Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] for some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | – This means that the outer G forme was removed from the press part way through — printing stopped for some reason — and someone dropped it , scattering the letters everywhere . |
| 2 | Conditions of work were not pleasant ; landowners tried to get their estates cultivated by indentured labourers who had come out under a contract to work for some years for the man who paid for the journey or anyone to whom he sold the right to command their services . |
| 3 | It is in its work on health and healing , the Board of Social Responsibility has for some years now been concerned with the provision of training conferences for ministers and others involved in this aspect of the church 's commission . |
| 4 | To this end , this association has for some years now made the data sheet compendium — written originally for doctors and pharmacists — available to public libraries and , on request , to individual members of the public . |
| 5 | The Revenue has for some time been concerned about what is done with the money . |
| 6 | BML has for some time been concerned about the declining popularity of the NBS , which began in a blaze of publicity in 1955 . |
| 7 | The University of Warwick has for some time provided the possibility of studying both English and foreign texts in a comparative way at undergraduate level . |
| 8 | There were moments when the sun almost burst through the mist and I kept on driving , waiting and hoping for a first glimpse of the cordillera , my mind groping for some answer to the enigma of Iris Sunderby 's behaviour . |
| 9 | The most important development in sprint and marathon racing for some time was the introducing of starting gates at the World Sprint Championships in Paris . |
| 10 | As before the Polish crisis , there was little protest except from the far left who kept the local Councils of Action going for some months as centres of mobilization and revolutionary propaganda . |
| 11 | In effect , without the support of advertisers the British media would be in a poorer and much truncated form : advertising revenue accounts for some 40% of the popular press 's total revenue and some 70% of the qualities ' total revenue ; advertising revenue also finances the commercial television channels , countless commercial radio channels and a sizeable proportion of the new cable and satellite channels . |
| 12 | Since Intersolv reckons that maintenance accounts for some half of all programming work in MVS sites , and says that the research makes up for the bulk of this work , the potential time savings for users and the potential market for Intersolv are substantial . |
| 13 | After Henry VIII 's death and the accession of the nine-year-old Edward VI his subjects hoped for some relaxation of the Forest law . |
| 14 | In the early days both methods co-existed for some time in Great Britain , but the adherents of each method campaigned against one another here and elsewhere in Europe until towards the close of the nineteenth century , when oralism for the time being triumphed in all European countries . |
| 15 | Blaney 's success in the States lasted for some years and then , in 1910 , the affluent company decided to tour Great Britain . |
| 16 | She and her boyfriend have had their future planned for some time : they want to start farming in a nearby village , where they also intend to build a bungalow . |
| 17 | There is no doubt that amplified vibration can provide dramatic assistance in acquiring speed speechreading for some people with profound hearing loss . |
| 18 | As it happened , though the tension continued for some time after the building of the Berlin Wall in August to stop the flight of East Germans to the West , the two sides had to settle for a stalemate . |
| 19 | According to Martin Haslam of Sussex accountants Keymer Haslam & Co , clients subscribed for some BES schemes , particularly from Johnson Fry . |
| 20 | There were racetrack express buses , I found , going from the city to the Downs , so I went on one at about six o'clock and strolled around at ground level looking for some way of conveying to Bill Baudelaire the water samples which were now individually wrapped inside the nondescript plastic carrier . |
| 21 | The directorate searched for some method , other than a quick fix-it , which would draw the business into acceptable profitability and then develop that position . |
| 22 | Nor has there been sufficiently critical evaluation of programmes to screen for some diseases , he believes . |
| 23 | The water level is automatically reduced to normal if the machine over-fills for some reason . |
| 24 | I have been teaching machine knitting for some time and often come across pupils who have experienced the same problem . |
| 25 | Something over two hundred vacancies resulted in the immediate aftermath and a trickle of further resignations followed for some years to come . |
| 26 | Again Hugh thought for some time . |
| 27 | They did a mass formation practise for some show in Cairo , and he would get in the back of an Audax , throw off his parachute and Sutton harness , then kneel looking backwards and control the formation like the leader of the Halle . |
| 28 | A myriad of associations campaigning for some form of political and economic union proliferated across all the democracies and across most political party persuasions : for example , the United Europe Movement in Britain , organised by Churchill ; the Catholic Nouvelles Équipes Internationales and the Socialist Movement for the United States of Europe in France , but both with some following in Belgium and Luxembourg ; and the Europa-Bund in Germany . |
| 29 | His pleasure at the escape had for some reason given way now to even more sadness in the presence of the eagles that were still caged , as if the escape of one had intensified the sense of imprisonment of the others . |
| 30 | This is condemnation indeed , but more crucial is the circumstance that in its diminished state , criminal law remains for some students the first impression of serious legal study . |