Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [be] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | It suggests that a 65 year-old retiree with a large private income is in some meaningful sense more dependent than a 64 year-old labourer in receipt of a low weekly wage . |
| 2 | The administrative budget was for some RF26,000 million , a reduction in real terms over the previous year , and the investment budget stood at RF14,320,000 , of which some RF5,500 million came from domestic financing and the remainder ( 61 per cent ) from external sources . |
| 3 | Specific applications of multimedia in business and professional environments are to some extent determined by commercial ingenuity . |
| 4 | Aristotelian physics was to some extent quite successful . |
| 5 | Occasionally a married man , particularly if his sexual capacity is for some reason declining , may find pornography more attractive than the " real thing " . |
| 6 | Thus while philanthropic work was for some integral to their feminist beliefs , for others it represented merely a diversion from household cares , a sublimation of other desires , or , and this was probably the most common motivation , a socially acceptable way for both married women and their daughters to engage in purposeful work . |
| 7 | The motives described by these authors are little more than romantic inventions , but the fact that the dying cat 's actions have been recorded in this way by very different writers is of some interest . |
| 8 | Without the steady drip-feed of leaked documents , clearly the hon. Gentleman is in some difficulty with his figures . |
| 9 | Foreign policy was in some ways still remarkably simple . |
| 10 | This is because social arrangements are to some extent arbitrary ways of organising human life — there is an apparently endless range of variations in social rules , ideas and conventions . |
| 11 | Slowish tempos are to some degree unavoidable , because of the textural detail in Mozart 's score ; and the conductor can not altogether be blamed for the ways in which the music is softened . |
| 12 | Social distress — a restricted , inadequate or disturbed individual whose social performance is in some way leading to personal difficulties . |
| 13 | But as the century proceeded , these rigid differences were to some extent eroded . |
| 14 | There is , furthermore , considerable evidence in this study of social factors being of some significance . |
| 15 | Even in the Constitution on the Liturgy , approved in the second session , where a theology of liturgical pluralism is to some extent accepted , there is no use of the word ‘ church ’ in the plural nor of the phrase ‘ ecclesia particularis ’ ( particular church ) , though the thought of the constitution would have benefited from such use . |
| 16 | With the exception of Paul Nilon 's delightfully zany Count Belfiore , the principal roles were in some danger of being upstaged by the slightly lesser ones ( Nilon is not to blame if it remains incredible that any woman , let alone two , should fall in love with such a bizarre creature ) . |
| 17 | Still , there had been Maggie 's arena ( the tiny sun was like some red-gel spotlight blazing just to highlight her ) . |
| 18 | This is starting to become a trend in Britain as well , although the planning system which encourages standard development is to some extent acting as a block . |
| 19 | Previously the support from central government was to some extent related to the provision of services , which were themselves related to local needs , at least in the view of the local authority . |
| 20 | The system is complicated and credited contributions are for some purposes not as good as paid contributions . |
| 21 | Both the village and surrounding countryside are worth some exploration and I was lucky as my trek gave me an insight into both . |
| 22 | It is simply that the most plausible stories now available about that evolution , including its very recent date and also certain considerations about the physical characteristics of the species , suggests that human beings are to some degree a mess , and that the rapid and immense development of symbolic and cultural capacities has left man as a being for which no form of life is likely to prove entirely satisfactory , either individually or socially . |
| 23 | Some of them are rather like cave paintings are n't they and have they 've got this from my a sort of tedious association of the drawings and pictures and er Catherine 's it seems to be suggesting that animals were around , animals and other creatures were around a long time before human beings and that human beings are in some ways intruders therefore in their in their world . |
| 24 | It is , for example , becoming clear that a family history of left handedness is in some way related to the cerebral organisation of functions . |
| 25 | Even without insisting on the strict claim that inference from fact to value is logically inadmissible , a claim which since Hume has been a commonplace , and after G. E. Moore 's analysis of the Naturalistic Fallacy was for some time an orthodoxy , it has been convenient to stay out of range of standard criticisms by showing that we can get along well enough without resorting to this kind of inference . |
| 26 | Small traces may not hurt , but in households where modern hygiene has become a fanatical pursuit , the unhappy pet is at some risk . |
| 27 | The present pavement is to some extent gauged to enhance that relationship , which will be savaged by the proposed reconstruction of pavements . |
| 28 | On the other hand , if the bulge is elongated and its long axis is at some angle oblique to the line of sight ( see Fig. 3 ) , perspective effects cause equivalent lines of sight on either side of the centre to have systematically different surface brightnesses . |
| 29 | It presupposes that the functionally optimal capitalist state is in some senses class-neutral . |
| 30 | This does not mean however that mental processes are in some way divorced from the physical world , nor does it mean that they should be excluded from the subject matter of natural science . |