Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] [prep] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most commonly prescribed drugs were hypnotics to make young children sleep and anti-depressants for treating bedwetting , plus tranquillizers for teenagers suffering from some kind of psychological disturbance . |
| 2 | So I was surprised when at last she started to draw me , her hand moving lightly over the page once more , her eyes flickering with some interest at last . |
| 3 | In both cases there 's a facility for storing data , for performing operations according to some sort of program , and for telling the operator the results . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This recalls the habitual remark of youngsters admitting to some misdemeanor performed under the influence of another : He made me do it ! , which would be significantly different from He forced me to do it which implies an action one was pushed into by means of force rather than one performed under coercion . |
| 6 | TASK 6 required children to write instructions and explanations relating to some game familiar to them . |
| 7 | The other main group in the public sector which adopts accruals accounting in some form is local authorities . |
| 8 | The need to ensure that the expert has the power to award interest will arise in the following circumstances : ( 1 ) Does the issue referred to the expert include a claim for damages arising from some breach of contract that has already occurred ? ( 2 ) Is the issue the expert is called on to determine essentially what amount of money one side owes the other , and when that sum is payable ? ( 3 ) Is there likely to be a delay in obtaining the expert 's decision on the amount payable ? |
| 9 | Dunn ( 1976 ) underlines this point and argues that , in some rural areas in Britain , the largest settlements would not qualify as service centres according to some threshold criteria . |
| 10 | Motions starting in some volume of phase space ( the basin of attraction of the attractor ) can follow complicated transients but , as |
| 11 | Then , at the edges of her consciousness , outside the explosive heat of the passage of his lips about her neck , of his fingers reaching into some recess of her costume to make her bare flesh tingle , she heard the faint echo of Hector 's bark . |
| 12 | They have tended to have fierce debates leading to some kind of resolution . ’ |
| 13 | But you know erm , the training committee 's view that National College has already achieved savings and approved efficiency while mainin maintaining standards , and the huge number , over seven thousand G M B members participating in some form of activity at a National College last year . |
| 14 | Masai on the government payroll contentedly drew their salaries and accepted whatever titles were bestowed upon them , but either did nothing or interpreted their duty to be that of spokesmen for their compatriots labouring under some inconvenience inflicted on them by the government . |
| 15 | They are used to politicians listening with some care to their demands , and the evidence of this attention and the obvious impact of general elections is usually sufficient to make them feel that the old maxims of the Westminster model still have some meaning . |
| 16 | Nonetheless , the fact remains that even this frog is dependent upon rains arriving at some time and its active life is , in reality , condensed to that brief moment when the desert is wet . |
| 17 | Rumours circulating among some health authority staff that the chief executives of Darlington and South-West Durham would be replaced by one officer brought in from another area were hotly denied at regional level . |