Example sentences of "[be] [noun] [prep] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless there are signs of some rethinking of alternative job descriptions for the volunteer . |
| 2 | Yachts of Scandinavia are builders of some substance . |
| 3 | Until this time , the mainstay of treatment for syphilis had been mercury in some form or other , either by internal administration or in the form of unctions . |
| 4 | There have been concerns for some time that IBM Corp was fast running out of cash — the UK subsidiary was reportedly ordered to factor its receivables by its parent at the end of last year after it ran out of cash for its operations , hardly a cheap way of borrowing for a blue chip company , and the Reuter report that it and IBM Credit Corp are seeking $4,600m of revolving credit in the international syndicated loan market ( see page seven ) , seems to confirm it ; at least one source told the news wire that IBM is trying to keep the arrangement very quiet , presumably to avoid generating more alarm than there already is about progress of its business . |
| 5 | More demonstrably , however , there has in the past been evidence of some feeling in Parliament that the Comptroller and Auditor General should be given the power to audit all public money voted by Parliament , including that voted to nationalized industries . |
| 6 | He said there had been difficulties in some committee meetings in trying to achieve a quorum and said payments should be made as an award for members who attended . |
| 7 | Perhaps it is because Sri Lanka 's politicians have , in the past , been people of some stature , and the army used to be kept small . |
| 8 | Each banker took it to be part of some Brand strategy of which he was privileged to see , and be entrusted with , but a small portion . |
| 9 | Would you like Lithuania to be part of some sort of erm , Soviet Federation , voluntarily I mean just some loose trading or defence partnership ? |
| 10 | The dynamics of history are such that one nation 's strength is another 's weakness ; nothing is constant ; both strength and weakness may be part of some process as yet unrevealed . |
| 11 | To Ian 's suggestion that it must all be part of some exhibition Susan replies with the more plainly obvious answer — these things have not been made larger , the time-travellers have become smaller . |
| 12 | The paper asks : ‘ Can they just be traders on some sort of spot market or ought the release to be limited to those intending to sell to the final consumer ? |
| 13 | Scowling , he sniffed his palms , thinking that there might be traces of some drug in his sweat . |
| 14 | There may also be possibilities for some kind of diagrammatic representation of selected information . |
| 15 | And surely there must be fuel of some kind to feed the great furnaces , and surely there would have to be a store-place . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | It appears to be hearsay of some sort and therefore is erm inadmissible . |
| 18 | ‘ There might be papers of some kind , ’ Evelyn put in . |
| 19 | … 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 . |
| 20 | After that it will be time for some home improvements , but not necessarily the DIY kind . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | They 'd been friends for some time when I first knew them but I did n't realise how long . |
| 23 | They have worked together and have been friends for some time . |
| 24 | Most largish Japanese firms are members of some kind of industrial group . |
| 25 | Almost all doctors are teachers to some extent — involved in formal or informal training or supervision of students , junior staff , and other professionals . |
| 26 | They 'd been lovers for some time , apparently . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |