Example sentences of "[noun] [be] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has of course been some criticism in the books of the decision in Stilk v. Myrick which is somewhat differently reported in the two sets of reports , but Campbell 's reports have the better reputation and what I have referred to as being the law on this point is referred to as ‘ the present ’ rule in Chitty on Contracts : see , also , Cheshire and Fifoot . |
| 2 | Among the worst rewards are some salary and wage systems . |
| 3 | The ratios relating to return on investment are Some estimate of the risk taken by the investor can be derived from the ratios |
| 4 | In the family album are some photographs of me on the lawn with Susannah , my Indian ayah , to whom I was devoted . |
| 5 | I was just there for Type ninety , and he has a wall of books in his living room that — the shells are some kind of Danish wall system from nineteen fifty-five and it seemed , you know , that the shelves were slightly saggy , a few nicks and scrapes , so it 's not new looking at all . |
| 6 | The four other presidential candidates were some distance behind . |
| 7 | On the other hand a diary entry such as ‘ ring X ’ is effective and if the entry is some way in the future it may be necessary to amplify with a trigger of the form ‘ ring X re Y ’ and to have easily accessible some factual data such as the X telephone number and some data re Y. In a different context a car driver will develop a strategy to ensure that he does not run out of petrol , he may rely on a light which appears when the tank is nearly empty or he may calculate from his expected travelling that he need not concern himself about the issue until at least the next weekend , or he may programme himself to react to the fact that he is approaching a particular garage . |
| 8 | They felt they 'd been made fools of … and the ring is some sort of family heirloom and his father went on as if it was all Rick 's fault that Angy had made off with it . ’ |
| 9 | The result is some variation among cultures in the frequency of its members who adopt this preference . |
| 10 | But even then , this is not to suggest , in the way that the positivists often seemed to do , that the result is some form of objective , scientific exercise . |
| 11 | Although the club is some miles from Alresford , extra space allowed the association to welcome members of the Winchester RAFA and ATC , the Royal British Legion and the committee of the Kingsworthy club . |
| 12 | I played it probably a million different ways during the days leading up to the recording and what 's on tape is some form of an improvisation on a somewhat generalised idea . |
| 13 | Thompson ( 1980 ) has further suggested that many of these analyses are designed to present some utopian vision of a police-free world , but often include ‘ the soppy notion that all crime is some kind of displaced revolutionary activity ’ . |
| 14 | The Swiss Technorama is some distance from the town centre , but regular buses take you there . |
| 15 | This is not , of course , to imply Spenser is some form of original fountainhead of these echoes and similarities many of which are encountered throughout Renaissance culture . |
| 16 | The 1991 figure is some 9% higher than the average for years 1981–85 . |
| 17 | I just , I tell you what , I , I know it sounds nasty , but I am glad that Penny is some way has had something that has made her realised what that place was all about . |
| 18 | One hears jocular allusions to AIDS in circles which would class themselves sophisticated but from this programme , it is clear that the early theory that AIDS was some kind of divine blight on homosexuals , is already discounted . |
| 19 | The result was some 2% survival of the seeds as saplings in 2 years . |
| 20 | What Claudia had in mind was some colouring of the evidence so that the district officer , Miles Turnbull , a harassed , overworked but popular man , who was dead — bien entendu — could be seen to have acted rashly in asking his askaris to point a gun at Tepilit , which Tepilit naturally interpreted as meaning they were about to shoot him . |
| 21 | It was covered in lettering and had been riveted to the trousers , as if Grandson Richard was some sort of machine . |
| 22 | Although unquestionably still a successful band , it could be argued that Kiss 's heyday was some time ago . |
| 23 | On the axe was some lettering so small and cramped that Jack could barely make it out . |
| 24 | On the other side was some writing : You have till ten o'clock tonight . |
| 25 | Now , you 'll notice the numbers in the brackets are some indication of the amount of time that we spent , the relative amount of time that we 've spent on the subjects . |
| 26 | The centres of highest consumption are some distance from Kent where the quantities are small . |
| 27 | Some lectures were some way even from this loose definition of science : John Ruskin lectured on Verona and Italian art in 1870 , and Richard Westmacott , who was both a Royal Academician and FRS , on art five weeks later — but he talked particularly on the question of assembling and conserving the Greek sculpture in the British Museum . |
| 28 | As there are many dipterocarps at Sepilok , the rarity of food plants there is held to be the main reason for the greater home range and lower population density compared with P. melalophos at Kuala Lompat : the home range is some 70–84ha compared with 31.5 . |
| 29 | And to show you what the situation is er the world 's energy demand is very likely i i i is almost certain to increase er because of development in the world and also because of the growing population er that arrow is some sort of guess as to how the world er the demand for energy worldwide is likely to increase when you set that against the curves at the bottom which show the likely projections for oil and natural gas as you can see as we get into the next century those er fossil fuels , which we 've been using with gay abandon for many decades , will start to into er decline . |
| 30 | Shearer is some talent , but Newell & Gallagher are no slouches . |