Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there had only been some way they could have gone in the doors of University College together and come home on the bus each night , or better still got a flat together , life would have been perfect . |
| 2 | Had it only been this morning that she had visited Switham House and received that kind lady 's offer of help ? |
| 3 | There has apparently been some misunderstanding about the future of this Club and we have been asked to reassure members that the Club is continuing and that eligibility remains as before . |
| 4 | As a result , overall our sales were down , roughly in line with our competitors in the oil service industry , but there was continuing pressure on margins and profitability and there had obviously been some build-up on the international side in anticipation of higher sales . |
| 5 | There has obviously been some attempt to alter and/or censor , but something of the truth can nevertheless be teased out of the fragments that remain . |
| 6 | There has obviously been some continuity of habitation on the site but , quite honestly , there is no way I could classify it other than , perhaps , Romo-Stuart-Georgian ! |
| 7 | So are these brain machines going to replace drugs ? |
| 8 | So are these brain machines going to replace drugs ? |
| 9 | Not only are these terrorist groupings highly fragmented , it is not always clear either who controls them or what their motives are on specific occasions . |
| 10 | Nor will an exclusion of participation in dividends beyond a fixed preferential rate necessarily imply an exclusion of participation in capital ( or vice versa ) although it will apparently be some indication of it . |
| 11 | In contrast , in visual art the emphasis is more on the individual performance , so there can obviously be more dialogue with the particular child about his or her intentions in relation to the actual work being produced . |
| 12 | ‘ But there will obviously be some slimming in certain areas . |
| 13 | That would merely be another way of manufacturing extra government — no doubt to employ Labour 's trade union supporters , at great expense to the taxpayers . |
| 14 | There will only be that number of computers if the range of applications and uses increases a hundredfold too . |
| 15 | Du n no yeah but it do n't mean to say that there 's a lot come out , it could only be that lot , could n't it ? |
| 16 | But i it 'll only be that picture . |
| 17 | To her horror , Folly saw Luke nod and turn away down the corridor , leaving her alone with this sinister whispering woman who seemed to take it for granted that she was meekly going to strip off and join in what could only be some kind of orgy . |
| 18 | It could only be some quality in the stillness of the air which made the voice carry so beautifully . |
| 19 | But only down to the tiles so mine 'd only be half way . |
| 20 | ‘ It does seem to me there must necessarily be some provision of this kind unless it is to be supposed that ministers are never to be allowed to leave the country at all . ’ |
| 21 | This being so , there is some degree of arbitrariness in the division of issues between this and the previous chapter , and there will also necessarily be some overlap . |
| 22 | As such the concept of social representation will necessarily be some son of general , background concept , and it will be difficult to find elements of socially shared consciousness , which are not social representations and which can be used for contrastive purposes . |
| 23 | In view of this dependence on outside finance , some of us felt that there could perhaps be more concern with the economics of what is being done . |
| 24 | As I have already indicated , I am not sure whether there may perhaps be some mockery of the over-solicitousness of the Poet 's desire for this marriage and the begetting of a ( boy- ) child , as indeed of the appeal to the egoist 's desire to perpetuate himself . |
| 25 | I know the first lot of bits I got in were all employment officers |
| 26 | Dear Horace , I think I may be a bit late with this as here in the antipodes , and especially being some way down a circulation list , your column takes some weeks to reach me . |
| 27 | While all disciplines have disputes over what constitutes worthwhile and well-founded knowledge , what holds each together is some measure of agreement over the boundaries in which such disagreements arise . |
| 28 | ‘ How long is that period ? |
| 29 | Nevertheless , she enquired politely in as loud a voice as she dared , ‘ Just how long is this hounding going to go on ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ How long is this thing going to take , Jenna ? ’ he wanted to know . |