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

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1 Although the results achieved by the Leeds adjournment system appeared to favour its widespread adoption , this has not happened , although adjournment has been pressed for in some parts of the country — for example , in South Wales — and has been regarded as useful in certain cases by many authorities .
2 All of our leaders had reputations for being difficult to work with in some ways .
3 Under many circumstances this would be looked upon with some suspicion — giving rise to accusations of severe oligopoly or even near monopoly .
4 Although there is much to support this view of the origin of our modern idea of time , it is now realized that it can only be adhered to with some reservations , as we shall see .
5 The Court was concerned to learn from counsel that these matters were not always adhered to in some courts .
6 Another situation creating uncertainty as to party status is where reservations have been made to a treaty which have been objected to by some States but not by others .
7 I am immediately introducing new measures to ensure that all high-risk premises , which include restaurants , will be looked at by some health officer every six months . ’
8 In this chapter , the everyday division of labour at work is looked at in some detail , in order to understand how all the parties involved -employers , men and women — interpreted the questions of skill and pay .
9 However , the question of the value of the product should be looked at in some detail .
10 In particular , the mechanisms of landlord-influence in rural and urban communities will be looked at in some detail with a view to explaining the variable incidence of the ‘ deferential ’ and ‘ participatory ’ types of voting identified by previous research .
11 Finally , public relations has been looked at in some detail , because this area has expanded most over recent years and its relationship to the selling function is a very direct one as the sales force is increasingly being called upon to carry out PR activity .
12 Perhaps this is , this is something we could we could , we could use to talk about in some revision seminar at the beginning of next term cos we , we , we 've sort of got up to nineteen fifty two erm maybe it would be helpful if , if sort of you know we just sat there over the vacation and then come back and sort of have look
13 If there 's something in our music that someone can identify with in some way , something that makes their life easier …
14 He could have been done in by some thug who was after the money in his pockets .
15 Mr George Henry Quarry , a Belfast solicitor was then applied to for some land at the top of Carrickblacker Road but initially there was no response from him and other possible sites investigated were some ground opposite where James 's Street now stands and land behind where the little Roman Catholic church was later built ( now Pritchard 's Motors ) and near the site of Edenderry Orange Hall .
16 I understand from 's nephew that the electric convector in the sitting room is dead , and shall speak to about some kind of replacement , though there is of course the second convector in the bedroom which should suffice at this time of year .
17 While this is a complex area to tackle and it is by no means fully charted , it is worth looking at with some learners — for instance those who need to conduct business and to attend meetings in English .
18 But finally deciding it was time to move off , and doing his best to ignore the rooks , which began to mob him again the moment he took flight , he flew three hundred yards to another oak which he had been looking at with some care .
19 we approximately the subject we had been looking at for some time so I approximately , nineteen eighty eight , nineteen eighty nine
20 Yeah because you know why people never tried him , cos everyone used to sit like like some people that are rubbish at the game yeah , they say oh , this Guy 's shit and what they do they say oh , it 's shit and tell everyone do n't be him , do n't him he 's shit .
21 Er I do n't know how many of you made wills but er draw him out on other things if you 've got any problems I mean we we had quite an interesting session at one of the power station talks on a er tenant er tenancy agreement that a chap had been bothered about for some years .
22 ‘ It is completely novel for a high-street retailer to launch an added-value card like this , through it 's been talked about for some time , ’ says Ian Minors , managing director of Moss Bros agency MHA Direct .
23 Great Expectations Is Thought Of By some Critics As The Greatest Novel Written In English
24 ‘ Great Expectations ’ is thought of by some critics as the greatest novel written in English .
25 ‘ Great Expectations ’ is thought of by some critics as the greatest novel written in English .
26 ‘ Implicitly , if not explicitly , the doctoral thesis has come to be thought of in some countries and institutions as simply the demonstration that a certain amount of research methodology has been transmitted and received , with much less emphasis than used to be the case upon the nature and significance of the topic explored . ’
27 Calculators , on the other hand , are still not entirely approved of by some parents and teachers , even though our experience would suggest that an ability to use a calculator is a far more relevant skill for everyday life than almost any of the pencil-and-paper arithmetic taught in schools .
28 Fire Service S S A , which we 've talked to at some length already .
29 Yes , I 'm not sure that I I 'm going to at some stage .
30 Now , could I , could I go through , cos I 'd like , I 'd like to at some stage ask you to do an exercise on this just to see first of all how complicated it is and then , at the end , how simple it is .
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