Example sentences of "some [noun] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If all goes to plan , oil should account for some 50% of demand in 1990 and 38% in the year 2000 . |
| 2 | The Environmental Forum found some support amongst professionals in the water industry and in medicine , people who had known about the problems for years but kept quiet about them . |
| 3 | They had some support amongst officials at court , but they had not troubled to build up support amongst the magnates or the lesser landowners . |
| 4 | There was some support from respondents from all types of practice for applying the requirement to every firm , whilst others argued it should be limited to smaller firms and/or those in breach of the rules . |
| 5 | The British Youth Peace Assembly , a largely Communist gathering , was held in March 1936 , and attracted some support from branches of the Labour League of Youth and from the University Labour Federation . |
| 6 | The European Commission has decided that the state aid offered to Digital Equipment Corp at its Scottish plant in Ayr conforms with Community rules , the Irish Department of Enterprise & Employment has had to admit : in a letter to the department , Brussels said ‘ The Commission , with regard to information provided by the UK authorities , considers the regional aid granted to the Ayr plant is in conformity with Community rules and the aid received is within the limits approved by the Commission for this region ’ ; the Irish government had asked for a review of state aid to DEC after it decided to transfer some operations from Galway to Ayr . |
| 7 | Even these more sophisticated attempts to elaborate where power lies and to allow for some freedom of manoeuvre for the state in capitalism can between , however . |
| 8 | Here Thomas Carnan obtained some freedom of exercise for him . |
| 9 | However , relatively small size of the samples may account in some measure for inconsistencies in the findings . |
| 10 | Careful explanations at this time could give them at least an inkling of the importance of the game , and some measure of preparation for the time when it will be no game , but a reality of great promise . |
| 11 | So if I short er short circuit the rest of my cross examination on these various policies that you say er we 're in erm we 're in some measure of conflict with , your answer would be in in relation to E N V Eleven and E N V Twelve which you also cite , do I put it fairly your answer would be this ? |
| 12 | 10 Because there are many groups and interests in society ; because groups can come and go as they wish ; and because they all enjoy some measure of influence in particular issues , politics is fluid and everchanging and the policy process is best characterised as one involving bidding , bargaining , negotiation , accommodation , compromise , and checks and balances . |
| 13 | And marriage is the only state which affords women some measure of protection under law , which is why many women insist on it even when they suspect their relationship might not last the distance . |
| 14 | In border areas , dwellings which incorporated architectural features concerned with defence ( the ‘ maison-fortes ’ of France ) were both dwellings for a family and , in certain circumstances , they might provide some measure of protection for local people , in so doing underlining the nobleman 's responsibility for the defence of the people . |
| 15 | The role of the UN would be to supervise elections , if possible throughout Korea but if not in south Korea alone , and to afford some measure of protection to the infant state as it moved to independence . |
| 16 | Dowd had stayed out of the Retreat all the time he 'd waited for Godolphin ( a wearisome three days ) even though it would have given him some measure of protection against the bitter cold . |
| 17 | The system has been flexible and robust enough to respond to changing conditions and circumstances , and there has been sufficient political and institutional stability with regard to attitudes towards , and assumptions about , planning during much of the period to give some measure of consistency to public policies and programmes . |
| 18 | There is general agreement about the principle of allowing some measure of independence to the province . |
| 19 | Thus , the dairymen who farmed the lush meadows of the Dove Valley geared their husbandry to a different system from that followed by the sheep-and-corn farmers on the Lincolnshire Wolds , and the range of opportunities for earning a living and for gaining some measure of independence from a lord or squire was much greater for a cottager living on the edge of a moor , forest or marsh than the scope available to his counterpart in one of the nucleated , corn-growing villages of the Midland Plain . |
| 20 | Newcastle upon Tyne had been an important medieval borough ; other places had been small market centres whose burgesses had obtained some measure of independence from their manorial lords . |
| 21 | Elementary description had a natural place particularly where " errors of description " had been excepted and the courts tended to discover some measure of description by which the goods had been sold ( see for example Taylor v Bullen ( 1850 ) 5 Ex 779 ) . |
| 22 | The pace , however , was very much dictated by changing American attitudes towards the USSR and the creation of some measure of unanimity in Washington . |
| 23 | If we speak of control , we are speaking of empowerment , a now much abused word , but one which still conveys the sense of movement from situations of experienced powerlessness , both individual and collective , to one where people acquire some measure of determination in the course of events and policies . |
| 24 | Indeed , if goldfish and carp are placed in a pool , providing that the proportion of males and females is reasonably balanced , they will probably breed with some measure of success of their own accord without the pool owner needing to become involved . |
| 25 | This practice continuously compares budgeted amounts with actuals and as such is providing some measure of performance against a predetermined standard . |
| 26 | Needless to say there was always some measure of communication between monasteries , but it was only a modest intrusion into the life of most monks and even of many abbots . |
| 27 | If I had developed some measure of showmanship over the years , I felt it was not much use to me or anyone else while I sat in my office and let junior producers have all the fun . |
| 28 | Clearly there needs to be some measure of self-control in these situations , but it is easier if there has been a clear and prior agreement that disputes will be handled in this way . |
| 29 | Fran read on , deriving some measure of comfort from the less than flattering assessment , although in truth she knew that she was deliberately glossing over the more attractive aspects of the sign . |
| 30 | First a considerable , and , on the whole , successful attempt to introduce some measure of integration to programmes at lower primary level . |