Example sentences of "[conj] it be some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I get the impression that it 's some sort of systematic research , maybe a response to a leak . |
| 2 | The task here is to make people feel that it is some way superior , " Nothing works faster than Anadin " , is probably one of the best examples . |
| 3 | The first contends that the word ‘ appropriate ’ has built into it a connotation that it is some action inconsistent with the owner 's rights , something hostile to the interests of the owner or contrary to his wishes and intention or without his authority . |
| 4 | The depression on the ‘ blade ’ and the overall shape suggest to me that it is some sort of agricultural implement , such as a weeding paddle or potato lifter . |
| 5 | More to the point was that it was some compensation for the lower salary . |
| 6 | Yet his great blue jowls appeared sufficient fortification against the world ; while so immense was his dignity that it was some while before I realized he spent his nights in the arms of my recently widowed mother . |
| 7 | Oh yes they put this , this tannin down it was like a bark I do n't know what it was cos I 'm not in the leather trade , I , I do n't know much about it except that it was some by-product from the of the er tanning process , and they used to put this stuff down when people were ill . |
| 8 | Although it was morning and the quietest time of the day the air was already pungent with the smell of curry and spices , reminding Massingham that it was some hours since breakfast and that there was no certainty when he would get his lunch . |
| 9 | Early explorers of the Pacific coast of North America , who coveted the pure white pelts worn by the resident Indians , thought that it was some kind of polar bear . |
| 10 | The doctor examined him cursorily and told Carolyn that it was some kind of viral infection . |
| 11 | I know he told me that it was some sort of favour for something he did for your father a long time ago , but what ? ’ |
| 12 | I never doubted what I was feeling , but I was shocked when it did n't fade over the years , and I went through phases of trying to convince myself that it was some sort of obsession , a perverse desire for the one woman I believed I could never have — or not in the way I wanted you , loving me as well as wanting me . ’ |
| 13 | Such was the emotion caused by the attack that it was some time before any of the defenders recalled that the Collector had not been feeling well and wondered what had become of him . |
| 14 | Car and bodies had been so badly charred that it was some time before they could be identified . |
| 15 | He produces the stories at a craftsmanlike rate , no more than one a year , so it is some time since the appearance of the first volume , Pig Earth . |
| 16 | On the 18th Braid hit his 2nd shot into the road and he ‘ might have damaged the steam roller ’ so it is some comfort for us to know that the course 's own architect was penalised by his own design . |
| 17 | It was obviously a popular haunt — and not just with the boating fraternity — so it was some while before their food was brought to them . |
| 18 | It meant taking Weenie and Co. , who had to be made tidy and neat , so it was some time before their caravan set forth . |
| 19 | And it 's some time since I was in Paris . ’ |
| 20 | We have already seen how naturally the need to fit a certain number of half wavelengths into an interval leads to discreteness and it is some way of introducing a radical discreteness into mechanics which we are looking for . |
| 21 | New members , particularly , are always interested and it is some while since we had a ‘ Sales Boost ’ and we need the shelf space and the money ! |
| 22 | I feel as if I have been wandering through this forest for an eternity , and it is some days since I have found anything to eat . |
| 23 | Stead argues that only constant inquiry ( for which I could substitute ‘ inside ethnography ’ ) can prevent such an unacceptable trend , and it is some comfort to see a probationary policewoman , such as Cressida Dick ( 1985 ) , pointing out the political compromises such autocracy can produce , but which few of the chief officers seem willing to admit or even acknowledge . |
| 24 | Legislation has reduced the barons to serfdom , and it is some time since they seriously hampered leadership policy ( more often , lately , they have helped defeat constituency insurrection ) . |
| 25 | There 's now also a special budget priced Uno ‘ Spark ’ model , featuring over £500 worth of extra equipment , and it is some £300 less than its standard model . |
| 26 | Cows and calves inside were led to safety , and it was some hours later that firemen discovered a body in the debris . |
| 27 | Certainly what Devon Loch heard at that moment was not a noise which he had heard before , and it was some noise — a raucous surge of patriotic fervour as the Royal horse galloped to certain victory in front of his owner the Queen Mother and her daughters Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret , a rapturous climax befitting what was about to be one of the greatest moments of racing history . |
| 28 | He did not immediately contemplate any drastic change in his filmmaking aesthetic , since his first Hollywood picture , Rebecca ( 1940 ) , was based on a British book and used British actors , and it was some time before he made a completely American picture . |
| 29 | The city was in mourning for Marie-Thérèse de Bourbon ( first wife of the Dauphin Louis ) and it was some time before the prospect of playing at court arose . |
| 30 | Which only set Nigel off more , and it was some time before he could attempt an explanation . |