Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] is some " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result there is some prospect of schools once more becoming places where children are expected to learn and teachers to teach . |
| 2 | There are no remarkable buildings in the town ; there are banks , churches , very many general merchants , and a few bakers , butchers , curing yards , ship-building yards and suchlike , while in the harbour there is some shipping life . |
| 3 | One may anticipate the conclusions of the following discussion of the fifteenth-century Muftilik by saying that while both traditions are less than satisfactory and while , in the present state of knowledge , there are questions of considerable importance which remain unresolved , on the particular point of the origins of the institution there is some evidence to support at least the broad outlines of the Mustakimzade tradition , however vexed the details may be ; whereas , on the other hand , not only is there a lack of positive evidence to support the Katib Celebi tradition , there is also a certain weight of evidence , largely of a negative nature , against it . |
| 4 | In the data there is some support for the notion that certain matters such as child care and support for elderly people are regarded as women 's business in families , while men 's business is money ; but it would be too crude to assume that this simple division of responsibilities could explain all the gender differences which occur in kin support . |
| 5 | And , of course , if the enthusiastic shooter fires at a rabbit in a burrow entrance there is some risk of killing an unseen ferret just behind it . |
| 6 | Most sociologists would wish to maintain that , while their social science does not meet the rigorous criteria of a natural science , in terms of the procedures used for verification of theoretical hypotheses there is some disciplined thinking and testing of ideas going on in sociology which does distinguish it from religious or mystical thinking . |
| 7 | In most liberal democratic countries there is some measure of agreement in the news media on political facts . |
| 8 | In answer to the first question there is some evidence that initially there is a degree of opposition — staff see themselves losing the opportunity of sixth form teaching , parents , who often went to 11–18 schools themselves , regard them as a second best alternative . |
| 9 | Stig makes a full recovery which is some compensation . |
| 10 | The Department will be connected via a private telephone line to the processing units in the computer room which is some half a mile distant . |
| 11 | To the east of Cambo there is some very pleasantly hilly country , with plenty of woodlands but some moor land too , notably above Hasparren . |
| 12 | In many libraries there is some tension between what users want ( or say they want , or think they want ) and what the librarian feels they need . |
| 13 | In every chord there is some foreign element , some contradiction which gives an odd twist to the harmony . |
| 14 | But like the use of every fossil fuel there is some price to be paid at the tail pipe in pollution ( although diesel is improving all the time ) . |
| 15 | In the enthusiasm of the renewed emphasis on the Spirit these days he is some times presented as the pathway to power in the Christian life , the secret of success in personal living and in service . |
| 16 | Although particulate traps can be made to work effectively for short periods under favourable conditions there is some way to go before they are reliable enough for the rough and tumble of ordinary operating conditions . |
| 17 | In most authorities there is some delay ; in some ( the metropolitan boroughs are the worst offenders ) there is an inordinate delay of weeks or months . |
| 18 | Even with food industry products there is some confusion over the application of the term . |
| 19 | Her father ( about whose parentage there is some mystery ) had given up his army commission and gone into business . |
| 20 | Of course there is some overlap between the two ; there are some black people in professional work just as there are whites in unskilled labouring jobs . |
| 21 | Unless of course there is some evening event . |
| 22 | But of course there is some choice erm let me give you a final southern er Africa example of this , Botswana geographically is one of those countries cut off from the sea , it 's a very large country but much of it is uninhabitable because it 's so arid it 's therefore a small country by almost any standards , number of people , the economy of er of Botswana is small and it 's frankly dependent upon South Africa in many ways for its transport , for its economic wellbeing , for the movement of people erm and even some educational resources . |
| 23 | Not really , because ( 1 ) as current flows there is some potential drop in the electrode itself , ( 2 ) zero conductivity for part of the space can not be electrostatically modelled since there are no dielectrics with Er = 0 , and ( 3 ) when current flows through two materials of different conductivity there is generally a surface charge at the boundary ( see Example 3.4 ) . |
| 24 | Well we 're still continuing to monitor the situation we 're still carrying on inquiries at er at schools we 're going further afield now in case there is some suggestion that she she might be living further afield er towards Worksop or even in towards Derbyshire . |
| 25 | And in this case there is some evidence to support it . |
| 26 | No other relationship with other insects has yet been demonstrated , but much of the fauna may be lost , in which case there is some short-term ‘ phylogenetic inertia ’ . |
| 27 | Thus ( 61 ) will be true , on this account , just in case there is some reference time ( say , another event ) prior to CT , such that at that reference time , ( 62 ) would have been true ( while ( 62 ) is in turn true , just in case ( 63 ) would have been true at some point prior to the CT of ( 62 ) ) : ( 6z ) John had seen Mary ( 62 ) John saw Mary ( 63 ) John sees Mary But such M-tenses do not match up simply with L-tenses , for L-tenses nearly always encode additional aspectual and modal features too ( see Comrie , 1976a ; Lyons , 1977a : 703ff , 809ff ) . |
| 28 | Evidence of excessive demand There is some observable good sense in this argument , and it helps to explain why sterling has not hit the fan a lot earlier , during a truly spectacular swing from surplus to deficit over the past two years . |
| 29 | For the 1950s and early 1960s in Britain there is some evidence to support such a contention , but , with the onset of manufacturing recession and the fluctuation in productivity levels and output , the connection is questionable . |
| 30 | Though the country is still struggling with major economic constraints there is some evidence of improved efficiency in health care delivery since its establishment in 1986 . |