Example sentences of "be an [noun] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Business-class lounges , with fax machines , photocopiers , computer stations , are an innovation on some Sealink Stena sailings ; for 1992 , P & O offers Club Class on all its routes . |
| 2 | Now if you come to Caldmore , you 'll find out then that the majority of the married ladies had worked in I mean I should say that erm I know my mother was very snooty she 'd been an apprentice to some dressmakers in Street and work for one year for nothing she always used to tell me , and she was quite er toffee- nosed about these girls that used that er that used to go , well they were very respectable people , and when I was a kid when I growing up in my teens a lot of the girls I used to know were in the offices at er it they employed about fifteen hundred people at in those days you know I mean coming out of at night it was fighting your way against the crowd if you were going towards it , and the same thing going through the square for people who have worked in when they left that 's why all those shops in the square used to do reasonably well , it was the people walking through to go up the other side of Walsall , but there was a crowd of people I can , I can always remember as a kid a crowd of people and then there 'd be well you can tell it was along Street in those days I can remember fruiters ' carts where the girls used to go and buy apples , and that all sort of going along there you know people used to wait for them coming out , these are my impressions as a kid I mean I can remember the , the er and the men of course were cutters and various people and a quite a lot of my father 's friends were , were er had er skilled jobs at as cutters and managers of the cutters ' department and that sort of thing . |
| 3 | Er had it been something that you 'd long sought after you know , like like in the mines where it had been an issue for some years ? |
| 4 | Could there have been an epidemic of some kind in the village around this time ? |
| 5 | He , from the papers I found there , I deduced to have been an academic of some kind . |
| 6 | 8.15.8 It may be an advantage in some cases |
| 7 | Of course when one thought about it rationally it was obvious there was bound to be an investigation of some kind , but throughout the long flight she had been too concerned with the purely personal implications of the news item to give a thought to those who might have a financial interest in the story . |
| 8 | The government-sponsored loan guarantees could be an alternative for some airlines which have been seeking foreign partners , the Times said . |
| 9 | He knew he must still be an object of some interest . |
| 10 | There seemed to be an intractability about some aspects of human existence outside the consulting-room too . |
| 11 | There 's an assumption by some politicians that just because there is this immense change taking place in Eastern Europe , that this is victory for Western capitalism erm , I think there might be some of who might be a bit cautious about that victory and might believe that er there is still much that needs to be shared and understood and it is n't as simple as perhaps some political figures might suggest it could be . |
| 12 | On the other hand , this lower molecular weight is an advantage in some applications since it means that extruded sheet thermoforms more easily than cast sheet . ’ |
| 13 | These abnormalities arise either because there is an abnormality in some aspect of the timing system itself or because modern society has made demands upon us that have outstripped our biological evolution . |
| 14 | Thus there is an implication in some analyses that an increase in the supply of labour to manufacturing industry would lead to higher levels of productivity and rates of output growth . |
| 15 | Stephen Duck 's success under the queen 's patronage is an event of some importance since it established the precedent of a labouring poet entering the mainstream of contemporary literature . |
| 16 | The debate about Ranters is an instance of some historians , essentially neo-conservative in outlook , portraying themselves as historians of order contending against those who , they see , as historians of disorder , with all this implies about the historian 's objective rather than objectivity within a political world dominated in the 1980s , at least in Britain and America , by neo-conservative values . |
| 17 | However , there is no guarantee that activator or quencher elements will always have the same effect in different minerals ; for example , Fe 2 + is an activator in some feldspars , despite the quenching activity of Fe in calcite . |
| 18 | ‘ Pity , Jane , is an insult from some people , but from you I accept it as the mother of love . |
| 19 | ‘ This Henry V is an achievement of some character and resource , warts and all . |
| 20 | This is an area of some controversy at the moment in psychology , where one of the holy grails is the attempt to provide empirical evidence for the intuitively reasonable idea that there can be a dissociation of behaviour from consciousness . |
| 21 | This annual service charge is an object of some suspicion as far as many would-be buyers are concerned , and in some countries there is legislation to protect buyers against developers who set the charge low initially and then raise it excessively later . |
| 22 | She was later to discover that a certain J. Olivier believed that Vincent Van Gogh 's self-mutilation in Arles was an aspect of some bull-ritual . |
| 23 | ‘ It was an experiment of some kind , ’ Bloxham said . |