Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] be some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well some of the football Leicester have played in this opening twenty o twenty minutes has been some of the best I 've seen them . |
| 2 | He says the last few months have been some of the driest since records began . |
| 3 | The effect of falling school rolls and DES cuts in teacher-training quotas has been some reduction in the numbers of students on courses ; however , recruitment in 1981 was still considerable and , in 1981 , the polytechnics had 1,300 students enrolled on to teacher-training courses . |
| 4 | Mr George Henry Quarry , a Belfast solicitor was then applied to for some land at the top of Carrickblacker Road but initially there was no response from him and other possible sites investigated were some ground opposite where James 's Street now stands and land behind where the little Roman Catholic church was later built ( now Pritchard 's Motors ) and near the site of Edenderry Orange Hall . |
| 5 | What pupils and parents require is some notion of progress in relation to other people , that is norm-referenced data ; in relation to mathematical objectives , that is criterion-referenced data ; and in relation to pupils ' own earlier performances . |
| 6 | If they 're knocked over , the paraffin leaks and ignites , causing what firefighters say are some of the worst fires . |
| 7 | Commenting on its much improved figures ( see page seven ) , Cray Research Inc said order backlogs during the first quarter of rose to $381m from $354m in the same period a year ago , adding to positive overall quarterly earnings : John Carlson , the new chairman and chief executive , said that the contract value of orders signed was some $124m compared with just $86m in the first quarter of last year . |