Example sentences of "of some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soreness in the groin , or a discharge from the genitals , can be a sign of some sexually transmitted diseases . |
| 2 | The plight of some 600 detainees acknowledged by the authorities was also giving cause for concern . |
| 3 | Art is not , as the metaphysicians say , the manifestation of some Idea of beauty or God ; it is not , as the aesthetic physiologists say , a game in which man lets off his excess of stored-up energy ; it is not the expression of man 's emotions by external signs ; it is not the production of pleasing objects ; and , above all , it is not pleasure but it is a means of union among men joining them together in the same feelings , and indispensable for the life and progress towards wellbeing of individuals and humanity . |
| 4 | There will be no attempt to define exactly what art criticism is , or to set out a theory of criticism , beyond the suggestions of some differences in writings on art which have already been made . |
| 5 | An unwary reader might think that the book is a history of the changes in Western art , whereas it is in fact only a selection of some changes . |
| 6 | A typical decision for planning a survey is to take a century , or the reign of some sovereign to delimit a period ; this is a device with no relationship to the artistic activity of the time . |
| 7 | Print-making has had the advantage of some careful scholars , but an excellent book is by a practitioner , Stanley Hayter . |
| 8 | It is far better to like and admire something that is wrong , or to like and admire for the wrong reason , provided we do so sincerely , than to follow slavishly the dictates or ideas of some other person . |
| 9 | Or a priest of some unknown religion who strides towards us , implacably set on some atavistic rite ? |
| 10 | It is clear enough , none the less , that the hero of that time is like the hero of some other times , including Hamlet 's . |
| 11 | Expect a general rise in fees of some 7–9% for the academic year starting September 1990 . |
| 12 | It can be well worth the additional expense of some private tuition for the audition and gaining one to one advice on your material . |
| 13 | They have also never been perceived by the state as a threat , perhaps because of the revolutionary pedigree of some of their élite . |
| 14 | There is a tradition of strong social consciousness in the Church of Ireland , evidenced by its building of hospitals , the support of some of its leadership for the locked-out Dublin workers in 1913 and their activities in other works of mercy without a proselytizing aim . |
| 15 | This mediation of ethics makes indirect one 's access to the problem of the relationship between the religious faith of some and the morality of the many , particularly on the issue of the freedom of the individual versus the intervention of the state . |
| 16 | On the basis of privately commissioned opinion polls showing an increasing majority in favour of some measure of divorce legislation , FitzGerald agreed with his cabinet to proceed with a referendum on whether to change the constitution so as to allow divorce for marriages irretrievably broken down , though only after a period of five years ' actual breakdown and legal separation . |
| 17 | Despite the curtailment of some of the clergy 's powers , friction between the teachers ' associations , particularly the INTO , and the Roman catholic clergy has remained until this day . |
| 18 | But both Salters 's and Russell 's work in Northern Ireland schools have been used by catholic schools supporters to aid a general principle , also derived from the work of some sociologists of education : namely that schools have little impact on children in terms of their basic values anyway , and one should recognize parents and community environment for the real source of these . |
| 19 | I told him the history of the charts , my initial idea for a peephole of some sort . |
| 20 | ‘ The transformation of the British pub currently underway has not occurred because of some conscious desertion of its doors by the public , but it is the result of some very careful planning by groups of retailers , marketing managers and accountants ( back up by designers ) encamped in the higher echelons of the brewing trade . |
| 21 | ‘ The transformation of the British pub currently underway has not occurred because of some conscious desertion of its doors by the public , but it is the result of some very careful planning by groups of retailers , marketing managers and accountants ( back up by designers ) encamped in the higher echelons of the brewing trade . |
| 22 | In all our inns we have plenty of ale , beer and sundry kinds of wine and such is the capacity of some of these that they are able to lodge two hundred or three hundred persons and their horses . |
| 23 | And the bar on which they stood had evolved from a simple counter or hatch to something approaching the form we know today : in his Encyclopaedia of Cottage , Farm and Villa Architecture of 1833 J C Loudon described the ideal bar ( the place ‘ from which all orders are issued ’ ) as being ‘ of some size ’ , with ‘ commanding views of the front entrance hall and back entrance ’ . |
| 24 | In SAVE 's 1983 report Mike Pearce observed that many of the pubs in Winchester 's historic city centre ‘ have been modernised and remodernised to present the tourist with open-plan fast-food interiors modelled in the character of some mythical Merrie Englande ’ . |
| 25 | He , from the papers I found there , I deduced to have been an academic of some kind . |
| 26 | ‘ There 's been nights of passionate love in this house that have left the lovers more depressed than ecstatic , ’ said Thomas , who found the neurotic sex-lives of some of his betters incomprehensible . |
| 27 | ‘ Do you mean his revision classes are meant to take the place of some of mine ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Ca n't you get an emergency payment of some sort ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ There are still some going and you 're bound to get preferential treatment of some sort . ’ |
| 30 | Jenny , as I had already worked out , was a woman of some means and she clearly was n't bothered by the fact she was having to subsidize me . |