Example sentences of "be some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Planners have estimated that belts of trees would have to be some 100 metres deep to reduce noise significantly . |
| 2 | Thus it does seem that the sequence of more and more refined theories should have some limit as we go to higher and higher energies , so that there should be some ultimate theory of the universe . |
| 3 | Nor did she know if there should be some legal document setting out the terms upon which landladies and lodgers agreed . |
| 4 | There might , for example , be some legal reason why the examiner could not administer the oath . |
| 5 | The Postcode/Enumeration District directory exists at the moment as a raw data file , with an online guide in another file ; eventually there will be some simple software . |
| 6 | But Susan hit back saying : ‘ She made me out to be some ditsy small-town mum who wanted to meet a star . |
| 7 | There may in this adoption of French terms be some covert assumption that postmodernist writing , like cooking — or rather cuisine — is something best left to the French . |
| 8 | In all there are thought to be some three-quarters of a million of them surviving . |
| 9 | I do n't want to be some substitute figure to feed your fantasies … ’ |
| 10 | There appears to be some internal debate going on down in Palo Alto about how much damage Sun Microsystems Inc 's recent Sparcstation 10 announcement is doing to its own workstation efforts . |
| 11 | His position is that we should think of rules as practices , as ways of behaving , and not suppose that to support this way of behaving there must be some internal interpretation of the rule which tells the rule-followers how to work the rule . |
| 12 | It was predictable there would be some internal difficulties in view of the time-scale . |
| 13 | There may be some slight variations due to environmental circumstances or the physical size of the creature , but as a general principle , this is true . |
| 14 | In the King James version of John 's Gospel , there might at first seem to be some slight clarification . |
| 15 | There used to be some nice serials for They used to be thrilling you know , er I can remember I wish they 'd show them now They used to be what we used to call , The voice on the wire and then there was another serial called , Peggo the Ring . |
| 16 | Prices and rents are likely to fall slowly in most cities , though there could be some serious casualties in the boiling Berlin market as sanity returns . |
| 17 | There will be some serious disillusion to follow on the heels of the euphoria of freedom . |
| 18 | No doubt chart-reading skills would also improve in an actual situation , but there do seem to be some serious difficulties in understanding how the numbers are related in the table . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm fed up , sick , sick , sick to here with people saying I should be some other way ! |
| 20 | ‘ There is no choice but to take an ugly and difficult decision to avert an even greater injustice , and those who cry halt and say there must be some other way , even though every conceivable way has been sought , would carry the responsibility for the even more catastrophic consequences of inaction , ’ he added . |
| 21 | ‘ There must be some other way of identifying him , ’ I said . |
| 22 | Of course , the aunt could be some other female relative on her father 's side . |
| 23 | There seemed to be some other words at the bottom of the landscape , but O could not make these out . |
| 24 | ‘ One day he will learn better about us , but in the meantime there must be some other place for us . |
| 25 | It will have to be some other time , Ian . |
| 26 | ‘ So there must be some other reason you changed yer time off . |
| 27 | Then again , if it is not love that puts a bit of sparkle in your life , it will be some other form of much sought after success or happiness . |
| 28 | There has to be some other reason for it . |
| 29 | If Hannah was the manager , there must be some other business Tabitha could do for her . |
| 30 | There must be some other reason … |