Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] in some [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 recognises that an original lessee may have a defence if the assignee not performing has in some way been absolved from performance .
2 So InterCity declared a policy for the 1990s of offering catering in some form , on all their services .
3 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 ) .
4 A single gain pot and bass , middle and treble pots are all it needs to deliver some superb clean tones , but if these sounds are too clean and a slight amount of edge is preferred , then a push switch adds in some crunch .
5 Elisa rose in some confusion , wishing to remonstrate with her host about the abundance of his generosity .
6 This chapter describes in some detail the procedures for isolation of eggs and pre-implantation embryos , and for the manipulation and observation of embryos at various stages of development .
7 Minsky and Papert studied in some detail how elaborate a perceptron must be in order to recognise a particular class .
8 Articulated crampons have a separate front and heel piece linked in some way , and are better for less than totally rigid leather boots and boots with some curve on the front sole .
9 Presumably it can be done only where the essential core of each subject is no greater than half the total ; or where the subjects overlap in some way ; or where students are prepared to do more than 100 per cent of the work .
10 Those of us dropping into Dunedin with a touring international or provincial team could usually rely , if things had not gone well for Otago , on Mains later proclaiming that his side had in some way been unfairly treated either by fate or the referee .
11 ‘ We must be giving them quite some headaches in the Pentagon , ’ Hawkins said in some satisfaction .
12 Whenever I seemed to advance towards him , my steps deviated in some way .
13 In both books , while some are defeated , freedom of the mind remains in some form and will continue for ever .
14 The Gesta describes in some detail the journey of Peter to Rome to receive the belt , the symbol of the Christian warrior , and the diadem or crown , the symbol of kingship .
15 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.
16 Furthermore , if outside agencies — such as courts or social workers decide that socialization has in some way been inadequate , it is to the family that they are most likely to turn in the allocation of blame or responsibility .
17 Almost all of these elements depend in some way for their initial success on the brigade 's own advanced forces , the Pathfinder Platoon .
18 I mean , what would you do if you were a lawyer and a boy came in and started yapping on about missing Wills like in some kid 's story ?
19 Appeals are not retrials , but considerations of whether the trial judge erred in some way .
20 In retrospect she says the most important thing is for parents to build in some kind of motivation or prospect that means something to their offspring .
21 We may not know exactly how evolution took place , but it is at least now clear that humanity evolved in some way from the higher apes ; that there were female and male of other species on the earth before the appearance of women and men .
22 Usually God 's blessing on the fruit of the land is sought , with a reading and prayers said in some field or farmyard .
23 In contrast , the data we have on the somatosensory cortex indicate that all of the areas specialize in some way and that there is no generalist area .
24 ( This may indeed reflect the fact that such adjectives seem in some way to constitute a more sophisticated manipulation of language than any we have seen in the adjectives discussed before ) .
25 Dietary fibre differs in some degree from plant to plant .
26 Frankly , it is a travesty of the truth that the BBC in the past four or five years has in some way been tamed .
27 Matadial referred in some detail in her evidence to five or six occasions between October 1986 and the end of the year when she had discussed with the defendant his frequent beating and threatening of Paulette .
28 The sense of ‘ the men ’ constituting a social group in a particular enterprise can be found in the joking relationships that are established which Willis describes in some detail .
29 A poll tax may be ‘ a tax levied on every person ; a capitation or head-tax ’ ( Oxford English Dictionary ) or it may be a tax related in some way to the right to vote .
30 A real desire to participate in some form of practical training was expressed by most of the people spoken to but the problems of fitting in courses with the off-farm employment were considerable .
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