Example sentences of "[is] [adv] some [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ This is all some sort of joke , is n't it ? ’
2 ‘ There 's obviously some kind of misunderstanding here .
3 So she said oh about three people who 've had that , she said you have something to eat and you get pains and it 's obviously some sort of virus going round .
4 ‘ I expect it 's all some sort of misunderstanding .
5 Like other Pseudocrenilabrus , males have an orange tip to the anal fin , which is apparently some sort of egg dummy , akin the anal ocelli in most haplochromines .
6 There is obviously some confusion between father and son here , but no doubt it will be satisfactorily settled before too long .
7 It would be unreasonable to expect easy co-operative motion along the entire polymer chain , but as there is normally some degree of flexibility in the chain , local segmental motion can take place more readily .
8 Stateless societies are for the most part small tribal societies , without any complex division of labour and economically poor , but some features of their political systems may perhaps also be found in other types of society , especially in village communities such as those of medieval Germany , or of India ( where they were once described as ‘ little republics ’ ) , although in these instances there is already some degree of subordination to a state , however remote , and some element of stratification and inequality of power in the local community itself .
9 But there is usually some semblance of coherence to the proceedings , and a proper hook to draw us on .
10 There is usually some generality of access to at least some of the techniques involved in the first three types .
11 In any real system there is always some lack of exactitude in one 's knowledge of initial conditions .
12 Their name derives from the most formal way of saying ‘ you ’ in Japanese , the implication being that there is always some kind of barrier between people .
13 However , in practice there is always some degree of error , which increases if the text is printed at an angle , or characters overlap , or an unknown font is used , and so on .
14 Economists sometimes liken the abstraction to the use of frictionless motion as an ideal model of a world where there is always some degree of friction .
15 Solitude is always some sort of choice .
16 There is always some potential for opposition and change ; this comes to a climax in periods of revolutionary social transformation .
17 There 's usually some sort of scene in the morning .
18 This grows less but there is still some sense of unease ; besides , many old women miss the company of men for social occasions .
19 There is still some water in storage but it can not be pumped out without this effect on the environment .
20 well — there is still some kind of hope ( NOT ! i guess ) — but i still ca n't see why he was not even given at least a whole second-half this season .
21 Although , at this stage , there is still some mismatch between policy and practice since the research findings revealed that some children do not yet have access to an effective modern language curriculum .
22 Take all the obscenity trials from Madame Bovary to Lady Chatterley 's Lover there 's always some element of games-playing , of compliance , in the defence .
23 ‘ They have those dozens of cousins and aunts and there 's always some sort of crisis going on . ’
24 Dr ‘ Macmillan ’ The satisfaction is derived from the whole purpose of the job which is to make people better in all senses … there 's still some sort of fascination in trying to work out people 's problems and deal with them .
25 The substance inside is probably some form of resin to stop the rattle from being dented too easily .
26 Conveyancing is an area of legal practice where there is traditionally some degree of co-operation between practitioners .
27 There is clearly some element of doubling-up of protection , but equally in the interests of a deal being completed quickly it may not be desirable to encourage the seller to produce vast amounts of disclosure against very detailed warranties .
28 There is also some cause for optimism in the record number of new product qualifications achieved by the supported catalyst business .
29 ‘ There 's also some element of poison pill , in that adding the other things makes it a little less attractive . ’
30 If one realizes that there is inevitably some degree of pollution from certain types of industry , it seems rather un unlikely that that requirement of the M A F F would be satisfied , were industrial development to take place on the A sixty four northeastern corridor .
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