Example sentences of "be [prep] [art] [noun] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fourth stage was planned to take place in late March and will show what our position is after we have been off the air for some time . |
| 2 | So if you 're in the market for some new doors , here are some of the things you need to know . |
| 3 | ‘ You 're at the mercy of some pilot and God knows what state they 're in , ’ he added . |
| 4 | It had been behind the purchase of some of the BCR 's rolling stock in 1867 , when the available property of the line was sold in order to try and satisfy the claims of its creditors . |
| 5 | Abbot was knocked sideways with delight , and wrote to Repton , ‘ I am like the possessor of some gem of inestimable value and beauty , concealed in a casket … . |
| 6 | Tests showed the 25mm-long insect had been in the pickle for some time and environmental health officers inspected the premises . |
| 7 | George Shepherd , aged 24 , had been in the workhouse for some months suffering from consumption . |
| 8 | Speaking at the opening of the event on a misty morning NSA Wales and Borders chairman Andrew Jones said : ‘ We as sheep farmers have been in the mist for some time , but lets hope that the outlook is much better and that there are better days to come . ’ |
| 9 | Nevertheless , the idea of a National Government had been in the air for some time before its actual formation . |
| 10 | This aircraft has been in the UK for some time , latterly at Audley End , Essex , and before that Rochester , Kent , and Duxford , Cambs , having been recovered from the fire dump at Decimomannu , Sardinia , Italy . |
| 11 | If there was a body , it 's possible that the singeing of skin and flesh might have left identifiable organic deposits on the woodwork , but the Wheel has been in the water for some time and we must n't expect much . ’ |
| 12 | He 's been in the water for some time , clothing utterly soaked , whole body chilled . |
| 13 | But if he had been in the water for some time , it was unlikely that he had been killed at the spot where his body had fetched up , and equally unlikely that the weapon which killed him was there to find . |
| 14 | We 're very much involved in what 's called in-service training , in the retraining and helping of teachers who 've been in the profession for some years , and who need to get new qualifications or refreshment in their professional work . |
| 15 | According to the company , these deals had been in the offing for some time , but were finally concluded in December and January . |
| 16 | Three families in Ayrshire , for instance , who had eight children taken away in a raid in June 1990 ; little was heard of their situation until after the Orkney case had been in the headlines for some time . |
| 17 | This will usually be someone who has relatively little experience as an account executive ( but may well have been in the agency for some time , as a progress controller or planner , for example ) . |
| 18 | Police believe the two men had been in the area for some time possibly in a blue transit van which had ladders on its roof . |
| 19 | Clearly , you may also be able to persuade someone to lend you money if you have power of some sort — if they owe you a favour or if you are their boss or if you are in a position of some authority for example . |
| 20 | I mean , there we are in the middle of some serious investigation into terrorism and some dickhead stumbles into the office dressed up as a pumpkin . ’ |
| 21 | East Europeans — eager for work , malleable and uninterested in trade unions — are in the judgment of some multinational companies more productive than their western counterparts . |
| 22 | But I grant you that I 'm behind the times in some ways . |
| 23 | Er in most of them will er most people in Ireland will be in a pub at some stage of the day you know and it 's no unusual thing to er we 've got a recording studio in we live or I live rather and it 's not unusual to walk out the studio at er lunch time with some people you 'd been recording and go into the pub for a lunch and if you were n't very careful you could still be there that evening singing |
| 24 | He seemed to be in a uniform of some sort , a slightly unconventional get-up but unmistakably an officer . |
| 25 | I was beginning to think I must be in the doghouse for some reason . ’ |
| 26 | In all we promise the publick to be as careful as possible not to lead them into mistakes , nor will we mention any particular tree , plant , flower or fruit which is not in our own garden … we do not propose to mention many different species of trees and plants that are either in the public Botanick Garden , nor that may be in the possession of some curious gentlemen , but only such as are actually in the nurseries of persons belonging to this Society and from where any Gentleman may be furnished with any of the particulars here treated of by directing their letters for the Society of Gardeners at Newhall 's Coffee House in Chelsea , Nr . |
| 27 | After all , it may be in the interests of some people , especially those who introduce the new technology , not to admit to the existence of the real forces that shape the direction of technical change . |
| 28 | Max was said to be in the grip of some form of neurosis , but it was assumed that he would grow out of it . |
| 29 | The car was surrounded by a circle of robed figures : we seemed to be in the middle of some whirling ballet . |
| 30 | Fifteen yeomen were stated to be in the service of some lord or other , four being ‘ reteyned ’ by them ; six acted as bailiffs of townships , and the remainder were simply ‘ servants ’ , like Christopher Lacy of Riddlington , ‘ Seruant in the Howsehold w the Lord Hastings ’ , who had £15 in goods , reduced to £8 in the subsidy , where he was described as husbandman . |