Example sentences of "[be] [pers pn] [conj] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | oh these are about two inch are they or some , did n't say |
| 2 | So valuable is it that some scientists regard it as a scent and as soon as they detect it , they know that they are on the right track . |
| 3 | Why is it that some people find it so difficult to accommodate the idea that providing immediate relief to human suffering can go alongside campaigning for longer term solu-tions ? |
| 4 | Is it that some of your shots do not look as pictorially attractive as they might ? |
| 5 | However , from our present perspective it is actually more pertinent to turn the question round the other way and ask : why is it that some people , despite having a strong genetic disposition for psychotic illness do not actually break down — or , even if they do , are partly protected from its more devastating effects ? |
| 6 | That is , why is it that some people rather than others who experience the type of disparity described above become committed to a movement for moral reform ? |
| 7 | Why is it that some people have more energy to give to their careers than others ? |
| 8 | Events like redundancy , divorce , bereavement , family and work problems , debts , separation , illness , may be stressful for most of us , but why is it that some people can go through crisis after crisis and never suffer the effects of stress ? |
| 9 | Once we have put aside such relatively easy observations as the tendency or requirement for long or complex adjective phrases to occur postnominally , there are two fundamental questions which badly need to be asked about the grammar of postnominal attributives : ( a ) What is the difference in effect or value obtained by the speaker who uses postnominal position when prenominal position is equally grammatical ? ( b ) Why is it that some adjectives ( and some adjective phrases ) can occur quite easily in postnominal position while others , apparently comparable , are limited to prenominal position ? |
| 10 | Why is it that some general secretaries of certain unions are pushing us down the path of severing our links ? |
| 11 | And then she checked Well anyway the week after he 'd phoned there was no what you call in it so he wrote it in to the damn thing and said why is it when some people puts adverts in they not only put it in once they put it in three or four times the same week |