Example sentences of "[verb] [be] in some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Named after the mansion in Wuthering Heights , this is a desolate agricultural commune run by Jimmy Ahmed , back from London , where he has been in some vague way a celebrity . |
| 2 | The growth of the Theatre Collection has been in some way analogous to that of the proverbial snowball , for as its reputation has increased so too has the number of donations and bequests in the form of private collections , both large and small . |
| 3 | Probably , for we later read that ‘ want of opportunity has been in some respect a prejudice to my business ’ , and , ‘ the noble act of embalming has been entirely ruined by the undertakers ’ . |
| 4 | The future of the Cotswold line from Oxford to Worcester , has been in some doubt following a leaked BR report which revealed that it was to have no further investment , despite its pre-war signalling and rustic stations . |
| 5 | The dissidents who resigned from his ‘ cabinet ’ look ominously like a vanguard of the fundamentalist persuasion which has been in some abeyance since the defeat of Jim Sillars . |
| 6 | ( 2 ) Apart from any such contract , express or implied , the place of delivery is the seller 's place of business , if he has one , and if not , his residence : except that , if the contract is for the sale of specific goods , which to the knowledge of the parties when the contract is made are in some other place , then that place is the place of delivery . ’ |
| 7 | Whether the UK 's proposal will be accepted is in some doubt , not least because it has failed to engender the support of other Member States . |
| 8 | The regions which are leading are in some cases different from those which have been leading in terms of the historic trends over the last four months . |
| 9 | It seemed that not only the president , but the whole country , might have been in some delightful lotus-sleep for the past few years . |
| 10 | Though his thought may have been in some respects dry and narrow as a result , he set the agenda for modern philosophy and theology . |
| 11 | This being must have been in some way necessary to humanity , it is inconceivable that this is not so , for surely there would have been evidence of at least one enduring civilisation that had neither ‘ god ’ nor temple . |
| 12 | Back home she 'd have been in some nice comfortable clinic . |
| 13 | The tightly packed schiltrons might have been in some danger if the enemy 's Welsh archers had been used at once ; but Edward or his advisers thought they could settle things swiftly by an all-out cavalry charge . |
| 14 | They were n't twins , but they could have been in some respects , she realised . |
| 15 | An argument for the co-evolution of dispersers and their trees is that they , in contrast , avoid the seeds , though in the past such seeds may have been in some way indigestible , promoting the relationship of today . |
| 16 | Arsenic was a common substance and could have been in some of the remedies Mrs Armstrong took . |
| 17 | I can honestly say I ca n't remember a show I definitely did n't like doing , although I might have been in some that did n't turn out as I though they would . ’ |
| 18 | This distinction is familiar enough to the jurist for whom the fairness and therefore the acceptability of a trial may be more a matter of the way in which the trial was conducted than whether or not the verdict reached was in some further sense the right one . |
| 19 | They seem to have been in some sort of vassal relationship with the Dzhungars until they broke away in the 1650s and 1660s . |
| 20 | With the provision of booths and sound systems , most conference interpreting is now of the simultaneous variety but , as is frequently pointed out by interpreters themselves , the most common use of interpreting is in some personal consecutive mode and not in conferences . |
| 21 | Here , the appropriate leader of change had been in some doubt . |
| 22 | If he had been in some sort of trance , ( lasting who knew how long ? ) that might account for the sudden appearance of Jos . |
| 23 | Boy thought that this had been in some ways the perfect night , the best that he had ever had since he 'd arrived at The Bar . |
| 24 | At the end of the sixteenth century the ‘ crowned republic ’ of Poland had been in some ways one of the great powers of Europe . |
| 25 | She had been in some tight spots with her work but this had hit her hard because she cared very much about the girl . |
| 26 | Among those who regarded Faustus as their spiritual master was Sidonius , whose brother had been in some way saved by the bishop . |
| 27 | Sentencing McPherson , the judge , Lord Cameron , said he accepted that McPherson had been in some part less responsible for the violence to Mr O'Donnell that evening , but added : ‘ Nevertheless you played a full part in luring him into the hands of those who were responsible for repeated acts of a bizarre and terrible character upon him . ’ |
| 28 | I mean we did n't have any damp or anything in erm our flat , but I 've been in some of the downstairs ones , where they were very very damp . |
| 29 | Therefore if we have activists who are put on the panel alib fi safe seats , marginals or unwinnable seats and we 've been in some areas where it 's been unwinnable , have n't we Dick , we 've still canvassed , we 've got the votes up , p places like Macclesfield where they got Nicholas Winterton , where they got that racist Churchill . |
| 30 | I do feel I 'd like to say one point about the people who were in this house , that it 's quite clear , all of them I believe were under care of the social services , erm and I do n't know enough about their history to say whether they , where they 've been before , whether they 've been in some half-way house , or just been thrown out of some mental institution . |