Example sentences of "on some " in BNC.
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| 1 | AN UPDATE ON SOME OF THE 92 PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE FEATURED IN THE LETTER WRITING CAMPAIGN IN 1989 AND 1990 — 39 ARE NOW FREE ! |
| 2 | Later writers , even those sympathetic to Antal 's thesis , have admitted that the argument about class conflict in the period was exaggerated , but this does not exclude the possibility that an equally unexpected approach may not throw light on some apparently exhausted topic . |
| 3 | Or a priest of some unknown religion who strides towards us , implacably set on some atavistic rite ? |
| 4 | Reviews of exhibiting societies ' shows have constantly presented difficulties to critics , as it is only possible to give brief comments on some of the artists ' work ; how could it be otherwise when an exhibiting society shows several thousand works ? |
| 5 | Every so often , wild disordered men , with matted hair and ‘ unseeing red eyes ’ , are glimpsed ‘ tramping along old paths , across gardens , between houses , and through what remained of woodland , like aborigines recognising only an ancestral landscape and insisting on some ancient right of way ’ . |
| 6 | Maybe on a boat , at night , on some vast lake . |
| 7 | Two climatological dendrologists or career torturers , pre-eminent in their respective domains but divided on some technical points . ’ |
| 8 | Mr Govind said the finance minister had announced that 100% equity would be allowed on some developments if they utilised advanced technology and were in the country 's interest . |
| 9 | I mean , I 'm not saying I want us to be living at the top of a tower block on some vandalized estate but there 's more to life than this , I know there is . ’ |
| 10 | On some varieties green fruits ripen to a deep glowing red |
| 11 | On some , the rudder overbalances badly and there is a bad trim change . |
| 12 | Lucy could n't find time to come over for an evening ; the globally significant exhibition was floating on some remote iceberg ; Jeremy had an agent , an opening ; Lucy 's sister was ill and needed her ( Jay recalled Lucy 's exasperated indifference to her sister ) ; the painters were coming . |
| 13 | Their performance on some task is then evaluated by comparing their average score with the average score of a group of matched control subjects . |
| 14 | The problem is that it is highly improbable that a group of patients with brain injury constitute a natural kind , even when they display similar symptoms on some test or other . |
| 15 | In my day and at a good school , it was easy , as you moved up from class to class , to miss out totally on some period of English history — the only history that was taught . |
| 16 | On some you 'll find screens and pews and font-covers of such exuberance they 'd more at home in a Moorish palace . |
| 17 | Some shielding from sum , wind and rain should be provided even if it is just a capping to the board , and the whole fixed on some sheltered wall . |
| 18 | With the restoration of Hampton Court Palace nearing completion , Trevor Barnes meets an American who has been asked to work on some of the most important recreations of Grinling Gibbons ' original carvings |
| 19 | Whereas restorers in the past speculated on some of the missing elements and snapped in a few flowers here and there , we take the view that if it 's missing when we took the carving down then it will stay missing when we put it back up again . |
| 20 | Do practise your engraving first on some scrap metal , and lacquer if desired . |
| 21 | Although the original HST plans provided for two daily return journeys between King 's Cross and Aberdeen , by judicious programming of the sets ( plus some extra sets transferred from the Western region ) it was possible to add on some extra trips to existing rosters . |
| 22 | Towards the end of the 1980s attention was being focussed on some interesting developments in wagon design . |
| 23 | Although the first units were somewhat spartan , the later builds were well equipped and responsible for a sizeable upturn in passenger business on some routes . |
| 24 | Maybe I was on some damp lichen . |
| 25 | Before the darkness came , you might have come across him at times pushing a pramful of camping equipment , perhaps with a grandson straggling at his side , on some remote road through Eigiau , Abergeirw or Pennant Lliw . |
| 26 | On some units this can be done by rotating and will cause total failure . |
| 27 | As they contain water , the first application may cause the grain to raise on some woods , and a light sanding is recommended before applying the second coat . |
| 28 | Their advantage is the presence of a wire wrap area found on some for user modifications . |
| 29 | puss lizard will lunch on some other T-bone |
| 30 | SPENDING ON some areas of the National Health Service could be downgraded in Labour 's list of priorities as a result of the leadership 's determination to make the productive economy the centrepiece of the party 's programme for government . |