Example sentences of "[adv prt] of some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er there 's another book which is similar to the other one in the sense that it made up of some papers by Phillips , Steel and Tants and that has some information about Mexicano in it , er and you find that some people er were giving Mexican language a low a low prestige rate whereas other group in the community were doing the opposite and giving a high prestige rate or certainly a less low one , er in favour of spanish a lot of the Because it was in I think it 's in South America I guess , er you find that a lot of the locals were switching to spanish because it was coming the dominant language er because of societal pressures and constraints and so on . |
| 2 | He added that the prison officers were wrong to think that the possible contracting out of some services within prisons could lead to privatisation of entire jails . |
| 3 | Administering , as part of a cross-sectional survey , a series of attitude questions to a sample of respondents , we will not be able to determine which of them are expressing fairly firm attitudes from those responding out of some whim or other , or who have changed , or who simply want to please the interviewer or get rid of him . |
| 4 | Young men with pale , waxy skins , they are straight out of some Moscow academy . |
| 5 | She was wearing the huge red skirt she had made out of some curtains someone had sent to the jumble , and a black polo-necked jersey , and she had tied her hair up with the Indian scarf Luke had given her for Christmas . |
| 6 | ‘ It was … umm fun , ’ she said out of some kind of loyalty to Nelson 's masculine ego . |
| 7 | The company built a new factory at Angered , 10 kilometres away , and began a lengthy process of reorganisation , pulling out of some businesses and concentrating on others — in line with wider changes in the Courtaulds Coatings group . |
| 8 | Daddy , she said , had had to spring some people ori them for dinner , and she was out of some basics . |
| 9 | She was glad to reach the door of the Seven Stars where she could rest the bag , though she was screwed up with fear that Garty might pop out of some alley , or Samson erupt like a volcano from the bowels of the tavern . |
| 10 | That is because a large number of cases on public nuisance arise out of some misuse of the highway ( inherently unlawful ) and due to the growth of statutory offences touching such matters as health and environment . |
| 11 | If they are as divorced from experience as they seem , the only explanations for their regular occurrence in a variety of people must be either , following Jung , that these are archetypal dreams with some allegorical significance , or that they represent an attempt to make sense out of experiences really occurring during dreaming sleep — an attempt to make a coherent story out of some pattern of the highly active discharges from the hindbrain which are a feature of REM sleep . |
| 12 | We could talk about a proportion of that for you — each time I take him out of some piece of action , you stand to gain . |
| 13 | ‘ Jumping out of some tart 's bedroom window , I suppose . |
| 14 | At the start of the year , several firms were steeling themselves for the tough , face-losing decision to pull out of some markets — or out of the securities business altogether . |
| 15 | As far as police are able to understand they were walking near Tescos in Bletchley when three men burst out of some shrubbery and assaulted them . |
| 16 | They look like someone 's ill-conceived idea of mixing diverse cultural influences : an archetypal shoe-gazer guitarist complete with fringe , hooped T-shirt and effects pedals , a grinning Lenny Kravitz lookalike bassist , complete with Lennon shades and dreads , and a drummer straight out of some Midge Ure video , complete with beard , pot belly and baseball cap . |
| 17 | And when she was dressed and ready , she took her necklace out of some box or cupboard and clasped it round her throat , to complete her outfit . |
| 18 | Out of some sort of desperation she seemed to want to degrade herself . |
| 19 | Perdita was settling down and had even hit a respectable forehand which only just missed the goal when Alejandro , out of some devilry , swopped one of his sons and a cousin for Luke and Angel . |
| 20 | I can imagine members of each of these fraternities getting something out of some parts of the book — and , by serendipitous sampling , discovering interesting titbits . |