Example sentences of "[be] not [prep] some " in BNC.

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1 What has been seen as an aspect of the Roman catholic intellectual opposition to divorce in Chapter 5 can also be recognized as a feature of the defence of catholic schools too : the opposition contains an interpretation of the moral nature of contemporary society and of what happens to catholics who are not to some degree protected from it .
2 ‘ My reaction was to hit him where it hurts , you are not with some for 27 years without knowing that . ’
3 Devlin has , however , been defended against such a charge by several commentators , and one of these , Basil Mitchell , argues that it would be fairer to suggest that Devlin 's position is that there are no types of immorality which are not in some way capable of threatening society , and which could therefore be considered to be ‘ outside ’ the scope of the law :
4 It does n't make sense to promote to audiences which are not in some way sympathetic .
5 I 'm not on some stupid fame trip . ’
6 I 'm not on some stupid fame trip . ’
7 I 'm not like some men who ca n't do it with a woman unless they feel emotionally involved with her .
8 He began to run about in front of her , to turn , to perform grotesque dance movements that were not without some grace .
9 If developments of this kind were not in some sense in progress , then there would have been less likelihood of the scribe observing precisely this pattern of orderly spelling variation , because , given the variable state of the orthographic conventions known to him , he could have chosen to vary in other ways .
10 His temperament , in fact , was rather more a golfer 's than a racing driver 's and I ca n't be sure that the likes of Arnold Palmer and other big sportsmen who 'd made good in the States were n't in some way role models for the young Mario .
11 The continuity thesis is not without some merit if carefully defined .
12 This argument is not without some validity .
13 This is not without some justification .
14 If the portrayal of the Sadducees in the Gospels is not without some historical justification , the portrayal of the Pharisees is often viciously distorted .
15 This again suggests that the right hemisphere is not without some word recognition ability .
16 Sometimes a most carefully planned game structure is ineffective because it is not for some reason appropriate either to the material or to the particular class .
17 The creation therefore is not like some frictionless machine , which once set in motion carries on until stopped , but something which is dependent on the continuing work of its Creator .
18 In ordinary parlance one might say that anyone who has been forcibly subjected to this offence has been raped ; the psychological effects are likely to be deep , and even if there is no risk of pregnancy ( as there is not from some rapes , since ejaculation is not part of the definition ) , there may be the risk of disease .
19 We can be well aware in the abstract of the horror , misery and emptiness of much of life , but is there any such thing as an intense imaginative vision of life , however pessimistic , which is not in some sense pleasing ?
20 It 's not beyond some people in churches to lift a phone and get young people up .
21 It 's not beyond some people in churches to lift a phone and get young people up .
22 It 's not In some cases like erm the diagram you were doing about the two girls running , erm then the distance against time gradient will give you speed , give you velocity .
23 This is n't about some petty artistic vendetta .
24 Best literary gossips include A. N. Wilson ( who is n't above some royal chat as well ) , Henry Porter , Taki ( international division ) and Frances Coady .
25 This is a general facility we might like to write in which we would allow us to work like that on any job there is n't for some reason a job , a good reason why a kick-in procedure ca n't be followed , that we deal with it by having em , in the master job file which states that , states the deliberate erm , position rather than an accident .
26 It was not for some time , and after some acquaintance , that she got round to thinking that one of the most charming features of Clelia 's room was its sense of prolonged nursery associations .
27 It was not for some years after we had separated that I had to face the fact that the deepest part of one 's being is always inaccessible to another , and that only when we are lost in passion , eager above all else for our own gratification — yet unconscious that this is the case — that we ignore the gulf , forget that we are strangers .
28 She was so absorbed that it was not for some time that she realized that the sea on her left was no longer the water of the estuary but had become the ocean .
29 However , this was not without some opposition : in 1139 a council presided over by Pope Innocent II banned the crossbow as a barbarous weapon unfit for Christian use , a decision confirmed by Innocent III .
30 That is not to say that the trivial name was not without some information on , for example , its origin — formic acid from ants ( formica ) for instance .
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