Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [be] [verb] some " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Competition is cut-throat and it seems some of the designers have been taking some dodgy tabs ( or suffering from over-worked stress syndrome ) , as the high-top becomes more and more ridiculous .
2 What superlatives , comparatives and ordinals do is to pick some entity out of its extraction set by giving a property which identifies it relative to membership in that set .
3 British banks have been granted some £2,250 million in tax relief on bad loans to developing countries , according to official figures .
4 Where one-off items have been selected some stores will reserve them for you , but you may have to buy them yourself if they are n't chosen .
5 Whilst librarians have been saved some paperwork , statistics of use for individual theses will now be impossible to obtain from BLDSC , and the present type of research methodology will no longer be practicable .
6 It might be possible for people in such circumstances ( perhaps when redundancies have been notified some weeks in advance ) to be supported and perhaps taught techniques to cope with the anxiety and avoid being overpessimistic or ‘ catastrophising ’ ( see next section ) .
  Next page