Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [be] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Specific applications of multimedia in business and professional environments are to some extent determined by commercial ingenuity . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But as the century proceeded , these rigid differences were to some extent eroded . |
| 6 | There is , furthermore , considerable evidence in this study of social factors being of some significance . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | The system is complicated and credited contributions are for some purposes not as good as paid contributions . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The fact that it is at least possible that Molla Yegan and Fahreddin Acemi held office contemporaneously for part of their respective appointments is of some help in trying to establish the identity of de la Broquière 's " grand caliph " ; for although Molla Yegan should have been Mufti in 1433 if his Muftilik and that of Fahreddin Acemi are viewed as successive rather than contemporaneous , de la Broquière 's statement applies rather better to Fahreddin Acemi than to Molla Yegan for several reasons . |
| 13 | Against the backdrop of apparent economic stability and increasing affluence the idea that the major industrial nations were at some kind of break-point held considerable appeal . |
| 14 | The fact that many contract computer staff incorporate themselves as one-man companies suggests that to describe them as temporary workers is in some ways misleading . |
| 15 | But modern industrial societies are in some respects in a worse position than the hunter-gatherer societies to which such relatively defective ego and superego development is normal , because they lack any institutional means of correcting the situation at puberty . |
| 16 | The prominence of temples in the small towns is of some interest . |
| 17 | That they should make of one body a site where the variousness of all other bodies is in some way received . |
| 18 | However , the biological argument that women are naturally averse to crime and that female criminals are in some way maladjusted has never been fully abandoned . |
| 19 | All new starts are in some sense experimental , a revived realism not least ; and it is after all mildly experimental , in a way , to return to a half-deserted tradition forged in England two hundred years before in the age of the Hanoverians . |
| 20 | Paternalist assumptions were an aspect of the deeply entrenched feeling , which time and education were only slowly eroding , that legitimate rulers were in some sense the agents of God . |
| 21 | Well the original discoveries were of some fairly simple molecules . |
| 22 | The subsequent outcomes are of some significance in determining further educational chances and career opportunities . |