Example sentences of "[vb pp] for some [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst I have said 2 years as the expected time to be collecting Community Charge I think this should be qualified with 2 years plus , with income being received for some considerable time thereafter especially through Sheriff Officers . |
| 2 | I think , she remembered , as he walked a little behind her , it was a title received for some public work or other … . |
| 3 | But this is so only where the fence etc. was erected with reference to the highway and would probably not apply where the fence was erected for some other reason ( A.G. v Beynon , [ 1969 ] 2 All ER 263 ) . |
| 4 | Video 8 , with its inability to dub audio separately , inserts both new pictures and sound , the latter being whatever was being picked up by the camcorder 's microphone while the title was being recorded — unless you have arranged for some other sound to be fed onto the tape ! |
| 5 | Certain drugs given for some other disorder may cause temporary impotence , so that is something to check with the doctor . |
| 6 | " But she 's probably fallen for some dashing Italian by now , Matthew added . |
| 7 | McKellar 's subjects " … quite frequently likened the images to lantern slides … " and furthermore their unrelatedness both to current preoccupations and to each other made them seem like a series of lecturer 's slides which had not only " … been mixed up but were really intended for some other lecture " . |
| 8 | If you are dismissed for some other reason unconnected with redundancy , you will have to consider whether the circumstances justify an unfair dismissal claim . |
| 9 | Mo may just not care what gets said about the Company — it 's all the new team now — as long as he is n't caught saying it himself And if he gas blamed for some dirty work that got started fifteen years ago — and I doubt he was directly responsible ; he was too senior then — how much does it hurt him now ? |
| 10 | If Vecchi was the imitation hospital attendant , then he was booked for some free electricity at the State 's expense . |
| 11 | This draft response indicates which DTAC responses he has taken into account , and any member whose DTAC 's response has arrived late or has been omitted for some other reason can ensure that relevant points are not missed . |
| 12 | This compact volume offers great flexibility and whether used as the basis for a year 's study or recommended for some last minute cramming , the student will derive benefit from it . |
| 13 | Poor Pat already thinks he 's been raised from the dead and is destined for some great thing , to help Marcus to save the world ! ’ |
| 14 | In order to continue postgraduate studies I had applied for some financial assistance for part-time fees , under a scheme created by the Home Office and set up specifically in recognition of a lack of higher educational qualifications in the police service ( HO Circular 29/74 ) . |
| 15 | Strangely , her mother 's moods , Agnes had noticed for some long time now , were more evident in the evening . |
| 16 | While in the longer run this practice perhaps strengthened the High Authority in its relations with the member governments , the caution it induced in the High Authority , along with the ambiguity of the treaty , made for some slow progress . |
| 17 | Certainly , in at least one of the case study districts , Islington , which will be discussed in Chapter 5 , decentralization of local authority services under a socialist regime made for some civic similarity with the regions of Italy which received mental health reform most warmly . |
| 18 | An exploration of an old craftman 's tool-roll would reveal some strangely shaped tools , probably made for some one-off job . |
| 19 | Two possibilities were developed to deal with man 's new homelessness in the world , his exposure , as Foucault puts it , to the finitude of the event , which attempted to draw all these heterogeneous histories together again : either men sought for some fundamental law through which a new general history could be constituted , or historicity as such was defined in terms of ‘ man ’ — whether as progress , economic laws , or cultural totalities . |
| 20 | Do be prepared for some honest advice , though . |
| 21 | Now she looked almost like a child about to be scolded for some minor misdemeanour . |
| 22 | Catering entrepreneurs will have three choices : first , to take over an existing catering establishment as a going concern and adapt the premises as they see fit ; secondly , to convert already existing premises to be used as a catering establishment , such premises being derelict or presently used for some other purpose ; and thirdly , to have purpose-built premises designed by an architect and built to their specifications . |
| 23 | Answer guide : An opportunity cost is defined as the maximum benefit which could be obtained from a resource if it were used for some alternative purpose than the opportunity under consideration . |
| 24 | This way of seeing the development of databases can be misleading because it should not be implied that either each new generation will replace the previous generation ( all these systems will be used for some foreseeable time in the future ) or that each new generation is necessarily better than the previous one ( the appropriateness or otherwise of an approach will depend on the organisation and its applications ) . |
| 25 | This means that you are entitled to due attribution where the work is used for some commercial product , display or other purpose and that basically you have the right to object to modification , distortion or any form of derogatory promotion of your work , unless of course you have sanctioned it ! |
| 26 | Some parents even said they had been aware of being watched for some considerable time . |
| 27 | The Agia Triadha sarcophagus is invaluable in showing us the funeral ceremonies that were offered for some important person around 1400 BC . |
| 28 | He was so angry he strung them up in the back of his open lorry , head downwards , like side of beef bound for some unhygienic market . |
| 29 | The situation called for some drastic action and so I laid it on the line ; either they won this game or I would resign . |
| 30 | NuTcracker is supposedly unbiased toward any particular brand of Unix although the second version of NuTcracker , scheduled for some unspecified time in the future , should add Sun 's Solaris 1.0 calls . |