Example sentences of "some [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mace claims that some $1bn of business has now been conducted on 88000-based system products , and claims , as the group often does , that there will be more converts to the cause — this time around there are five or six Intel Corp i860 manufacturers on its hitlist. 88open will open a European office this summer , either in the UK or Germany , which will use space rented in one of its members ' offices . |
| 2 | Some 63% of wives took part in decision making . |
| 3 | Aged about 25 ( macaws can live and breed up to 70 ) , she has n't mated yet , but like some gardeners are ‘ green-fingered ’ , some aviculturalists like Harry are ‘ blue-fingered ’ . |
| 4 | Please could somebody do some maps for Terminator 2 ? |
| 5 | Some 50% of Britons and 38% of Germans believed that Mr Reagan 's foreign policy had increased the dangers of war in Europe . |
| 6 | However , Mr Barber reports that the number of people planning to retire to a home in France now accounts for some 50% of enquiries . |
| 7 | If all goes to plan , oil should account for some 50% of demand in 1990 and 38% in the year 2000 . |
| 8 | Of the joint registrations made in 1989 , 72% were made by parents living at the same address , which suggests that some 50% of children born outside marriage were born to a cohabiting couple . |
| 9 | During the Munich crisis of September 1938 some rehearsals for evacuation were carried out , and in the following months arrangements were speeded up . |
| 10 | Glaxo Group Research runs a child minding service managed by the company to give some support to mothers returning to work . |
| 11 | Members of the Group , and others , can provide some support to users , but it is essential that each request for assistance should be noted centrally , so that a record of problems , and actions taken in response , can be built up . |
| 12 | This informal group was started up by an NCT member in 1986 to give some support to mums who were at work , or thinking about going back . |
| 13 | There was some support for specialist but not for general practice franchising . |
| 14 | This can not be logical , and there is some support for landlords who feel justified in requiring the proceeds to be paid to them on the basis that a lease is for a limited duration but the freehold ( where applicable ) is for life . |
| 15 | So this analysis too suggests some support for Friedman 's x per cent rule . |
| 16 | There is some support for Burke and Chinkin 's view in the remarks of Denning LJ ( as he then was ) in Lee v Showmen 's Guild of Great Britain [ 1952 ] 2 QB 329 at 342 , where he stated that a domestic tribunal must observe the principles of natural justice ; but this was in the context of being given a reasonable opportunity to meet a " charge " , in this case the attempt to expel a member from a trade union . |
| 17 | He rejected stale prices as a cause , but found some support for arbitrage risk as an explanation of mispricing . |
| 18 | Rumours were racing through the industry last week that Hewlett-Packard Co and DEC — and perhaps even IBM , apparently the most laggard of the trio — might indeed muster some support for Unix System Labs Inc 's Destiny launch on Tuesday , June 16 . |
| 19 | She was told that there was slippage of some support among backbenchers ; that the 1922 Executive was divided , with some preferring a wider choice in the second round ; and that there was some disquiet in the Cabinet . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | They had some support amongst officials at court , but they had not troubled to build up support amongst the magnates or the lesser landowners . |
| 22 | They had some support in Parliament , but their strength lay outside it , and their strategy was to mobilize this support , through demonstrations , petitions , and by organizing within the army . |
| 23 | Still , she liked one or two of the collective , Xanthe had put some money in ( actually five hundred pounds , a fair whack ) when Miranda had asked her to , so she felt bound to give the paper some support in kind , and the office was fun — she liked pitching in with headings , sidebars , suggested stories , and pasting up till the small hours , with the help of ciggies and carafe wine ; the sex gossip was the best in town , which made up for the coffee ( though they could afford dope , they could n't rise to real coffee , and had at one time even resorted to the bitter brown syrup Camp , with the turbaned lascar on the label ) . |
| 24 | Though he got some support from Board members Hilary Wainwright and Vella Pillay of the Bank of China ( who changed his mind and agreed that Sutton had to go as soon as he saw Pilger 's pages ) , there was no real point . |
| 25 | Robertson expects some software vendors — the Oracles and Informixes of the world — to licence the relevant ANDF producer and generate ANDF versions of applications themselves , with some support from Praxis or OSF . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The Slovenes were given some support from Croatia , but the majority of the republics and provinces were unwilling to return to the old system . |
| 29 | Middleton said : ‘ We have had some encouraging words from the Scottish Secretary and we believe will get some support from Michael Heseltine at the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 30 | The pitch at Devonport was of more interest to bowlers than batsmen , and only a steady 76 from Broad , with some support from Lamb , gave England a reasonable total of 177 . |