Example sentences of "[pers pn] are [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are at some stage asked to undertake tasks with which you are unfamiliar , your starting point should be to ascertain whether you are , impliedly , obliged to do what is wanted . |
| 2 | You are to some extent unhappy about your body and your health and you want to improve . |
| 3 | Mama named you de Warenne — is not it possible that you are in some way connected with the duke my father 's family ? ’ |
| 4 | We are in some difficulty in resolving that matter , for two reasons . |
| 5 | If they do more adversely affect women , our track record in using the legal process that we have , faulty and flawed that it is , might mean that we are in some way able to address the problem . |
| 6 | In most encounters with discourse , especially written discourse , we are in some way prepared for what is coming , if only because we ourselves have sought it out with a clear purpose ( Widdowson 1983 ) . |
| 7 | Wordsworth returns again and again to his main problem , whether we are in some sense ‘ led ’ by spiritual agencies — notice that he is not sure , and carefully qualifies any dogmatic statements — or whether we are alone responsible for what we become . |
| 8 | We noticed in our initial , cursory discussion of integrity in the last chapter that many of our political attitudes , collected in our instinct of group responsibility , assume that we are in some sense the authors of the political decisions made by our governors , or at least that we have reason to think of ourselves that way . |
| 9 | We are in some kind of indoor builder 's yard : bags of cement stacked against one wall , assorted timber against the other , and a concrete mixer , lathe , two power saws , and a battered van that looks welded to the floor . |
| 10 | For some Christians the fact that we are made in God 's image means that we are in some respects killing God if we attempt suicide , and so there can be no more serious sin . |
| 11 | They are under some degree of political control but they also need to have enough autonomy to carry out complex productive activity in an efficient way . |
| 12 | Althusser 's concept of the dialectic involves various levels of social formation that have a ‘ relative autonomy ’ , that is to say , they are to some degree self-determining . |
| 13 | Well if you take the the figures that It depends where they are to some extent . |
| 14 | They are for some reason most dreadfully at home in Paris — ‘ |
| 15 | Erm and clearly you know they are of some use . |
| 16 | The human eye is very sensitive to green and the visible differences between the samples , small as they are in some cases , corresponded to a smaller difference in the reflected light levels . |
| 17 | We need to tighten the time schedules for the writing of reports , and ensure that the workloads are more evenly spread than they are in some cases at the moment . |
| 18 | None the less , they are in some degree substitutes . |
| 19 | They are in some way dependent on physiological and physical conditions . |
| 20 | They will inevitably feel that it is their own fault — that they are in some way ‘ bad ’ or deserving of such treatment . |
| 21 | Are individuals psychologically disturbed because they are isolated or are they isolated because they are in some way disturbed ? |
| 22 | Are clinicians reluctant to put older people on surgical waiting lists because they are in some way discriminating against older people ? |
| 23 | Ministers who feel that they are in some way personally to blame , will normally resign , as for example Lord Carrington as Foreign Secretary following the Argentinian invasion of the Falkland Islands and ministers such as John Profumo and Cecil Parkinson who were involved in personal scandals . |
| 24 | Or that they are in some way virtuous . |
| 25 | Even though we do n't have major problems with drug or solvent abuse in Northern Ireland , sudden changes in behaviour could mean they are in some kind of trouble . |
| 26 | We conclude that even though the algebraic and denotational semantics characterises exactly the same equivalence over occam , they are in some sense complementary . |
| 27 | Historians , of course , might feel at this point that they are in some sense losing control over what material is selected for future use ( Zweig 1992 : 181 ) . |
| 28 | They are in some desperation . ) |
| 29 | These can not be explained simply in terms of shared descent ( as they were in some multicultural accounts of ethnicity ) or a shared socio-economic location and history ( as they are in some antiracist versions of ‘ the black experience ’ ) . |
| 30 | It originates as a MEWING sound in tiny kittens , letting their mother know that they need some kind of help or that they are in some sort of trouble . |