Example sentences of "[verb] in some [noun sg] " 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 | For most people their tears are distorted in some way or another , often confused and strangled , not flowing freely . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | What is important is that they should not draw our attention towards them by appearing in some way wrong , inappropriate or misconceived . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Now , as he watched him limping and staggering up the slope , it occurred to hint that he might actually be wounded in some way . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Elisa rose in some confusion , wishing to remonstrate with her host about the abundance of his generosity . |
| 22 | The Ghost of Banquo is more than a figment of Macbeth 's imagination : it stands in some way in relation to his conscience . |
| 23 | We can avoid reference to transitivity by saying that there must be one and only one element which stands in some power of R to all the other members of the set . |
| 24 | If A and B are two elements of the set which both stand in some power of R to a third element of the set C , then either A stands in some power of R to B , or B stands in some power of R to A. |
| 25 | If A and B are two elements of the set which both stand in some power of R to a third element of the set C , then either A stands in some power of R to B , or B stands in some power of R to A. |
| 26 | It lays down standards for the media programme within the school , in terms of the provision of skilled personnel and plentiful materials in appropriate surrounds ; it specifies in some detail the media programme for the " school district " ( the American equivalent of the local education authority ) in similar terms of personnel , materials and distribution . |
| 27 | Before entering into a discussion of the reasons for the decline of the organized networks , and of the patterns of cattle theft in the first half of the twentieth century , 1 shall first discuss in some detail the administrative policies which affected cattle stealing in its heyday . |
| 28 | the task can be systematized or programmed in some way so that others can carry out the routines strictly to your requirements , thus reoccurring items are frequently delegated without undue risks being incurred |
| 29 | there 's some brain in them , there must be , they 're programmed in some way are n't they ? |
| 30 | For some months , Joan moved in some indecision between her home and Richard 's . |