Example sentences of "[verb] in some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most basic error , which I attempted to pinpoint in discussing the sense in which the cries , hoots , and gestures of animals are ‘ primitive forms ’ of language in Chapter 5 , is to confuse the predictive value of the effects of such behaviour with the conscious intent of a speaker to communicate in some way . |
| 2 | If the distinction between tacit and explicit collusion is to mean anything , it must also be shown that the ability to communicate in some way affects the likely existence and stability of collusion . |
| 3 | She touched a finger to Tallis , then to herself , trying to communicate in some way . |
| 4 | It amused them to dine in some style , formally separating the working day from their evenings together . |
| 5 | Even in the case of married applicants for joint mortgages , the Equal Opportunities Commission ( EOC ) found that 36 per cent of building societies in their study discriminated in some way against a couple with a higher earning wife ( EOC , 1978 ) . |
| 6 | Proof ( r ) Each a in A lies in some subset of A belonging |
| 7 | If you 've got an idea or a message to send it has to be encoded in some way then there 's various mediums or media by which it can be transmitted but it 's got to be decoded by the receiver for the idea or message to be understood , and there 's some kind of feedback mechanism potentially from the receiver to the sender . |
| 8 | His idea was that these have to be fused in some way in industrial societies otherwise such societies could not survive . |
| 9 | The two machines most affected by this issue are the PC and Macintosh so it seems appropriate to examine the pros and cons in some detail . |
| 10 | One kind of answer refers to the increasing differentiation of social functions as human societies become larger and more complex , and to the need for a superior authority in society capable of regulating conflicts of interest among individuals and groups and of representing in some fashion the ‘ general interest ’ . |
| 11 | The problems are most acute in Africa where population pressures are also greatest , though modification of South American savannas is increasing ; desertification is occurring in some areas as a result of overgrazing . |
| 12 | For most people their tears are distorted in some way or another , often confused and strangled , not flowing freely . |
| 13 | As we have seen , schools are also to be given the option of leaving the Local Authority altogether and becoming in some sense independent , though with non-fee-paying pupils . |
| 14 | The decline of community and the rise of a society in which association was becoming in some sense secondary can also be seen as reflecting some of the profound social and spatial changes that were actually taking place in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . |
| 15 | The beginnings of the style appear in some ivories from the temple of Artemis at Ephesus . |
| 16 | More torrential rain is forecast tonight with up to four inches of rain expected in some parts of Gloucestershire . |
| 17 | Our samples were no exception : Table 5.1 takes a loose definition of ‘ carer ’ and shows — for the three points in time — whether the dementia sufferer lived with someone who helped in some way to care for him or her , and if not , how frequently he or she was visited by someone on an informal caring basis . |
| 18 | What is important is that they should not draw our attention towards them by appearing in some way wrong , inappropriate or misconceived . |
| 19 | It seems highly likely , for example , that much of the nitrate now appearing in some ground water in Britain was actually first released almost fifty years ago , when grassland was ploughed to make way for cereal as the country strove to increase its home-grown food supply . |
| 20 | We accept that shops or factories be forbidden in some zones and not others and that parking be prohibited on alternate sides of the same street on alternate days . |
| 21 | The Detailed Spectrum Investigation team recommends that spectrum should be rearranged in some bands but that any shortfall should be recovered from improved frequency management techniques in other bands . |
| 22 | If one can not — and that is happening in some cases — it only means that … ’ |
| 23 | Nevertheless , if there is any sense in which capitalism can develop the Third World , and there is evidence that this is happening in some countries or in some sectors , then the theoretical elaboration of the idea of dependency reversal may be useful . |
| 24 | I 'd rather work in a place like that , where we can face problems and move them on and develop things carefully , than to work in some places in the country where things are so far off agenda , as it were , as to be impossible . |
| 25 | Although many solicitors offer fixed fee interviews they are given little publicity beyond referral lists and notices in some solicitors ' offices . |
| 26 | Osburn 's points were that his fellow Englishmen in India , whose heartless behaviour towards Indians he described in some detail , failed to ‘ realize that the British Empire depends for its existence on obtaining the consent and the friendly co-operation of the races governed ’ , and that the demand for independence ‘ need never have arisen but for the arrogance and want of tact of a large percentage of Englishmen who , in one capacity or another , are resident in India ’ . |
| 27 | I think that it would be helpful now if I described in some detail what the effect of the banding arrangements will be , as there has been considerable misunderstanding of the provisions . |
| 28 | Now , as he watched him limping and staggering up the slope , it occurred to hint that he might actually be wounded in some way . |
| 29 | It is helpful in this context if one 's account of the circumstances can be exaggerated in some way , until it becomes clear that nobody , however marvellous , could have coped any better than you did . |
| 30 | Inflation , which fell in the second half of 1989 , rose in some countries in the first half of 1990 , was anticipated to increase further in 1990 due in part to oil price increases . |