Example sentences of "it [verb] [prep] some [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It looks like some kind of mollusc , but no mollusc fits easily into this pattern of growth ; various people have suggested it might be some kind of snail , or perhaps a monoplacophoran ( see p. 76 ) . |
| 2 | ‘ It looks like some kind of begging-letter . |
| 3 | Normally , these bubbles ( or vesicles ) are only a few millimetres across and quite thinly scattered , but sometimes , if the lava has been particularly gas rich , the rock is so honeycombed with large bubbles that it looks like some kinds of Swiss cheese ; more holes than solid . |
| 4 | It depends on some friends of mine . |
| 5 | Economic prosperity and satisfaction led many , perhaps , to look rather benignly upon Hallstein 's activist Commission and not to be unduly worried by the possibility of it developing into some kind of European government . |
| 6 | It came with some reminder of youth , of the south . |
| 7 | If it amounts to some sort of ‘ machine privacy ’ , is that at all suggestive for the question of consciousness ? |
| 8 | I have suggested that it enters into some kind of relationship with words and contexts . |
| 9 | Is it endowed with some kind of abstract , almost Platonic existence , or is it seen in terms of its social context ? |
| 10 | Kathleen Lavender held out a cardboard box between her hands , speechlessly , so that it looked like some kind of dumb offering and Dorothea at once remembered the solicitor 's stiff letter , her own shamed surprise and then her agitation . |
| 11 | It looked like some sort of military place , so I walked in . ’ |
| 12 | It looked like some sort of play he was writing , so far as Bob could see . |
| 13 | The need for industrial application shows the practical nature of patent law , which requires that the invention should be something which can be produced or that it relates to some sort of industrial process . |
| 14 | It sounded like some kind of ritual in the way the Oak said it and the other Trees bowed their heads in acknowledgement . |
| 15 | Systems theory is a useful way of identifying complex entities , particularly those which have a functional unity and of talking about relationships but it remains at some level of abstraction from reality . |
| 16 | Certainly my personal reaction when hearing of the unexpected death of someone I know has always been , ‘ I must wait to have it confirmed in some sort of irrevocable way because I 'm sure I must have got it wrong ’ . |