Example sentences of "[be] [noun] of some [noun] " 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 | And then we 'll carry on er having had a stop and a little chat about different things , we then carry on , and if there are sort of some areas in the drive which we think might sort of erm Come in chaps . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Would you like Lithuania to be part of some sort of erm , Soviet Federation , voluntarily I mean just some loose trading or defence partnership ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Scowling , he sniffed his palms , thinking that there might be traces of some drug in his sweat . |
| 11 | And surely there must be fuel of some kind to feed the great furnaces , and surely there would have to be a store-place . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | It appears to be hearsay of some sort and therefore is erm inadmissible . |
| 14 | ‘ There might be papers of some kind , ’ Evelyn put in . |
| 15 | … 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 . |
| 16 | Most largish Japanese firms are members of some kind of industrial group . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Certainly , there were texts of some plays printed and obviously plays were originally written in some sense . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , ’ she said , ‘ I 'd say they were remedials of some sort . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In such societies it is frequently the case that the individual treats all outsiders " as if " they were kinsmen of some sort . |
| 25 | The emperor is confronted with the case of a modal legacy , the modus being restitution of some property to another individual . |
| 26 | The fourteen Area Board chairmen were men of some seniority and experience . |
| 27 | There were indications of some changes in the characteristics of Wirral 's heroin users between 1984 and 1986 , such as the higher proportion of females . |
| 28 | There were reports of some units already having transferred allegiance to Ukraine , including the 48th division , withdrawn from Czechoslovakia in 1990 , which had disobeyed orders of Sept. 10 to move to the Caucasus . |
| 29 | The Arabs were explorers of some renown . |
| 30 | These are moments of some tension , but if he has a team looking for the same thing , they are at least not lonely moments . |