Example sentences of "[verb] [is] [verb] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we wan na do is think of some buildings and describe them to ourselves and then work out what style , cos the thing is since the 1960s , styles like we want , like a progression of styles till the 1990s and see what 's changed and what 's stayed . |
| 2 | What neuropsychologists are trying to do is to come to some understanding of the way in which damage to the brain impairs abilities such as memory , perception and the use of language . |
| 3 | My wife Pam has been for some time aware that I have been having an on-going relationship with Suzannah , who I believe is known to some of you . |
| 4 | Hence , reviewing is felt by some to be very much a test of wills . |
| 5 | I now turn to the second problem : If what we do is determined by some grand unified theory , why should the theory determine that we draw the right conclusions about the universe rather than the wrong ones ? |
| 6 | It may be that everything we do is determined by some grand unified theory . |
| 7 | The simplified and more rational legal framework that it introduced is unified by some powerful principles that speak to those issues . |
| 8 | The type of care given is gendered to some extent ; 28 per cent of women are giving personal care , as against 19 per cent of men . |
| 9 | Information about how letters combine is extracted from some source text or lexicon . |
| 10 | The words we use come to us already imprinted with meanings , intentions and accents of others , and any utterance we make is directed towards some real or hypothetical Other . ’ |
| 11 | The words we use come to us already imprinted with the meanings , intentions and accents of others , our speech is a tissue of citations and echoes and allusions ; and every utterance we make is directed towards some real or hypothetical Other who will receive it . |
| 12 | Around three-quarters of the food we buy is processed in some way but Faith is right in thinking some convenience foods are healthier than others — fishfingers , frozen vegetables , pasta , pizza , baked beans , canned fruit in natural juices and yogurt all fit in neatly with ideas about healthy eating . |
| 13 | The new bishop is a firm believer in the ordination of woman priests , a policy which he knows is opposed by some churchmen in the diocese . |