Example sentences of "[verb] to be [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | You appear to be in some sort of surreal shopping mall , with the world 's TV laid out for purchase : you almost feel like you should have a shopping trolley , to wheel up and down the aisles . |
| 2 | ‘ We appear to be in some sort of glass box , ’ said the Thing . |
| 3 | Connected speech processes ( CSP ) are phenomena such as the deletions and assimilations characteristic of allegro speech , which appear to be in some way phonetically motivated rather than linguistically arbitrary variation . |
| 4 | First , the authority of the lecturer in the teaching relationship has to be to some degree granted by the student . |
| 5 | However , since representations of satyrs are often given negroid features , there is a suggestion that negroes were considered to be in some sense monstrous . |
| 6 | If the parent bird can appear to be at some grave physical disadvantage , the killer will find the tempting proximity of the vulnerable adult irresistible and its concentration on the location of the nest-site can be broken . |
| 7 | When this is no longer so , the fact of a male priesthood makes God appear to be in some way peculiarly male , such that He needs a male priesthood to represent Him . |
| 8 | The record seemed to be of some unremarkable string music . |
| 9 | My leg muscles seemed to be in some daze of quivering tension . |
| 10 | Coleman , whose three surviving daughters sat opposite him , was noticed to be in some pain ( he suffered from gout in his later years ) . |
| 11 | The Unix systems management market is thought to be worth some $40m now — its expected to top $1bn by 1997/98 . |
| 12 | The Unix systems management market is thought to be worth some $40m now — its expected to top $1,000m by 1997-98 . |
| 13 | Although it is too early to assess the full effects , some of the rich shellfish and oyster beds offshore are thought to be in some danger . |
| 14 | Ben he spotted me on these occasions he invariably called out some mocking remark and if he happened to be with some of his cronies they all joined in the laughter at my expense . |
| 15 | One of my more cynical film critic friends uses me as his personal ‘ shriekometer ’ to gauge how freaked out Joe Public is going to be by some of the grizzlier horror movies we have to sit through . |
| 16 | The thing to do , Bob , is to face up to the fact right from the beginning that it 's going to be something Victorian or Edwardian , and that it 's going to be in some slightly less fashionable postal district . ’ |
| 17 | Obviously it 's got to be in some sort of order ; composition comes into it just as much as taking a photograph . ’ |
| 18 | Obviously it 's got to be in some sort of order ; composition comes into it just as much as taking a photograph . ’ |
| 19 | Secondly , an exemption clause may be partially effective if it is shown to be to some extent reasonable . |
| 20 | Yet they can be shown to be in some sense the implicit guardians of morality . |
| 21 | Any bird watcher worth the pinch of salt he always carries in his pocket to sprinkle on the bird 's tail , yearns to be on some jutting peninsula at spring migration time . |
| 22 | The sacrilege lies in the desire on the part of the murderer to mutilate what we understand to be in some sense the image of God . |
| 23 | In Cornwall , which has a very attractive image , in-migration of firms seems to be in some cases linked with a form of semi-retirement by owners . |
| 24 | There seems to be in some patients a failure of recognition of self , and as a consequence the immune system turns inwards and begins to attack selected targets within the body , and when this happens disease may arise . |
| 25 | I had not done so before merely because I had not thought of them in this context ; I had supposed that you might prefer to be at some slight remove from the nefarious influences of the department … |
| 26 | In Precedent 2 there are two such special clauses which are , however , felt to be of some general application . |
| 27 | And when Eagles ' David Mycoe grabbed a try in the 45th minute Wigan looked to be in some danger . |
| 28 | These arms are indeed going to have to be of some considerable length as your excellent photograph appears to be of Tweedmouth , Berwick-upon-Tweed , in Northumberland ( England ) ! |
| 29 | D' you remember I showed you a manuscript — it must 've been some years ago , now — purporting to be by some mariner who remembered an English cargo boat having gone down between us , here at Møn , and Malmo — during the First Schleswig War ? |
| 30 | The Financial Times of Nov. 27 , 1989 , reported that the United Kingdom was seeking to arrange a £2,000 million bank loan to finance Saudi Arabia 's continued purchase of British arms under the massive Al-Yamamah arms deal first agreed in 1985 and expanded in 1988 [ see pp. 34012 ; 36312 ; 36952 ] , chiefly involving the purchase of Tornado fighter-bombers built by British Aerospace ( BAe ) and currently estimated to be worth some £20,000 million . |