Example sentences of "[be] [noun sg] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | There has been unhappiness in some quarters , occasional misunderstandings and ignorance , and a certain amount of unfortunate iconoclasm . |
| 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 | There 's been criticism by some Euro-sceptics . |
| 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 | 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 | Must be torture for some people . |
| 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 | … 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 . |
| 15 | After that it will be time for some home improvements , but not necessarily the DIY kind . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The emperor is confronted with the case of a modal legacy , the modus being restitution of some property to another individual . |
| 24 | Not now , not next year but in the next twenty years so there are a problem with schools , there are problems , I think , with changing leisure habits er people , the way that people take their leisure has changed over the last twenty years and not always have clubs , organizations and sailing schools taken account of that in , in their programme , especially with youngsters and I have to say I also believe there is apathy in some clubs and other organizations , not every club has an active youth sailing scheme and I believe that any club that does n't either must be extremely popular because of its er prices of beer or , or some other reason or it may not exist perhaps in twenty years ' time , so I think it 's an ext extremely important topic brought about by the maybe , without being melodramatic , some of the stuff that we 're reading in the papers about youngsters these days but looking at it from a purely selfish sailing point of view if we 're to get more youngsters into the sport even if we 're to hold our ground we 've got to make a big effort over , over this year and , and it 's important make sure that it runs on for future years . |
| 25 | The Palestinians , many of whom are desperate as a result of roots in the poverty of the refugee camps , hold few cards other than their determination not to be subdued and the ‘ armed struggle ’ through which this determination is sometimes expressed ; what they seek is recognition of some form of statehood on Palestinian soil . |
| 26 | There 's bread with some butter . |
| 27 | In anyone 's book that is failure of some magnitude , but the fact for English cricket was simply that there were very few players of real Test class around at the time ; after all , when Mike Gatting , one of the best of the county captains , got his chance he won only twice in twenty-two Tests . |
| 28 | Claude Rains , who 's cast here as a radio broadcaster , and Otto Kruger , who 's head of some sort of crackpot cult . ’ |
| 29 | Some of the objects on show are clearly and satisfyingly ‘ fake ’ , in the sense that their sole intention is deception for some form of gain . |
| 30 | There is evidence for some cereal cultivation between 1700–1100 B.P. , the time of colonisation of the Hebrides by Scots and Picts . |