Example sentences of "[noun] is some [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The weak force is some thousand times weaker than the electromagnetic force , and 100 000 times more feeble than the strong nuclear force . |
| 2 | But we now have to reckon with the fact that the peculiar essence of a human being is rationality , that is , each human essence is some particular form of rationality . |
| 3 | The local relief is relatively subdued but the mean elevation is some 5000 m with isolated masses of probable volcanic origin rising to between 6000 and 7000 m ; the Tibetan Plateau is thus by far the highest plateau of significant extent on the Earth 's surface . |
| 4 | Of all the National Trust gardens in Cornwall , it is probably the least favoured climatically ; the coast is some nine miles away which reduces the maritime influence and the south-west corner of Bodmin Moor is even nearer . |
| 5 | Including nuclear plant currently planned , potential nuclear generating capacity , excluding 6 gas-cooled reactors and 3 fast breeder reactors ( 2 under construction ) , France 's potential nuclear generating capacity is some 65,000 megawatts . |
| 6 | Hence subject to the constraint that where Ro is some pre-assigned value of R. The integration can be extended over the whole 3N-dimensional configuration space by setting whenever the inequality ( 6.10 ) is satisfied and otherwise , and writing Mark off showed that , far from being only a device to select the correct region of configuration space led to a new interpretation of the probability density function |
| 7 | There are local golf courses at Staverton and Farthingstone , and the Silverstone Motor Racing Circuit is some 15 miles distant . |
| 8 | Overall the fault system has a length of 1200km , but the average breadth of the fault zone is some 500 km and it forms a very diffuse boundary between the Pacific and North American Plates . |
| 9 | Authoritative sources have revealed that his daughter Miss Jade Jagger is some four months away from her confinement . |
| 10 | But all Chester 's needs is some healthy investment , plus a new line to augment the present systems — ’ |
| 11 | And then what the head coordinator needs is some other people to help . |
| 12 | Suppose that , in multiplying A by B , the initial partial product is some non-zero value C. Then the final result of using the above multiplication algorithm is AXB+C . |
| 13 | It was so different even the weir had been removed which means the river at this point is some three feet shallower than when I last fished it . |
| 14 | The water is some 20 feet down : a pool fed by a diverted underground stream . |
| 15 | For example , expectation of life at birth for Aborigines is some 15–17 years less than that for the total Australian population , and infant mortality is three times greater . |
| 16 | When determining the frequency of a particular feature or category , we work out the number of times it occurs per X , where X is some standard measure . |
| 17 | The ornamental fountain is some 6 feet tall and carved from marble . |
| 18 | The usual cause in a baby is some minor damage to the neck muscle during delivery , which pulls the head to one side . |
| 19 | The new novel is some 500 pages of a thriller starring a lecherous literary journalist , a young Cyril Connolly as it were , making his way in London . |
| 20 | An obvious candidate is some stylised representation of a finite-state machine . |
| 21 | It is , for example , little use when recording a chemical spill into an Egyptian river to have entered into the appropriate field ‘ the Nile ’ — after all , this river is some 6480 km long ! |
| 22 | The poem is some 5500 tines long , but the first 2000 are Hoccleve 's personal introduction , purporting to explain how he came to write the rest . |
| 23 | Einstein identified the stress-energy tensor as the source of space–time curvature and suggested the simplest possible relationship between it and the curvature : where is a tensor describing space–time curvature and K is some scalar constant whose magnitude determines how effective the energy density is in distorting space time . |
| 24 | To solve APk , the relaxation of problem k , we impose constraints such as x i j = 0 by changing to K , where K is some large number . |
| 25 | One of the reasons it thinks COSE is interested in its participation is some key technology that DEC has that in its infinite wisdom it has failed to trumpet . |
| 26 | This exercise depends on only one clue : you know that the clue word is some living creature . |
| 27 | Unspoilt and peaceful , the island of Phuket is some 400 miles south of Bangkok , a relaxing getaway from the bustle of the big city . |
| 28 | Let me again reassure those who suspect feet washing is some weird fetish , akin to the activities of those who achieve a thrill from handling women 's shoes . |
| 29 | them perfect men is some good woman 's love . |
| 30 | If the host is some other relation to the bride : Mr and Mrs James Fullerton … their niece/ward or his ( her ) cousin/goddaughter Jennifer ( Brown ) ( again the bride 's surname may be included if different ) . |