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

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1 These ambiguities in the narrative ( which perhaps find some analogy in the conventions of tragedy as composed at Athens in this time ) correspond to the ambiguities in the spatial conception , oddly ( to our eyes ) combined with the interest in naturalism .
2 Natural law thinking adopts an ought which somehow incorporates some material content such that , for example , the statement ‘ You ought to kill ’ is not merely immoral but incoherent .
3 For practical purposes , therefore , ‘ pollution ’ is something which normally requires some action on the part of the enforcement officer and is defined not by legal rules but by the response of the enforcement authorities .
4 Studies conducted since April 1988 convey mothers ' powerful sense that , as their poverty deepens , strategies which once gave some protection to their families are crumbling under the weight of increasing debt ( Cohen , 1990 , 1991 a , b ; Craig and Glendinning , 1990a , 1990b ; Craig , 1991 ) .
5 Until an alleged audit failure has been properly investigated , which usually takes some years , the Institute knows no better than anybody else whether there really has been any negligence or wrongdoing .
6 The largest calibre pyroclasts ( > 64 mm across ) , which usually show some degree of rounding , are known as volcanic bombs .
7 One local authority in tackling the problem of odour nuisance from maggot farms in their area not only insisted on the installation of catalytic incineration equipment but on disposal of the sawdust waste , which still contained some maggots after sieving , by bagging and subsequent incineration in the municipal incinerator , instead of burying the waste as had been done previously .
8 Concepts of people with learning difficulties as sub-human ; as a menace to society and to the genetic make-up of the race ; as eternal children ; or as objects of pity , are all beliefs with a long history which still have some currency today .
9 Well , you know , there are little corner shops which still have some sense of individuality about them .
10 In 1286 and 1290 , moreover , Pecham had no doubt been further reassured by the two statutes of Circumspecte agatis and Consultation , which respectively defined some boundaries of jurisdiction and allowed ecclesiastical courts to proceed where writs of prohibition had been inappropriately obtained .
11 To these can be added the fourth century examples already mentioned , which clearly indicate some level of extra-mural contraction .
12 This work was of course in addition to , and quite separate from , the long-established provision for trade unionists run in conjunction with the WETUC , which also enjoyed some expansion during the 1950s : in 1953–54 , for example , there were five residential weekend schools for trade unionists , in 1958–59 there were eight .
13 In the present study , the thesis has been treated as a quasi-formal entity , which possesses enough attributes of the formal to enable comparisons to be drawn with fully formal conventional publications , such as journal articles , but which also possesses some elements of informal , personal communication , in that it can be regarded as the fulfilment of a one-to-one contract between the researcher and the university .
14 Programmes were mostly serious ; entertainment was mostly a cartoon for children ( ‘ Sindibad and Ali Baba ’ ) which also had some following among adults ; people much enjoyed a Syrian comedy series , and owners of video-recorders would tape it , to replay it for friends and visitors .
15 For a half a century from the 1840s , Shorthorn bulls from Britain and Dutch Black Pied bulls were used to improve local red and red-pied cattle in central and southern Belgium ; they were also used on the black-and-white Charleroi ( which also had some Charolais influence later ) .
16 This has been put into a trust , and is being used to help the elderly and for the arts — seventy thousand pounds was donated for the Summerfield galleries in cheltenham , which also contain some objects from the collection .
17 But in May 1958 even that show came to an end — a London bus strike was killing business , which also gives some idea of how long ago that was .
18 The Garonnais is the dominant type in the Blonde d'Aquitaine herdbook , which also includes some Villard de Lans cows , a pale corn-coloured milk-and-meat breed from the Vercors plateau of Isère .
19 However , if there are one or more alternative acts which also possess some characteristic which similarly gives rise to prima facie obligatoriness , then only one of them can be all-things-considered obligatory .
20 To give or receive help , perhaps over a long period , which inevitably involves some self-sacrifice on the one hand and some loss of independence on the other , is a very big step .
21 Which often takes some time .
22 As the effects of right sided damage are likely to be less immediately troublesome than comparable damage on the left , which frequently causes some degree of aphasia , naturally occurring left hemisphere lesions may well lead the patient to seek medical advice earlier in the disease process than would equal damage at the right side of the brain .
23 If Pecham had harboured any idea of renewing the struggle when his second provincial council met at Lambeth in 1281 , it was forestalled by a royal writ of prohibition of the general kind which simply barred some action .
24 That was one consideration which certainly affected some Mannaia opinion on the question .
25 The move is seen as a way of helping to get the Argentinian privatisation programme off the ground and to make some inroads into the country 's foreign debt , which currently totals some $60billion .
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