Example sentences of "[verb] [is] [vb pp] [prep] some " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Hence , reviewing is felt by some to be very much a test of wills .
3 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 ?
4 It may be that everything we do is determined by some grand unified theory .
5 The simplified and more rational legal framework that it introduced is unified by some powerful principles that speak to those issues .
6 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 .
7 Information about how letters combine is extracted from some source text or lexicon .
8 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 . ’
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
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