calendar and there was a degree of integration between the rhythms of work and those of leisure , leading Thompson to suggest some degree of anachronism in the use by historians of the word " leisure " . |
| 24 | It was reported that Samater , the outgoing Prime Minister , was reappointed only after the failure of efforts to bring into the post someone from the Issak tribe , whose appointment could suggest some degree of reconciliation in the civil war . |
| 25 | Although the number of dementing elderly people was very small , the researchers concluded that , although these clients posed particularly great care problems , ‘ there was some degree of success in the establishment and maintenance of care and reduction of risk through a more structured approach ’ ( Challis , 1988 ) . |
| 26 | The attempt to build a broad Jacobite alliance of disaffected Whigs and Tories around Country principles met with some degree of success in the early 1690s . |
| 27 | In fact , even a duckling raised by a farmyard hen goes ‘ quack ’ , rather than ‘ cluck ’ , maybe occasioning some degree of confusion in the hen house ! |
| 28 | Some degree of collaboration in the Malimbus was predictable from comparative studies of other avian families where collaboration in incubation and rearing associate with K conditions . |
| 29 | This being so , there is some degree of arbitrariness in the division of issues between this and the previous chapter , and there will also necessarily be some overlap . |
| 30 | Thus , there is some degree of selfdetermination in the ship case because we are free to shut our eyes , to cross the river and see it move from right to left , free to jump into the water and watch it coming towards us , free to determine the speed with which it passes across our visual field by moving our eyes with or against its movement . |