Example sentences of "some [noun sg] of [noun] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The military involvement of England in continental war meant an unusually high concern for achieving and maintaining some measure of control of the sea . |
| 2 | I also played with the idea that what afflicted me was some kind of strabismus of the psyche . |
| 3 | Some kind of assessment of the competence of teachers was seen as a way of weeding out those who were incompetent : a reaction to severe cuts in education ( along with the effects of falling rolls ) , and the need to thin out the teaching force . |
| 4 | Some of them indeed were under the impression that Sir Thomas 's disappearance from the scene was some kind of re-enactment of The Mystery of Edwin Drood . |
| 5 | The Renaissance had provided western Europe with a handsome collection of hitherto lost Greek texts , literary , philosophical and historical , to be studied by scholars , admired by the cultivated ( generally in translation ) , and imitated , in part , by contemporary writers ; but insofar as the Renaissance was actually a " rebirth " of anything past , it was predominantly a rebirth of Rome and the spirit of Rome , not of Greece ; and the remains of Greek antiquity were treated , and well into the eighteenth century continued to be treated , largely as if they belonged to some kind of extension of the now assimilated world of Rome . |
| 6 | From this very brief outline of the main characteristics of women 's employment in Scotland and how they related to the Edinburgh context , we can at least form some kind of picture of the 14-year-old Scottish girl 's expectations about her working career during the last half of the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | Thus one has to infer that the second statement here functions as some kind of explanation of the first statement in the passage , so that the failure of oil-bound paints on certain building materials is caused by the reaction of an acid and an alkali . |
| 8 | Goodman substantiates his view of reading as a ‘ psycholinguistic guessing game ’ ( 1972 ) with accounts of children who managed to battle their way through unfamiliar syntax and uncertain word recognition to some kind of understanding of the text . |
| 9 | If it has been discovered during the course of earth-moving for construction or other work , however , the site may be totally unknown ; in this case , it is important that local archaeologists are alerted as soon as possible , so that some kind of record of the site can be made before it is destroyed , or it may even be excavated if found to be important . |
| 10 | This is probably true of all human beings irrespective of culture and simply means that some degree of maturation of the ego must occur at around the age of seven even if the culture does not choose that moment for the installation of the superego . |
| 11 | By contrast to the barn owl , all the other species of owl showed some degree of digestion of the molars of their prey , even when clearly coming from adult birds only . |
| 12 | In fact , it does n't matter how remote , how poor is the resemblance of an insect to a stick , there must be some level of twilight , or some degree of distance away from the eye , or some degree of distraction of the predator 's attention , such that even a very good eye will be fooled by the remote resemblance . |
| 13 | The very fact that the installation of a protective system is considered presupposes that some degree of control of the fire is desired , and if this is the case , the degree of control required must be capable of being quantified . |
| 14 | But all games are dependent on the players having some degree of understanding of the concepts involved . |
| 15 | Until Khrushchev astonished our Georgian apparatchik at the 20th Party Congress , everyone in the West supposed that as some sort of Gauleiter of the Ukraine , he would be even worse than Uncle Joe . |
| 16 | If only there remained some sort of plan of the former layout ; but it could hardly have been anticipated when the conversion was begun that a modern miller would be the buyer , who proposed to grind not corn but electricity . |
| 17 | So , providing you say yes there will be occasions when the machine can take over some sort of part of the teacher 's role , then fair enough , yes , but I think one of the interesting ways in which computers are used at the present time , particularly again in the primary school , is as orchestrators of group work . |
| 18 | In the last section of this chapter we will examine the attempts that have been made to find out more about the actual extent of crime , and to provide some sort of indication of the ‘ dark figure ’ of crime and to discover the ‘ real ’ rather than the recorded rate and character of crime . |
| 19 | We are inclined to think that the grammar of the linguistic expression is some sort of consequence of the process being of a certain kind ; for example , that ‘ I remember X-ing ’ is true if and only if I X-ed because remembering is a process in which one somehow sees into the past . |
| 20 | Yeah now that 's , that 's probably worth mentioning to Dave because I think one of the things he was talking about doing was instead of one of the tests or something making people hand in either some sort of lab book or some sort of record of the practical so far this term erm |
| 21 | There were hints before the local elections , rumours of some sort of relaunch of the Left . |
| 22 | Some sort of association of the Western European Union ( WEU ) with NATO now seems part of the answer . |
| 23 | Rather , α needs to be determined by some sort of average of the values for a number of preceding trials as in the following equation : ( 3.2 ) |
| 24 | There are sites where it is not only possible to visit and see the reconstructions , but also to take part in activities simulating the way people lived on that site in the past , or even to live there for several days to get some sort of impression of the way of life . |
| 25 | The charge can be based on some sort of apportionment of the total contribution . |
| 26 | A huge amount of mail poured into Rough Trade 's offices demanding some form of release of the legendary Smiths radio sessions . |
| 27 | Although it might have been possible to attempt some form of categorisation of the types of detail which were recalled at different risk levels , it is not clear that the data from this study are really powerful enough to support such an analysis . |
| 28 | So we are left once more with the need for some form of realignment of the opposition forces to ensure that the non-Tory majority in votes is better reflected in seats in the House of Commons . |
| 29 | When the newly elected Conservative Government abolished exchange controls in 1979 it became readily apparent that some form of restructuring of the Stock Exchange and the financial sector in general was necessary if the UK was to maintain its reputation as one of the world 's leading financial centres . |
| 30 | In the third stage , identified with areas 20 and 21 in the temporal lobe by Kolb and Wishaw ( 1985 ) and with the parietal cortex by Luria ( 1973 ) , information about the retinal location of stimulus elements is largely lost and replaced with some form of representation of the object giving rise to the pattern of retinal stimulation . |