Example sentences of "[prep] be [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , yeah , but every case is different , you do n't , I mean she might of been in some car accident or something like that you see , might n't she ? |
| 2 | Assuming that we know how the phonemes of a particular word would be realised when the word was pronounced in isolation , when we find a phoneme realised differently as a result of being near some other phoneme belonging to a neighbouring word we call this an instance of assimilation . |
| 3 | In both these shows , there 's an odd sense of being in some sort of parallel universe : it all looks the same , but the power structure has been weirdly distorted . |
| 4 | Here , the elements which are selected as focal ( them , he , and was ) are not new in the sense of not having been mentioned before , but they are new in the sense of being in some way contrastive . |
| 5 | For many of the disabled the greatest hardship they suffer is not the frustration and practical problems of lives that are limited by disability but the sense of being in some way segregated from the rest of society . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's particularly fun when all the actors come in dressed up in costume — it 's like being in some surreal painting . ’ |
| 7 | It came into being following some wider discussions held in 1982 between Age Concern England and the Department of Psychiatry at Guy 's Hospital about the community services provided for dementia sufferers . |
| 8 | Moreover , the international co-operation originally envisaged by the fathers of EDC is much in evidence and that ‘ nucleus of people knowledgeable in Mathematics curriculum ’ is already in being in some countries . |
| 9 | The graduate in English was to be to some extent a scholar , in so far as he or she had a sense of the past and the capacity to understand literature in its historical contexts , particularly linguistic ; beyond that , what was looked for was wide reading , an appreciation of masterpieces , and a capacity to write well , attend to evidence , and disentangle sense from nonsense in argument . |
| 10 | Emerson revealed that both those who continued working and those who retired ‘ appeared to be to some extent affected by rather garbled information concerning retirement impact ’ ( Emerson 1959 ) . |
| 11 | First , the authority of the lecturer in the teaching relationship has to be to some degree granted by the student . |
| 12 | Secondly , an exemption clause may be partially effective if it is shown to be to some extent reasonable . |
| 13 | The Unix systems management market is thought to be worth some $40m now — its expected to top $1bn by 1997/98 . |
| 14 | The Unix systems management market is thought to be worth some $40m now — its expected to top $1,000m by 1997-98 . |
| 15 | The Financial Times of Nov. 27 , 1989 , reported that the United Kingdom was seeking to arrange a £2,000 million bank loan to finance Saudi Arabia 's continued purchase of British arms under the massive Al-Yamamah arms deal first agreed in 1985 and expanded in 1988 [ see pp. 34012 ; 36312 ; 36952 ] , chiefly involving the purchase of Tornado fighter-bombers built by British Aerospace ( BAe ) and currently estimated to be worth some £20,000 million . |
| 16 | Lastly , the points used in the control group can not be regarded as suitable : electrical stimulation of needles only 2 cm from the real points is unlikely to be without some effect . |
| 17 | It was all at my fingertips and I was only too pleased to be of some assistance , from whatever quarter the request came . |
| 18 | He was a man apart , a man desperate to be of some use , driven to understand the purpose of life and his role within it . |
| 19 | He , while happy to be of some use , was not content that inequality on this scale should persist — inequality of opportunity , of course , for as a station-master he was a hierarchical man . |
| 20 | For this reason , the fourth edition of Coopers ' manual will continue to be of some value . |
| 21 | ‘ My feeling was that if this was the last thing I was going to do , I wanted it to be of some value . |
| 22 | The building is supposed to be of some importance , architecturally . |
| 23 | Ostensibly asexual lineages of fish and salamanders have been shown by analysis of their mitochondrial DNA to be of some antiquity ( 4–5 million and 100,000 years , respectively ) . |
| 24 | So here , for the fraught and confused among you , is a short guide to male restaurant etiquette that may prove to be of some assistance . |
| 25 | Since this second sufficient condition turns out to be of some importance , it might be useful to have an intuitive idea of what is involved . |
| 26 | It really gives me a kick to be of some use like this . ’ |
| 27 | The record seemed to be of some unremarkable string music . |
| 28 | Grade III buildings were those which , whilst not qualifying for the first statutory list when compiled in 1949–69 , were considered nevertheless to be of some importance for planning purposes . |
| 29 | In Precedent 2 there are two such special clauses which are , however , felt to be of some general application . |
| 30 | These arms are indeed going to have to be of some considerable length as your excellent photograph appears to be of Tweedmouth , Berwick-upon-Tweed , in Northumberland ( England ) ! |