Example sentences of "[be] [noun] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He says there could be problems on some courses . |
| 32 | The company has been preparing to go public , a process the suit could have adversely affected , while at the same time it was believed to be object of some takeover desires by Unix System Laboratories ( UX No 396 ) . |
| 33 | It appears to be hearsay of some sort and therefore is erm inadmissible . |
| 34 | ‘ There might be papers of some kind , ’ Evelyn put in . |
| 35 | … the court … must act on the valuation unless there be proof of some mistake or improper motive … as if the valuer has valued something not included or had valued it on a wholly erroneous basis … from Lord Eldon 's judgment in Emery v Wase ( 1803 ) 8 Ves Jun 506 , where the difference between valuations of £4,000 and £6,000 was said to warrant judicial suspicion that the valuation had not been made with attention to accuracy : but the case was decided on the basis of the court 's duty to protect the property of married women . |
| 36 | After that it will be time for some home improvements , but not necessarily the DIY kind . |
| 37 | ‘ And indeed we might say that the very greatest soldiers — Joshua , David , Alexander — who lent me one of my Christian names — Caesar , of course , our own great Alfred — the only king we call Great — Edward — and we could extend the list into the present — all have been scholars in some manner . |
| 38 | They 'd been friends for some time when I first knew them but I did n't realise how long . |
| 39 | They have worked together and have been friends for some time . |
| 40 | Most largish Japanese firms are members of some kind of industrial group . |
| 41 | Almost all doctors are teachers to some extent — involved in formal or informal training or supervision of students , junior staff , and other professionals . |
| 42 | That is , people tend to forget either in a motivated way , or accidentally , people will tend to minimise or trivialise the abuse to which they 've been subject in some cases because maybe saying that you 've been sexually abused as a child and that is why you 're so screwed up at the moment um that 's not necessarily a very self-benefiting thing to say . |
| 43 | There are examples in some countries of such candidates being elected and of pressure-group members of parliament being sufficiently numerous and permanent to share in office and to be regarded as a permanent parliamentary group — in other words , to behave in many ways like a party . |
| 44 | They 'd been lovers for some time , apparently . |
| 45 | There are mutterings in some quarters , however , about the legality of the bowling actions of Jayananda Warnaweera and Muttiah Muralidharan — who shared eight wickets in England 's first innings of 380 . |
| 46 | Its 1979 census population of about 162,000 was 75.9 per cent Armenian and only 22.9 per cent Azerbaijani , and there had been pressure for some years for its transfer back to Armenia and for a greater degree of autonomy for its predominantly Christian people . |
| 47 | Ever since the Second World War , there had been pressure in some circles for a move away from the secular aspects of the state created between the wars by Ataturk . |
| 48 | The sacrifice of TWW and the merger of ABC and Rediffusion into Thames were acts of some courage and panache , in which the ebullient personality of ITA chairman , Lord Hill , a former broadcasting star as the Radio Doctor in the 1940s and a cabinet minister under Harold Macmillan , were an important factor . |
| 49 | That was probably another of the reasons why they became so obsessed with loyalty , with the idea that you were part of some élite squad . |
| 50 | At Cambridge she met her first husband , Sebastian Manning , who introduced her to a world in which socialism , far from being ridiculous , was natural , chic , colourful , confident , artistic : Sebastian 's parents were artists of some repute , one a painter , the other a potter , and they did not think much of the austerities of Dr Leavis . |
| 51 | Certainly , there were texts of some plays printed and obviously plays were originally written in some sense . |
| 52 | Naturally there were protests from some ILEA teachers of languages , history , geography , home economics and physical education that their subjects were not to be made compulsory in the fourth and fifth years : such subjects , it was held , were thereby accorded a lower status . |
| 53 | You can very often er for instance at Cheshire very often I mean there were sort of some people 's wives would like to do it . |
| 54 | ‘ Well , ’ she said , ‘ I 'd say they were remedials of some sort . |
| 55 | The rusting remains of an old piece of farm machinery were evidence of some Icelander breaking his back to extract a living from the land . |
| 56 | We have seen earlier how lodgers provided another means of support for older householders : and there were lodgers in some childhood homes too . |
| 57 | If you try to do the sums and ask could you do all those changes simply by sort of species going one way and the other relative to these changes erm in their origins and then those species which happen to be in the right direction being selection by some kind of species selection , I think the answer is you just ca n't make the sums add up right . |
| 58 | In such societies it is frequently the case that the individual treats all outsiders " as if " they were kinsmen of some sort . |
| 59 | The emperor is confronted with the case of a modal legacy , the modus being restitution of some property to another individual . |
| 60 | The fourteen Area Board chairmen were men of some seniority and experience . |